Linux Replacements for Windows Programs

[bitsnpcs]

Office Suites & Applications

[table]
[tr]
[td]Windows Application[/td]
[td]      Linux Alternatives[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Microsoft Office (suite)[/td]
[td]      LibreOffice, OpenOffice.org, KOffice, siag office, Calligra,[/td][/tr]
[tr]
[td]      [/td]
[td]      WPS Office, EuroOffice[sup]2[/sup] , OnlyOffice[/td][/tr]
[tr]
[td]Microsoft Word[/td]
[td]      LibreOffice Writer[sup]1[/sup], OOWriter, AbiWord, KWord[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Microsoft Excel[/td]
[td]      LibreOffice Calc[sup]1[/sup], OOCalc, KSpread, Gnumeric[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Microsoft Access, dBase [/td]
[td]      LibreOffice Base[sup]1[/sup], OOBase, Kexi[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Microsoft Powerpoint[/td]
[td]      LibreOffice Impress[sup]1[/sup], OOImpress, KPresenter, Impressive[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Microsoft Project[/td]
[td]      OpenProj, Planner, Gantt, MOOS Project Viewer[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Microsoft Publisher, Quark[/td]
[td]      Scribus[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Microsoft Visio[/td]
[td]      gliffy, Kivio, LibreOffice Draw[sup]1[/sup], OODraw, DIA,[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]      [/td]
[td]      yEd Graph Editor[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Notepad, Wordpad [/td]
[td]      gedit, Kate, KWrite, Geany, XPad, notepadqq, Leafpad,[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]        [/td]
[td]      Sublime text, Nedit, Atom [/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Business Card Designer Pro[/td]
[td]      gLabels[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Adobe Acrobat viewer[/td]
[td]      Evince, Xpdf, Okular, Master PDF Editor[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Adobe Acrobat Distiller[/td]
[td]      CUPS-PDF, LibreOffice, OpenOffice.org[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Adobe Acrobat PDF editor[/td]
[td]      pdfedit, pdftk, pdfjam[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Microsoft Money, Quicken[/td]
[td]      GnuCash, KMyMoney, grisbi, Homebank[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Microsoft FrontPage, Dreamweaver[/td]
[td]      BlueGriffon, KompoZer, Amaya, Bluefish[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Autodesk AutoCAD[/td]
[td]      Bricscad, FreeCAD[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Evernote[/td]
[td]      Everpad, RedNotebook, NixNote, Springseed, Cherrytree,[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]      [/td]
[td]      TagSpaces[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Mealmaster[/td]
[td]      Gourmet Recipe Manager[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]ClipboardFusion[/td]
[td]      Clipman[/td]
[/tr][/table]


Internet Applications

[table]
[tr]
[td]Windows Application[/td]
[td]      Linux Alternatives[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Internet Explorer[/td]
[td]      Firefox, Chrome, Opera, Konqueror, Midori[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]videoGET[/td]
[td]      Minitube[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Microsoft Outlook[/td]
[td]      Thunderbird, Kontact, Zimbra Desktop, Evolution[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]MSN Messenger[/td]
[td]      Pidgin, aMSN, Kopete, Emesene, Gabber, Psi[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Microsoft Netmeeting[/td]
[td]      Ekiga[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]eMule[/td]
[td]      aMule[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]uTorrent, Azureus[/td]
[td]      Transmission, Ktorrent, Vuze, Deluge, qBittorrent, uGet[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Skype (VoIP)[/td]
[td]      Skype, Ekiga, Jitsi, Google Hangouts[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]CuteFTP, WS FTP[/td]
[td]      FileZilla, KFTPgrabber, FireFTP[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]mIRC[/td]
[td]      Xchat, Pidgin, Konversation[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]UltraVNC, Remote Desktop[/td]
[td]      rdesktop, NX, TightVNC, x11vnc, SSH, Synergy, Vinagre, Remmina[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Forte Agent[/td]
[td]      Pan[/td]
[/tr] 
[/table]

