Poll - Default applications to be included in Vanilla OS

[obtuse nimbus]

Hello @everyone,

Thanks for your valuable feedback and contributions. We are polishing things up as we are nearing the stable release of Vanilla OS.

 **We are conducting this poll/discussion for the default applications to get included in Vanilla OS**. It will only take a couple of minutes. Your responses will help us know what applications the community needs the most and will help us provide a better out-of-the-box experience. This poll contains various categories.

1. Text Editor

a.) Gedit b.) Text Editor c.) Others (Comment below) d.) Not required

2. Office Suite

a.) Libre Office b.) Only Office c.) Others (Comment below) d.) Not required

3. Web Browser

a.) Firefox b.) GNOME Web c.) Google chrome d.) Chromium e.) Others (Comment below)

4. Video Players

a.) VLC b.) MPV c.) Celluloid d.) GNOME Videos (Totem) e.) Others (Comment below) f.) Not required

5. Music Players

a.) VLC b.) Rhythmbox c.) Others (Comment below) d.) Not required

6. PDF Reader

a.) Document Viewer (Evince) b.) Okular c.) Others (Comment below) d.) I prefer browsers instead of dedicated PDF readers

7. Photos

a.) Image viewer b.) Photos c.) Others (Comment below) d.)Not required

8. Screen Capturing

a.) OBS Studio b.) Kooha c.) Others (Comment below) d.) Not required

9. Mail Client

a.) Thunderbird b.) Evolution c.) Geary d.) Not required

10. Camera

a.)Cheese b.) Others (Comment below) c.) Not required

11. Scanning

a.) Document Scanner b.) Others (Comment below) c.) Not required

12. Calendar

a.) GNOME Calendar b.) Thunderbird c.) Others (Comment below) d.) Not required

13. Clock (Stopwatch, Timer)

a.) GNOME Clock b.) Others (Comment below) c.) Not required

14. Calculator

a.) GNOME Calculator b.) Others (Comment below) c.) Not required

15. Contact Management

a.) GNOME Contact b.) Others (Comment below) c.) Not required

16. Virtualization

a.) GNOME Boxes b.) QEMU c.)virt-manager d.) Others (Comment below) e.) Not required

17. Running Windows applications

a.) WINE b.) Bottles c.) Others (Comment below) d.) Not required

18. Note-taking

a.) Rnote b.) Xournal c.) Others (Comment below) d.) Not required

Thanks for your valuable time. If you have any other suggestions for applications to be included by default, feel free to let us know below.

Poll - Default application to be included in Vanilla OS

Poll - Default applications to be included in Vanilla OS

[zinc notch]

Note taking not required, virtualization not required, running windows applications not required, mail client not required because most would probably use web for that anyway, screen capturing is built in to gnome - not required,

Web btowser firefox

[gray plover]

17

[visual jasper]

1b
2a
3a
4b
5b
6a
7a
8d
9c
10b (webcamoid)
11a
12a
13a
14a
15a
16a
17D
18D

[zinc notch]

Video - totem, pdf - evince, music - rhythm box if at all,

[cursive bison]

There is very good G4Music

[barren jewel]

b.) Text Editor

Office Suite

b.) Only Office

Web Browser

e.) Brave

Video Players

c.) Celluloid

Music Players

d.) Not required

PDF Reader

a.) Document Viewer (Evince)

Photos

a.) Image viewer

Screen Capturing

d.) Not required

Mail Client

d.) Not required

Camera

c.) Not required

Scanning

a.) Document Scanner

Calendar

a.) GNOME Calendar

Clock (Stopwatch, Timer)

a.) GNOME Clock

Calculator

a.) GNOME Calculator

Contact Management

c.) Not required (editado)

this is my workspace

[full blade]

Firefox(.deb version)

[elder warren]

1 b
2 d
3 b
4 a
5 a
6 a
7 a
8 d
9 d
10 a
11 a
12 a
13 a
14 a
15 a
16 e
17 d
18 d

[tardy pulsar]

1. gedit
2. libre office
3. firefox
4. gnome videos
5. Lollypop
6. evince
7. gnome photos
8. obs studio
9. thunderbird
10. not required
11. not required
12. gnome calendar
13. gnome clock
14. gnome calculator
15. not required
16. boxes
17. wine, bottles
18. __

