What you can do on PowerPC


The list below is not exhaustive. There are thousands of ports available and multiple end-user apps. Here we list what is well-tested and can be advised to install.


Multimedia

There are a few options for modern multimedia players, but the first best is QMPlay2.

You may also try mpv and mplayer (the latter may be preferred on resource-constrained systems).

YouTube: unless you need a command-line app for some reason, just use QMPlay2.

Audio

Here choices are numerous. Try and see what you prefer: qmmp, DeaDBeeF, lollypop, guayadeque, audacious, rhythmbox.

For hi-fi audio blackomega can be considered.

There are a number of TUI players: musikcube, cmus etc.

Photography

Rawtherapee is the way.

E-mail

Claws-mail for GUI and nmail for TUI.

p2p

transmission-x11 and deluge for torrents.

Then, amule, nicotine-plus, eiskaltdcpp and gtk-gnutella.

Social / chat

There are clients for XMPP/Jabber: dino, profanity, Discord client – abaddon, apps for Tox and IRC.

Other web

The best sFTP client is FileZilla. To download videos use Parabolic or tartube.

There is also a catgirl-downloader.

Misc

fastfetch.