The typical windows box I use plus some customizations for hardware specific stuff: Alienware Sentia - Windows XP Professional
Media DVDShrink Macromedia Dreamweaver/Flash/Fireworks/Freehand MX Latest Flash and Quicktime players (Realplayer can get bent) WMP 11 dbPowerAmp Photoshop 7 Picasa 2
Work Office 2003 plus InfoPath MWSnap Belarc Advisor Adobe 8
Utilities Nero AVG Free and AVG Anti-Spyware Avast! (Been deliberating between Avast! and AVG - Avast! is winning at the moment) Windows Defender 7zip (Been deliberating between this and WinRAR - Still can't decide) Spybot
MUD zMUD (cMUD when semi-stable versions are out) Logedit WinSCP Editpad Pro puTTY Enso + spellcheck/thesaurus
Misc Trillian IE7 Firefox 2.x (Addons: SumbleUpon, Fasterfox, Download Statusbar, Cooliris Previews, Adblock Plus) Windows Live Messenger Gmail Notifier ElectricSheep
Occasional Additions Limewire Acid Pro 6 Photoshop CS Visual Studio Blender jv6PowerTools Ethereal IPscan (subnet scanner/sniffer) Sygate Personal Firewall - for that nothing in/out/changing without you knowing about it approach
Media MPlayer for everything Kaffeine can't read. Kaffeine JuK, for all your music needs.
Work: Openoffice of course! Kate is awesome for programming. Nice syntax highlighting, sftp file browser built in (no need for sftp/ftp client, it'll save directly to a remote server) Gimp for those nasty image hackjobs that I do :)
Internet: Firefox. No extensions. Kopete for chatting on Aim, MSN, IRC, many more! KTorrent for all your torrenting needs. Konsole with telnet for all your MUDing needs.
Servant Salamander 2.0 (old) (instead of Windows Exploder) ACDC 2.42 (old) Paint Shop Pro 7 (old)
And that's pretty much it, in order of use. You'll note it's all shareware. No Adope, MS, Macromedia, Norton, or Iomega. BTW, if you don't use UltraEdit already, I strongly recommend you try TextPad.
General Utilities DVD Decrypter Roxio ISOBuster Alcohol 120% WinRAR Attribute Changer v5.23 Combined Community Codec Pack Azureus Firefox (v1.5) w/ extensions Photoshop (When they release new trial versions. :D)
MUD Vim 7.0 (Good program to edit code files in Windows.) Pueblo UE MUSHClient SSH - Secure Shell Client v3.2.9 (I find this more useful than PuTTY, and it's customizable.) CuteFTP
Macromedia MX Dreamyness (theres better, and theres far worse)
Trillian, but I also have AIM/YiM/Msn messengers installed when trillian takes a dump or can't seem to transfer that file.
Random low level VLAN software junk (it really is, I can't remember the name)
Winamp
Games: (Don't play any of the mmo's anymore since I started mudding again, but they are still installed) BF2 WoW HL2 CS:S CoD2 Sim City 4 Civ4 Star Craft Eve-O DAoC CoV Fear Some other junk I dont remember.
In Windows: Opera, Firefox, Editpad, gVim, Thunderbird, Trillian, GTalk, Quicken, Easy Thumbnails, PuTTY, X-Setup Pro, Family Tree Maker, APC PowerCute Personal Edition, TortoiseCVS, TortoiseSVN, Windows Grep, Office 2000, and a slew of games.
In Linux: gMUDix, kmail, Firefox, Opera, Epiphany, Konqueror, Konsole, Webmin, Xampp, QSFP, gedit, Cervisia, smaugfuss, gimp, admlogger, shorewall, xmms, openoffice, gramps, a bunch of desktop widgets, and various others.
Note, none of those are listed in any particular order. *shrug*
haha, when I see something in Konsole telnet, it wipes away what I'm typing, which makes combat impossible. I assume I can disable this?
With a console client like tintin++ you can use: #split 0 0 to fix that.
Windows: Gimp Firefox Notepad (Wordpad for linux files) Winamp Winrar WinTin++ (mainly used as a bbs client) Unlocker (for those pesky locked windows files) µTorrent PowerISO OpenVPN AntiVir Cygwin with PuttyCyg telnet, joe (editor), make, sftp, ssh, grep, and all the other linux goodness windows lacks.
Actually, I used to use gaim and really liked it, even talked a few other people into switching to it, but lately it crashes on me if I try to connect to msn or icq, and so I've switched to trillian under windows, but if I could get it working right again, I actually far prefered running gaim under linux. On the other hand, the other linux alternatives I've tried don't impress me at all. *shrug*
I'm using Gaim on linux. I tried Kopete but it tells me no one is signed on, which isn't true. I wish Gaim could dock permanently to one side and scale other windows like trillian can.
In windows I used AOL VR 9.0. Much more feature rich than ANY AIM replacement and is now entirely free. ;)
Oft used programs in Linux: Firefox - internet Kate - text editor/source code viewer KDevelop - programming Quanta Plus - Web editor Wine - wine is not an emulator..but it still rocks for running windows programs Kopete - instant message client Amarok - music player VLC - video player KMuddy - nice linux-native client. Using MUSHclient as of a week ago MUSHclient - it's open source now! Runs great under wine xfce4-terminal - nice lightweight terminal emulator
I'm going to run Ubuntu Linux 6.10 with Vmware for the time I REALLY need a windows fix.
Here are my favorite (windows) applications:
Windows Programs worth getting
Internet
Utorrent
SMARTFTP- Non SFTP servers
Mud & Code
UESTUDIO <—- Special Kudos :D
Ascii Mapmaker
PUEBLO UE <—- My mud client :D
Winscp
Security
CCleaner- Registry & Startup Editor
Spybot
Ad-Aware
Windows Defender
Mcafee Total Protection
Media
Cyberlink PowerDVD- Greatest Dvd Player ever
VLC media player
Other
Google Sketchup
Xdrive
Openoffice.org
I thought maybe if we all posted our favorite programs, people might could learn about programs they didn't know about :D