LOL!
First I was going to post the output from the "dpkg -l" command.

Errr...I install most of my software using the Debian package system - be it download and dpkg, apt-get or dselect, so lots and lots of it.

As desktop I use Fluxbox, it's a lot less cluttered than KDE and Gnome and runs well on my older computers. It's lightweight and pretty. Terminal emulator - Eterm, the one and only. Pine and Thunderbird for email (T-Bird being one of the few apps I don't install using Debian's packaging system).

Really, really essential packages: wget, lftp, vim, vim (and vim-gtk). Those go a long way.

I could go on, but I really shouldn't. But I'm glad you have discovered one of the fine things about Debian.

hw