[scarlet minnow]

Can we still customize these during installation

[hollow hatch]

1 b
2 d
3 a
4 a
5 d
6 b
7 a
8 d
9 d
10 a
11 c
12 a
13 c
14 a
15 c
16 e
17 d
18 d

[foggy coral]

1a
2a
3a
4d
5b
6a
7a
8d
9c
10c
11c
12a
13a
14a
15a
16a
17b
18 obsidian

[worthy verge]

1a
2a
3a
4a
5a
6a
7c (eye of gnome)
8a
9a
10a
11b (simple-scan)
12b
13a
14a
15a
16c
17b
18d

[lavish apex]

1. a (Gedit)
2. a (Libre Office)
3. a (Firefox)
4. c (Celluloid)
5. b (Rhythmbox)
6. a (Document Viewer)
7. a (Image Viewer)
8. a (OBS Studio) | If the user has a low end device, OBS is not really good for that.
9. a (Thunderbird)
10. a (Cheese)
11. a (Document Scanner)
12. a (GNOME Calendar)
13. a (GNOME Clock)
14. a (GNOME Calculator)
15. a (GNOME Contact) | Thunderbird can also be another option.
16. d (VirtualBox)
17. b (Bottles)
18. a (Rnote)

[crimson saffron]

1a
2d
3a
4f
5d
6a
7d
8d
9d
10c
11c
12d
13c
14a
15c

16a
17b
18d

[cedar fiber]

1 - a
2 - d
3 - a
4 - a
5 - d
6 - a
7 - b
8 - d
9 - d
10 - c
11 - c
12 - a
13 - a
14 - a
15 - c
16 - d
17 - b
18 - d

[keen tundra]

1b
2d
3a
4d
5b
6d
7b
8a
9d
10a
11c
12a
13a
14a
15c
16c
17a
18d

[short arch]

text editor: gedit, as it follows gnome UX
office suite: onlyoffice
web browser: firefox and gnome web
but firefox as a deb, not as snap. or at least as flatpak.
media player: vlc, as it is well known by the average user, same with firefox.
for music, vlc and lollypop or gnome music. also there's audacious.
pdf reader: document viewer
photos: gnome photos or image viewer
screen capture: gnome screenshot tool or flameshot
mail client: thunderbird
camera: cheese
scanning: docs scanner
calendar: gnome calendar
clock: gnome clock
gnome calculator
gnome contacts

that should be. users can add more themselves

you can add suggestions on the welcome app or when installing the system as slideshows

so users can know what apps they can install on post install

perhaps wine or bottles could be included, as it's the other project by mirko

so users can get an ez way to run windows tools if required or use the welcome app to teach em how to install it

then suggest how to vm if they need more power or things that can't run under wine

pd: you could use a poll bot to achieve better poll results @obtuse nimbus

[obtuse nimbus]

Sure, Maybe in future

[short arch]

https://easypoll.bot/

may come handy. also you can use reactions on your message

[native frigate]

1.c 2.b 3.a 4.a 5. g4music 6.a 7.b 8.a 9.d 10.a 11.a 12.a 13.a 14.d 15.d 16.d 17.b 18.d

[fresh flame]

1b
2a
3a
4a
5a
6a
7a
8b
9a
10a
11a
12a
13a
14a
15a
16e
17e
18b

[short arch]

append: you should stay with vanilla gnome apps and add the minimal apps like vlc, lollypop and firefox then teach the user how to get more apps, so it stays vanilla

avoid bloating it too much, user can bloat it later :kek;

1b
2d
3a
4d
5c gnome music
6a
7a (eog, not loupe)
8d
9c
10a
11a
12a
13a
14a
15a
16e
17d
18d

1. Text Editor

b.) Text Editor
c.) Others (vim and nano)

2. Office Suite

b.) Only Office (most comfortable for MS Office users)

3. **Web

d.) Chromium
e.) (bundle in lynx for terminal usage)

4. Video Players

a.) VLC - People remember the traffic cone

5. Music Players

b.) Rhythmbox

6. PDF Reader

a.) Document Viewer (Evince)

