Firefox, Thunderbird and VLC Are the Most Popular Apps Among Ubuntu Users | Linux Today

Firefox, Thunderbird and VLC Are the Most Popular Apps Among Ubuntu Users

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Marius Nestor
Sep 19, 2017

Earlier this year, Canonical put together a survey to find out what users want to see in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS and future releases of the popular operating system. The response from users was underwhelming, as more than 15,000 survey responses were recorded from well-known sites like Slashdot, Reddit, or HackerNews. You can watch the video below if you want to see Dustin Kirkland revealing the results, but we can tell you right now that users want to see Mozilla Firefox as default web browser, Mozilla Thunderbird as default email client, VLC as default video and music player, LibreOffice as default office suite, Gedit as default text editor, and Nautilus as default file manager.

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Marius Nestor

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