It really depends on what you want to do. I like to have Wine installed so that I can run some Windows apps, but if you don't use Windows, that will be less imp

It really depends on what you want to do. I like to have Wine installed so that I can run some Windows apps, but if you don't use Windows, that will be less important. I've also used QEMU in the past to run a virtual Windows machine inside of Linux. I use Google Chrome for normal browsing and Firefox for development, so I would try to get Chromium working. http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/LinuxBuildInstructions http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/LinuxBuildInstruction... I also use vlc for playing DVDs, video, and audio clips. http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-ubuntu.html http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-ubuntu.html There aren't really any killer opensource apps that Ubuntu is missing. The fast majority of what you will need for development is available in the repositories.