Desktop apps? For this I read gui, gentle learning curve, suitable for people who dislike learning about the computer. In no special order the ones I use regularly and like are
firefox rhythmbox sound juicer sweep gqview wesnoth oowriter or abiword (equally good in different ways) lifrea xine gnumeric --I liked the app so much I... etc. and for non-free software ut2004 quake3 Wolfenstein Enemy-Territory (free beer) I wish evolution were in the above list. vim, gcc, valgrind, cscope, gdb, ddd, perl, latex, gnome-terminal, ssh, mutt, irssi all probably get more of a workout than the desktop apps :) -- Kind regards, Hal Ashburner -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html