7. Photos

b.) Photos

8. Screen Capturing

a.) OBS Studio

9. Mail Client

b.) Evolution

10. Camera

a.)Cheese

11. Scanning

a.) Document Scanner

12. Calendar

a.) GNOME Calendar

13. Clock (Stopwatch, Timer)

a.) GNOME Clock

14. Calculator

a.) GNOME Calculator

15. Contact Management

a.) GNOME Contact

[obtuse nimbus]

Hi, Can you edit out the ping? Thanks ( I will tell mirkob to disable it server wide)

[short arch]

Ohhhhhhh crap

Fixed

[short arch]

don't worry, it doesn't matter

even your everyone ping isn't working

i don't think anyone but Mirko has permission

I think chromium should be included as the main browser with Firefox at least

[worldly ruin]

1b
2a
3a
4c (but only on gnome, otherwise mpv)
5c Amberol
6d
7a
8a
9d
10c
11c
12a
13a
14a
15c
16a
17a
18a

[short arch]

ungoogled-chromium would be suitable aswell

[obtuse nimbus]

Thanks I just now remembered it is disabled by default in community servers and can't be used by anyone other than admins.

[short arch]

i think the name would be too confusing

either chrome or firefox

[short arch]

Yeah

[short arch]

chromium

We’d get some FOSS purists bitching lol

Which I feel them

[worldly ruin]

No just Firefox

[short arch]

well, then firefox

yeah

[worldly ruin]

I dont like chromium

[short arch]

Chromium is FOSS

[short arch]

We’re talking about the everyday user

technically yes, but the project is hurting the open web

[fresh flame]

Will there be an option to do a light Install? I.e. less preinstalled apps

[short arch]

i use firefox daily and haven't had any issues besides.. facetime web

Even the default browser built into Win11 and Win10 is based on Chromium

[fresh flame]

But it's slowly getting a monopoly. Which is bad

[keen tundra]

thats microsoft were talking about

[short arch]

and we shouldn't contribute to their monopoly if the alternative is just as good 99.99% of the time

[fresh flame]

Not a good thing

[worldly ruin]

Yes Firefox is best for the everyday user, it is well known, isn't Chrome, and isn't a chromium fork that might confuse the everyday user

[short arch]

A chromium fork would be great for the average user

[keen tundra]

if users want chromium that much they should just use Windows

[short arch]

This is why MS went with chromium when remodeling MS Edge

[short arch]

We don’t need that mentality on Linux

[worldly ruin]

I disagree, just stick with Firefox, most distros come with Firefox for a reason, and those reasons are good imo

[fresh flame]

I've not once in my life had chromium preinstalled on Linux. Might be better to stick with how it's been, especially since I think most Linux users already use it

[worldly ruin]

But make it easy for the user to install chrome and other browsers if they prefer

[short arch]

if someone really wants chromium, they will just download it.
for the vast majority of users and use cases, firefox works perfectly

[short arch]

I like Firefox a lot, don’t get me wrong, I’ve just had problems with it

[keen tundra]

i dont see a point in chromium on linux

[steel tartan]

1. b.
2. b.
3. a.
4. a.
5. a.
6. a.
7. a.
8. d.
9. c.
10. c.
11. c.
12. a.
13. a.
14. a.
15. a.
16. e.
17. b.
18. c. GNOME Notes

[worldly ruin]

What issues?

[short arch]

New user looks for favorite software. (Ie. MS Word)
Not on Linux
Gives up and goes back to windows

Half of the problem is that people don’t have the patience to look for an alternative

ok but chrome is on linux

however, they also know what firefox is

[short arch]

Yes, thankfully for the people that want it

[short arch]

so they have a choice if they don't like the default

[keen tundra]

if a user is trying to use MS Word why would they be on linux in the first place?

