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Alternate Linux Applications for Windows-based Software

Written by Laurent Marechal - 06 february 2017

Windows Application	Linux Alternatives
ACDSee	Eye of GNOME (http://www.gnome.org/projects/eog/) (native tool of choice) Geeqie (http://geeqie.org/) GQview (http://gqview.sourceforge.net/) Gwenview (https://userbase.kde.org/Gwenview) KuickShow (http://kuickshow.sourceforge.net/)
Adobe Acrobat Reader	ePDFView (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/7.7/pst/epdfview.html) Evince (http://www.gnome.org/projects/evince/) okular (http://okular.kde.org/) Xpdf (http://www.foolabs.com/xpdf/)
Adobe Illustrator	Inkscape (http://www.inkscape.org/) Karbon14( https://www.calligra.org/karbon/) sK1 Project (http://www.sk1project.org/) Skencil (http://www.skencil.org/) Xara Xtreme for Linux (http://www.xaraxtreme.org/)
Adobe PageMaker	Scribus (http://www.scribus.net/)
Adobe Photoshop	CinePaint (http://www.cinepaint.org/) GIMP (http://www.gimp.org/) Krita ( https://krita.org/ )
Ant Movie Catalog	Moviefly (https://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/lmc/)
AOL Instant Messenger (AIM)	Instantbird (http://instantbird.com/) Kopete (http://kopete.kde.org/) Pidgin (http://pidgin.im) PSI (http://psi-im.org/)
Dreamweaver	Bluefish (http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/index.html) BlueGriffon (http://bluegriffon.org/) Geany (http://geany.uvena.de) KompoZer (http://www.kompozer.net/) Nvu (http://www.nvu.com/) Quanta Plus (http://kdewebdev.org/quanta/) Screem (http://www.screem.org/)
DVDShrink	AcidRip(http://sourceforge.net/projects/acidrip) dvd::rip (http://www.exit1.org/dvdrip/) k9copy ( http://archive09.linux.com/feature/144541) OGMRip (http://ogmrip.sourceforge.net/) qVamps (http://vamps.sourceforge.net/) Thoggen (http://thoggen.net/) xdvdshrink (http://dvdshrink.sourceforge.net/)
Everest	HardInfo (http://sourceforge.net/projects/hardinfo.berlios/)
Evernote	BasKet (http://basket.kde.org/) QuickFox Notes (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/13572/) Tomboy (http://live.gnome.org/Tomboy/) (native built-in tool) Zim (http://zim-wiki.org/)
Fontographer	FontForge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/fontforge/files/)
foobar2000 (and other audio tools)	Amarok (http://amarok.kde.org/) Aqualung (http://sourceforge.net/projects/aqualung/files/) aTunes (http://www.atunes.org/) Banshee (http://banshee.fm/) Decibel Auto Player (http://decibel.silent-blade.org/) Exaile (http://www.exaile.org/) gtkpod (http://sourceforge.net/projects/gtkpod/files/) Listen (http://listengnome.free.fr/) minitunes (http://flavio.tordini.org/minitunes) Quod Libet (https://code.google.com/archive/p/quodlibet/) Rhythmbox (http://www.gnome.org/projects/rhythmbox/)
Fraps (and other desktop cature tools)	recordMyDesktop (http://recordmydesktop.sourceforge.net/) Yukon (https://github.com/wereHamster/yukon/)
Google Desktop Search	Tracker (http://projects.gnome.org/tracker/) Beagle (http://beagle-project.org/)
Google Earth	Earth 3D (http://www.earth3d.org/) Marble (http://edu.kde.org/marble/) Google Earth is available
IBM Personal Communications	x3270 (http://sourceforge.net/projects/x3270/) Host on Demand
Microsoft Access	GNOME-DB (http://www.gnome-db.org/) knoda (http://sourceforge.net/projects/knoda/files/) OpenOffice (http://www.openoffice.org/) Symphony
Microsoft Excel	Gnumeric (http://www.gnome.org/projects/gnumeric/) Open Calc (http://www.openoffice.org/product/calc.html) OpenOffice (http://www.openoffice.org/) Symphony
Microsoft HyperTerminal	GtkTerm (http://freecode.com/projects/gtkterm/) minicom (http://alioth.debian.org/projects/minicom/)
Microsoft Internet Explorer	Epiphany (http://www.gnome.org/projects/epiphany/) Firefox (http://www.mozilla.com/firefox/) Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org/) Opera (http://www.opera.com/download/)
Microsoft Office	GNOME Office (http://www.gnome.org/gnome-office/) OpenOffice (http://www.openoffice.org/) Symphony
Microsoft Outlook (Express)	Evolution (http://www.gnome.org/projects/evolution/) Thunderbird (http://www.mozilla.com/thunderbird/)
Microsoft Powerpoint	EASE Presentation Editor (http://www.ease-project.org/index.html) Open Office Impress (http://www.openoffice.org/product/impress.html)
Microsoft Project	GanttProject (http://sourceforge.net/projects/ganttproject/files/) ProjectLibre (http://www.projectlibre.org) Planner (http://live.gnome.org/Planner) TaskJuggler (http://www.taskjuggler.org/)
Microsoft Visio	Dia (http://www.gnome.org/projects/dia/) Calligra Flow (http://www.calligra.org/flow/) Refer to the opensource.com article Tools for diagramming in Linux for other suggested alternatives.
