What are your must-have programs?

Trying to discover new/unheard Linux desktop programs (Sorry for the confusion).

Edit: I apologise for confusing a lot of people. I meant Linux desktop “programs” coming from Windows/Mac. I'm used to calling them “apps”.

Edit: 🙌 I’m overwhelmed with the great “programs” people have recommended in the comment section. Thank you guys.

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Because you asked about "apps", people are replying with mobile apps. I think you wanted to write "programs" considering the community. Maybe you should edit this
- True but isn’t it safe to assume the OP meant desktop (considering the community)? There aren’t that many people using Linux phones.
  
  I suppose since more than one response is related to mobile apps, it’s not a safe assumption that the OP intended for desktop apps/programs.
  
  Considering the community, that's what should happen. However sometimes people don't realize which community they are in and they just look at the title. If the first person who replied started with mobile apps, others possibly didn't notice because of them and continued adding up.
  
  However sometimes people don't realize which community they are in and they just look at the title.
  
  Guilty as charged. After reading the title it didn't even cross my mind that it could possibly refer to anything other than mobile apps so I saw no reason whatsoever to look at what community it was posted in as the app I came to think of as a good recommendation is cross platform.
- People started saying apps to programs on computer as well. No idea who's fault it is. Apple's? Only old people call it software or so.
  
  Not exactly sure whose fault is this but if OP still wants to use the term "app", they should at least mention it's "desktop apps", or just go with "programs" which is the proper term. Because even with "desktop apps" I still understand it is as web apps more likely.
  
  Distrobox supports waydroid to use android apps on wayland. There are many small purpose built apps for android than can be useful on desktop.
  
  No one seems to be mentioning apps in this specific kind of context, and I don't consider a locked down and stripped orphan kernel to be "Linux" but a lot of this stuff it FOSS and can now run on both.

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