New Ubuntu Desktop--what would you install?
jackowayed: Amarok--It's a KDE music player, and it's really good. It seems faster than rhythmbox, has good librarying, and even integrates with Last.fmI like konversation (another KDE program) as my IRC client, but I've only dabbled in the other ones briefly.(Note: your first few KDE programs take awhile to install because they have to install a lot of kde libraries and the like.)Opera--It's not in the package manager, but it's an easy install from http://opera.com, and it's faster and in some cases better than FF. For example, Firefox doesn't like being disconnected and won't let you get even to localhost when it's in "offline mode" without some tweaking.Your favorite editor, obviously (both emacs and vim are in the package manager).If you have a slower computer, I suggest looking into other windowing systems. Up until a month ago, my main computer was an ancient computer with 384MB of RAM and a 1.6GHz single-core processor. Awhile ago my productivity was being hurt so much that I looked into minimalist window managers. I chose icewm, but there are other good ones. It really did make a big difference.