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Linux software equivalent to Windows software

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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.

Here is how to install software in Linux: [[Installing software]]

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

== Office and Productivity ==

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Office, '''OpenOffice''', '''Libre Office''', '''WPS Office''', '''Softmaker Office''', '''Onlyoffice Desktop'''
| [[Libre Office]], [https://www.wps.com/linux WPS Office](WPS-Community), [[OpenOffice]], [https://www.calligra.org/ Calligra], Softmaker FreeOffice, OnlyOffice Desktop
| Office package
|-
| Microsoft Word, OOwriter, LibreOffice Writer, WPS Writer, Softmaker TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[OOWriter]], [http://www.abiword.org AbiWord], WPS Writer, LibreOffice Writer, Calligra Words, FreeOffice TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop, Lyx, [[LaTeX]]
| [[Word Processing]]
|-
| Notepad, Wordpad, TheGun, EditPlus, SciTE, Notepad++ ||
[[Vim]], [[KWrite]],
[[Kate]], [http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/ BlueFish], [[Gedit]], [[Joe]], Sublime Text, [[Leafpad]], [[Nano]]
| [[Text Editors]]
|-
| Access, dBase, Foxpro, Paradox, '''OOBase''', '''LibreOffice Base'''
| [http://userbase.kde.org/Kexi Kexi], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Base OOBase], LibreOffice Base
| [[Database]]
|-
| Excel, Corel WordPrefect, '''LibreOffice Calc''', '''Softmaker Office PlanMaker''', '''WPS Spreedsheets''', '''OOCalc''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Calc, Calligra Sheets, Softmaker Office PlanMaker, WPS Spreedsheets, [[OOCalc]], [http://www.gnumeric.org gnumeric], OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Spreadsheet]]
|-
| Visio, [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html '''yED'''], '''LibreOffice Draw'''
| [https://www.calligra.org/flow/ Calligra Flow], [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html yED], LibreOffice Draw
| Diagramming
|-
| PowerPoint, '''LibreOffice Impress''', '''OOImpress''', '''WPS Presentation''', '''Softmaker Office Presentations''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Impress, [[OOImpress]], Calligra Stage, WPS Presentation, Softmaker Office Presentations, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Presentation software]]
|-
| Final Draft, Script Studio, '''Fade In''', '''KIT Scenarist''', '''Story Architect''', '''Trelby''', '''Scrite'''
| Fade In, KIT Scenarist, Story Architect, Trelby, Scrite
| Screenwriting software
|-
| Microsoft Project Manager
| [[MOOS Project Viewer]], Calligra Plan
| Project management
|-
| '''Wondershare EdrawMax''', XMind
| Wondershare EdrawMax, Minder, XMind
| Mind maps
|-
| Outlook, '''Thunderbird + Lightning'''
| [[Kontact]], [https://pawsa.fedorapeople.org/balsa/ BALSA], [[Thunderbird]] + [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/ Lightning]
| Personal information managers
|-
| Alcohol 120%, Discjuggler, Easy CD Creator, Nero Burning ROM ||
[[K3b]], [[XCDRoast]], Brasero, Xfburn, [[CD/DVD_Burning|''more'']]
|DVD/CD burning
|-
|Alcohol 120%, Nero Burning ROM, '''MakeMKV''', ImgBurn, Infrarecorder || MakeMKV, Thoggen, Dvdbackup, HandBrake, DVD::RIP, AcidRIP
| DVD ripping software
|-
| Quicken, Microsoft Money, TurboTax
| [http://gnucash.org/ GnucAsh], [http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/index-home.html KMyMoney], [[CrossOver]] Office with Quicken, [http://www.lazy8.nu/ lazy8ledger]
| Accounting
|-
| ActiveSync ||
[[SynCE]]
|Synchronization with Windows Mobile devices
|-
| WinEdt, TeXnicCenter
| [[Kile]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texmaker Texmaker], [[LyX]]
| LaTeX IDEs
|-
| Veritas Backup Exec, [http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm Cobian Backup], '''Duplicati''' ||
LuckyBackup, Déjà Dup, Grsync, Duplicati [[list of backUp applications|''more'']]
| [[Backup]]
|-
| Google Desktop ||
[[Recoll]]
| Desktop Search
|-
|}

== File and partition management ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Norton Ghost ||
[[Partition Image]], [[g4u]], [http://www.mondorescue.org/ Mondo Rescue], [[dd]], gDiskDump (a dd frontend), Clonezilla, Trinity Rescue Kit
|Disk imaging
|-
| Norton Partition Magic ||
[[GParted]], Clonezilla (a live cd), KDE Partition Manager, GNOME Disks
|Disk partitioning
|-
|[http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/Disk_Size_Explorer.asp Disk Size Explorer]
|[https://utils.kde.org/projects/filelight/ File Light], [[Konqueror]], Baobab, xdiskusage, duc [https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-analyze-your-disk-usage-pattern-in-linux/ ref.]
| Disk usage analyzers
|-
|[http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html Filemon], [http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Regmon.html Regmon]
| [http://syscalltrack.sourceforge.net/ syscalltrack]
| system call tracking (file monitor & others)
|-
| WinMerge, SyncToy ||
[http://meld.sourceforge.net/ Meld], [[Unison]], [http://synkron.sourceforge.net/ Synkron], [[rSync]]
| File synchronization
|-
| Google Drive, Dropbox, etc ||
[https://rclone.org Rclone]
| Cloud hosted file synchronization (Amazon S3, Dropbox, Google Cloud Storage, Google Drive, FTP, Microsoft OneDrive, sFTP, etc)
|-
| Windows Update, Add/Remove programs||
[[apt-get]], [http://aptitude.sourceforge.net/ Aptitude], [http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Portage portage], [[Rpm|rpm]], [[urpmi]], [[yast]], [[yum]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptic_Package_Manager Synaptic], [https://snapcraft.io Snapcraft (Snap)]
|Every Linux distribution has an infrastructure to manage installed software which is quite different from Windows. For instance, all updates are handled by a single program. See [[package management]].
|-
| WinRunner || [http://hoopajoo.net/projects/xautomation.html xautomation] || automating interactive applications
|-
| 7-Zip, Winzip, Winrar, Peazip ||
[[Karchiver]],
[[File Roller]],
Xarchiver,
[[ark]],
[[hjsplit]]; [[packing and unpacking files|''command line tools'']]
|Archivers
|-
| chkdsk || [[fsck]], [https://www.tecmint.com/linux-disk-scanning-tools/ other tools] || check your file system (and the [[hard disk]] beneath it) for errors
|-
| Daemon Tools ||
[[mount]], Disk Image Mounter in Gnome/KDE, Furius ISO mount, AcetoneISO
|ISO mounting
|-
| Disclib || [http://www.gwhere.org/home.php3 gWhere]
| Disk cataloging programs
|-
| Evernote, OneNote || NixNote, Tusk, Whatever, GeekNote, ForeverNote, [https://joplinapp.org/ Joplin], Xournal, XFCE4 Notes, Xpad, Hnb, Gnote, Feathernotes, Cherrytree, Bijiben, Basket, Noblenote, Nvpy. Thanks to [https://itsfoss.com/evernote-on-linux/]
|Note Taking App
|}

== Desktop Publishing ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Dreamweaver, '''Google Web Designer''', '''Bluefish Editor''', '''Aptana Studio''', '''SeaMonkey''', '''CodeLobster''' ||
[http://www.google.com/webdesigner/ Google Web Designer] (WYSIWYG), Bluefish Editor, Aptana Studio, SeaMonkey, CodeLobster
[[html editors|more]]
|[[Web Design]]
|-
| Quark, Quark Express, Microsoft Publisher, '''Scribus''', '''Karbon''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribus Scribus], Karbon, Laidout, VivaDesigner, QuickSilver, Xara Xtreme
|DTP software
|-
| Adobe Acrobat Reader, Xpdf Reader, Foxit reader, Sumatra pdf ||

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evince Evince],
Zathura,
Okular,
Bookworm,
Qpdfview,
Foxit reader,
PDF Studio Viewer,
[[Xpdf]],
MuPDF,
Atril,
[[Ghostview]], [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF readers
|-
| Adobe Acrobat Distiller, PDFCreator ||
[http://www.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~vrbehr/cups-pdf/ CUPS-PDF], Libre Office, [[OpenOffice.org]], PDF Studio, [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter] -- can convert to pdf. [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF authoring
|-
| Adobe Acrobat, [http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio '''PDF Studio Pro'''], '''Master PDF Editor''', '''Libreoffice Draw''', '''Scribus''', '''Inkscape''', '''PDFsam''', '''Flexipdf''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop Editors''' ||
[http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio PDF Studio Pro], Master PDF Editor, OnlyOffice Desktop Editors, [http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfedit Pdfedit], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam Pdfjam], PDFsam, [http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk Pdftk], Scribus, Inkscape, Karbon, Flexipdf, Okular, Libreoffice Draw. Thanks to [https://www.ubuntupit.com/linux-pdf-editor-top-15-reviewed-and-compared/ this] [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF editing tools
|-
| SilverFast ||
[[xSane]], [http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html VueScan], Simple Scan, Skanlite, Gscan2pdf, GIMP with Quitelnsane
| [[scanning]]
|-
| FinePrint ||
[http://www.boomaga.org boomaga], [http://wfr.tcl.tk/279 page-crunch], [http://freshmeat.net/projects/mpage/ mpage], [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter], [http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~ajcd/psutils/index.html psnup/PSutils], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam pdfnup/PDFjam]
| Document printing/reformatting tools
|}

== Networking ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Internet Explorer, '''Microsoft Edge''', '''Firefox''', '''Opera''', '''Chrome''', '''Pale Moon''', '''Brave''', '''Vivaldi''', '''Otter Browser''', '''Falkon''', '''Dooble''', '''Slimjet'''
| [[Firefox]], [[Konqueror]], Epiphany (Gnome Web), Falkon, Microsoft Edge, Slimjet, Midori, [http://www.google.com/chrome Chrome], Chromium, [[Opera]], Otter Browser, Brave, Vivaldi, Falkon, Pale Moon, Dillo, Dooble, LibreWolf, Links [[Browsers|''more'']]
| [[Web Browsers]]
|-
| Microsoft Outlook, '''Thunderbird''', Pegasus, Lotus Notes, '''Seamonkey''', '''Claws Mail''', '''Mailspring''' ||
[[Kontact]],
[http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/features/evolution.html Evolution], Seamonkey,
[[Thunderbird]], Claws Mail, Mailspring, Geary [https://itsfoss.com/best-email-clients-linux/ others]
|Email clients.
|-
| '''Trillian''', '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Irssi''', ICQ ||
Trillian, Hexchat, [[PidgIn]], [[Irssi]], [[Kopete]]
| [[Instant messaging]] [[software]].
|-
| Microsoft HyperTerminal ||
[[minicom]]
|-
| FileZilla FTP Client, WS FTP, Bullet Proof FTP, CuteFTP ||
[http://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client FileZilla FTP Client],
[http://www.kftp.org/misc/description KFTP (KFTPGrabber)],
[[Kasablanca]],
[[FireFTP]],
[[Konqueror]],
[[KBear]],
[[gFTP]],
[http://www.crossftp.com/ CrossFTP],
[[Nautilus]]
|FTP clients. Please note GNOME, KDE (and other) programs can directly open and edit files on FTP, SFTP and WebDAV shares, often using [[KIO]], [[GIO]] or [GVfs]].
|-
| mIRC, '''Trillian''', '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Quassel''', '''KVIrc''', '''Irssi''' ||
Trillian, HexChat, [[PidgIn]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quassel_IRC Quassel], [[KVIrc]], Irssi, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konversation Konversation], [[BitchX]]
| [[IRC Clients]]
|-
|[http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/ UltraVNC], TightVNC, RealVNC, Remote Desktop ||
[http://www.tightvnc.com/ TightVNC],
[http://www.realvnc.com/ RealVNC], [http://www.rdesktop.org/ rdesktop],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/freenx/ FreeNX],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/x11vnc/ x11vnc],
[http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ Synergy],
XDMCP, [[SSH]] with X11 forwarding (-X or -Y option)
| [[Desktop Sharing]]
|-
| MailWasher, SpamAssassin for Windows ||
SpamAssassin
| Spam filter
|-
|Forte Free Agent, [[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]] ||
[[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]], [http://www.newsreaders.com/unix/clients.html See More Clients Here]
|News Reader (Usenet [[newsgroup]]s)
|-
| eMule, '''aMule''' || aMule
|ED2K P2P network clients
|-
| [http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php '''Vuze (formerly Azureus)'''], [http://utorrent.com/ utorrent], '''Transmission''', '''Deluge''', '''qBittorrent''', '''Tixati''', '''Frostwire''', '''Tribler''' ||
[http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php Vuze (formerly Azureus)], Transmission, Deluge, qBittorrent, Tixati, Frostwire, Tribler, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qtorrent Qtorrent], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bittornado bittornado], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ktorrent Ktorrent],
|BitTorrent P2P network clients
|-
| '''Skype''', Voipbuster, '''Yate''', '''Linphone''', '''Jitsi''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype Skype], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linphone Linphone], Asterisk, Empathy, Yate, Jitsi
|VoIP software
|-
| Bitvise Tunnelier ||
[http://sourceforge.net/projects/gstm/ gSTM]
|gSTM is a front-end for managing SSH-tunneled port redirects.
|}

== Server ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| IIS, [[Apache]] ||
[[Apache]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nginx Engine-X], [http://www.lighttpd.net/ lighttpd]
|[[Web Servers]]
|-
| Folder sharing, printer sharing ||
[[Samba]]
|Share files and printers between Windows and Linux systems. Installed by default on most distributions.
|-
|IIS, [http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ FileZilla FTP Client & Server]
|[[vsftpd]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure-ftpd pure-ftpd]
|FTP servers, for hosting files.
|-
|[http://www.netlimiter.com/ NetLimiter] ||
[http://monkey.org/~marius/pages/?page=trickle Trickle], [http://l7-filter.sourceforge.net/ Level 7 Filter], [http://www.clarkconnect.com/info/index.php ClarkConnect], [http://www.bandwidtharbitrator.com/ Bandwidth Arbitrator], [http://www.mastershaper.org/index.php/Main_Page MasterShaper]
|Bandwidth shaping and management.
|-
| Exchange ||
[[Citadel]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbra zimbra], [[Open-Xchange]]
|Groupware (sharing of appointments, contacts, e-mail, documents, etc. between members of a group)
|-
| Sharepoint ||
[http://www.knowledgetree.com/opensource KnowledgeTree]
|Manage and secure documents, collaborate around document creation and editing, full document contents indexing
|-
| Norton/McAfee Antivirus, [http://clamwin.com/ ClamWin], AVG, AntiVir, Avast, ClamAV ||
[[ClamAV]], [https://support.avast.com/en-eu/article/131/ Avast Security for Linux]
| Antivirus software.
|-
| ZoneAlarm , Sygate SPF||
[[Guarddog]], [[Firestarter]], [[GUFW]], [[iptables]]
| Firewall software
|}