Multimedia Applications

[table]
[tr]
[td]Windows Application[/td]
[td]      Linux Alternatives[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Adobe Photoshop[/td]
[td]      GIMP, GIMPshop, Krita[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Adobe Photoshop Elements[/td]
[td]      F-Spot, KPhotoAlbum, gThumb, Gwenview, digiKam[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Corel Draw, Adobe Illustrator[/td]
[td]      Inkscape, Xara Xtreme[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Microsoft Paint[/td]
[td]      Tux Paint, KolourPaint[/td]
[/tr][tr]
[td]Lightroom, Adobe Camera RAW[/td]
[td]      RawTherapee, darktable, LightZone, Aftershot Pro, UFRaw[/td]
[/tr][tr][td]Windows Live Photo Gallery[/td][td]      4K Slideshow Maker[/td][/tr][tr][td]ACDSee, Irfanview [/td]
[td]      XnView, Mirage, gThumb, GQview, Gwenview, Ristretto[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]        [/td]
[td]      nomacs[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]3D Studio MAX, Maya[/td]
[td]      Blender, K-3D, Softimage, Maya[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Windows Movie Maker, Adobe Premiere[/td]
[td]      Kdenlive, Cinellera, Kino, LiVES, AviDemux, PiTiVi[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]          [/td]
[td]      OpenShot[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]TMPGEnc DVD Author, ConvertXtoDVD[/td]
[td]      DeVeDe, Bombono, Handbrake, 'Q' DVD Author[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td] Videora, DVD Maker[/td]
[td]      Thin Liquid Film, DVDStyler[/td][/tr]
[tr]
[td]Windows Media Player[/td]
[td]      VLC, Totem, Kaffeine, xine, MPlayer, QMPlay2[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]        [/td]
[td]      Rhythmbox, Clementine[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Winamp, iTunes[/td]
[td]      Rhythmbox, Amarok, Banshee, Audacious, aTunes, Qmmp[/td][/tr]
[tr]
[td]Cubase, CoolEdit, Cakewalk[/td]
[td]      Ardour, Audacity, Beast, GNUsound, Rosegarden[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]NoteWorthy Composer[/td]
[td]      MuseScore, LilyPond[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Guitar Pro[/td]
[td]      TuxGuitar, MuseScore[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]MP3Tag[/td]
[td]      EasyTAG, Puddletag[/td]
[/tr]
[/table]

CD/DVD Recording

[table]
[tr]
[td]Windows Application[/td]
[td]      Linux Alternatives[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Nero Burning ROM, Alcohol 120%[/td]
[td]      Brasero, K3b, X-CD-Roast, Xfburn[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]UltraISO, PowerISO[/td]
[td]      ISO Master, AcetoneISO, CDemu[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Daemon Tools[/td]
[td]      CDemu[/td]
[/tr]
[/table]

Server & Networking Applications

[table]
[tr]
[td]Windows Application[/td]
[td]      Linux Alternatives[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Microsoft IIS[/td]
[td]      Apache, lighttpd, Zope, thttpd, Yaws, nginx[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Serv-U FTP Server, Filezilla FTP Server[/td]
[td]      vsftpd, Pure-FTPd, ProFTPD[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]File/Printer Sharing[/td]
[td]      Samba[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Microsoft Exchange[/td]
[td]      Zimbra, Open-Xchange, Citadel[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Microsoft Sharepoint[/td]
[td]      KnowledgeTree, Open-Xchange[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Small Business Server[/td]
[td]      ClearOS, Zentyal, SME Server[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]NetLimiter[/td]
[td]      L7-filter, MasterShaper, trickle, Bandwidth Arbitrator[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]PA Server Monitor[/td]
[td]      ZenOSS, Nagios, Zabbix, Ncid[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Inssider[/td]
[td]      LinSSID[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Norton AntiVirus, McAfee[/td]
[td]      ClamAV, Avira, AVG, Avast[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]ZoneAlarm, Sygate Firewall[/td]
[td]      Firestarter, FireHOL, Guarddog, Gufw, KMyFirewall[/td]
[/tr]
[/table]

Utilities

[table]
[tr]
[td]Windows Application[/td]
[td]      Linux Alternatives[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Norton Partition Magic[/td]
[td]      Gparted, Qtparted, Parted Magic[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Norton Ghost[/td]
[td]      Clonezilla, Partimage, g4u, dd, Redo Backup, qt4-fsarchiver[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]                  [/td]
[td]      TimeShift[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Winzip, WinRAR, 7-zip[/td]
[td]      File Roller, Ark, Karchiver, 7-Zip, Xarchiver, B1 Archiver[/td][/tr]
[tr]
[td]Capsa Network Analyzer[/td]
[td]      Wireshark, Ethereal[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Bitvise Tunnelier[/td]
[td]      Gnome SSH Tunnel Manager, HotSSH[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]FreeFile Sync[/td]
[td]      FreeFile Sync, rsync, rsnapshot, duplicity, ZBackup, Back In Time[/td]
[/tr]
[tr]
[td]Dragon Naturally Speaking[/td]
[td]      Simon[/td]
[/tr]
[/table]

Source: Linux in the UK


Changes to Source List by Linux Lite Community

Reference (Section Added) -
[sup]1[/sup] Components of the LibreOffice Suite. (thanks to ohjrson).
Merging of listings.
[sup]2 [/sup]Contains proprietary components. (thanks to avj).