Microsoft Word	AbiWord (http://www.abisource.com/) Open Office Writer (http://www.openoffice.org/product/writer.html) Symphony
MS Paint	KolourPaint (http://sourceforge.net/projects/kolourpaint/files/) (built in tool) Pencil (http://www.pencil-animation.org/) Pinta (http://pinta-project.com/) TuxPaint (http://tuxpaint.org/)
MSN messenger	aMSN (http://amsn-project.net/) Kopete (http://kopete.kde.org/) Mercury Messenger (http://www.mercury.to/) Pidgin (http://pidgin.im)
Nero Burning Rom	Brasero (https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Brasero) (use this built in tool) GnomeBaker (http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnomebaker/files/) Graveman! (http://graveman.tuxfamily.org/) K3b (http://www.k3b.org/) X-CD-Roast (http://www.xcdroast.org/)
NetMeeting	Ekiga (http://www.ekiga.org/)
NetStumbler	Kismet (http://www.kismetwireless.net/) SWScanner (http://www.swscanner.org/) Wireshark
Notepad	gedit (http://www.gnome.org/projects/gedit/) (built in tool) jEdit (http://www.jedit.org/) Kate (http://kate-editor.org/) leafpad (http://tarot.freeshell.org/leafpad/) NEdit (http://www.nedit.org/) Scribes (http://scribes.sourceforge.net/) tpad (http://tclpad.sourceforge.net/)
Partition Magic	GParted (http://gparted.sourceforge.net/) Palimpsest (http://library.gnome.org/users/palimpsest/) Partimage (http://www.partimage.org/Main_Page) QtParted (http://qtparted.sourceforge.net)
Picasa	digiKam (http://www.digikam.org/) F-Spot (http://f-spot.org/Main_Page) flPhoto (https://sourceforge.net/projects/fltk/) gThumb (http://live.gnome.org/gthumb/) jBrout (http://jbrout.manatlan.com/) KPhotoAlbum (http://www.kphotoalbum.org/) Shotwell (http://www.yorba.org/shotwell/)
Total Commander	GNOME Commander (http://gcmd.github.io/) Krusader (https://sourceforge.net/projects/krusader/) Midnight Commander (http://www.ibiblio.org/mc/) Tux Commander (http://tuxcmd.sourceforge.net/) xfe (http://roland65.free.fr/xfe/)
Videora	thin liquid film
Winamp	Amarok (http://amarok.kde.org/) Audacious (http://audacious-media-player.org/) XMMS (http://www.xmms.org/)
Windows Media Player	KPlayer (http://kplayer.sourceforge.net/) mplayer (http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/news.html) xine (http://xinehq.de/)
Windows Remote Desktop Connection	rdesktop (http://www.rdesktop.org) tsclient (http://sourceforge.net/projects/tsclient/) Remmina (http://remmina.sourceforge.net/)
Windows Movie Maker	cinefx (http://www.cinefx.org/) Cinelerra (http://cinelerra.org/) Kdenlive (http://kdenlive.sourceforge.net/) Kino (http://www.kinodv.org/) LiVES (http://lives.sourceforge.net/) Open Movie Editor (http://www.openmovieeditor.org/) OpenShot (http://www.openshotvideo.com/) PiTiVi (http://www.pitivi.org/wiki/Main_Page) VideoLAN Movie Creator (http://trac.videolan.org/vlmc/)
WinIso	KIso (http://kiso.sourceforge.net/)
WinMerge	KDiff3 (http://kdiff3.sourceforge.net/) Kile (http://kile.sourceforge.net/) Meld (http://meld.sourceforge.net/) xxdiff (http://furius.ca/xxdiff/)
WS_FTP	FireFTP (http://fireftp.mozdev.org/) gFTP (http://gftp.seul.org/) FileZilla Use SSH when connecting to systems when possible
ZoneAlarm	Firestarter (https://sourceforge.net/projects/firestarter/) Guarddog (http://www.simonzone.com/software/guarddog/)
Zscreen (and other screen capture tools)	Shutter (http://shutter-project.org/)