acidburn1995
Email Client: mutt
Terminal: terminator
IDE: jetbrains stuff, vim
File manager: ranger, nautilus
Basic Text Editor: vim
IRC/Messaging Client: hexchat
PDF Reader: evince
Office Suite: libreoffice
Calendar: cal, webshit
Video Player: mplayer,vlc,totem
Music Player: clementine
Photo Viewer: feh
Screen recording: shutter
Even after all that, there wasn't much it could do. I'm not sure why I insisted on running that instead of Windows 95.
A little later OSS came out. To get sound to work a lot of cases you had to shell out money for commercial sound drivers, or get a crack from #linuxwarez.
This was a minor inconvenience compared to swapping the 40 1.44mb disks needed to install it because I couldn't get it to use my pre-atapi cdrom drive correctly. Using the cdrom drive it would work for a little bit, and then everything would start timing out. And, a network install was some science fiction as far as I and my 9600bps modem were concerned.
Then once you got it all installed you could start trying to get X11 and ppp to work...