[worldly ruin]

Doesn't having the alternatives pre installed solve that issue? And I think most people switching to Linux will know Microsoft office doesn't work

[short arch]

https://flathub.org/apps/details/io.gitlab.o20.word 🙃

[fresh flame]

I'd say it's stigma that the lunix is for h*ckers and other but knowing it's even an option to not use windows

[short arch]

Because Windows is a trash OS and they would get away from it if they knew how

i think average people are satisfied with windows

Trust me, I hate windows, but, despite how much we may hate it, we must learn some things from it

they open a web browser and that's it

[short arch]

We are thinking too simple for modern times

[short arch]

i've only seen more technical people complain

[keen tundra]

In most cases windows suits average users perfectly

[short arch]

That’s why we need to learn from it

[fresh flame]

Yeah, the average user probably doesn't even care about what browser it is. For them it's just a different icon

But i think more people care about Firefox than chrome.

[short arch]

The average user at some point is going to want to install something

And once the average user stumbles upon one of those articles

It’s command one

Command two

Command line is like mother tongue for us

Command line to them is like they are gazing at the 8th circle of hell

They don’t want anywhere near it

Thank god for gnome-software, etc

But tutorials need to update themselves to recognize those

[fresh flame]

Eh, from what I know about my family they use the browser 90% of the time and otherwise stuff that's preinstalled (at least on Linux) like libreoffice

[short arch]

also, .debs can be installed like .exe

[keen tundra]

that is true

[short arch]

Yeah

[keen tundra]

honestly i wish exe worked the same way debian packages work

[short arch]

If you are doing a tutorial for a new user

[fresh flame]

Bloating the OS won't help there

[keen tundra]

having it all through gnome software gives a more consistent experience

[short arch]

You have to completely exclude the terminal unless it is completely necessary

[short arch]

Yes

[keen tundra]

and then you look at exe installers which every one looks diffrent

i think windows needs to learn some stuff from us

[fresh flame]

Actually make the windows store work for example

[keen tundra]

even though gnome software is easy to use personally i prefer using apt, flatpack and snap

[keen tundra]

yes

[short arch]

Though to be honest, I think gnome-software needs a good amount of stability and internal work

It gets buggy for no reason time to time

[keen tundra]

the one thing that kills me with gnome software, is the lag on search

[short arch]

Like kde plasma trying to download a theme

[short arch]

That

[keen tundra]

when i was using Zorin sometimes the search button wouldnt work at all

[fresh flame]

I think the best way is to keep users nice and comfy for like a month and then when they'll want to install a thing they'll pull through because they're just too lazy to install windows again. You can't preinstall everything and neither should you

[short arch]

I kinda thought of this

During the install process

Instead of pre installing a default web browser

[lunar glade]

1b
2a
3a
4d
5b
6d
7a
8d
9c
10c
11a
12a
13a
14a
15a
16a
17b
18d

[short arch]

Have a selection menu with a screenshot of each

[keen tundra]

i find it nice that distros include a lite install option, i never use libreoffice and i hate having to go through the process of uninstalling all the junk when i switch to a new distro

[short arch]

Options between Firefox, Google Chrome, Web, and Vivaldi

[keen tundra]

vivaldi supports linux?

[short arch]

It will install the selected browser onto the target system

[short arch]

Yes

[fresh flame]

That complicates menus and complicates the install process unnecessarily. Especially for the noobs, they won't know what to choose

[short arch]

Hell, edge supports Linux

[keen tundra]

what they could do is add a button to go through said manual install

[fresh flame]

And that's a slippery slope. You could do that with every app in this poll and that wouldn't be clean and simple at all

[short arch]

Could mark one as default selected

[fresh flame]

I mean, it's vanilla OS but build-a-bearOS

[short arch]

Also, people remember their browser icon for their browser

[keen tundra]

it kills me that edge gets used so much because its forced on users

[fresh flame]

People like the default. That's why people use edge; it's the one that was already there

[short arch]

Internet Explorer and classic MS edge were forced on users when they were trash

Most people used them to get chrome like using yoshi to get to the next platform

But since edge was renovated to basically be a better chrome, people actually like it and stay with it

[keen tundra]

i believe the only reason microsoft went chromium is to get access to the chrome web store, making it so ex-chrome users get the exact same experience with extensions and stuff

[short arch]

Don’t forget to dive back into the browser market

Gotta love the edge icon tho

Was an upgrade from the crappy old one lol

[keen tundra]

agreed

[fresh flame]

It would be a little funny to preinstall edge tho

[short arch]

