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Linux software equivalent to Windows software

(Application names in green are present on the My sCool Server.)

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.

Here is how to install software in Linux: Installing software

To install software in Linux you need root privileges i.e the root password.

Contents [hide]
1 Office and Productivity
1.1 Desktop Publishing
2 Networking
2.1 Server
3 Multimedia
4 Education
5 See also

Office and Productivity

Windows apps Linux apps Description
Libre Office, WPS
Microsoft Office,
Office (WPS-
OpenOffice .org, Libre
Community),
Office, WPS Office, Office package
OpenOffice, Calligra ,
Softmaker Office,
Softmaker FreeOffice,
Onlyoffice Desktop
OnlyOffice Desktop
OOWriter, AbiWord ,
Microsoft Word,
WPS Writer, LibreOffice
OOwriter, LibreOffice
Writer, Calligra Words,
Writer, WPS Writer, Word Processing
FreeOffice TextMaker,
Softmaker TextMaker,
OnlyOffice Desktop, Lyx,
OnlyOffice Desktop
LaTeX

Vim, KWrite, Kate,

Notepad, Wordpad, BlueFish , Gedit, Joe,
Text Editors
TheGun, EditPlus, SciTE Sublime Text, Leafpad,
Nano, SciTE, Pluma

Access, dBase, Foxpro, Kexi , OOBase ,

Database
Paradox LibreOffice Base
Excel, Lotus123, LibreOffice Calc, Spreadsheet
QuattroPro Calligra Sheets,
 FreeOffice PlanMaker,
WPS Spreedsheets,
OOCalc, gnumeric ,
OnlyOffice Desktop
Calligra Flow , yed ,
Visio Diagramming
LibreOffice Draw
LibreOffice Impress,
OOImpress, Calligra
Stage, WPS
PowerPoint Presentation software
Presentation, FreeOffice
Presentations,
OnlyOffice Desktop
Imendio Planner, Kplato,
Microsoft Project
MOOS Project Viewer, Project management
Manager
MrProject, Calligra Plan
Kontact, BALSA ,
Outlook, Thunderbird + Personal information
Thunderbird +
Lightning, Sunbird managers
Lightning , Sunbird
Alcohol 120%,
Discjuggler, Easy CD K3b, XCDRoast,
CD burning
Creator, Nero Burning Brasero, more
ROM
GnuCash ,
Quicken, Microsoft KMyMoney ,
Accounting
Money, TurboTax CrossOver Office with
Quicken, lazy8ledger
Synchronization with
ActiveSync SynCE
Windows Mobile devices
WinEdt, TeXnicCenter Kile, Texmaker , LyX LaTeX IDEs

Veritas Backup Exec, LuckyBackup, Déjà Dup,

Cobian Backup , Grsync, Duplicati, borg Backup
Duplicati more

Beagle, Recoll, Google

Google Desktop Desktop Search
Desktop

Partition Image, g4u,

Mondo Rescue , dd,
Norton Ghost gDiskDump (a dd Disk imaging
frontend), Clonezilla,
Trinity Rescue Kit

GParted, Clonezilla (a
live cd), KDE Partition
Norton Partition Magic Disk partitioning
Manager, GNOME Disk
Utility

File Light , Konqueror,

Baobab, xdiskusage, duc
Disk Size Explorer Disk usage analyzers
ref. Mate Disk Usage
Analyzer
system call tracking (file
Filemon , Regmon syscalltrack
monitor & others)
WinMerge, SyncToy Meld , Unison, File synchronization
Synkron , rSync

Cloud hosted file

synchronization (Amazon
Google Backup & Sync, S3, Dropbox, Google
Rclone
Dropbox, etc Cloud Storage, Google
Drive, FTP, Microsoft
OneDrive, sFTP, etc)
Every Linux distribution
has an infrastructure to
manage installed
apt-get, Aptitude ,
software which is quite
Windows Update, portage , rpm, urpmi,
different from Windows.
Add/Remove programs yast, yum, Synaptic ,
For instance, all updates
Snapcraft (Snap)
are handled by a single
program. See package
management.
automating interactive
WinRunner xautomation
applications

Engrampa Archive
Manager, Karchiver, File
7-Zip, Winzip, Winrar,
Roller, Xarchiver, ark, Archivers
Peazip
hjsplit; command line
tools

check your file system

chkdsk fsck, other tools (and the hard disk
beneath it) for errors

Daemon Tools mount, Gmountiso ISO mounting

Disk cataloging
Disclib gWhere
programs
Evernote, OneNote Joplin Note Taking App

Desktop Publishing
Windows apps Linux apps Description

Dreamweaver, NVU, Google Web Designer

Web Design
KompoZer more

Quark, Quark Express, Scribus , Laidout,

Microsoft Publisher, VivaDesigner, DTP software
Scribus QuickSilver

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

Adobe Acrobat Distiller, CUPS-PDF , Libre PDF authoring

PDFCreator Office, OpenOffice.org,
 PDF Studio, Kprinter --
can convert to pdf. more