== Multimedia ==

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
|[http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/ Adobe Photoshop], [http://www.corel.com/ Corel Photo-Paint], '''GIMP''', '''Glimpse''', '''GIMPShop''', '''ImageMagick''', '''Xnview''', '''[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)]''', '''[https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable]''', '''Pinta''', '''MyPaint''', '''Krita''', '''Filmulator''', '''Photivo''', '''RawTherapee''', '''digiKam''', '''nomacs''' ||
[http://www.gimp.org/ GIMP], Glimpse,
[[GIMPShop]], ImageMagick, Pinta, MyPaint,
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krita Krita], Xnview,
[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)], [https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable], Filmulator, Photivo, RawTherapee, digiKam, nomacs
|Raster graphics editors
|-
|[http://www.corel.com/ Corel Draw], [http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator/ Adobe Illustrator], '''Inkscape''', '''Vectr''', '''Gravit''', '''LibreOffice Draw''', '''sK1''', '''SVG-edit''' ||
[http://www.inkscape.org/ Inkscape], Vectr, Gravit, LibreOffice Draw, Karbon, sK1, SVG-edit. [https://itsfoss.com/vector-graphics-editors-linux/ Ref.]
|Vector graphics editors
|-
|Adobe Animate, '''Synfig''', '''Pencil2D''', '''Tupi (Tupitube Desk)''', '''OpenToonz''', '''Blender''', '''Toon Boom Harmony''', '''Krita''', '''Aseprite''', '''TVPaint''', '''Animaker''', '''Ajax Animator''', '''Glaxnimate''', '''Tahoma2D''', '''Enve''' ||
Synfig, Pencil2D, Tupi (Tupitube Desk), OpenToonz, Blender, Toon Boom Harmony, Krita, Aseprite, TVPaint, Animaker, Ajax Animator, Glaxnimate, Tahoma2D , Enve
| 2D Animations
|-
| Irfanview, ACDSee, '''digiKam''', '''Xnview''', '''nomacs''' ||
[[XnView]], [http://mirageiv.berlios.de/ Mirage], [[GThumb]], Shotwell, KPhotoAlbum, Geeqie, digiKam, Gwenview, Ristretto, Viewnior, Nomacs
|Image viewers
|-
| 3D Studio MAX, '''Blender''', [http://www.autodesk.com '''Maya'''], '''Cinema 4D''' ||
[[Blender]], [http://www.autodesk.com Maya], Cinema 4D
|3D modeling software
|-
| Autodesk Inventor, Solidworks, CATIA || [http://www.freecadweb.org FreeCAD], [http://www.salome-platform.org/ SALOME platform]
| Professional 3D CAD software
|-
| Windows Media Player, PowerDVD, SMPlayer, MPV, [[VLC]] ||
SMPlayer, MPV, [[VLC]], [[Xine]], [[Totem]], [[Kaffeine]], Parole, Celluloid, [[MPlayer]]
| [[Video Players]]
|-
| SIA Smaart Live || [http://sf.net/projects/brp-pacu/ BRP-PACU] || [[Sound]] analysis
|-
| Winamp, Sonique, iTunes, [http://www.atunes.org/ aTunes], '''Clementine''', '''VLC''', '''SMplayer''', '''Deadbeef''', '''Audacious''', '''Strawberry''', '''Exaile''' ||
[[Amarok]], [[RhythmBox]], [http://banshee-project.org/index.php/Main_Page Banshee], [[Xine]], Elisa, Clementine, VLC, SMplayer, Deadbeef, Audacious, Strawberry, Exaile, pMusic. See also Video Players section
|[[Music Players]]
|-
| [http://www.otsav.com/ OTSAV, OTS Turntables], [http://serato.com/ Serato], [http://www.native-instruments.com/en/traktor/ Traktor], [http://www.virtualdj.com/ Virtual DJ], [http://www.pcdj.com/ PC DJ], [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
| [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
|Audio & video play out (DJ/presenter)
|-
| Windows Movie Maker, Adobe Premiere Elements, [http://www.goldwave.com/mqrelease.php Multiquence], '''Avidemux''', '''OpenShot''', '''Kdenlive''', '''VidCutter''', [https://shotcut.org/ '''Shotcut'''], '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron]''', [https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php '''Olive'''], '''Lightworks''' ||
[[Cinelerra]] (difficult but very professional),
[[KDenlive]],
[[LiVES]],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avidemux AviDemux],
OpenShot,
VidCutter,
Flowblade,
Pitivi,
DaVinci Resolve,
[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron],
[https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php Olive],
Lightworks (thanks to Linux Format magazine),
[https://shotcut.org/ Shotcut](thanks to Linux Format magazine)
|[[Video Editors]]
|-
| '''Audacity''', Cubase, '''Ardour''', Adobe Audition (formerly Cool Edit Pro), [http://www.goldwave.com/ GoldWave], Cakewalk/Sonar, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''LMMS''', '''Traverso-DAW''', '''Harrison Mixbus''', '''Bitwig Studio''', '''[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]''' ||
[[Audacity]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden],
[[Beast]],
[[Ardour]],
Harrison Mixbus,
[http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/index.php Radium],
DaVinci Resolve,
Bitwig Studio,
Qtractor,
[https://traverso-daw.org/ Traverso-DAW],
LMMS,
[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]
|Digital audio workstation software
|-
| Audio Catalyst, '''Ocenaudio''', dbpoweramp, CDex, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''Audacity''' ||
[[Audacity]],
Ocenaudio,
DaVinci Resolve,
[[Grip]]
| [[Audio Editors]]
|-
| '''Wavesurfer''', '''Audacity''', '''Sox'''||[https://itsfoss.com/record-streaming-audio/ Audio Recorder], Ecasound, Audacity, Sox, Wavesurfer
|Audio recorders
|-
| Cakewalk/Sonar ||
[[kmid]],
[[kmidi]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden]
| [[MIDI]]
|-
|[http://www.noteworthysoftware.com/ NoteWorthy Composer], '''MuseScore''', '''LilyPond'''||
[http://www.musescore.org/ MuseScore], [http://lilypond.org/web/ LilyPond]
|Musical score typesetting
|-
|[http://www.guitar-pro.com/ GuitarPro], TuxGuitar ||
[http://www.tuxguitar.com.ar/ TuxGuitar]
|Guitar tablature editors
|-
| Microsoft Paint, Kid Pix, '''Tux Paint''', '''Pencil 2D''', '''Krita''', '''Pinta''', '''Mypaint''', '''Mtpaint''' ||
[http://www.tuxpaint.org/ Tuxpaint], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KolourPaint KolourPaint], Pencil 2D, Krita, [https://launchpad.net/dibuja Dibuja], Pinta, Mypaint, Mtpaint
|Basic raster painting programs
|-
| Videora, [https://handbrake.fr/ '''Handbrake'''], '''WinFF''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || [https://handbrake.fr/ Handbrake], WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, Transmageddon, VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Video converter
|-
| '''WinFF''', '''Handbrake''', '''fre:ac - free audio converter (freac)''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || Handbrake, WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, fre:ac - free audio converter (freac), VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Audio converter
|-
|TMPGEnc DVD Author, Roxio DVDit, '''Open DVD Producer''', '''DVDStyler''' ||
DVDStyler, [http://opendvdproducer.jonata.org/ Open DVD Producer], [http://www.rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html DeVeDe]
|DVD authoring software
|-
|'''uTox''', '''qTox''', '''Jitsi''', '''OpenMeetings''', '''Linphone''', '''Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone)''', '''Microsoft Teams''', '''Zoom''' || uTox, qTox, OpenMettings, Jitsi, Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone), Linphone, Empathy, Microsoft Teams, Zoom
| Video Conferencing
|}

== Education ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| '''Klavaro''', '''Tipp10''' || Klavaro, Tipp10, [[KTouch]], Tux Typing, GNU Typist || Touch typing tutors
|-
| '''Maple''', '''Mathematica''' || Maple, Mathematica, [http://maxima.sourceforge.net/ Maxima]
| Computer algebra systems
|-
| '''Matlab''', '''Octave''', '''Scilab''' ||
Matlab, [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ Octave],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SciLab SciLab], Sage, KAlgebra
| High level numeric computation environments
|-
| '''SPSS''', '''Stata''', EViews, '''PSPP''', '''[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project]''', '''[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]''' ||
[http://www.stata.com/products/unix.html Stata], SPSS,
[http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/pspp.html PSPP],
[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Plus S-Plus],
[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]
| Statistical analysis
|-
| Verilog ||
[http://www.icarus.com/eda/verilog/ iverilog]
| Verilog Simulator
|-
| '''Google Earth''', NASA World Wind, '''Celestia''', '''Stellarium''', '''Skychart''', '''Aladin Sky Atlas''', Microsoft Flight Simulator, '''FlightGear''' ||
[http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html Google Earth], [https://celestia.space/index.html Celestia], [http://www.stellarium.org/ Stellarium], [https://marble.kde.org/ Marble], [http://www.geody.com/ Geody], Kstars, Skychart, Aladin Sky Atlas, [http://www.flightgear.org/ FlightGear]
| Geography, astronomy and simulation
|}

''Please add new applications to this list. A good resource is the [http://www.nawaz.org/wiki/index.php?title=Table_of_Equivalents BeetleSpace Windows/Linux Software Table of Equivalents], which is GNU FDL licensed.''

== See also ==

* [[running windows software]]
* [http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux.]
* [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareEquivalents Ubuntu software equivalents's page]
* [http://www.linuxeq.com/ The Linux Equivalent Project]
* [https://www.turkishcypriotheritage.org/ turkishcypriotheritage.org]

[[Category:FAQ]]

Linux software equivalent to Windows software

2025-12-26T00:56:51Z

Kareempharmacist: /* Multimedia */

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.

== Office and Productivity ==

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Office, '''OpenOffice''', '''Libre Office''', '''WPS Office''', '''Softmaker Office''', '''Onlyoffice Desktop'''
| [[Libre Office]], [https://www.wps.com/linux WPS Office](WPS-Community), [[OpenOffice]], [https://www.calligra.org/ Calligra], Softmaker FreeOffice, OnlyOffice Desktop
| Office package
|-
| Microsoft Word, OOwriter, LibreOffice Writer, WPS Writer, Softmaker TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[OOWriter]], [http://www.abiword.org AbiWord], WPS Writer, LibreOffice Writer, Calligra Words, FreeOffice TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop, Lyx, [[LaTeX]]
| [[Word Processing]]
|-
| Notepad, Wordpad, TheGun, EditPlus, SciTE, Notepad++ ||
[[Vim]], [[KWrite]],
[[Kate]], [http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/ BlueFish], [[Gedit]], [[Joe]], Sublime Text, [[Leafpad]], [[Nano]]
| [[Text Editors]]
|-
| Access, dBase, Foxpro, Paradox, '''OOBase''', '''LibreOffice Base'''
| [http://userbase.kde.org/Kexi Kexi], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Base OOBase], LibreOffice Base
| [[Database]]
|-
| Excel, Corel WordPrefect, '''LibreOffice Calc''', '''Softmaker Office PlanMaker''', '''WPS Spreedsheets''', '''OOCalc''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Calc, Calligra Sheets, Softmaker Office PlanMaker, WPS Spreedsheets, [[OOCalc]], [http://www.gnumeric.org gnumeric], OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Spreadsheet]]
|-
| Visio, [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html '''yED'''], '''LibreOffice Draw'''
| [https://www.calligra.org/flow/ Calligra Flow], [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html yED], LibreOffice Draw
| Diagramming
|-
| PowerPoint, '''LibreOffice Impress''', '''OOImpress''', '''WPS Presentation''', '''Softmaker Office Presentations''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Impress, [[OOImpress]], Calligra Stage, WPS Presentation, Softmaker Office Presentations, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Presentation software]]
|-
| Final Draft, Script Studio, '''Fade In''', '''KIT Scenarist''', '''Story Architect''', '''Trelby''', '''Scrite'''
| Fade In, KIT Scenarist, Story Architect, Trelby, Scrite
| Screenwriting software
|-
| Microsoft Project Manager
| [[MOOS Project Viewer]], Calligra Plan
| Project management
|-
| '''Wondershare EdrawMax''', XMind
| Wondershare EdrawMax, Minder, XMind
| Mind maps
|-
| Outlook, '''Thunderbird + Lightning'''
| [[Kontact]], [https://pawsa.fedorapeople.org/balsa/ BALSA], [[Thunderbird]] + [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/ Lightning]
| Personal information managers
|-
| Alcohol 120%, Discjuggler, Easy CD Creator, Nero Burning ROM ||
[[K3b]], [[XCDRoast]], Brasero, Xfburn, [[CD/DVD_Burning|''more'']]
|DVD/CD burning
|-
|Alcohol 120%, Nero Burning ROM, '''MakeMKV''', ImgBurn, Infrarecorder || MakeMKV, Thoggen, Dvdbackup, HandBrake, DVD::RIP, AcidRIP
| DVD ripping software
|-
| Quicken, Microsoft Money, TurboTax
| [http://gnucash.org/ GnucAsh], [http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/index-home.html KMyMoney], [[CrossOver]] Office with Quicken, [http://www.lazy8.nu/ lazy8ledger]
| Accounting
|-
| ActiveSync ||
[[SynCE]]
|Synchronization with Windows Mobile devices
|-
| WinEdt, TeXnicCenter
| [[Kile]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texmaker Texmaker], [[LyX]]
| LaTeX IDEs
|-
| Veritas Backup Exec, [http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm Cobian Backup], '''Duplicati''' ||
LuckyBackup, Déjà Dup, Grsync, Duplicati [[list of backUp applications|''more'']]
| [[Backup]]
|-
| Google Desktop ||
[[Recoll]]
| Desktop Search
|-
|}

== File and partition management ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Norton Ghost ||
[[Partition Image]], [[g4u]], [http://www.mondorescue.org/ Mondo Rescue], [[dd]], gDiskDump (a dd frontend), Clonezilla, Trinity Rescue Kit
|Disk imaging
|-
| Norton Partition Magic ||
[[GParted]], Clonezilla (a live cd), KDE Partition Manager, GNOME Disks
|Disk partitioning
|-
|[http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/Disk_Size_Explorer.asp Disk Size Explorer]
|[https://utils.kde.org/projects/filelight/ File Light], [[Konqueror]], Baobab, xdiskusage, duc [https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-analyze-your-disk-usage-pattern-in-linux/ ref.]
| Disk usage analyzers
|-
|[http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html Filemon], [http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Regmon.html Regmon]
| [http://syscalltrack.sourceforge.net/ syscalltrack]
| system call tracking (file monitor & others)
|-
| WinMerge, SyncToy ||
[http://meld.sourceforge.net/ Meld], [[Unison]], [http://synkron.sourceforge.net/ Synkron], [[rSync]]
| File synchronization
|-
| Google Drive, Dropbox, etc ||
[https://rclone.org Rclone]
| Cloud hosted file synchronization (Amazon S3, Dropbox, Google Cloud Storage, Google Drive, FTP, Microsoft OneDrive, sFTP, etc)
|-
| Windows Update, Add/Remove programs||
[[apt-get]], [http://aptitude.sourceforge.net/ Aptitude], [http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Portage portage], [[Rpm|rpm]], [[urpmi]], [[yast]], [[yum]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptic_Package_Manager Synaptic], [https://snapcraft.io Snapcraft (Snap)]
|Every Linux distribution has an infrastructure to manage installed software which is quite different from Windows. For instance, all updates are handled by a single program. See [[package management]].
|-
| WinRunner || [http://hoopajoo.net/projects/xautomation.html xautomation] || automating interactive applications
|-
| 7-Zip, Winzip, Winrar, Peazip ||
[[Karchiver]],
[[File Roller]],
Xarchiver,
[[ark]],
[[hjsplit]]; [[packing and unpacking files|''command line tools'']]
|Archivers
|-
| chkdsk || [[fsck]], [https://www.tecmint.com/linux-disk-scanning-tools/ other tools] || check your file system (and the [[hard disk]] beneath it) for errors
|-
| Daemon Tools ||
[[mount]], Disk Image Mounter in Gnome/KDE, Furius ISO mount, AcetoneISO
|ISO mounting
|-
| Disclib || [http://www.gwhere.org/home.php3 gWhere]
| Disk cataloging programs
|-
| Evernote, OneNote || NixNote, Tusk, Whatever, GeekNote, ForeverNote, [https://joplinapp.org/ Joplin], Xournal, XFCE4 Notes, Xpad, Hnb, Gnote, Feathernotes, Cherrytree, Bijiben, Basket, Noblenote, Nvpy. Thanks to [https://itsfoss.com/evernote-on-linux/]
|Note Taking App
|}