16. Virtualization

B. QEMU c.)virt-manager

17. Running Windows applications

d.) Not required

18. Note-taking

b.) Xournal

[keen tundra]

that would be a sin to the linux gods

[short arch]

https://tenor.com/view/trollge-troll-the-day-of-reckoning-gif-19655212

Bruh, how does someone put “Not Required” under “Running Windows Applications”

[keen tundra]

i mean i dont think i have wine installed atm

[short arch]

I would put wine in a Linux distro no cap

Especially for an average user

[keen tundra]

yep, i just checked, no wine installed

[short arch]

Yeah, wine has some problems, but wine is good at a good amount of programs and games

Pssp. Get Darling on here and prepackage iCloud services and iMessage

[keen tundra]

lmao

[short arch]

https://tenor.com/view/trolled-troll-epic-troll-gif-22298913

[keen tundra]

Oh great heavens

[short arch]

Psystar 2

[keen tundra]

apple apps did enough to my windows, dont ruin my linux to

[short arch]

Thermonuclear War in a Courthouse

[keen tundra]

all i wanted was 1 app and i got 5

unrelated note, dolphin is horrible

[fresh flame]

It leads to bad habits of sticking with windows apps. I only have a VM to present PowerPoint because PowerPoint online is broken and for literally nothing else

[keen tundra]

i was thinking of switching to an arch based distro and then i tested dolphin in the live boot enviroment, and as soon as i saw how slow it was, i unplugged the usb and went straight back to Ubuntu

[short arch]

Jobs

[fresh flame]

Well, you can't really install Linux on a work PC in the first place

And libreoffice can still be used

[short arch]

I’m talking about when work from home requires apps the require windows

Windows apps

[keen tundra]

this is why i have windows in dual boot

[fresh flame]

Also virtualization shouldn't be part of the VANILLA Linux experience. It should be a workaround if nothing else works

A last resort shouldn't be preinstalled

[short arch]

I have windows as a dual boot because of games

I gotta sleep tho

[fresh flame]

My advice is to keep the OS as clean as possible. Trying to please everyone at once will only give you sore arms and a dry face, so just focus on what's actually important

[proud cypress]

I have noticed that distributions that provide a lot of pre-installed applications or a completely blank slate are annoying. The best option is a minimum of standard applications from Gnome and a few popular ones.

My variant:

1. Text editor - b. Text Editor (good native experience),
2. Office - b. Only Office (a good alternative for interaction and transition from Word),
3. Web browser - b. Gnome Web (good native experience) or a. Firefox,
4. Video Player - d. Gnome Videos,
5. Music players - d. Not required (everyone has very different preferences),
6. PDF reader - a. Document Viewer (Evince),
7. Photos - c. Photos +/or Eye for Gnome,
8. Screen Capturing - c. Default Gnome Screenshot (for some reason, it's not in Manjaro by default),
9. Mail - d. Not required (many people use the browser),
10. Camera - a. Cheese,
11. Scanning - a. Document Scanner,
12. Calendar - a. Gnome Calendar,
13. Clock - a. Gnome Clock,
14. Calculator - a. Gnome Calculator,
15. Contact - a. Gnome Contact,
16. Virtualization - d. Not required (many people don't need it, but advanced ones will install),
17. Windows - b. Bottles + integration in system for exe files,
18. Note-taking - d. Not required (everyone has very different preferences).

[novel sky]

1b
2b (It's similar to Microsoft Office)
3a
4e: Clapper
5c: Amberol
6a
7a
8d
9c
10c
11a
12a
13a
14a
15c
16e
17b
18a
(You may want to preinstall adw-gtk3 to modernize the look of applications like Geary)

[glass apex]

1b
2a
3a
4d
5d
6a
7a
8a
9a
10c
11a
12a
13a
14a
15a
16c
17a
18d

[exotic vortex]

Text Editor
Libre Office
Firefox
Video player: no opinion
Rhythmbox
Document Viewer
Image Viewer + Shotwell
Screen capturing: Not required
Mail client: Not required
Cheese
Scanning: No opinion
GNOME Calendar
GNOME Clock
GNOME Calculator
GNOME Contacts

Virtualization: no opinion
Running Windows applications: no opinion
Note taking: Paper (io.posidon.Paper)