Programs Added -
01/ qBittorrent alternative to uTorrent.
02/ QMPlay2 alternative to wmp (thanks to misko_2083).
03/ LinSSID alternative to Inssider (thanks to N4RPS). Thanks especially to the 
      author/maintainer for his individual help to me.
04/ Redo Backup alternative to Norton Ghost (thanks to rokytnji).
05/ qt4-fsarchiver alternative to Norton Ghost (thanks to rokytnji).
06/ Calligra alternative to Office (thanks to misko_2083).
07/ Midori alternative to IE (thanks to misko_2083).
08/ Minitube alternative to videoGET (thanks to misko_2083).
09/ Nomacs alternative to Irfanview (thanks to misko_2083).
10/ DIA alternative to Visio (thanks to Wirezfree).
11/ FreeFile Sync/FreeFile Sync (thanks to Wirezfree).
12/ Simon alternative to Dragon Naturally Speaking (thanks to Wirezfree).
13/ Pan alternative to Forte Agent.
14/ EasyTAG alternative to MP3Tag.
15/ Puddletag alternative to MP3Tag (thanks to riser).
16/ Geany alternative to Notepad & Wordpad (thanks to riser).
17/ Handbrake alternative to ConvertXtoDVD (thanks to riser).
18/ Xfburn alternative to Nero burning ROM (thanks to gold_finger).
19/ gLabels alternative to Business Card Designer Pro.
20/ FreeCAD alternative to Autodesk AutoCAD (thanks to riser).
21/ Everpad alternative to Evernote (thanks to altman).
22/ XPad alternative to Notepad (thanks to altman).
23/ Ristretto alternative to ACDSee (thanks to riser).
24/ PiTiVi alternative to Windows Movie Maker (thanks to riser).
25/ 7-Zip alternative to WinZip (thanks to riser).
26/ TimeShift alternative to Norton Ghost (thanks to riser).
27/ rsync, rsnapshot, duplicity, zbackup, BackInTime alternatives to FreeFileSynch (thanks to 
      riser).
28/ notepadqq alternative to notepad/wordpad (thanks to altman).
29/ Gourmet Recipe Manager alternative to Mealmaster (thanks to gold_finger).
30/ Jitsi, Google Hangouts alternatives to Skype (thanks to riser).
31/ Sublime Text, LeafPad alternatives to Notepad (thanks to riser).
32/ Vinagre alternative to Remote Desktop (thanks to riser).
33/ OpenShot alternative to Windows Movie Maker (thanks to riser).
34/ Rhythmbox alternative to Windows Media Player (thanks to riser).
35/ Xarchiver alternative to WinZip (thanks to riser).
36/ Cherrytree alternative to Evernote (thanks to ukbrian).
37/ BlueGriffon alternative to Dreamweaver (thanks to N4RPS).
38/ MuseScore alternative to Guitar Pro (thanks to altman).
39/ uGet alternative to uTorrent (thanks to altman).
40/ yEd Graph Editor alternative to Microsoft Visio (thanks to LL-user). 
41/ nedit, Atom alternatives to Notepad, Wordpad (thanks to LL-user).
42/ Master PDF Editor alternative to Adobe Acrobat (thanks to LL-user).
43/ nginx alternative to Microsoft IIS (thanks to LL-user).
44/ WPS Office alternative to MS Office (thanks to altman).
45/ Impressive alternative to MS Powerpoint (thanks to altman).
46/ TagSpaces alternative to Evernote (thanks to altman).
47/ EuroOffice alternative to MS Office (thanks to altman).
49/ Clementine alternative to WMP (thanks to br1anstorm).
50/ NCID alternative to PA Server monitor (thanks to kstuart).
51/ Clipman alternative to ClipboardFusion (thanks to kstuart).
52/ Remmina alternative to UltraVNC (thanks to pedrito).
53/ Qmmp alternative to Winamp (thanks to NN).
54/ B1 Archiver alternative to WinZip, WinRar, et al. (thanks to NN).
55/ DVDStyler alternative to Windows DVD Maker (thanks to NN).
56/ 4k Slideshow Maker alternative to Windows Live Photo Gallery (thanks to NN).
57/ OnlyOffice alternative to Microsoft Office (thanks to NN).
58/ Rawtherapee, Darktable, Lightzone, Aftershot Pro, UFRaw alternatives to
      Lightroom and Adobe Camera Raw (thanks to robinc).

