While I sit and do the mail, the Linux machine the other side of the study is updating its software and installing a dozen or so packages for me to try out - including Audacity (which I use a lot on the PC), WinAmp, and Bluetooth networking.
All free (sorry, but the authors made them that way), and all automatically downloaded and installed from a single menu listing all the software available from a list of sources.
Not bad, I reckon.