[vale isle]

1b
2a
3a
4a
5d
6a
7a
8d
9d
10c
11c
12a
13c
14a
15c
16e
17d
18d

[earnest fog]

1a
2a
3a
4d
5c (Lollypop)
6a
7a
8c (Blue Recorder)
9a
10a
11a
12a
13a
14a
15a
16a
17b
18c (Joplin)

[sour mauve]

1b (Text Editor)
2b (Only Office)
3a (Firefox)
4d (GNOME Videos)
5c (Lollypop)
6a (Document Viewer)
7a (Image viewer)
8d (Not required)
9d (Not required)
10c (Not required
11c (Not required)
12a (GNOME Calendar)
13a (GNOME Clock)
14a (GNOME Calculator)
15c (Not required)
16a (Not required)
18d (Not required)

[clear drift]

1 - B
2 - D
3 - A
4 - D
5 - C (Amberol)
6 - D
7 - A
8 - D
9 - D
10 - A
11 - C
12 - A
13 - A
14 - A
15 - A
16 - E
17 - D
18 - D

[fresh canopy]

1b, 2b, 3ac, 4d, 5,6,7-default gnome app, 8a, 9b, 12a, 13a, 14a, 15a

[wild bridge]

1-b (vim would also be useful, for some reason Ubuntu doesn’t ship it by default)
2-d
3-a
4-c
5-d
6-a
7-a
8-d (gnome already has it)
9-d
10-a
11-c
12-a
13-a
14-a
15-a
16-d
17-d
18-d

[tall bridge]

1 -A
2- A
3- D
4- A
5-A
6-A
7-B
8- D
9-D
10-C
11-A
12-A
13-A
14-A
15-D
16-E
17-B
18-D

[obtuse nimbus]

Wait a sec, Vim is included in Ubuntu by default from what I remember since the Unity days.

[wild bridge]

I was on Ubuntu before installing VanillaOS on my laptop and I’m 99.9999% sure I had to manually install it

Still, it’s not included in Vanilla by default but it should be for everyone’s sanity

Obligatory vim > nano

[hidden nimbus]

Text Editor - Gedit
Office Suite - Libre Office
Web Browser - Firefox
Video Player - Totem
Music Player - Rumblebox
PDF Viewer - Evince
Photos - Image Viewer
Screen Capturing - Not Required
Mail Client - Evolution
Camera - Not Required
Scanning - Not Required
Calender - GNOME Calendar
Clock - GNOME Clock
Calculator - GNOME Calculator
Contact - Not Required
Virtualization - GNOME Boxes
Windows Apps - WINE
Note-taking - Not Required

[obtuse nimbus]

Sure I guess I can include it in the base package if necessary as it is very lightweight. Just now I checked yeah vim tiny aka minimal without GUI is present by default in Ubuntu and Debian (according to Reddit). If you need a GUI then you can install it separately. TBH I had never seen someone use Vim GUI.

[wild bridge]

Wow, I was almost certain I installed it by hand

The more you know

[obtuse nimbus]

Maybe I confused vi with vim, let me check it out in a fresh install if it's included by default.

[warm cliff]

1. Text editor
2. OnlyOffice
3. Firefox
4. Other: Clapper
5. Not required
6. Document viewer Evince
7. Image viewer
8. Not required
9. Not required
10. Not required
11. Not required
12. Gnome calendar
13. Not required
14. Gnome calculator
15. Not required
16. Not required
17. Not required
18. Not required

[tired nimbus]

I agree with this, or you can have an option where the user can opt for an install with the default applications, or they can start with a clean slate

[fresh flame]

I wouldn't preinstall vim. Anyone who can even exit it can install it in seconds

[sudden sky]

1 a
2 a
3 a
4 a
5 d
6 a
7 a
8 a
9 a
10 c
11 c
12 b
13 c
14 c
15 c
16 c & a
17 a & b
18 d

[left olive]

1b, 2a, 3a, 4c, 5b, 6a, 7a, 8b, 9d, 10a, 11a, 12a, 13a, 14a, 15a, 16a, 17d, 18d

[obtuse nimbus]

Interesting I installed ubuntu and checked it just now. vim isn't installed but vim-tiny (minimal) is installed as vi and the vi command is symbolically linked to vim-tiny. So basically you are getting vim but a cutdown base version instead.