== Desktop Publishing ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Dreamweaver, '''Google Web Designer''', '''Bluefish Editor''', '''Aptana Studio''', '''SeaMonkey''', '''CodeLobster''' ||
[http://www.google.com/webdesigner/ Google Web Designer] (WYSIWYG), Bluefish Editor, Aptana Studio, SeaMonkey, CodeLobster
[[html editors|more]]
|[[Web Design]]
|-
| Quark, Quark Express, Microsoft Publisher, '''Scribus''', '''Karbon''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribus Scribus], Karbon, Laidout, VivaDesigner, QuickSilver, Xara Xtreme
|DTP software
|-
| Adobe Acrobat Reader, Xpdf Reader, Foxit reader, Sumatra pdf ||

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evince Evince],
Zathura,
Okular,
Bookworm,
Qpdfview,
Foxit reader,
PDF Studio Viewer,
[[Xpdf]],
MuPDF,
Atril,
[[Ghostview]], [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF readers
|-
| Adobe Acrobat Distiller, PDFCreator ||
[http://www.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~vrbehr/cups-pdf/ CUPS-PDF], Libre Office, [[OpenOffice.org]], PDF Studio, [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter] -- can convert to pdf. [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF authoring
|-
| Adobe Acrobat, [http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio '''PDF Studio Pro'''], '''Master PDF Editor''', '''Libreoffice Draw''', '''Scribus''', '''Inkscape''', '''PDFsam''', '''Flexipdf''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop Editors''' ||
[http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio PDF Studio Pro], Master PDF Editor, OnlyOffice Desktop Editors, [http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfedit Pdfedit], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam Pdfjam], PDFsam, [http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk Pdftk], Scribus, Inkscape, Karbon, Flexipdf, Okular, Libreoffice Draw. Thanks to [https://www.ubuntupit.com/linux-pdf-editor-top-15-reviewed-and-compared/ this] [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF editing tools
|-
| SilverFast ||
[[xSane]], [http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html VueScan], Simple Scan, Skanlite, Gscan2pdf, GIMP with Quitelnsane
| [[scanning]]
|-
| FinePrint ||
[http://www.boomaga.org boomaga], [http://wfr.tcl.tk/279 page-crunch], [http://freshmeat.net/projects/mpage/ mpage], [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter], [http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~ajcd/psutils/index.html psnup/PSutils], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam pdfnup/PDFjam]
| Document printing/reformatting tools
|}

== Networking ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Internet Explorer, '''Microsoft Edge''', '''Firefox''', '''Opera''', '''Chrome''', '''Pale Moon''', '''Brave''', '''Vivaldi''', '''Otter Browser''', '''Falkon''', '''Dooble''', '''Slimjet'''
| [[Firefox]], [[Konqueror]], Epiphany (Gnome Web), Falkon, Microsoft Edge, Slimjet, Midori, [http://www.google.com/chrome Chrome], Chromium, [[Opera]], Otter Browser, Brave, Vivaldi, Falkon, Pale Moon, Dillo, Dooble, LibreWolf, Links [[Browsers|''more'']]
| [[Web Browsers]]
|-
| Microsoft Outlook, '''Thunderbird''', Pegasus, Lotus Notes, '''Seamonkey''', '''Claws Mail''', '''Mailspring''' ||
[[Kontact]],
[http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/features/evolution.html Evolution], Seamonkey,
[[Thunderbird]], Claws Mail, Mailspring, Geary [https://itsfoss.com/best-email-clients-linux/ others]
|Email clients.
|-
| '''Trillian''', '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Irssi''', ICQ ||
Trillian, Hexchat, [[PidgIn]], [[Irssi]], [[Kopete]]
| [[Instant messaging]] [[software]].
|-
| Microsoft HyperTerminal ||
[[minicom]]
|-
| FileZilla FTP Client, WS FTP, Bullet Proof FTP, CuteFTP ||
[http://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client FileZilla FTP Client],
[http://www.kftp.org/misc/description KFTP (KFTPGrabber)],
[[Kasablanca]],
[[FireFTP]],
[[Konqueror]],
[[KBear]],
[[gFTP]],
[http://www.crossftp.com/ CrossFTP],
[[Nautilus]]
|FTP clients. Please note GNOME, KDE (and other) programs can directly open and edit files on FTP, SFTP and WebDAV shares, often using [[KIO]], [[GIO]] or [GVfs]].
|-
| mIRC, '''Trillian''', '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Quassel''', '''KVIrc''', '''Irssi''' ||
Trillian, HexChat, [[PidgIn]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quassel_IRC Quassel], [[KVIrc]], Irssi, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konversation Konversation], [[BitchX]]
| [[IRC Clients]]
|-
|[http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/ UltraVNC], TightVNC, RealVNC, Remote Desktop ||
[http://www.tightvnc.com/ TightVNC],
[http://www.realvnc.com/ RealVNC], [http://www.rdesktop.org/ rdesktop],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/freenx/ FreeNX],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/x11vnc/ x11vnc],
[http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ Synergy],
XDMCP, [[SSH]] with X11 forwarding (-X or -Y option)
| [[Desktop Sharing]]
|-
| MailWasher, SpamAssassin for Windows ||
SpamAssassin
| Spam filter
|-
|Forte Free Agent, [[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]] ||
[[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]], [http://www.newsreaders.com/unix/clients.html See More Clients Here]
|News Reader (Usenet [[newsgroup]]s)
|-
| eMule, '''aMule''' || aMule
|ED2K P2P network clients
|-
| [http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php '''Vuze (formerly Azureus)'''], [http://utorrent.com/ utorrent], '''Transmission''', '''Deluge''', '''qBittorrent''', '''Tixati''', '''Frostwire''', '''Tribler''' ||
[http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php Vuze (formerly Azureus)], Transmission, Deluge, qBittorrent, Tixati, Frostwire, Tribler, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qtorrent Qtorrent], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bittornado bittornado], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ktorrent Ktorrent],
|BitTorrent P2P network clients
|-
| '''Skype''', Voipbuster, '''Yate''', '''Linphone''', '''Jitsi''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype Skype], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linphone Linphone], Asterisk, Empathy, Yate, Jitsi
|VoIP software
|-
| Bitvise Tunnelier ||
[http://sourceforge.net/projects/gstm/ gSTM]
|gSTM is a front-end for managing SSH-tunneled port redirects.
|}

== Server ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| IIS, [[Apache]] ||
[[Apache]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nginx Engine-X], [http://www.lighttpd.net/ lighttpd]
|[[Web Servers]]
|-
| Folder sharing, printer sharing ||
[[Samba]]
|Share files and printers between Windows and Linux systems. Installed by default on most distributions.
|-
|IIS, [http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ FileZilla FTP Client & Server]
|[[vsftpd]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure-ftpd pure-ftpd]
|FTP servers, for hosting files.
|-
|[http://www.netlimiter.com/ NetLimiter] ||
[http://monkey.org/~marius/pages/?page=trickle Trickle], [http://l7-filter.sourceforge.net/ Level 7 Filter], [http://www.clarkconnect.com/info/index.php ClarkConnect], [http://www.bandwidtharbitrator.com/ Bandwidth Arbitrator], [http://www.mastershaper.org/index.php/Main_Page MasterShaper]
|Bandwidth shaping and management.
|-
| Exchange ||
[[Citadel]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbra zimbra], [[Open-Xchange]]
|Groupware (sharing of appointments, contacts, e-mail, documents, etc. between members of a group)
|-
| Sharepoint ||
[http://www.knowledgetree.com/opensource KnowledgeTree]
|Manage and secure documents, collaborate around document creation and editing, full document contents indexing
|-
| Norton/McAfee Antivirus, [http://clamwin.com/ ClamWin], AVG, AntiVir, Avast, ClamAV ||
[[ClamAV]], [https://support.avast.com/en-eu/article/131/ Avast Security for Linux]
| Antivirus software.
|-
| ZoneAlarm , Sygate SPF||
[[Guarddog]], [[Firestarter]], [[GUFW]], [[iptables]]
| Firewall software
|}

== Multimedia ==

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
|[http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/ Adobe Photoshop], [http://www.corel.com/ Corel Photo-Paint], '''GIMP''', '''Glimpse''', '''GIMPShop''', '''ImageMagick''', '''Xnview''', '''[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)]''', '''[https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable]''', '''Pinta''', '''MyPaint''', '''Krita''', '''Filmulator''', '''Photivo''', '''RawTherapee''', '''digiKam''', '''nomacs''' ||
[http://www.gimp.org/ GIMP], Glimpse,
[[GIMPShop]], ImageMagick, Pinta, MyPaint,
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krita Krita], Xnview,
[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)], [https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable], Filmulator, Photivo, RawTherapee, digiKam, nomacs
|Raster graphics editors
|-
|[http://www.corel.com/ Corel Draw], [http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator/ Adobe Illustrator], '''Inkscape''', '''Vectr''', '''Gravit''', '''LibreOffice Draw''', '''sK1''', '''SVG-edit''' ||
[http://www.inkscape.org/ Inkscape], Vectr, Gravit, LibreOffice Draw, Karbon, sK1, SVG-edit. [https://itsfoss.com/vector-graphics-editors-linux/ Ref.]
|Vector graphics editors
|-
|Adobe Animate, '''Synfig''', '''Pencil2D''', '''Tupi (Tupitube Desk)''', '''OpenToonz''', '''Blender''', '''Toon Boom Harmony''', '''Krita''', '''Aseprite''', '''TVPaint''', '''Animaker''', '''Ajax Animator''', '''Glaxnimate''', '''Tahoma2D''', '''Enve''' ||
Synfig, Pencil2D, Tupi (Tupitube Desk), OpenToonz, Blender, Toon Boom Harmony, Krita, Aseprite, TVPaint, Animaker, Ajax Animator, Glaxnimate, Tahoma2D , Enve
| 2D Animations
|-
| Irfanview, ACDSee, '''digiKam''', '''Xnview''', '''nomacs''' ||
[[XnView]], [http://mirageiv.berlios.de/ Mirage], [[GThumb]], Shotwell, KPhotoAlbum, Geeqie, digiKam, Gwenview, Ristretto, Viewnior, Nomacs
|Image viewers
|-
| 3D Studio MAX, '''Blender''', [http://www.autodesk.com '''Maya'''], '''Cinema 4D''' ||
[[Blender]], [http://www.autodesk.com Maya], Cinema 4D
|3D modeling software
|-
| Autodesk Inventor, Solidworks, CATIA || [http://www.freecadweb.org FreeCAD], [http://www.salome-platform.org/ SALOME platform]
| Professional 3D CAD software
|-
| Windows Media Player, PowerDVD, SMPlayer, MPV, [[VLC]] ||
SMPlayer, MPV, [[VLC]], [[Xine]], [[Totem]], [[Kaffeine]], Parole, Celluloid, [[MPlayer]]
| [[Video Players]]
|-
| SIA Smaart Live || [http://sf.net/projects/brp-pacu/ BRP-PACU] || [[Sound]] analysis
|-
| Winamp, Sonique, iTunes, [http://www.atunes.org/ aTunes], '''Clementine''', '''VLC''', '''SMplayer''', '''Deadbeef''', '''Audacious''', '''Strawberry''', '''Exaile''' ||
[[Amarok]], [[RhythmBox]], [http://banshee-project.org/index.php/Main_Page Banshee], [[Xine]], Elisa, Clementine, VLC, SMplayer, Deadbeef, Audacious, Strawberry, Exaile, pMusic. See also Video Players section
|[[Music Players]]
|-
| [http://www.otsav.com/ OTSAV, OTS Turntables], [http://serato.com/ Serato], [http://www.native-instruments.com/en/traktor/ Traktor], [http://www.virtualdj.com/ Virtual DJ], [http://www.pcdj.com/ PC DJ], [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
| [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
|Audio & video play out (DJ/presenter)
|-
| Windows Movie Maker, Adobe Premiere Elements, [http://www.goldwave.com/mqrelease.php Multiquence], '''Avidemux''', '''OpenShot''', '''Kdenlive''', '''VidCutter''', [https://shotcut.org/ '''Shotcut'''], '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron]''', [https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php '''Olive'''], '''Lightworks''' ||
[[Cinelerra]] (difficult but very professional),
[[KDenlive]],
[[LiVES]],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avidemux AviDemux],
OpenShot,
VidCutter,
Flowblade,
Pitivi,
DaVinci Resolve,
[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron],
[https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php Olive],
Lightworks (thanks to Linux Format magazine),
[https://shotcut.org/ Shotcut](thanks to Linux Format magazine)
|[[Video Editors]]
|-
| '''Audacity''', Cubase, '''Ardour''', Adobe Audition (formerly Cool Edit Pro), [http://www.goldwave.com/ GoldWave], Cakewalk/Sonar, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''LMMS''', '''Traverso-DAW''', '''Harrison Mixbus''', '''Bitwig Studio''', '''[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]''' ||
[[Audacity]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden],
[[Beast]],
[[Ardour]],
Harrison Mixbus,
[http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/index.php Radium],
DaVinci Resolve,
Bitwig Studio,
Qtractor,
[https://traverso-daw.org/ Traverso-DAW],
LMMS,
[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]
|Digital audio workstation software
|-
| Audio Catalyst, '''Ocenaudio''', dbpoweramp, CDex, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''Audacity''' ||
[[Audacity]],
Ocenaudio,
DaVinci Resolve,
[[Grip]]
| [[Audio Editors]]
|-
| '''Wavesurfer''', '''Audacity''', '''Sox'''||[https://itsfoss.com/record-streaming-audio/ Audio Recorder], Ecasound, Audacity, Sox, Wavesurfer
|Audio recorders
|-
| Cakewalk/Sonar ||
[[kmid]],
[[kmidi]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden]
| [[MIDI]]
|-
|[http://www.noteworthysoftware.com/ NoteWorthy Composer], '''MuseScore''', '''LilyPond'''||
[http://www.musescore.org/ MuseScore], [http://lilypond.org/web/ LilyPond]
|Musical score typesetting
|-
|[http://www.guitar-pro.com/ GuitarPro], TuxGuitar ||
[http://www.tuxguitar.com.ar/ TuxGuitar]
|Guitar tablature editors
|-
| Microsoft Paint, Kid Pix, '''Tux Paint''', '''Pencil 2D''', '''Krita''', '''Pinta''', '''Mypaint''', '''Mtpaint''' ||
[http://www.tuxpaint.org/ Tuxpaint], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KolourPaint KolourPaint], Pencil 2D, Krita, [https://launchpad.net/dibuja Dibuja], Pinta, Mypaint, Mtpaint
|Basic raster painting programs
|-
| Videora, [https://handbrake.fr/ '''Handbrake'''], '''WinFF''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || [https://handbrake.fr/ Handbrake], WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, Transmageddon, VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Video converter
|-
| '''WinFF''', '''Handbrake''', '''fre:ac - free audio converter (freac)''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || Handbrake, WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, fre:ac - free audio converter (freac), VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Audio converter
|-
|TMPGEnc DVD Author, Roxio DVDit, '''Open DVD Producer''', '''DVDStyler''' ||
DVDStyler, [http://opendvdproducer.jonata.org/ Open DVD Producer], [http://www.rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html DeVeDe]
|DVD authoring software
|-
|'''uTox''', '''qTox''', '''Jitsi''', '''OpenMeetings''', '''Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone)''', '''Microsoft Teams''', '''Zoom''' || uTox, qTox, OpenMettings, Jitsi, Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone), '''Linphone''', Empathy, Microsoft Teams, Zoom
| Video Conferencing
|}

