Many of the applications you would expect to find installed
on a modern computer are provided, pre-installed on MATE. If you don't find an installed application to do what you want to
do, you'll likely find it in the
Software Boutique or by using one of MATE's other software management
applications, then you can install it from there. See the topic Installing Additional Applications for more information about installing software.
Unlike with Windows and macOS, MATE provides you with all of the pre-installed applications at no charge. And the vast majority of the software available in the software repositories is also free of charge. Here is a sampling of some of the productivity applications you'll find as soon as you start using MATE.