I run a youth stem club and we're getting real laptops donated to the club. None of that Chromebook nonsense. I'm creating a club distro based on Mint using Cubic and I want to include any of the software that we may frequently use. I'm looking for some recommendations for software.

This is what I got so far:

kicad syncthing vlc inkscape libreoffice arduino openarena freeciv blender

I'm also working on getting Fritzing installed.

Edit: These are all good suggestions. I'll get to work on a new version. Now I need to figure out how to change the default background from the command line.