== Education ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| '''Klavaro''', '''Tipp10''' || Klavaro, Tipp10, [[KTouch]], Tux Typing, GNU Typist || Touch typing tutors
|-
| '''Maple''', '''Mathematica''' || Maple, Mathematica, [http://maxima.sourceforge.net/ Maxima]
| Computer algebra systems
|-
| '''Matlab''', '''Octave''', '''Scilab''' ||
Matlab, [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ Octave],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SciLab SciLab], Sage, KAlgebra
| High level numeric computation environments
|-
| '''SPSS''', '''Stata''', EViews, '''PSPP''', '''[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project]''', '''[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]''' ||
[http://www.stata.com/products/unix.html Stata], SPSS,
[http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/pspp.html PSPP],
[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Plus S-Plus],
[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]
| Statistical analysis
|-
| Verilog ||
[http://www.icarus.com/eda/verilog/ iverilog]
| Verilog Simulator
|-
| '''Google Earth''', NASA World Wind, '''Celestia''', '''Stellarium''', '''Skychart''', '''Aladin Sky Atlas''', Microsoft Flight Simulator, '''FlightGear''' ||
[http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html Google Earth], [https://celestia.space/index.html Celestia], [http://www.stellarium.org/ Stellarium], [https://marble.kde.org/ Marble], [http://www.geody.com/ Geody], Kstars, Skychart, Aladin Sky Atlas, [http://www.flightgear.org/ FlightGear]
| Geography, astronomy and simulation
|}

''Please add new applications to this list. A good resource is the [http://www.nawaz.org/wiki/index.php?title=Table_of_Equivalents BeetleSpace Windows/Linux Software Table of Equivalents], which is GNU FDL licensed.''

== See also ==

* [[running windows software]]
* [http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux.]
* [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareEquivalents Ubuntu software equivalents's page]
* [http://www.linuxeq.com/ The Linux Equivalent Project]
* [https://www.turkishcypriotheritage.org/ turkishcypriotheritage.org]

[[Category:FAQ]]

Linux software equivalent to Windows software

2025-12-26T00:54:52Z

Kareempharmacist: /* Multimedia */

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.

== Office and Productivity ==

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Office, '''OpenOffice''', '''Libre Office''', '''WPS Office''', '''Softmaker Office''', '''Onlyoffice Desktop'''
| [[Libre Office]], [https://www.wps.com/linux WPS Office](WPS-Community), [[OpenOffice]], [https://www.calligra.org/ Calligra], Softmaker FreeOffice, OnlyOffice Desktop
| Office package
|-
| Microsoft Word, OOwriter, LibreOffice Writer, WPS Writer, Softmaker TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[OOWriter]], [http://www.abiword.org AbiWord], WPS Writer, LibreOffice Writer, Calligra Words, FreeOffice TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop, Lyx, [[LaTeX]]
| [[Word Processing]]
|-
| Notepad, Wordpad, TheGun, EditPlus, SciTE, Notepad++ ||
[[Vim]], [[KWrite]],
[[Kate]], [http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/ BlueFish], [[Gedit]], [[Joe]], Sublime Text, [[Leafpad]], [[Nano]]
| [[Text Editors]]
|-
| Access, dBase, Foxpro, Paradox, '''OOBase''', '''LibreOffice Base'''
| [http://userbase.kde.org/Kexi Kexi], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Base OOBase], LibreOffice Base
| [[Database]]
|-
| Excel, Corel WordPrefect, '''LibreOffice Calc''', '''Softmaker Office PlanMaker''', '''WPS Spreedsheets''', '''OOCalc''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Calc, Calligra Sheets, Softmaker Office PlanMaker, WPS Spreedsheets, [[OOCalc]], [http://www.gnumeric.org gnumeric], OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Spreadsheet]]
|-
| Visio, [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html '''yED'''], '''LibreOffice Draw'''
| [https://www.calligra.org/flow/ Calligra Flow], [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html yED], LibreOffice Draw
| Diagramming
|-
| PowerPoint, '''LibreOffice Impress''', '''OOImpress''', '''WPS Presentation''', '''Softmaker Office Presentations''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Impress, [[OOImpress]], Calligra Stage, WPS Presentation, Softmaker Office Presentations, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Presentation software]]
|-
| Final Draft, Script Studio, '''Fade In''', '''KIT Scenarist''', '''Story Architect''', '''Trelby''', '''Scrite'''
| Fade In, KIT Scenarist, Story Architect, Trelby, Scrite
| Screenwriting software
|-
| Microsoft Project Manager
| [[MOOS Project Viewer]], Calligra Plan
| Project management
|-
| '''Wondershare EdrawMax''', XMind
| Wondershare EdrawMax, Minder, XMind
| Mind maps
|-
| Outlook, '''Thunderbird + Lightning'''
| [[Kontact]], [https://pawsa.fedorapeople.org/balsa/ BALSA], [[Thunderbird]] + [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/ Lightning]
| Personal information managers
|-
| Alcohol 120%, Discjuggler, Easy CD Creator, Nero Burning ROM ||
[[K3b]], [[XCDRoast]], Brasero, Xfburn, [[CD/DVD_Burning|''more'']]
|DVD/CD burning
|-
|Alcohol 120%, Nero Burning ROM, '''MakeMKV''', ImgBurn, Infrarecorder || MakeMKV, Thoggen, Dvdbackup, HandBrake, DVD::RIP, AcidRIP
| DVD ripping software
|-
| Quicken, Microsoft Money, TurboTax
| [http://gnucash.org/ GnucAsh], [http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/index-home.html KMyMoney], [[CrossOver]] Office with Quicken, [http://www.lazy8.nu/ lazy8ledger]
| Accounting
|-
| ActiveSync ||
[[SynCE]]
|Synchronization with Windows Mobile devices
|-
| WinEdt, TeXnicCenter
| [[Kile]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texmaker Texmaker], [[LyX]]
| LaTeX IDEs
|-
| Veritas Backup Exec, [http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm Cobian Backup], '''Duplicati''' ||
LuckyBackup, Déjà Dup, Grsync, Duplicati [[list of backUp applications|''more'']]
| [[Backup]]
|-
| Google Desktop ||
[[Recoll]]
| Desktop Search
|-
|}

== File and partition management ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Norton Ghost ||
[[Partition Image]], [[g4u]], [http://www.mondorescue.org/ Mondo Rescue], [[dd]], gDiskDump (a dd frontend), Clonezilla, Trinity Rescue Kit
|Disk imaging
|-
| Norton Partition Magic ||
[[GParted]], Clonezilla (a live cd), KDE Partition Manager, GNOME Disks
|Disk partitioning
|-
|[http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/Disk_Size_Explorer.asp Disk Size Explorer]
|[https://utils.kde.org/projects/filelight/ File Light], [[Konqueror]], Baobab, xdiskusage, duc [https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-analyze-your-disk-usage-pattern-in-linux/ ref.]
| Disk usage analyzers
|-
|[http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html Filemon], [http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Regmon.html Regmon]
| [http://syscalltrack.sourceforge.net/ syscalltrack]
| system call tracking (file monitor & others)
|-
| WinMerge, SyncToy ||
[http://meld.sourceforge.net/ Meld], [[Unison]], [http://synkron.sourceforge.net/ Synkron], [[rSync]]
| File synchronization
|-
| Google Drive, Dropbox, etc ||
[https://rclone.org Rclone]
| Cloud hosted file synchronization (Amazon S3, Dropbox, Google Cloud Storage, Google Drive, FTP, Microsoft OneDrive, sFTP, etc)
|-
| Windows Update, Add/Remove programs||
[[apt-get]], [http://aptitude.sourceforge.net/ Aptitude], [http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Portage portage], [[Rpm|rpm]], [[urpmi]], [[yast]], [[yum]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptic_Package_Manager Synaptic], [https://snapcraft.io Snapcraft (Snap)]
|Every Linux distribution has an infrastructure to manage installed software which is quite different from Windows. For instance, all updates are handled by a single program. See [[package management]].
|-
| WinRunner || [http://hoopajoo.net/projects/xautomation.html xautomation] || automating interactive applications
|-
| 7-Zip, Winzip, Winrar, Peazip ||
[[Karchiver]],
[[File Roller]],
Xarchiver,
[[ark]],
[[hjsplit]]; [[packing and unpacking files|''command line tools'']]
|Archivers
|-
| chkdsk || [[fsck]], [https://www.tecmint.com/linux-disk-scanning-tools/ other tools] || check your file system (and the [[hard disk]] beneath it) for errors
|-
| Daemon Tools ||
[[mount]], Disk Image Mounter in Gnome/KDE, Furius ISO mount, AcetoneISO
|ISO mounting
|-
| Disclib || [http://www.gwhere.org/home.php3 gWhere]
| Disk cataloging programs
|-
| Evernote, OneNote || NixNote, Tusk, Whatever, GeekNote, ForeverNote, [https://joplinapp.org/ Joplin], Xournal, XFCE4 Notes, Xpad, Hnb, Gnote, Feathernotes, Cherrytree, Bijiben, Basket, Noblenote, Nvpy. Thanks to [https://itsfoss.com/evernote-on-linux/]
|Note Taking App
|}

== Desktop Publishing ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Dreamweaver, '''Google Web Designer''', '''Bluefish Editor''', '''Aptana Studio''', '''SeaMonkey''', '''CodeLobster''' ||
[http://www.google.com/webdesigner/ Google Web Designer] (WYSIWYG), Bluefish Editor, Aptana Studio, SeaMonkey, CodeLobster
[[html editors|more]]
|[[Web Design]]
|-
| Quark, Quark Express, Microsoft Publisher, '''Scribus''', '''Karbon''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribus Scribus], Karbon, Laidout, VivaDesigner, QuickSilver, Xara Xtreme
|DTP software
|-
| Adobe Acrobat Reader, Xpdf Reader, Foxit reader, Sumatra pdf ||

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evince Evince],
Zathura,
Okular,
Bookworm,
Qpdfview,
Foxit reader,
PDF Studio Viewer,
[[Xpdf]],
MuPDF,
Atril,
[[Ghostview]], [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF readers
|-
| Adobe Acrobat Distiller, PDFCreator ||
[http://www.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~vrbehr/cups-pdf/ CUPS-PDF], Libre Office, [[OpenOffice.org]], PDF Studio, [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter] -- can convert to pdf. [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF authoring
|-
| Adobe Acrobat, [http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio '''PDF Studio Pro'''], '''Master PDF Editor''', '''Libreoffice Draw''', '''Scribus''', '''Inkscape''', '''PDFsam''', '''Flexipdf''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop Editors''' ||
[http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio PDF Studio Pro], Master PDF Editor, OnlyOffice Desktop Editors, [http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfedit Pdfedit], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam Pdfjam], PDFsam, [http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk Pdftk], Scribus, Inkscape, Karbon, Flexipdf, Okular, Libreoffice Draw. Thanks to [https://www.ubuntupit.com/linux-pdf-editor-top-15-reviewed-and-compared/ this] [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF editing tools
|-
| SilverFast ||
[[xSane]], [http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html VueScan], Simple Scan, Skanlite, Gscan2pdf, GIMP with Quitelnsane
| [[scanning]]
|-
| FinePrint ||
[http://www.boomaga.org boomaga], [http://wfr.tcl.tk/279 page-crunch], [http://freshmeat.net/projects/mpage/ mpage], [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter], [http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~ajcd/psutils/index.html psnup/PSutils], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam pdfnup/PDFjam]
| Document printing/reformatting tools
|}

== Networking ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Internet Explorer, '''Microsoft Edge''', '''Firefox''', '''Opera''', '''Chrome''', '''Pale Moon''', '''Brave''', '''Vivaldi''', '''Otter Browser''', '''Falkon''', '''Dooble''', '''Slimjet'''
| [[Firefox]], [[Konqueror]], Epiphany (Gnome Web), Falkon, Microsoft Edge, Slimjet, Midori, [http://www.google.com/chrome Chrome], Chromium, [[Opera]], Otter Browser, Brave, Vivaldi, Falkon, Pale Moon, Dillo, Dooble, LibreWolf, Links [[Browsers|''more'']]
| [[Web Browsers]]
|-
| Microsoft Outlook, '''Thunderbird''', Pegasus, Lotus Notes, '''Seamonkey''', '''Claws Mail''', '''Mailspring''' ||
[[Kontact]],
[http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/features/evolution.html Evolution], Seamonkey,
[[Thunderbird]], Claws Mail, Mailspring, Geary [https://itsfoss.com/best-email-clients-linux/ others]
|Email clients.
|-
| '''Trillian''', '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Irssi''', ICQ ||
Trillian, Hexchat, [[PidgIn]], [[Irssi]], [[Kopete]]
| [[Instant messaging]] [[software]].
|-
| Microsoft HyperTerminal ||
[[minicom]]
|-
| FileZilla FTP Client, WS FTP, Bullet Proof FTP, CuteFTP ||
[http://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client FileZilla FTP Client],
[http://www.kftp.org/misc/description KFTP (KFTPGrabber)],
[[Kasablanca]],
[[FireFTP]],
[[Konqueror]],
[[KBear]],
[[gFTP]],
[http://www.crossftp.com/ CrossFTP],
[[Nautilus]]
|FTP clients. Please note GNOME, KDE (and other) programs can directly open and edit files on FTP, SFTP and WebDAV shares, often using [[KIO]], [[GIO]] or [GVfs]].
|-
| mIRC, '''Trillian''', '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Quassel''', '''KVIrc''', '''Irssi''' ||
Trillian, HexChat, [[PidgIn]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quassel_IRC Quassel], [[KVIrc]], Irssi, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konversation Konversation], [[BitchX]]
| [[IRC Clients]]
|-
|[http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/ UltraVNC], TightVNC, RealVNC, Remote Desktop ||
[http://www.tightvnc.com/ TightVNC],
[http://www.realvnc.com/ RealVNC], [http://www.rdesktop.org/ rdesktop],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/freenx/ FreeNX],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/x11vnc/ x11vnc],
[http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ Synergy],
XDMCP, [[SSH]] with X11 forwarding (-X or -Y option)
| [[Desktop Sharing]]
|-
| MailWasher, SpamAssassin for Windows ||
SpamAssassin
| Spam filter
|-
|Forte Free Agent, [[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]] ||
[[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]], [http://www.newsreaders.com/unix/clients.html See More Clients Here]
|News Reader (Usenet [[newsgroup]]s)
|-
| eMule, '''aMule''' || aMule
|ED2K P2P network clients
|-
| [http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php '''Vuze (formerly Azureus)'''], [http://utorrent.com/ utorrent], '''Transmission''', '''Deluge''', '''qBittorrent''', '''Tixati''', '''Frostwire''', '''Tribler''' ||
[http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php Vuze (formerly Azureus)], Transmission, Deluge, qBittorrent, Tixati, Frostwire, Tribler, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qtorrent Qtorrent], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bittornado bittornado], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ktorrent Ktorrent],
|BitTorrent P2P network clients
|-
| '''Skype''', Voipbuster, '''Yate''', '''Linphone''', '''Jitsi''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype Skype], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linphone Linphone], Asterisk, Empathy, Yate, Jitsi
|VoIP software
|-
| Bitvise Tunnelier ||
[http://sourceforge.net/projects/gstm/ gSTM]
|gSTM is a front-end for managing SSH-tunneled port redirects.
|}

