It really depends on what you want to do. I like to have Wine installed so that I can run some Windows apps, but if you don't use Windows, that will be less important. I've also used QEMU in the past to run a virtual Windows machine inside of Linux.
I use Google Chrome for normal browsing and Firefox for development, so I would try to get Chromium working.
There aren't really any killer opensource apps that Ubuntu is missing. The fast majority of what you will need for development is available in the repositories.
I suggest: Openoffice.org - stable (3.1.0?),kivio or dia - diagramming,opera and/or firefox,gnucash,abobe acrobat reader (acroread), qcad, hp device manager (hplip?) if you have an hp printer, vlc media player, glabels - business cards and the like (I just prefer this to OOo for this purpose)
This software covers most of my office/design type needs.
If you "sudo apt-get grammar" you can get an app that will teach you how to properly use hyphens so you don't say things like "Ubuntu must have apps" which implies that Ubuntu doesn't have applications but you think it must.
I know Grammar Nazis on the Internet are annoying but people will think you are not smart. You know how it's a really big turn-off when you read Craigslist posts and girls are like "your really funny" and you just wince? It's like that! Except without the girls!
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http://code.google.com/p/chromium/wiki/LinuxBuildInstruction...
I also use vlc for playing DVDs, video, and audio clips.
http://www.videolan.org/vlc/download-ubuntu.html
There aren't really any killer opensource apps that Ubuntu is missing. The fast majority of what you will need for development is available in the repositories.
This software covers most of my office/design type needs.
aptitude install firefox-3.5 (Ubuntu 9.04 shipped with Firefox 3.0 by default).
Nightly builds of Chromium: https://launchpad.net/~chromium-daily/+archive/ppa
miro (simple "internet TV" video podcast player)
thunderbird, gnumeric, abiword (my preferred lighter-weight alternatives to the default Evolution and OpenOffice apps)
gnome-do (like the OS X app Quicksilver)
inkscape (vector drawing)
git, git-svn, mercurial, darcs, bzr, subversion, cvs
irb, rubygems
Except "Ubuntu-must-have-apps" is just as bad! The hyphen goes between "must" and "have" to signal that "must" is part of an adjective and not a verb!
Chromium is also a must.