PDF Studio Pro ,

Master PDF Editor,
Adobe Acrobat PDF Pdfedit , Pdfjam ,
editor, PDF Studio Pro, Pdftk , Scribus, PDF editing tools
Master PDF Editor Inkscape, Libreoffice
Draw. Thanks to this
more

SilverFast xSane, VueScan scanning

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

ICQ, MSN Messenger, PidgIn, Hexchat,

AIM (AOL Instant Kopete, aMSN, Instant messaging
Messenger), Trillian, Emesene (MSN) , software.
Pidgin Centericq

Microsoft Netmeeting Gnomemeeting

Microsoft HyperTerminal minicom

FTP clients. Please note

FileZilla FTP Client , GNOME, KDE (and
KFTP (KFTPGrabber) , other) programs can
FileZilla FTP Client, WS
Kasablanca, FireFTP, directly open and edit
FTP, Bullet Proof FTP,
Konqueror, KBear, files on FTP, SFTP and
CuteFTP
gFTP, CrossFTP , WebDAV shares, often
Nautilus, Caja using KIO, GIO or
[GVfs]].

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

Forte Free Agent, Thunderbird, Pan, See News Reader (Usenet

Thunderbird, Pan More Clients Here newsgroups)

ED2K P2P network

eMule MlDOnKey
clients

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 ,

Skype, Voipbuster Skype , Linphone VOIP software

gSTM is a front-end for

Bitvise Tunnelier gSTM managing SSH-tunneled
port redirects.

Server
Windows apps Linux apps Description

Apache, nginx (Engine-

IIS, Apache Web Servers
X ), lighttpd

Share files and printers

between Windows and
Folder sharing, printer
Samba Linux systems. Installed
sharing
by default on most
distributions.
IIS, FileZilla FTP Client & FTP servers, for hosting
vsftpd, pure-ftpd
Server files.

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

SIA Smaart Live BRP-PACU Sound analysis

Amarok, Clementine,
Winamp, Sonique, RhythmBox,
iTunes, aTunes , Banshee , Xine, VLC,
Music Players
Clementine, VLC, SMplayer, Deadbeef.
SMplayer, Deadbeef See also Video Players
section

OTSAV, OTS Mixxx , UltraMixer Audio & video play out

Turntables , Serato , (DJ/presenter)
Traktor , Virtual DJ ,
PC DJ , Mixxx ,
UltraMixer

Cinelerra (difficult but

very professional),
Windows Movie Maker, KDenlive (easy and
Adobe Premiere powerful), LiVES,
Elements, AviDemux ,
Multiquence , OpenShot, VidCutter,
Avidemux, OpenShot, Flowblade, Pitivi, DaVinci Video Editors
VidCutter, Shotcut, Resolve, Natron ,
DaVinci Resolve, Olive , Lightworks
Natron , Olive, (thanks to Linux Format
Lightworks magazine),
Shotcut (thanks to
Linux Format magazine)

Audacity, Cubase, Audacity,

Ardour, Adobe Audition Rosegarden , Beast,
(formerly Cool Edit Pro), Ardour, Harrison Mixbus,
GoldWave , Radium , DaVinci Digital audio workstation
Cakewalk/Sonar, Resolve, Bitwig Studio, software
DaVinci Resolve, Qtractor, Traverso-
LMMS, Traverso-DAW, DAW , LMMS,
Waveform Waveform

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

Cakewalk/Sonar kmid, kmidi, Rosegarden MIDI

NoteWorthy
Composer , MuseScore , LilyPond Musical score typesetting
MuseScore, LilyPond

GuitarPro , TuxGuitar TuxGuitar Guitar tablature editors

Microsoft Paint, Kid Pix, Tuxpaint ,

Basic raster painting
Tux Paint, Pencil 2D, KolourPaint , Pencil
programs
Krita, Pinta 2D, Krita, Dibuja , Pinta

Handbrake , WinFF,
Videora, Handbrake, Curlew, Selene Media
Video converter
WinFF, VLC Converter, VLC,
Transmageddon

TMPGEnc DVD Author,

DVDStyler, Open DVD
Roxio DVDit, Open DVD DVD authoring software
Producer , DeVeDe
Producer, DVDStyler
Education
Windows apps Linux apps Description
Klavaro, Tipp10, KTouch,
Klavaro, Tipp10 Touch typing tutors
Tux Typing, GNU Typist
Maple, Mathematica, Computer algebra
Maple, Mathematica
Maxima systems

Matlab, Octave , High level numeric

Matlab SciLab , Sage, computation
KAlgebra environments

Stata , PSPP , R-
SPSS, Stata, EViews project , S-Plus , Statistical analysis
Gretl

Verilog iverilog Verilog Simulator

Google Earth, NASA

Google Earth ,
World Wind, Celestia,
Celestia , Geography, astronomy
Stellarium, Microsoft
Stellarium , Marble , and simulation
Flight Simulator,
Geody , FlightGear
FlightGear

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

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