Web Browser: Firefox, not Chromium, Epiphany or anything else. Email Client: Evolution, Thunderbird if you really don't want to pick Evolution. Do install one

Web Browser: Firefox, not Chromium, Epiphany or anything else. Email Client: Evolution, Thunderbird if you really don't want to pick Evolution. Do install one by default. Terminal: GNOME Terminal. IDE: none. File manager: Nautilus. Basic Text Editor: gedit. IRC/Messaging Client: none, Pidgin, Polari, HexChat. PDF Reader: Evince. Office Suite: LibreOffice; LibreOffice Base should be excluded. Calendar: GNOME Calendar. Video Player: Totem, not VLC. Music Player: Rhythmbox, perhaps GNOME Music in a future release. Photo Viewer: Eye of GNOME, maybe include Shotwell too. Screen recording: GNOME Shell's built-in recording. Also include file-roller, gnome-calculator, gnome-characters (not gucharmap), gnome-clocks, gnome-disks, baobab, gnome-documents, gnome-font-viewer, gnome-system-monitor, yelp, gnome-logs, bijiben, seahorse, gnome-screenshot, gnome-software, and gnome-weather, and consider including gnome-boxes, devhelp, gnome-dictionary, gitg, gimp, gnome-maps, gnome-tweak-tool, and deja-dup. This is almost exactly identical to Fedora Workstation's default apps. In general, I have a strong preference for embracing the GNOME apps and GTK+ 3. The only exceptions are Firefox instead of Epiphany and LibreOffice instead of AbiWord and Gnumeric.