Removed -
1/ Ubuntu One from Source list as this is now closed.
2/ Strikethrough replaced with Superscript #1 for clarity ( thanks to ohjrson).
3/ merging suggestions (thanks to riser).

Altered Links -
1/ Mirage, changed to Sourceforge link.
2/ trickle, changed to wiki.
3/ dd, changed to wiki.
4/ ClamAV, changed to correct url.

Please add your GUI alternatives, what they are an alternative to, and their link in replies, and I'll add them into the list.

[Valtam]

Thank you bitsnpcs, an excellent resource. Also added a more accurate Title for the thread. Stickied

[bitsnpcs]

Thank you Valtam for stickying it and changing the title, also for your help 
The most thanks though for making an awesome Linux distro. I just collected my second issue of Linux Format today, it states next months issue will have an article about the best Distro's of 2014.

[rokytnji]

Ghosting

http://redobackup.org/

http://sourceforge.net/projects/qt4-fsarchiver/

Internet cli application/browser

http://www.uzbl.org/

Code:

$ apt-cache policy uzbl
uzbl:
  Installed: 0.0.0~git.20120514-1.1
  Candidate: 0.0.0~git.20120514-1.1
  Version table:
*** 0.0.0~git.20120514-1.1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

Flash and java work with no special tweaks. My favorite terminal based browser.

Radio streaming in terminal

http://moc.daper.net/

Code:

$ apt-cache policy moc
moc:
  Installed: 1:2.5.0~beta1+svn20131120-1
  Candidate: 1:2.5.0~beta1+svn20131120-1
  Version table:
*** 1:2.5.0~beta1+svn20131120-1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe i386 Packages
        100 /var/lib/dpkg/status

also a favorite of mine. Another is https://cmus.github.io/

Code:

apt-cache policy cmus
cmus:
  Installed: (none)
  Candidate: 2.5.0-4build1
  Version table:
     2.5.0-4build1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe i386 Packages

A good file manager I also like is

Code:

harry@harry-Latitude-XT2:~$ apt-cache policy spacefm
spacefm:
  Installed: 0.9.4-1
  Candidate: 0.9.4-1
  Version table:
     0.9.4-1 0
        500 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/ trusty/universe i386 Packages

http://ignorantguru.github.io/spacefm/

I know spacefm is not maintained anymore by ignorant guru but there are some killer plugins for burning isos and other things in it. Plus it is a double paned file manager. It does not take up much space and can run alongside Thunar.

Depends on ones tastes I guess.

[Valtam]

I just collected my second issue of Linux Format today, it states next months issue will have an article about the best Distro's of 2014.

I hope we make the cut

[Valtam]

Would like a focus on easy to use, simple GUI equivalents, no terminal stuff as our target audience are Windows folk

[bitsnpcs]

[quote author=bitsnpcs link=topic=833.msg4688#msg4688 date=1409953979]
I just collected my second issue of Linux Format today, it states next months issue will have an article about the best Distro's of 2014.

I hope we make the cut
[/quote]

The review score was very high for Linux Lite, I know which one I would vote for 
It is out on the 30th September.

[Monkeyman]

...our target audience are Windows folk

You rang?

Thanks to bitsnpcs for starting this thread.  As a not-terribly-bright, ex-Windows user, I really appreciate it.

[Valtam]

For whatever reason the original title was changed back to "Useful Links'. I have changed it back again to ' Linux Replacements for Windows Programs '.

[bitsnpcs]

[quote author=Valtam link=topic=833.msg4691#msg4691 date=1409954543]
...our target audience are Windows folk

You rang?

Thanks to bitsnpcs for starting this thread.  As a not-terribly-bright, ex-Windows user, I really appreciate it.
[/quote]

Glad it is useful. I am in the same position.