== Server ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| IIS, [[Apache]] ||
[[Apache]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nginx Engine-X], [http://www.lighttpd.net/ lighttpd]
|[[Web Servers]]
|-
| Folder sharing, printer sharing ||
[[Samba]]
|Share files and printers between Windows and Linux systems. Installed by default on most distributions.
|-
|IIS, [http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ FileZilla FTP Client & Server]
|[[vsftpd]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure-ftpd pure-ftpd]
|FTP servers, for hosting files.
|-
|[http://www.netlimiter.com/ NetLimiter] ||
[http://monkey.org/~marius/pages/?page=trickle Trickle], [http://l7-filter.sourceforge.net/ Level 7 Filter], [http://www.clarkconnect.com/info/index.php ClarkConnect], [http://www.bandwidtharbitrator.com/ Bandwidth Arbitrator], [http://www.mastershaper.org/index.php/Main_Page MasterShaper]
|Bandwidth shaping and management.
|-
| Exchange ||
[[Citadel]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbra zimbra], [[Open-Xchange]]
|Groupware (sharing of appointments, contacts, e-mail, documents, etc. between members of a group)
|-
| Sharepoint ||
[http://www.knowledgetree.com/opensource KnowledgeTree]
|Manage and secure documents, collaborate around document creation and editing, full document contents indexing
|-
| Norton/McAfee Antivirus, [http://clamwin.com/ ClamWin], AVG, AntiVir, Avast, ClamAV ||
[[ClamAV]], [https://support.avast.com/en-eu/article/131/ Avast Security for Linux]
| Antivirus software.
|-
| ZoneAlarm , Sygate SPF||
[[Guarddog]], [[Firestarter]], [[GUFW]], [[iptables]]
| Firewall software
|}

== Multimedia ==

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
|[http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/ Adobe Photoshop], [http://www.corel.com/ Corel Photo-Paint], '''GIMP''', '''Glimpse''', '''GIMPShop''', '''ImageMagick''', '''Xnview''', '''[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)]''', '''[https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable]''', '''Pinta''', '''MyPaint''', '''Krita''', '''Filmulator''', '''Photivo''', '''RawTherapee''', '''digiKam''', '''nomacs''' ||
[http://www.gimp.org/ GIMP], Glimpse,
[[GIMPShop]], ImageMagick, Pinta, MyPaint,
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krita Krita], Xnview,
[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)], [https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable], Filmulator, Photivo, RawTherapee, digiKam, nomacs
|Raster graphics editors
|-
|[http://www.corel.com/ Corel Draw], [http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator/ Adobe Illustrator], '''Inkscape''', '''Vectr''', '''Gravit''', '''LibreOffice Draw''', '''sK1''', '''SVG-edit''' ||
[http://www.inkscape.org/ Inkscape], Vectr, Gravit, LibreOffice Draw, Karbon, sK1, SVG-edit. [https://itsfoss.com/vector-graphics-editors-linux/ Ref.]
|Vector graphics editors
|-
|Adobe Animate, '''Synfig''', '''Pencil2D''', '''Tupi (Tupitube Desk)''', '''OpenToonz''', '''Blender''', '''Toon Boom Harmony''', '''Krita''', '''Aseprite''', '''TVPaint''', '''Animaker''', '''Ajax Animator''', '''Glaxnimate''', '''Tahoma2D''', '''Enve''' ||
Synfig, Pencil2D, Tupi (Tupitube Desk), OpenToonz, Blender, Toon Boom Harmony, Krita, Aseprite, TVPaint, Animaker, Ajax Animator, Glaxnimate, Tahoma2D , Enve
| 2D Animations
|-
| Irfanview, ACDSee, '''digiKam''', '''Xnview''', '''nomacs''' ||
[[XnView]], [http://mirageiv.berlios.de/ Mirage], [[GThumb]], Shotwell, KPhotoAlbum, Geeqie, digiKam, Gwenview, Ristretto, Viewnior, Nomacs
|Image viewers
|-
| 3D Studio MAX, '''Blender''', [http://www.autodesk.com '''Maya'''], '''Cinema 4D''' ||
[[Blender]], [http://www.autodesk.com Maya], Cinema 4D
|3D modeling software
|-
| Autodesk Inventor, Solidworks, CATIA || [http://www.freecadweb.org FreeCAD], [http://www.salome-platform.org/ SALOME platform]
| Professional 3D CAD software
|-
| Windows Media Player, PowerDVD, SMPlayer, MPV, [[VLC]] ||
SMPlayer, MPV, [[VLC]], [[Xine]], [[Totem]], [[Kaffeine]], Parole, Celluloid, [[MPlayer]]
| [[Video Players]]
|-
| SIA Smaart Live || [http://sf.net/projects/brp-pacu/ BRP-PACU] || [[Sound]] analysis
|-
| Winamp, Sonique, iTunes, [http://www.atunes.org/ aTunes], '''Clementine''', '''VLC''', '''SMplayer''', '''Deadbeef''', '''Audacious''', '''Strawberry''', '''Exaile''' ||
[[Amarok]], [[RhythmBox]], [http://banshee-project.org/index.php/Main_Page Banshee], [[Xine]], Elisa, Clementine, VLC, SMplayer, Deadbeef, Audacious, Strawberry, Exaile, pMusic. See also Video Players section
|[[Music Players]]
|-
| [http://www.otsav.com/ OTSAV, OTS Turntables], [http://serato.com/ Serato], [http://www.native-instruments.com/en/traktor/ Traktor], [http://www.virtualdj.com/ Virtual DJ], [http://www.pcdj.com/ PC DJ], [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
| [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
|Audio & video play out (DJ/presenter)
|-
| Windows Movie Maker, Adobe Premiere Elements, [http://www.goldwave.com/mqrelease.php Multiquence], '''Avidemux''', '''OpenShot''','''Kdenlive''', '''VidCutter''', [https://shotcut.org/ '''Shotcut'''], '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron]''', [https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php '''Olive'''], '''Lightworks''' ||
[[Cinelerra]] (difficult but very professional),
[[KDenlive]],
[[LiVES]],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avidemux AviDemux],
OpenShot,
VidCutter,
Flowblade,
Pitivi,
DaVinci Resolve,
[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron],
[https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php Olive],
Lightworks (thanks to Linux Format magazine),
[https://shotcut.org/ Shotcut](thanks to Linux Format magazine)
|[[Video Editors]]
|-
| '''Audacity''', Cubase, '''Ardour''', Adobe Audition (formerly Cool Edit Pro), [http://www.goldwave.com/ GoldWave], Cakewalk/Sonar, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''LMMS''', '''Traverso-DAW''', '''Harrison Mixbus''', '''Bitwig Studio''', '''[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]''' ||
[[Audacity]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden],
[[Beast]],
[[Ardour]],
Harrison Mixbus,
[http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/index.php Radium],
DaVinci Resolve,
Bitwig Studio,
Qtractor,
[https://traverso-daw.org/ Traverso-DAW],
LMMS,
[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]
|Digital audio workstation software
|-
| Audio Catalyst, '''Ocenaudio''', dbpoweramp, CDex, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''Audacity''' ||
[[Audacity]],
Ocenaudio,
DaVinci Resolve,
[[Grip]]
| [[Audio Editors]]
|-
| '''Wavesurfer''', '''Audacity''', '''Sox'''||[https://itsfoss.com/record-streaming-audio/ Audio Recorder], Ecasound, Audacity, Sox, Wavesurfer
|Audio recorders
|-
| Cakewalk/Sonar ||
[[kmid]],
[[kmidi]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden]
| [[MIDI]]
|-
|[http://www.noteworthysoftware.com/ NoteWorthy Composer], '''MuseScore''', '''LilyPond'''||
[http://www.musescore.org/ MuseScore], [http://lilypond.org/web/ LilyPond]
|Musical score typesetting
|-
|[http://www.guitar-pro.com/ GuitarPro], TuxGuitar ||
[http://www.tuxguitar.com.ar/ TuxGuitar]
|Guitar tablature editors
|-
| Microsoft Paint, Kid Pix, '''Tux Paint''', '''Pencil 2D''', '''Krita''', '''Pinta''', '''Mypaint''', '''Mtpaint''' ||
[http://www.tuxpaint.org/ Tuxpaint], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KolourPaint KolourPaint], Pencil 2D, Krita, [https://launchpad.net/dibuja Dibuja], Pinta, Mypaint, Mtpaint
|Basic raster painting programs
|-
| Videora, [https://handbrake.fr/ '''Handbrake'''], '''WinFF''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || [https://handbrake.fr/ Handbrake], WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, Transmageddon, VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Video converter
|-
| '''WinFF''', '''Handbrake''', '''fre:ac - free audio converter (freac)''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || Handbrake, WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, fre:ac - free audio converter (freac), VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Audio converter
|-
|TMPGEnc DVD Author, Roxio DVDit, '''Open DVD Producer''', '''DVDStyler''' ||
DVDStyler, [http://opendvdproducer.jonata.org/ Open DVD Producer], [http://www.rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html DeVeDe]
|DVD authoring software
|-
|'''uTox''', '''qTox''', '''Jitsi''', '''OpenMeetings''', '''Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone)''', '''Microsoft Teams''', '''Zoom''' || uTox, qTox, OpenMettings, Jitsi, Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone), Empathy, Microsoft Teams, Zoom
| Video Conferencing
|}

== Education ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| '''Klavaro''', '''Tipp10''' || Klavaro, Tipp10, [[KTouch]], Tux Typing, GNU Typist || Touch typing tutors
|-
| '''Maple''', '''Mathematica''' || Maple, Mathematica, [http://maxima.sourceforge.net/ Maxima]
| Computer algebra systems
|-
| '''Matlab''', '''Octave''', '''Scilab''' ||
Matlab, [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ Octave],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SciLab SciLab], Sage, KAlgebra
| High level numeric computation environments
|-
| '''SPSS''', '''Stata''', EViews, '''PSPP''', '''[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project]''', '''[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]''' ||
[http://www.stata.com/products/unix.html Stata], SPSS,
[http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/pspp.html PSPP],
[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Plus S-Plus],
[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]
| Statistical analysis
|-
| Verilog ||
[http://www.icarus.com/eda/verilog/ iverilog]
| Verilog Simulator
|-
| '''Google Earth''', NASA World Wind, '''Celestia''', '''Stellarium''', '''Skychart''', '''Aladin Sky Atlas''', Microsoft Flight Simulator, '''FlightGear''' ||
[http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html Google Earth], [https://celestia.space/index.html Celestia], [http://www.stellarium.org/ Stellarium], [https://marble.kde.org/ Marble], [http://www.geody.com/ Geody], Kstars, Skychart, Aladin Sky Atlas, [http://www.flightgear.org/ FlightGear]
| Geography, astronomy and simulation
|}

''Please add new applications to this list. A good resource is the [http://www.nawaz.org/wiki/index.php?title=Table_of_Equivalents BeetleSpace Windows/Linux Software Table of Equivalents], which is GNU FDL licensed.''

== See also ==

* [[running windows software]]
* [http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux.]
* [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareEquivalents Ubuntu software equivalents's page]
* [http://www.linuxeq.com/ The Linux Equivalent Project]
* [https://www.turkishcypriotheritage.org/ turkishcypriotheritage.org]

[[Category:FAQ]]

Linux software equivalent to Windows software

2025-02-14T08:55:15Z

Kareempharmacist: /* Desktop Publishing */

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.

== Office and Productivity ==

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Office, '''OpenOffice''', '''Libre Office''', '''WPS Office''', '''Softmaker Office''', '''Onlyoffice Desktop'''
| [[Libre Office]], [https://www.wps.com/linux WPS Office](WPS-Community), [[OpenOffice]], [https://www.calligra.org/ Calligra], Softmaker FreeOffice, OnlyOffice Desktop
| Office package
|-
| Microsoft Word, OOwriter, LibreOffice Writer, WPS Writer, Softmaker TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[OOWriter]], [http://www.abiword.org AbiWord], WPS Writer, LibreOffice Writer, Calligra Words, FreeOffice TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop, Lyx, [[LaTeX]]
| [[Word Processing]]
|-
| Notepad, Wordpad, TheGun, EditPlus, SciTE, Notepad++ ||
[[Vim]], [[KWrite]],
[[Kate]], [http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/ BlueFish], [[Gedit]], [[Joe]], Sublime Text, [[Leafpad]], [[Nano]]
| [[Text Editors]]
|-
| Access, dBase, Foxpro, Paradox, '''OOBase''', '''LibreOffice Base'''
| [http://userbase.kde.org/Kexi Kexi], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Base OOBase], LibreOffice Base
| [[Database]]
|-
| Excel, Corel WordPrefect, '''LibreOffice Calc''', '''Softmaker Office PlanMaker''', '''WPS Spreedsheets''', '''OOCalc''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Calc, Calligra Sheets, Softmaker Office PlanMaker, WPS Spreedsheets, [[OOCalc]], [http://www.gnumeric.org gnumeric], OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Spreadsheet]]
|-
| Visio, [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html '''yED'''], '''LibreOffice Draw'''
| [https://www.calligra.org/flow/ Calligra Flow], [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html yED], LibreOffice Draw
| Diagramming
|-
| PowerPoint, '''LibreOffice Impress''', '''OOImpress''', '''WPS Presentation''', '''Softmaker Office Presentations''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Impress, [[OOImpress]], Calligra Stage, WPS Presentation, Softmaker Office Presentations, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Presentation software]]
|-
| Final Draft, Script Studio, '''Fade In''', '''KIT Scenarist''', '''Story Architect''', '''Trelby''', '''Scrite'''
| Fade In, KIT Scenarist, Story Architect, Trelby, Scrite
| Screenwriting software
|-
| Microsoft Project Manager
| [[MOOS Project Viewer]], Calligra Plan
| Project management
|-
| '''Wondershare EdrawMax''', XMind
| Wondershare EdrawMax, Minder, XMind
| Mind maps
|-
| Outlook, '''Thunderbird + Lightning'''
| [[Kontact]], [https://pawsa.fedorapeople.org/balsa/ BALSA], [[Thunderbird]] + [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/ Lightning]
| Personal information managers
|-
| Alcohol 120%, Discjuggler, Easy CD Creator, Nero Burning ROM ||
[[K3b]], [[XCDRoast]], Brasero, Xfburn, [[CD/DVD_Burning|''more'']]
|DVD/CD burning
|-
|Alcohol 120%, Nero Burning ROM, '''MakeMKV''', ImgBurn, Infrarecorder || MakeMKV, Thoggen, Dvdbackup, HandBrake, DVD::RIP, AcidRIP
| DVD ripping software
|-
| Quicken, Microsoft Money, TurboTax
| [http://gnucash.org/ GnucAsh], [http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/index-home.html KMyMoney], [[CrossOver]] Office with Quicken, [http://www.lazy8.nu/ lazy8ledger]
| Accounting
|-
| ActiveSync ||
[[SynCE]]
|Synchronization with Windows Mobile devices
|-
| WinEdt, TeXnicCenter
| [[Kile]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texmaker Texmaker], [[LyX]]
| LaTeX IDEs
|-
| Veritas Backup Exec, [http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm Cobian Backup], '''Duplicati''' ||
LuckyBackup, Déjà Dup, Grsync, Duplicati [[list of backUp applications|''more'']]
| [[Backup]]
|-
| Google Desktop ||
[[Recoll]]
| Desktop Search
|-
|}