[cunning sequoia]

1c (geany)
2b
3d
4a/b
5b
6b
7b
8a
9a/d
10a/b (kamoso)
11a
12a/b
13a
14a
15a
16e/d (vb)
17a (i haven't used bottles.. so idk)
18b

[wild bridge]

Well that's not confusing at all

[slim pecan]

1. B
2. A
3. A
4. A
5. B
6. A
7. A
8. D
9. C
10. elementary Camera?
11. C
12. A
13. A
14. A
15. A
16. C
17. B
18. Notejot

[dire citrus]

1 b
2 d
3 a
4 f
5 d
6 d
7 d
8 d
9 b
10 a
11 c
12 a
13 a
14 c
15 a

[lime garnet]

1. Text Editor
2. Libreoffice
3. Firefox
4. Clapper
5. Rhythmbox
6. Document Viewer
7. Image Viewer
8. Not required, GNOME has its own screen recorder
9. Geary
10. Cheese
11. Document Scanner
12. Gnome Calendar
13. Gnome Clock
14. Gnome Calculator
15. Not required
16. Not required
17. WINE
18. Not required

[sleek flower]

1a
2d
3a/d
4b
5d
6d
7b
8a
9a
10a
11c
12a
13a
14a
15a
16a
17b
18d

most of them aren’t required but should definitely be available

[lime garnet]

Better edited version:

Text Editor - Text Editor
Office Suite - Libre Office
Web Browser - Firefox
Video Player - Clapper
Music Player - Rhythmbox
PDF Viewer - Document Viewer
Photos - Image Viewer
Screen Capturing - Not Required, GNOME has its own
Mail Client - Geary
Camera - Cheese
Scanning - Document Scanner
Calender - GNOME Calendar
Clock - GNOME Clock
Calculator - GNOME Calculator
Contact - Not Required
Virtualization - Not required
Windows Apps - WINE
Note-taking - Not Required

[stuck mortar]

none, for something is vanilla, no?

[left olive]

You're thinking about minimal so no, vanilla is more like just including the default apps as the developers of the DE intended it to be. But it doesn't really matter anyway.

[dawn torrent]

1. b
2. a
3. a (Maybe also GNOME Web)
4. c
5. Not Required
6. d
7. b
8. Not Required
9. Not Required
10. a
11. a
12. a
13. a
14. a
15. a
16. Not Required
17. b
18. Not Required

[trim chasm]

I think you all should figure it out for yourselves which apps everyone need by default. People don't know what they want until you show it to them. I would recommend you to keep it as simple and minimal as possible so that people can choose to install whatever app they want and prefer, but at the same time not that minimal so that new users don't need to bother with installing essential apps.
My preference would be:

1. b) Text Editor
2. a) Libre Office (although there might be better alternatives, currently Libre Office is the most polished and widely-used office suite out there)
3. a) Firefox, please
4. c) Celluloid - or - d) GNOME Videos
5. f) Rhytmbox
6. a) Document Viewer (even though I prefer using web browsers)
7. a) Image Viewer
8. d) Not required
9. d) Not required
10. a) Cheese
11. a) Document Scanner
12. a) GNOME Calendar
13. a) GNOME Clock
14. a) GNOME Calculator
15. a) GNOME Contact
16. e) Not required
17. a) WINE (autorun windows apps)
18. d) Not required

[manic cradle]

1. B
2. A
3. A
4. C
5. B
6. A
7. A
8. B
9. B
10. A
11. A
12. A
13. A
14. A
15. A
16. A
17. B
18. D

[thorn wasp]

8c screen capture

[worn zinc]

