Windows Linux Applications
Windows Linux Applications
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When migrating to Linux from Windows, a common question is "Where can I get an application for Linux that is
similar to XYZ program on Windows?" Fear not! Listed below are programs that could be considered roughly
equivalent to certain popular Windows applications. Note that the Linux programs might not have all the
features which can be found in Windows proprietary software, but unless you are an expert in some Windows
program this should not be a major obstacle.
To install software in Linux you need root privileges i.e the root password.
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1 Office and Productivity
1.1 Desktop Publishing
2 Networking
2.1 Server
3 Multimedia
4 Education
5 See also
GParted, Clonezilla (a
live cd), KDE Partition
Norton Partition Magic Disk partitioning
Manager, GNOME Disk
Utility
Engrampa Archive
Manager, Karchiver, File
7-Zip, Winzip, Winrar,
Roller, Xarchiver, ark, Archivers
Peazip
hjsplit; command line
tools
Disk cataloging
Disclib gWhere
programs
Evernote, OneNote Joplin Note Taking App
Desktop Publishing
Windows apps Linux apps Description
Evince , Zathura,
Adobe Acrobat PDF
Okular, Qpdfview, Foxit
Reader, Xpdf Reader,
reader, PDF Studio PDF readers
Foxit reader, Sumatra
Viewer, Xpdf, MuPDF,
pdf
Atril, Ghostview, more
boomaga , page-
crunch , mpage , Document
FinePrint Kprinter , printing/reformatting
psnup/PSutils , tools
pdfnup/PDFjam
Networking
Windows apps Linux apps Description
Firefox, Konqueror,
Microsoft Internet Epiphany, Midori,
Explorer, Firefox, Chrome , Chromium,
Web Browsers
Opera, Chrome, Pale Opera, Otter Browser,
Moon Brave, Vivaldi, Rekonq,
Pale Moon more
Outlook Express,
Kontact, Evolution ,
Outlook, Thunderbird,
Seamonkey, Email clients.
Pegasus, Lotus Notes,
Thunderbird, others
Seamonkey
Konversation ,
mIRC, Hexchat, Pidgin, Quassel , KVIrc,
IRC Clients
Quassel, KVIrc XChat, HexChat, Pidgin,
BitchX
UltraVNC , TightVNC, Desktop Sharing
TightVNC ,
RealVNC, Remote
RealVNC ,
Desktop
rdesktop , FreeNX ,
x11vnc , Synergy ,
XDMCP, SSH with X11
forwarding (-X or -Y
option)
MailWasher KShowmail
Vuze (formerly
Vuze (formerly Azureus) ,
Azureus), utorrent , Tranmission, Deluge,
BitTorrent P2P network
Transmission, Deluge, qBittorrent, Tixati,
clients
qBittorrent, Tixati, Frostwire, Tribler,
Frostwire, Tribler Qtorrent , bittornado ,
Ktorrent ,
Server
Windows apps Linux apps Description
Trickle , Level 7
Filter ,
Bandwidth shaping and
NetLimiter ClarkConnect ,
management.
Bandwidth Arbitrator ,
MasterShaper
Groupware (sharing of
appointments, contacts,
Citadel, zimbra , Open-
Exchange e-mail, documents, etc.
Xchange
between members of a
group)
Sharepoint Manage and secure
KnowledgeTree
documents, collaborate
around document
creation and editing, full
document contents
indexing
Norton/McAfee Antivirus,
ClamAV, Avast Security
ClamWin , AVG, Antivirus software.
for Linux
AntiVir, Avast, ClamAV
Guarddog, Firestarter,
ZoneAlarm , Sygate SPF Firewall software
GUFW, iptables
Multimedia
Windows apps Linux apps Description
Adobe Photoshop ,
GIMP , Glimpse,
Corel Photo-Paint ,
GIMPShop,
GIMP, GIMPShop,
ImageMagick, Pinta,
ImageMagick, Raster graphics editors
Krita , LightZone (non-
LightZone (non-free
free high quality) ,
high quality) ,
Darktable
Darktable , Pinta
Corel Draw , Adobe
Inkscape , Gravit,
Illustrator , Inkscape,
Vectr, LibreOffice Draw, Vector graphics editors
Vectr, Gravit,
Ref.
LibreOffice Draw
Adobe Animate,
OpenToonz, Synfig, Synfig, Pencil 2D, Tupi
2D Animations
Pencil 2D, Tupi (Tupitube Desk)
(Tupitube Desk)
XnView, Mirage ,
Irfanview, ACDSee, GThumb, Shotwell,
Image viewers
digiKam KPhotoAlbum, Geeqie,
digiKam, Gwenview
3D Studio MAX,
Blender, Maya , K-3D 3D modeling software
Blender, Maya
Autodesk Inventor, FreeCAD , SALOME Professional 3D CAD
Solidworks, CATIA platform software
SMPlayer, MPV,
Windows Media Player,
VLC media player, Xine,
PowerDVD, SMPlayer, Video Players
Totem, Kaffeine, Parole,
MPV, VLC
MPlayer
Amarok, Clementine,
Winamp, Sonique, RhythmBox,
iTunes, aTunes , Banshee , Xine, VLC,
Music Players
Clementine, VLC, SMplayer, Deadbeef.
SMplayer, Deadbeef See also Video Players
section
Audio Catalyst,
Ocenaudio,
Audacity, Ocenaudio,
dbpoweramp, CDex, Audio Editors
DaVinci Resolve, Grip
DaVinci Resolve,
Audacity
Audio Recorder ,
Wavesurfer, Audacity,
Ecasound, Audacity, Audio recorders
Sox
Sox, Wavesurfer
NoteWorthy
Composer , MuseScore , LilyPond Musical score typesetting
MuseScore, LilyPond
Handbrake , WinFF,
Videora, Handbrake, Curlew, Selene Media
Video converter
WinFF, VLC Converter, VLC,
Transmageddon
Stata , PSPP , R-
SPSS, Stata, EViews project , S-Plus , Statistical analysis
Gretl
Please add new applications to this list. A good resource is the BeetleSpace Windows/Linux Software Table of
Equivalents , which is GNU FDL licensed.
See also
running windows software
The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux.
Ubuntu software equivalents's page
The Linux Equivalent Project
Category: FAQ