== File and partition management ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Norton Ghost ||
[[Partition Image]], [[g4u]], [http://www.mondorescue.org/ Mondo Rescue], [[dd]], gDiskDump (a dd frontend), Clonezilla, Trinity Rescue Kit
|Disk imaging
|-
| Norton Partition Magic ||
[[GParted]], Clonezilla (a live cd), KDE Partition Manager, GNOME Disks
|Disk partitioning
|-
|[http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/Disk_Size_Explorer.asp Disk Size Explorer]
|[https://utils.kde.org/projects/filelight/ File Light], [[Konqueror]], Baobab, xdiskusage, duc [https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-analyze-your-disk-usage-pattern-in-linux/ ref.]
| Disk usage analyzers
|-
|[http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html Filemon], [http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Regmon.html Regmon]
| [http://syscalltrack.sourceforge.net/ syscalltrack]
| system call tracking (file monitor & others)
|-
| WinMerge, SyncToy ||
[http://meld.sourceforge.net/ Meld], [[Unison]], [http://synkron.sourceforge.net/ Synkron], [[rSync]]
| File synchronization
|-
| Google Drive, Dropbox, etc ||
[https://rclone.org Rclone]
| Cloud hosted file synchronization (Amazon S3, Dropbox, Google Cloud Storage, Google Drive, FTP, Microsoft OneDrive, sFTP, etc)
|-
| Windows Update, Add/Remove programs||
[[apt-get]], [http://aptitude.sourceforge.net/ Aptitude], [http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Portage portage], [[Rpm|rpm]], [[urpmi]], [[yast]], [[yum]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptic_Package_Manager Synaptic], [https://snapcraft.io Snapcraft (Snap)]
|Every Linux distribution has an infrastructure to manage installed software which is quite different from Windows. For instance, all updates are handled by a single program. See [[package management]].
|-
| WinRunner || [http://hoopajoo.net/projects/xautomation.html xautomation] || automating interactive applications
|-
| 7-Zip, Winzip, Winrar, Peazip ||
[[Karchiver]],
[[File Roller]],
Xarchiver,
[[ark]],
[[hjsplit]]; [[packing and unpacking files|''command line tools'']]
|Archivers
|-
| chkdsk || [[fsck]], [https://www.tecmint.com/linux-disk-scanning-tools/ other tools] || check your file system (and the [[hard disk]] beneath it) for errors
|-
| Daemon Tools ||
[[mount]], Disk Image Mounter in Gnome/KDE, Furius ISO mount, AcetoneISO
|ISO mounting
|-
| Disclib || [http://www.gwhere.org/home.php3 gWhere]
| Disk cataloging programs
|-
| Evernote, OneNote || NixNote, Tusk, Whatever, GeekNote, ForeverNote, [https://joplinapp.org/ Joplin], Xournal, XFCE4 Notes, Xpad, Hnb, Gnote, Feathernotes, Cherrytree, Bijiben, Basket, Noblenote, Nvpy. Thanks to [https://itsfoss.com/evernote-on-linux/]
|Note Taking App
|}

== Desktop Publishing ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Dreamweaver, '''Google Web Designer''', '''Bluefish Editor''', '''Aptana Studio''', '''SeaMonkey''', '''CodeLobster''' ||
[http://www.google.com/webdesigner/ Google Web Designer] (WYSIWYG), Bluefish Editor, Aptana Studio, SeaMonkey, CodeLobster
[[html editors|more]]
|[[Web Design]]
|-
| Quark, Quark Express, Microsoft Publisher, '''Scribus''', '''Karbon''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribus Scribus], Karbon, Laidout, VivaDesigner, QuickSilver, Xara Xtreme
|DTP software
|-
| Adobe Acrobat Reader, Xpdf Reader, Foxit reader, Sumatra pdf ||

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evince Evince],
Zathura,
Okular,
Bookworm,
Qpdfview,
Foxit reader,
PDF Studio Viewer,
[[Xpdf]],
MuPDF,
Atril,
[[Ghostview]], [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF readers
|-
| Adobe Acrobat Distiller, PDFCreator ||
[http://www.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~vrbehr/cups-pdf/ CUPS-PDF], Libre Office, [[OpenOffice.org]], PDF Studio, [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter] -- can convert to pdf. [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF authoring
|-
| Adobe Acrobat, [http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio '''PDF Studio Pro'''], '''Master PDF Editor''', '''Libreoffice Draw''', '''Scribus''', '''Inkscape''', '''PDFsam''', '''Flexipdf''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop Editors''' ||
[http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio PDF Studio Pro], Master PDF Editor, OnlyOffice Desktop Editors, [http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfedit Pdfedit], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam Pdfjam], PDFsam, [http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk Pdftk], Scribus, Inkscape, Karbon, Flexipdf, Okular, Libreoffice Draw. Thanks to [https://www.ubuntupit.com/linux-pdf-editor-top-15-reviewed-and-compared/ this] [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF editing tools
|-
| SilverFast ||
[[xSane]], [http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html VueScan], Simple Scan, Skanlite, Gscan2pdf, GIMP with Quitelnsane
| [[scanning]]
|-
| FinePrint ||
[http://www.boomaga.org boomaga], [http://wfr.tcl.tk/279 page-crunch], [http://freshmeat.net/projects/mpage/ mpage], [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter], [http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~ajcd/psutils/index.html psnup/PSutils], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam pdfnup/PDFjam]
| Document printing/reformatting tools
|}

== Networking ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Internet Explorer, '''Microsoft Edge''', '''Firefox''', '''Opera''', '''Chrome''', '''Pale Moon''', '''Brave''', '''Vivaldi''', '''Otter Browser''', '''Falkon''', '''Dooble''', '''Slimjet'''
| [[Firefox]], [[Konqueror]], Epiphany (Gnome Web), Falkon, Microsoft Edge, Slimjet, Midori, [http://www.google.com/chrome Chrome], Chromium, [[Opera]], Otter Browser, Brave, Vivaldi, Falkon, Pale Moon, Dillo, Dooble, LibreWolf, Links [[Browsers|''more'']]
| [[Web Browsers]]
|-
| Microsoft Outlook, '''Thunderbird''', Pegasus, Lotus Notes, '''Seamonkey''', '''Claws Mail''', '''Mailspring''' ||
[[Kontact]],
[http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/features/evolution.html Evolution], Seamonkey,
[[Thunderbird]], Claws Mail, Mailspring, Geary [https://itsfoss.com/best-email-clients-linux/ others]
|Email clients.
|-
| '''Trillian''', '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Irssi''', ICQ ||
Trillian, Hexchat, [[PidgIn]], [[Irssi]], [[Kopete]]
| [[Instant messaging]] [[software]].
|-
| Microsoft HyperTerminal ||
[[minicom]]
|-
| FileZilla FTP Client, WS FTP, Bullet Proof FTP, CuteFTP ||
[http://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client FileZilla FTP Client],
[http://www.kftp.org/misc/description KFTP (KFTPGrabber)],
[[Kasablanca]],
[[FireFTP]],
[[Konqueror]],
[[KBear]],
[[gFTP]],
[http://www.crossftp.com/ CrossFTP],
[[Nautilus]]
|FTP clients. Please note GNOME, KDE (and other) programs can directly open and edit files on FTP, SFTP and WebDAV shares, often using [[KIO]], [[GIO]] or [GVfs]].
|-
| mIRC, '''Trillian''', '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Quassel''', '''KVIrc''', '''Irssi''' ||
Trillian, HexChat, [[PidgIn]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quassel_IRC Quassel], [[KVIrc]], Irssi, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konversation Konversation], [[BitchX]]
| [[IRC Clients]]
|-
|[http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/ UltraVNC], TightVNC, RealVNC, Remote Desktop ||
[http://www.tightvnc.com/ TightVNC],
[http://www.realvnc.com/ RealVNC], [http://www.rdesktop.org/ rdesktop],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/freenx/ FreeNX],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/x11vnc/ x11vnc],
[http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ Synergy],
XDMCP, [[SSH]] with X11 forwarding (-X or -Y option)
| [[Desktop Sharing]]
|-
| MailWasher, SpamAssassin for Windows ||
SpamAssassin
| Spam filter
|-
|Forte Free Agent, [[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]] ||
[[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]], [http://www.newsreaders.com/unix/clients.html See More Clients Here]
|News Reader (Usenet [[newsgroup]]s)
|-
| eMule, '''aMule''' || aMule
|ED2K P2P network clients
|-
| [http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php '''Vuze (formerly Azureus)'''], [http://utorrent.com/ utorrent], '''Transmission''', '''Deluge''', '''qBittorrent''', '''Tixati''', '''Frostwire''', '''Tribler''' ||
[http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php Vuze (formerly Azureus)], Transmission, Deluge, qBittorrent, Tixati, Frostwire, Tribler, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qtorrent Qtorrent], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bittornado bittornado], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ktorrent Ktorrent],
|BitTorrent P2P network clients
|-
| '''Skype''', Voipbuster, '''Yate''', '''Linphone''', '''Jitsi''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype Skype], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linphone Linphone], Asterisk, Empathy, Yate, Jitsi
|VoIP software
|-
| Bitvise Tunnelier ||
[http://sourceforge.net/projects/gstm/ gSTM]
|gSTM is a front-end for managing SSH-tunneled port redirects.
|}

== Server ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| IIS, [[Apache]] ||
[[Apache]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nginx Engine-X], [http://www.lighttpd.net/ lighttpd]
|[[Web Servers]]
|-
| Folder sharing, printer sharing ||
[[Samba]]
|Share files and printers between Windows and Linux systems. Installed by default on most distributions.
|-
|IIS, [http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ FileZilla FTP Client & Server]
|[[vsftpd]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure-ftpd pure-ftpd]
|FTP servers, for hosting files.
|-
|[http://www.netlimiter.com/ NetLimiter] ||
[http://monkey.org/~marius/pages/?page=trickle Trickle], [http://l7-filter.sourceforge.net/ Level 7 Filter], [http://www.clarkconnect.com/info/index.php ClarkConnect], [http://www.bandwidtharbitrator.com/ Bandwidth Arbitrator], [http://www.mastershaper.org/index.php/Main_Page MasterShaper]
|Bandwidth shaping and management.
|-
| Exchange ||
[[Citadel]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbra zimbra], [[Open-Xchange]]
|Groupware (sharing of appointments, contacts, e-mail, documents, etc. between members of a group)
|-
| Sharepoint ||
[http://www.knowledgetree.com/opensource KnowledgeTree]
|Manage and secure documents, collaborate around document creation and editing, full document contents indexing
|-
| Norton/McAfee Antivirus, [http://clamwin.com/ ClamWin], AVG, AntiVir, Avast, ClamAV ||
[[ClamAV]], [https://support.avast.com/en-eu/article/131/ Avast Security for Linux]
| Antivirus software.
|-
| ZoneAlarm , Sygate SPF||
[[Guarddog]], [[Firestarter]], [[GUFW]], [[iptables]]
| Firewall software
|}

