What are the best place/places to get reliable Ubuntu applications?

[uberman]

I'm getting prepared to try Linux Ubuntu. When I do searches to check out apps that I can go for later I always get hits of the hot Linux apps. These are usually very new and unstable, betas or whatnot.

Where is a good place/places to download solid, tried and true Ubuntu applications?

 

[Jodell88]

The Ubuntu Software Center. It's already installed.

 

[Essence_of_War]

The Ubuntu Software Center. It's already installed.

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One of the most powerful features of linux distros are the package manager. The distribution that you use, in your case Ubuntu, maintains repositories of compiled binaries, and a set of tools (usually "apt-get" or "aptitude" on ubuntu) that let you fetch those binaries, install them, and automatically resolve their dependencies. So if software A requires both software B and libraries L1 and L2, using the package manager to fetch A will get A, B and L1, L2 automaticyl and transparently, without you having to manually figure out which softwares are required.

The package manager works nicely with command line tools (apt-get or aptitude, for example) but if you don't feel confident yet with those (and that should be on your list of things to get comfortable with eventually!) the Ubuntu Software Center provides a nice graphical front-end.