The wealth of software offered on an Ubuntu system is enormous, so that finding the right tool for the right job can be difficult at times. The following table may help you with this. It is showing programs which are installed on Xubuntu by default, some which are recommended to be added by you, and other programs available in the software archives, grouped by tasks. Please note that you may have to enable restricted repositories to install some of the listed programs.
Task | Installed Program | Recommended Program | Other |
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Webbrowser | Firefox | Â | Epiphany (Gnome), Konqueror (KDE), Dillo |
Email Client | Thunderbird | Â | Sylpheed-Claws |
File Manager | Thunar | Â | Nautilus (Gnome), Konqueror (KDE), Xffm (old Xfce Filemanager), ROX-Filer |
Text Editor | Mousepad | Â | Gedit (Gnome), Kate (KDE), Gvim, XEmacs, Nedit, Nano |
Word Processing | Abiword | Â | OpenOffice, KOffice (KDE), LaTeX |
Spreadsheet Calculation | Gnumeric-gtk | Â | OpenOffice, KOffice (KDE) |
Multimedia Playback (Audio/Video) | Xfmedia | Â | XMMS, Beep Media Player, Xine, Mplayer, Totem (Gnome), Rhythmbox (Gnome) |
Image Manipulation | Gimp | Â | Krita (KDE, part of KOffice) |
Picture Browsing | GQview | Â | gThumbview (Gnome), KView (KDE) |
Chat / Instant Messanger | Gaim | Â | XChat |
PDF Viewer | Evince-gtk | Â | Acroread |
Calendar | Orage | Â | Â |
Package Management | Synaptic | Â | Â |
Software Telephone | Â | Â | Ekiga (Gnome) |
Archiving Tool | Xarchiver | Thunar Archive Plugin | Â |
CD/DVD Burning | Xfburn | Â | GnomeBaker (Gnome), K3b (KDE) |
FTP Client | Â | Â | Nautilus (Gnome), Konqueror (KDE) |
Printer Administration | CUPS Web Administration | Â | Gnome Cups Manager (Gnome) |
P2P | Â | Â | aMule |
Vector Graphics | Â | Â | Inkscape |
Desktop Publishing (DTP) | Â | Â | Scribus |