== Multimedia ==

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
|[http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/ Adobe Photoshop], [http://www.corel.com/ Corel Photo-Paint], '''GIMP''', '''Glimpse''', '''GIMPShop''', '''ImageMagick''', '''Xnview''', '''[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)]''', '''[https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable]''', '''Pinta''', '''MyPaint''', '''Krita''', '''Filmulator''', '''Photivo''', '''RawTherapee''', '''digiKam''', '''nomacs''' ||
[http://www.gimp.org/ GIMP], Glimpse,
[[GIMPShop]], ImageMagick, Pinta, MyPaint,
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krita Krita], Xnview,
[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)], [https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable], Filmulator, Photivo, RawTherapee, digiKam, nomacs
|Raster graphics editors
|-
|[http://www.corel.com/ Corel Draw], [http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator/ Adobe Illustrator], '''Inkscape''', '''Vectr''', '''Gravit''', '''LibreOffice Draw''', '''sK1''', '''SVG-edit''' ||
[http://www.inkscape.org/ Inkscape], Vectr, Gravit, LibreOffice Draw, Karbon, sK1, SVG-edit. [https://itsfoss.com/vector-graphics-editors-linux/ Ref.]
|Vector graphics editors
|-
|Adobe Animate, '''Synfig''', '''Pencil2D''', '''Tupi (Tupitube Desk)''', '''OpenToonz''', '''Blender''', '''Toon Boom Harmony''', '''Krita''', '''Aseprite''', '''TVPaint''', '''Animaker''', '''Ajax Animator''', '''Glaxnimate''', '''Tahoma2D''', '''Enve''' ||
Synfig, Pencil2D, Tupi (Tupitube Desk), OpenToonz, Blender, Toon Boom Harmony, Krita, Aseprite, TVPaint, Animaker, Ajax Animator, Glaxnimate, Tahoma2D , Enve
| 2D Animations
|-
| Irfanview, ACDSee, '''digiKam''', '''Xnview''', '''nomacs''' ||
[[XnView]], [http://mirageiv.berlios.de/ Mirage], [[GThumb]], Shotwell, KPhotoAlbum, Geeqie, digiKam, Gwenview, Ristretto, Viewnior, Nomacs
|Image viewers
|-
| 3D Studio MAX, '''Blender''', [http://www.autodesk.com '''Maya'''], '''Cinema 4D''' ||
[[Blender]], [http://www.autodesk.com Maya], Cinema 4D
|3D modeling software
|-
| Autodesk Inventor, Solidworks, CATIA || [http://www.freecadweb.org FreeCAD], [http://www.salome-platform.org/ SALOME platform]
| Professional 3D CAD software
|-
| Windows Media Player, PowerDVD, SMPlayer, MPV, [[VLC]] ||
SMPlayer, MPV, [[VLC]], [[Xine]], [[Totem]], [[Kaffeine]], Parole, Celluloid, [[MPlayer]]
| [[Video Players]]
|-
| SIA Smaart Live || [http://sf.net/projects/brp-pacu/ BRP-PACU] || [[Sound]] analysis
|-
| Winamp, Sonique, iTunes, [http://www.atunes.org/ aTunes], '''Clementine''', '''VLC''', '''SMplayer''', '''Deadbeef''', '''Audacious''', '''Strawberry''', '''Exaile''' ||
[[Amarok]], [[RhythmBox]], [http://banshee-project.org/index.php/Main_Page Banshee], [[Xine]], Elisa, Clementine, VLC, SMplayer, Deadbeef, Audacious, Strawberry, Exaile, pMusic. See also Video Players section
|[[Music Players]]
|-
| [http://www.otsav.com/ OTSAV, OTS Turntables], [http://serato.com/ Serato], [http://www.native-instruments.com/en/traktor/ Traktor], [http://www.virtualdj.com/ Virtual DJ], [http://www.pcdj.com/ PC DJ], [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
| [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
|Audio & video play out (DJ/presenter)
|-
| Windows Movie Maker, Adobe Premiere Elements, [http://www.goldwave.com/mqrelease.php Multiquence], '''Avidemux''', '''OpenShot''', '''VidCutter''', [https://shotcut.org/ '''Shotcut'''], '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron]''', [https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php '''Olive'''], '''Lightworks''' ||
[[Cinelerra]] (difficult but very professional),
[[KDenlive]] (easy and powerful),
[[LiVES]],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avidemux AviDemux],
OpenShot,
VidCutter,
Flowblade,
Pitivi,
DaVinci Resolve,
[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron],
[https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php Olive],
Lightworks (thanks to Linux Format magazine),
[https://shotcut.org/ Shotcut](thanks to Linux Format magazine)
|[[Video Editors]]
|-
| '''Audacity''', Cubase, '''Ardour''', Adobe Audition (formerly Cool Edit Pro), [http://www.goldwave.com/ GoldWave], Cakewalk/Sonar, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''LMMS''', '''Traverso-DAW''', '''Harrison Mixbus''', '''Bitwig Studio''', '''[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]''' ||
[[Audacity]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden],
[[Beast]],
[[Ardour]],
Harrison Mixbus,
[http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/index.php Radium],
DaVinci Resolve,
Bitwig Studio,
Qtractor,
[https://traverso-daw.org/ Traverso-DAW],
LMMS,
[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]
|Digital audio workstation software
|-
| Audio Catalyst, '''Ocenaudio''', dbpoweramp, CDex, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''Audacity''' ||
[[Audacity]],
Ocenaudio,
DaVinci Resolve,
[[Grip]]
| [[Audio Editors]]
|-
| '''Wavesurfer''', '''Audacity''', '''Sox'''||[https://itsfoss.com/record-streaming-audio/ Audio Recorder], Ecasound, Audacity, Sox, Wavesurfer
|Audio recorders
|-
| Cakewalk/Sonar ||
[[kmid]],
[[kmidi]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden]
| [[MIDI]]
|-
|[http://www.noteworthysoftware.com/ NoteWorthy Composer], '''MuseScore''', '''LilyPond'''||
[http://www.musescore.org/ MuseScore], [http://lilypond.org/web/ LilyPond]
|Musical score typesetting
|-
|[http://www.guitar-pro.com/ GuitarPro], TuxGuitar ||
[http://www.tuxguitar.com.ar/ TuxGuitar]
|Guitar tablature editors
|-
| Microsoft Paint, Kid Pix, '''Tux Paint''', '''Pencil 2D''', '''Krita''', '''Pinta''', '''Mypaint''', '''Mtpaint''' ||
[http://www.tuxpaint.org/ Tuxpaint], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KolourPaint KolourPaint], Pencil 2D, Krita, [https://launchpad.net/dibuja Dibuja], Pinta, Mypaint, Mtpaint
|Basic raster painting programs
|-
| Videora, [https://handbrake.fr/ '''Handbrake'''], '''WinFF''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || [https://handbrake.fr/ Handbrake], WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, Transmageddon, VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Video converter
|-
| '''WinFF''', '''Handbrake''', '''fre:ac - free audio converter (freac)''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || Handbrake, WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, fre:ac - free audio converter (freac), VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Audio converter
|-
|TMPGEnc DVD Author, Roxio DVDit, '''Open DVD Producer''', '''DVDStyler''' ||
DVDStyler, [http://opendvdproducer.jonata.org/ Open DVD Producer], [http://www.rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html DeVeDe]
|DVD authoring software
|-
|'''uTox''', '''qTox''', '''Jitsi''', '''OpenMeetings''', '''Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone)''', '''Microsoft Teams''', '''Zoom''' || uTox, qTox, OpenMettings, Jitsi, Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone), Empathy, Microsoft Teams, Zoom
| Video Conferencing
|}

== Education ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| '''Klavaro''', '''Tipp10''' || Klavaro, Tipp10, [[KTouch]], Tux Typing, GNU Typist || Touch typing tutors
|-
| '''Maple''', '''Mathematica''' || Maple, Mathematica, [http://maxima.sourceforge.net/ Maxima]
| Computer algebra systems
|-
| '''Matlab''', '''Octave''', '''Scilab''' ||
Matlab, [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ Octave],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SciLab SciLab], Sage, KAlgebra
| High level numeric computation environments
|-
| '''SPSS''', '''Stata''', EViews, '''PSPP''', '''[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project]''', '''[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]''' ||
[http://www.stata.com/products/unix.html Stata], SPSS,
[http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/pspp.html PSPP],
[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Plus S-Plus],
[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]
| Statistical analysis
|-
| Verilog ||
[http://www.icarus.com/eda/verilog/ iverilog]
| Verilog Simulator
|-
| '''Google Earth''', NASA World Wind, '''Celestia''', '''Stellarium''', '''Skychart''', '''Aladin Sky Atlas''', Microsoft Flight Simulator, '''FlightGear''' ||
[http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html Google Earth], [https://celestia.space/index.html Celestia], [http://www.stellarium.org/ Stellarium], [https://marble.kde.org/ Marble], [http://www.geody.com/ Geody], Kstars, Skychart, Aladin Sky Atlas, [http://www.flightgear.org/ FlightGear]
| Geography, astronomy and simulation
|}

''Please add new applications to this list. A good resource is the [http://www.nawaz.org/wiki/index.php?title=Table_of_Equivalents BeetleSpace Windows/Linux Software Table of Equivalents], which is GNU FDL licensed.''

== See also ==

* [[running windows software]]
* [http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux.]
* [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareEquivalents Ubuntu software equivalents's page]
* [http://www.linuxeq.com/ The Linux Equivalent Project]
* [https://www.turkishcypriotheritage.org/ turkishcypriotheritage.org]

[[Category:FAQ]]

Linux software equivalent to Windows software

2024-10-05T00:03:20Z

Kareempharmacist: /* Desktop Publishing */

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.

== Office and Productivity ==

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Office, '''OpenOffice''', '''Libre Office''', '''WPS Office''', '''Softmaker Office''', '''Onlyoffice Desktop'''
| [[Libre Office]], [https://www.wps.com/linux WPS Office](WPS-Community), [[OpenOffice]], [https://www.calligra.org/ Calligra], Softmaker FreeOffice, OnlyOffice Desktop
| Office package
|-
| Microsoft Word, OOwriter, LibreOffice Writer, WPS Writer, Softmaker TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[OOWriter]], [http://www.abiword.org AbiWord], WPS Writer, LibreOffice Writer, Calligra Words, FreeOffice TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop, Lyx, [[LaTeX]]
| [[Word Processing]]
|-
| Notepad, Wordpad, TheGun, EditPlus, SciTE, Notepad++ ||
[[Vim]], [[KWrite]],
[[Kate]], [http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/ BlueFish], [[Gedit]], [[Joe]], Sublime Text, [[Leafpad]], [[Nano]]
| [[Text Editors]]
|-
| Access, dBase, Foxpro, Paradox, '''OOBase''', '''LibreOffice Base'''
| [http://userbase.kde.org/Kexi Kexi], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Base OOBase], LibreOffice Base
| [[Database]]
|-
| Excel, Corel WordPrefect, '''LibreOffice Calc''', '''Softmaker Office PlanMaker''', '''WPS Spreedsheets''', '''OOCalc''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Calc, Calligra Sheets, Softmaker Office PlanMaker, WPS Spreedsheets, [[OOCalc]], [http://www.gnumeric.org gnumeric], OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Spreadsheet]]
|-
| Visio, [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html '''yED'''], '''LibreOffice Draw'''
| [https://www.calligra.org/flow/ Calligra Flow], [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html yED], LibreOffice Draw
| Diagramming
|-
| PowerPoint, '''LibreOffice Impress''', '''OOImpress''', '''WPS Presentation''', '''Softmaker Office Presentations''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Impress, [[OOImpress]], Calligra Stage, WPS Presentation, Softmaker Office Presentations, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Presentation software]]
|-
| Final Draft, Script Studio, '''Fade In''', '''KIT Scenarist''', '''Story Architect''', '''Trelby''', '''Scrite'''
| Fade In, KIT Scenarist, Story Architect, Trelby, Scrite
| Screenwriting software
|-
| Microsoft Project Manager
| [[MOOS Project Viewer]], Calligra Plan
| Project management
|-
| '''Wondershare EdrawMax''', XMind
| Wondershare EdrawMax, Minder, XMind
| Mind maps
|-
| Outlook, '''Thunderbird + Lightning'''
| [[Kontact]], [https://pawsa.fedorapeople.org/balsa/ BALSA], [[Thunderbird]] + [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/ Lightning]
| Personal information managers
|-
| Alcohol 120%, Discjuggler, Easy CD Creator, Nero Burning ROM ||
[[K3b]], [[XCDRoast]], Brasero, Xfburn, [[CD/DVD_Burning|''more'']]
|DVD/CD burning
|-
|Alcohol 120%, Nero Burning ROM, '''MakeMKV''', ImgBurn, Infrarecorder || MakeMKV, Thoggen, Dvdbackup, HandBrake, DVD::RIP, AcidRIP
| DVD ripping software
|-
| Quicken, Microsoft Money, TurboTax
| [http://gnucash.org/ GnucAsh], [http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/index-home.html KMyMoney], [[CrossOver]] Office with Quicken, [http://www.lazy8.nu/ lazy8ledger]
| Accounting
|-
| ActiveSync ||
[[SynCE]]
|Synchronization with Windows Mobile devices
|-
| WinEdt, TeXnicCenter
| [[Kile]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texmaker Texmaker], [[LyX]]
| LaTeX IDEs
|-
| Veritas Backup Exec, [http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm Cobian Backup], '''Duplicati''' ||
LuckyBackup, Déjà Dup, Grsync, Duplicati [[list of backUp applications|''more'']]
| [[Backup]]
|-
| Google Desktop ||
[[Recoll]]
| Desktop Search
|-
|}

== File and partition management ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Norton Ghost ||
[[Partition Image]], [[g4u]], [http://www.mondorescue.org/ Mondo Rescue], [[dd]], gDiskDump (a dd frontend), Clonezilla, Trinity Rescue Kit
|Disk imaging
|-
| Norton Partition Magic ||
[[GParted]], Clonezilla (a live cd), KDE Partition Manager, GNOME Disks
|Disk partitioning
|-
|[http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/Disk_Size_Explorer.asp Disk Size Explorer]
|[https://utils.kde.org/projects/filelight/ File Light], [[Konqueror]], Baobab, xdiskusage, duc [https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-analyze-your-disk-usage-pattern-in-linux/ ref.]
| Disk usage analyzers
|-
|[http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html Filemon], [http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Regmon.html Regmon]
| [http://syscalltrack.sourceforge.net/ syscalltrack]
| system call tracking (file monitor & others)
|-
| WinMerge, SyncToy ||
[http://meld.sourceforge.net/ Meld], [[Unison]], [http://synkron.sourceforge.net/ Synkron], [[rSync]]
| File synchronization
|-
| Google Drive, Dropbox, etc ||
[https://rclone.org Rclone]
| Cloud hosted file synchronization (Amazon S3, Dropbox, Google Cloud Storage, Google Drive, FTP, Microsoft OneDrive, sFTP, etc)
|-
| Windows Update, Add/Remove programs||
[[apt-get]], [http://aptitude.sourceforge.net/ Aptitude], [http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Portage portage], [[Rpm|rpm]], [[urpmi]], [[yast]], [[yum]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptic_Package_Manager Synaptic], [https://snapcraft.io Snapcraft (Snap)]
|Every Linux distribution has an infrastructure to manage installed software which is quite different from Windows. For instance, all updates are handled by a single program. See [[package management]].
|-
| WinRunner || [http://hoopajoo.net/projects/xautomation.html xautomation] || automating interactive applications
|-
| 7-Zip, Winzip, Winrar, Peazip ||
[[Karchiver]],
[[File Roller]],
Xarchiver,
[[ark]],
[[hjsplit]]; [[packing and unpacking files|''command line tools'']]
|Archivers
|-
| chkdsk || [[fsck]], [https://www.tecmint.com/linux-disk-scanning-tools/ other tools] || check your file system (and the [[hard disk]] beneath it) for errors
|-
| Daemon Tools ||
[[mount]], Disk Image Mounter in Gnome/KDE, Furius ISO mount, AcetoneISO
|ISO mounting
|-
| Disclib || [http://www.gwhere.org/home.php3 gWhere]
| Disk cataloging programs
|-
| Evernote, OneNote || NixNote, Tusk, Whatever, GeekNote, ForeverNote, [https://joplinapp.org/ Joplin], Xournal, XFCE4 Notes, Xpad, Hnb, Gnote, Feathernotes, Cherrytree, Bijiben, Basket, Noblenote, Nvpy. Thanks to [https://itsfoss.com/evernote-on-linux/]
|Note Taking App
|}

== Desktop Publishing ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Dreamweaver, '''Google Web Designer''', '''Bluefish Editor''', '''Aptana Studio''', '''SeaMonkey''', '''CodeLobster''' ||
[http://www.google.com/webdesigner/ Google Web Designer] (WYSIWYG), Bluefish Editor, Aptana Studio, SeaMonkey, CodeLobster
[[html editors|more]]
|[[Web Design]]
|-
| Quark, Quark Express, Microsoft Publisher, '''Scribus''', '''Karbon''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribus Scribus], Karbon, Laidout, VivaDesigner, QuickSilver, Xara Xtreme
|DTP software
|-
| Adobe Acrobat Reader, Xpdf Reader, Foxit reader, Sumatra pdf ||

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evince Evince],
Zathura,
Okular,
Bookworm,
Qpdfview,
Foxit reader,
PDF Studio Viewer,
[[Xpdf]],
MuPDF,
Atril,
[[Ghostview]], [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF readers
|-
| Adobe Acrobat Distiller, PDFCreator ||
[http://www.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~vrbehr/cups-pdf/ CUPS-PDF], Libre Office, [[OpenOffice.org]], PDF Studio, [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter] -- can convert to pdf. [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF authoring
|-
| Adobe Acrobat, [http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio '''PDF Studio Pro'''], '''Master PDF Editor''', '''Libreoffice Draw''', '''Scribus''', '''Inkscape''', '''Flexipdf''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop Editors''' ||
[http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio PDF Studio Pro], Master PDF Editor, OnlyOffice Desktop Editors, [http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfedit Pdfedit], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam Pdfjam], [http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk Pdftk], Scribus, Inkscape, Karbon, Flexipdf, Okular, Libreoffice Draw. Thanks to [https://www.ubuntupit.com/linux-pdf-editor-top-15-reviewed-and-compared/ this] [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF editing tools
|-
| SilverFast ||
[[xSane]], [http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html VueScan], Simple Scan, Skanlite, Gscan2pdf, GIMP with Quitelnsane
| [[scanning]]
|-
| FinePrint ||
[http://www.boomaga.org boomaga], [http://wfr.tcl.tk/279 page-crunch], [http://freshmeat.net/projects/mpage/ mpage], [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter], [http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~ajcd/psutils/index.html psnup/PSutils], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam pdfnup/PDFjam]
| Document printing/reformatting tools
|}

