gcc "THE compiler." |
mercurial "Easy to use and works flawlessly so far." |
scantailor "sehr praktisch zum nachbearbeiten von scans" |
firefox "The standard." |
gparted "What else do you want? Probably the best partitioning tool available." |
diffuse "Wow. Just came across this one and I'm amazed. :) Much more comfortable for comparing large text-files than using command line diff." |
python-matplotlib "Powerful plotting tool and not really hard to learn. Combine it with ipython. It becomes really powerful if you know a bit of python, but you can start even without." |
solfege "Fun and helpful tool." |
python-scipy "SciPy is the greatest free alternative to MATLAB known to me, even superior in many aspects." |
geany "A good, solid editor with basic IDE features. For beginners and minimalists." |
qjackctl "The heart of every linux audio studio." |
qtractor "Great Sequencer! Already very useable, and even more promising for the future." |
ipython "don't worry, it's no apple software! :-)" |
htop "very practical extension of "top". don't hesitate installing, it doesn't take any space on your disk. :-)" |
vim "If you want to call yourself a geek, learn to use vim. :-) Once you are able to use it efficiently, it's really good + it impresses n00bs. :-)" |
vim-gnome "The classic vi editor, in a neat GNOME costume." |
gnome-mplayer "Nice graphical interface for the best available video player." |
gnome-mplayer "Nice gnome GUI for the best available video player." |
mplayer "At the moment the best player available. Plays almost everything." |
mintmenu "This already is enough reason to love LinuxMint." |
mintmenu "This already is enough reason to love LinuxMint." |
banshee "My choice for GNOME - does everything I need, has a neat user interface and works flawlessly." |
picard "Probably the best tagger available." |
evolution "My favourite allround e-mail client. Powerful and easy to use." |
lyx "TeX for everyone." |