GNU/Linux Desktop Survival Guide by Graham Williams
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Software Selection

20180507 Below we identify applications for a variety of tasks. In general, the first listed package is a recommended package, though of course this is personal opinion and for different users and different purposes some of the alternatives may be more appropriate.

archive manager	engrampa (mate fork of file roller);
desktop environment	mate;
file manager	caja (mate fork of nautilus);
ide	emacs;
image editor	gimp;
image processor	imagemagik;
image viewer	eom, eog;
office suite	libre-office;
password manager	keepassx
pdf viewer	atril (mate fork of evince), evince, acroread (from Adobe), pdfcube (for presentations), xpdf, gpdf, keyjnote (for presentations);
remote desktop	x2go;
system monitor	conky;
terminal	gnome-terminal, mate-terminal (mate fork of gnome-terminal);
text editor	emacs, gedit, pluma (mate fork of gedit);
web browser	firefox, brave