I actually got it installed on a 2nd 80 gig sata drive. As far as favorite applications, i just use the ones for now that it comes with until I get the feel for it.
Everything works like a charm with no problems.
Frostwire and XMMS music player are the two other programs off the top of my head that I got separately. Cedega if you want to play windows based games on linux. :-)