1. Text editor - B. Text Editor
2. Office - B. Only Office (a good alternative for interaction and transition from Word),
3. Web browser - A. Firefox - realistically most people will just install it anyway...
4. Video Player - D. Gnome Videos,
5. Music players - C. Gnome Music,
6. PDF reader - A. Document Viewer (Evince),
7. Photos - C. Loupe (when it is out) or Eye for Gnome,
8. Screen Capturing - C. Default Gnome Screenshot,
9. Mail - B. Evolution (so that WebDAV sync happens across Calendar, Contacts, etc),
10. Camera - A. Cheese,
11. Scanning - A. Document Scanner,
12. Calendar - A. Gnome Calendar,
13. Clock - A. Gnome Clock,
14. Calculator - A. Gnome Calculator,
15. Contact - A. Gnome Contacts,
16. Virtualization - D,
17. Windows - B. Bottles + integration in system for exe files,
18. Note-taking - D. Not required.
    19. Backups - Timeshift,
    20. Firewall - GUFW.
    21. Extensions - Extension Manager

[dark pewter]

1. B
2. B
3. C
4. C
5. A
6. A
7. B
8. D
9. A
   10)A
10. C
11. A
12. A
13. A
14. C
15. A
16. B
17. A

[pearl badge]

1. b
2. b
3. a
4. a
5. d
6. a
7. b
8. d
9. c
10. a
11. a
12. a
13. a
14. a
15. a
16. e
17. a
18. d
19. Endeavour (To do list)

[short arch]

1 a Gedit
2 b Only Office
3 a Firefox
4 a VLC
5 c Clementine
6 b Okular
7 b Photos
8 a OBS
9 d Not required
10 c Not required
11 c Not required
12 c Not required
13 a GNOME Clock
14 a GNOME Calculator
15 c Not required
16 e Not required
17 a+b Wine + Bottles
18 c Obsidian

19 Steam + Heroic, ProtonPlus (ProtonUp but better for Gnome DE, it is in alpha tho), GIMP

[topaz junco]

1b
2d
3a
4d
5d
6a
7a
8d
9d
10a
11a
12a
13a
14a
15a
16e
17d
18d

Or otherwise only the core apps (https://apps.gnome.org/en/)

[edgy slate]

1.b, 2.d, 3.a, 4.d, 5.d, 6.d, 7.a, 8.d, 9.d, 10.c, 11.c, 12.a, 13.a, 14.c, 15.c, 16.e, 17.d, 18.d

[vernal apex]

1a; 2d; 3a(with Firefox-Gnome Theme https://github.com/rafaelmardojai/firefox-gnome-theme); 4d; 5a; 6d; 7a; 8c: Gnome has one built in. 9c; 10a; 11a; 12a; 13a; 14a; 15a; 16c; 17a; 18d Also install adw-gtk by default: https://github.com/lassekongo83/adw-gtk3

[dense fog]

1. b)
2. d)
3. a)
4. a)
5. c) G4Music: https://gitlab.gnome.org/neithern/g4music
6. a)
7. a)
8. a)
9. d)
10. c)
11. c)
12. a)
13. a)
14. a)
15. c)
16. a) (Making this optional would be better)
17. a), b) (Probably add this as an option so people switching from Windows or wants to use Windows Apps won't have to configure them manually)
18. d)

[rough surge]

1b, 2a, 3a, 4c, 5c (amberol), 6a, 7a, 8d, 9a, 10a, 11a, 12a, 13a, 14a, 15a, 16e, 17e, 18e

[scenic zephyr]

1.text Editor

[rugged rivet]

1.b
2.b
3.a
4.a
5.a
6.a
7.a
8.d
9.d
10.c
11.a
12.a
13.a
14.a
15.a

[scenic zephyr]

1.Text Editor 2.Libreoffice 3.Firefox 4.Celluloid 5.G4music 6.Evince 7.Photos 8.OBS Studio 9.Geary 10.Don't Know Dev should make a modern gtk4 one 11.Document Scanner 12.Gnome Calender 13.Gnome Clock 14.GNOME Calculator 15.GNOME Contact 16.GNOME Boxes 17. Bottles 18.Rnote

[sick python]

Text Editor: b) Text Editor
Office Suite: b) Only Office
Web Browser: e) Brave
Video Player: a) VLC
Music Player: a) VLC
PDF Reader: a) Document Viewer
Photos: b) Photos
Screen Capturing: a) OBS
Mail Client: b) Evolution
Camera: b) Deepin camera

[loud thunder]

1b
2b
3a
4c
5d
6a
7a
8d
9d
10d
11a
12d
13c
14a
15c
16e
17b
18d