== Networking ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Internet Explorer, '''Microsoft Edge''', '''Firefox''', '''Opera''', '''Chrome''', '''Pale Moon''', '''Brave''', '''Vivaldi''', '''Otter Browser''', '''Falkon''', '''Dooble''', '''Slimjet'''
| [[Firefox]], [[Konqueror]], Epiphany (Gnome Web), Falkon, Microsoft Edge, Slimjet, Midori, [http://www.google.com/chrome Chrome], Chromium, [[Opera]], Otter Browser, Brave, Vivaldi, Falkon, Pale Moon, Dillo, Dooble, LibreWolf, Links [[Browsers|''more'']]
| [[Web Browsers]]
|-
| Microsoft Outlook, '''Thunderbird''', Pegasus, Lotus Notes, '''Seamonkey''', '''Claws Mail''', '''Mailspring''' ||
[[Kontact]],
[http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/features/evolution.html Evolution], Seamonkey,
[[Thunderbird]], Claws Mail, Mailspring, Geary [https://itsfoss.com/best-email-clients-linux/ others]
|Email clients.
|-
| '''Trillian''', '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Irssi''', ICQ ||
Trillian, Hexchat, [[PidgIn]], [[Irssi]], [[Kopete]]
| [[Instant messaging]] [[software]].
|-
| Microsoft HyperTerminal ||
[[minicom]]
|-
| FileZilla FTP Client, WS FTP, Bullet Proof FTP, CuteFTP ||
[http://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client FileZilla FTP Client],
[http://www.kftp.org/misc/description KFTP (KFTPGrabber)],
[[Kasablanca]],
[[FireFTP]],
[[Konqueror]],
[[KBear]],
[[gFTP]],
[http://www.crossftp.com/ CrossFTP],
[[Nautilus]]
|FTP clients. Please note GNOME, KDE (and other) programs can directly open and edit files on FTP, SFTP and WebDAV shares, often using [[KIO]], [[GIO]] or [GVfs]].
|-
| mIRC, '''Trillian''', '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Quassel''', '''KVIrc''', '''Irssi''' ||
Trillian, HexChat, [[PidgIn]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quassel_IRC Quassel], [[KVIrc]], Irssi, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konversation Konversation], [[BitchX]]
| [[IRC Clients]]
|-
|[http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/ UltraVNC], TightVNC, RealVNC, Remote Desktop ||
[http://www.tightvnc.com/ TightVNC],
[http://www.realvnc.com/ RealVNC], [http://www.rdesktop.org/ rdesktop],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/freenx/ FreeNX],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/x11vnc/ x11vnc],
[http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ Synergy],
XDMCP, [[SSH]] with X11 forwarding (-X or -Y option)
| [[Desktop Sharing]]
|-
| MailWasher, SpamAssassin for Windows ||
SpamAssassin
| Spam filter
|-
|Forte Free Agent, [[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]] ||
[[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]], [http://www.newsreaders.com/unix/clients.html See More Clients Here]
|News Reader (Usenet [[newsgroup]]s)
|-
| eMule, '''aMule''' || aMule
|ED2K P2P network clients
|-
| [http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php '''Vuze (formerly Azureus)'''], [http://utorrent.com/ utorrent], '''Transmission''', '''Deluge''', '''qBittorrent''', '''Tixati''', '''Frostwire''', '''Tribler''' ||
[http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php Vuze (formerly Azureus)], Transmission, Deluge, qBittorrent, Tixati, Frostwire, Tribler, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qtorrent Qtorrent], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bittornado bittornado], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ktorrent Ktorrent],
|BitTorrent P2P network clients
|-
| '''Skype''', Voipbuster, '''Yate''', '''Linphone''', '''Jitsi''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype Skype], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linphone Linphone], Asterisk, Empathy, Yate, Jitsi
|VoIP software
|-
| Bitvise Tunnelier ||
[http://sourceforge.net/projects/gstm/ gSTM]
|gSTM is a front-end for managing SSH-tunneled port redirects.
|}

== Server ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| IIS, [[Apache]] ||
[[Apache]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nginx Engine-X], [http://www.lighttpd.net/ lighttpd]
|[[Web Servers]]
|-
| Folder sharing, printer sharing ||
[[Samba]]
|Share files and printers between Windows and Linux systems. Installed by default on most distributions.
|-
|IIS, [http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ FileZilla FTP Client & Server]
|[[vsftpd]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure-ftpd pure-ftpd]
|FTP servers, for hosting files.
|-
|[http://www.netlimiter.com/ NetLimiter] ||
[http://monkey.org/~marius/pages/?page=trickle Trickle], [http://l7-filter.sourceforge.net/ Level 7 Filter], [http://www.clarkconnect.com/info/index.php ClarkConnect], [http://www.bandwidtharbitrator.com/ Bandwidth Arbitrator], [http://www.mastershaper.org/index.php/Main_Page MasterShaper]
|Bandwidth shaping and management.
|-
| Exchange ||
[[Citadel]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbra zimbra], [[Open-Xchange]]
|Groupware (sharing of appointments, contacts, e-mail, documents, etc. between members of a group)
|-
| Sharepoint ||
[http://www.knowledgetree.com/opensource KnowledgeTree]
|Manage and secure documents, collaborate around document creation and editing, full document contents indexing
|-
| Norton/McAfee Antivirus, [http://clamwin.com/ ClamWin], AVG, AntiVir, Avast, ClamAV ||
[[ClamAV]], [https://support.avast.com/en-eu/article/131/ Avast Security for Linux]
| Antivirus software.
|-
| ZoneAlarm , Sygate SPF||
[[Guarddog]], [[Firestarter]], [[GUFW]], [[iptables]]
| Firewall software
|}

== Multimedia ==

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
|[http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/ Adobe Photoshop], [http://www.corel.com/ Corel Photo-Paint], '''GIMP''', '''Glimpse''', '''GIMPShop''', '''ImageMagick''', '''Xnview''', '''[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)]''', '''[https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable]''', '''Pinta''', '''MyPaint''', '''Krita''', '''Filmulator''', '''Photivo''', '''RawTherapee''', '''digiKam''', '''nomacs''' ||
[http://www.gimp.org/ GIMP], Glimpse,
[[GIMPShop]], ImageMagick, Pinta, MyPaint,
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krita Krita], Xnview,
[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)], [https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable], Filmulator, Photivo, RawTherapee, digiKam, nomacs
|Raster graphics editors
|-
|[http://www.corel.com/ Corel Draw], [http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator/ Adobe Illustrator], '''Inkscape''', '''Vectr''', '''Gravit''', '''LibreOffice Draw''', '''sK1''', '''SVG-edit''' ||
[http://www.inkscape.org/ Inkscape], Vectr, Gravit, LibreOffice Draw, Karbon, sK1, SVG-edit. [https://itsfoss.com/vector-graphics-editors-linux/ Ref.]
|Vector graphics editors
|-
|Adobe Animate, '''Synfig''', '''Pencil2D''', '''Tupi (Tupitube Desk)''', '''OpenToonz''', '''Blender''', '''Toon Boom Harmony''', '''Krita''', '''Aseprite''', '''TVPaint''', '''Animaker''', '''Ajax Animator''', '''Glaxnimate''', '''Tahoma2D''', '''Enve''' ||
Synfig, Pencil2D, Tupi (Tupitube Desk), OpenToonz, Blender, Toon Boom Harmony, Krita, Aseprite, TVPaint, Animaker, Ajax Animator, Glaxnimate, Tahoma2D , Enve
| 2D Animations
|-
| Irfanview, ACDSee, '''digiKam''', '''Xnview''', '''nomacs''' ||
[[XnView]], [http://mirageiv.berlios.de/ Mirage], [[GThumb]], Shotwell, KPhotoAlbum, Geeqie, digiKam, Gwenview, Ristretto, Viewnior, Nomacs
|Image viewers
|-
| 3D Studio MAX, '''Blender''', [http://www.autodesk.com '''Maya'''], '''Cinema 4D''' ||
[[Blender]], [http://www.autodesk.com Maya], Cinema 4D
|3D modeling software
|-
| Autodesk Inventor, Solidworks, CATIA || [http://www.freecadweb.org FreeCAD], [http://www.salome-platform.org/ SALOME platform]
| Professional 3D CAD software
|-
| Windows Media Player, PowerDVD, SMPlayer, MPV, [[VLC]] ||
SMPlayer, MPV, [[VLC]], [[Xine]], [[Totem]], [[Kaffeine]], Parole, Celluloid, [[MPlayer]]
| [[Video Players]]
|-
| SIA Smaart Live || [http://sf.net/projects/brp-pacu/ BRP-PACU] || [[Sound]] analysis
|-
| Winamp, Sonique, iTunes, [http://www.atunes.org/ aTunes], '''Clementine''', '''VLC''', '''SMplayer''', '''Deadbeef''', '''Audacious''', '''Strawberry''', '''Exaile''' ||
[[Amarok]], [[RhythmBox]], [http://banshee-project.org/index.php/Main_Page Banshee], [[Xine]], Elisa, Clementine, VLC, SMplayer, Deadbeef, Audacious, Strawberry, Exaile, pMusic. See also Video Players section
|[[Music Players]]
|-
| [http://www.otsav.com/ OTSAV, OTS Turntables], [http://serato.com/ Serato], [http://www.native-instruments.com/en/traktor/ Traktor], [http://www.virtualdj.com/ Virtual DJ], [http://www.pcdj.com/ PC DJ], [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
| [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
|Audio & video play out (DJ/presenter)
|-
| Windows Movie Maker, Adobe Premiere Elements, [http://www.goldwave.com/mqrelease.php Multiquence], '''Avidemux''', '''OpenShot''', '''VidCutter''', [https://shotcut.org/ '''Shotcut'''], '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron]''', [https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php '''Olive'''], '''Lightworks''' ||
[[Cinelerra]] (difficult but very professional),
[[KDenlive]] (easy and powerful),
[[LiVES]],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avidemux AviDemux],
OpenShot,
VidCutter,
Flowblade,
Pitivi,
DaVinci Resolve,
[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron],
[https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php Olive],
Lightworks (thanks to Linux Format magazine),
[https://shotcut.org/ Shotcut](thanks to Linux Format magazine)
|[[Video Editors]]
|-
| '''Audacity''', Cubase, '''Ardour''', Adobe Audition (formerly Cool Edit Pro), [http://www.goldwave.com/ GoldWave], Cakewalk/Sonar, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''LMMS''', '''Traverso-DAW''', '''Harrison Mixbus''', '''Bitwig Studio''', '''[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]''' ||
[[Audacity]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden],
[[Beast]],
[[Ardour]],
Harrison Mixbus,
[http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/index.php Radium],
DaVinci Resolve,
Bitwig Studio,
Qtractor,
[https://traverso-daw.org/ Traverso-DAW],
LMMS,
[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]
|Digital audio workstation software
|-
| Audio Catalyst, '''Ocenaudio''', dbpoweramp, CDex, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''Audacity''' ||
[[Audacity]],
Ocenaudio,
DaVinci Resolve,
[[Grip]]
| [[Audio Editors]]
|-
| '''Wavesurfer''', '''Audacity''', '''Sox'''||[https://itsfoss.com/record-streaming-audio/ Audio Recorder], Ecasound, Audacity, Sox, Wavesurfer
|Audio recorders
|-
| Cakewalk/Sonar ||
[[kmid]],
[[kmidi]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden]
| [[MIDI]]
|-
|[http://www.noteworthysoftware.com/ NoteWorthy Composer], '''MuseScore''', '''LilyPond'''||
[http://www.musescore.org/ MuseScore], [http://lilypond.org/web/ LilyPond]
|Musical score typesetting
|-
|[http://www.guitar-pro.com/ GuitarPro], TuxGuitar ||
[http://www.tuxguitar.com.ar/ TuxGuitar]
|Guitar tablature editors
|-
| Microsoft Paint, Kid Pix, '''Tux Paint''', '''Pencil 2D''', '''Krita''', '''Pinta''', '''Mypaint''', '''Mtpaint''' ||
[http://www.tuxpaint.org/ Tuxpaint], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KolourPaint KolourPaint], Pencil 2D, Krita, [https://launchpad.net/dibuja Dibuja], Pinta, Mypaint, Mtpaint
|Basic raster painting programs
|-
| Videora, [https://handbrake.fr/ '''Handbrake'''], '''WinFF''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || [https://handbrake.fr/ Handbrake], WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, Transmageddon, VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Video converter
|-
| '''WinFF''', '''Handbrake''', '''fre:ac - free audio converter (freac)''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || Handbrake, WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, fre:ac - free audio converter (freac), VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Audio converter
|-
|TMPGEnc DVD Author, Roxio DVDit, '''Open DVD Producer''', '''DVDStyler''' ||
DVDStyler, [http://opendvdproducer.jonata.org/ Open DVD Producer], [http://www.rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html DeVeDe]
|DVD authoring software
|-
|'''uTox''', '''qTox''', '''Jitsi''', '''OpenMeetings''', '''Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone)''', '''Microsoft Teams''', '''Zoom''' || uTox, qTox, OpenMettings, Jitsi, Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone), Empathy, Microsoft Teams, Zoom
| Video Conferencing
|}

== Education ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| '''Klavaro''', '''Tipp10''' || Klavaro, Tipp10, [[KTouch]], Tux Typing, GNU Typist || Touch typing tutors
|-
| '''Maple''', '''Mathematica''' || Maple, Mathematica, [http://maxima.sourceforge.net/ Maxima]
| Computer algebra systems
|-
| '''Matlab''', '''Octave''', '''Scilab''' ||
Matlab, [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ Octave],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SciLab SciLab], Sage, KAlgebra
| High level numeric computation environments
|-
| '''SPSS''', '''Stata''', EViews, '''PSPP''', '''[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project]''', '''[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]''' ||
[http://www.stata.com/products/unix.html Stata], SPSS,
[http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/pspp.html PSPP],
[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Plus S-Plus],
[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]
| Statistical analysis
|-
| Verilog ||
[http://www.icarus.com/eda/verilog/ iverilog]
| Verilog Simulator
|-
| '''Google Earth''', NASA World Wind, '''Celestia''', '''Stellarium''', '''Skychart''', '''Aladin Sky Atlas''', Microsoft Flight Simulator, '''FlightGear''' ||
[http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html Google Earth], [https://celestia.space/index.html Celestia], [http://www.stellarium.org/ Stellarium], [https://marble.kde.org/ Marble], [http://www.geody.com/ Geody], Kstars, Skychart, Aladin Sky Atlas, [http://www.flightgear.org/ FlightGear]
| Geography, astronomy and simulation
|}

''Please add new applications to this list. A good resource is the [http://www.nawaz.org/wiki/index.php?title=Table_of_Equivalents BeetleSpace Windows/Linux Software Table of Equivalents], which is GNU FDL licensed.''

== See also ==

* [[running windows software]]
* [http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux.]
* [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareEquivalents Ubuntu software equivalents's page]
* [http://www.linuxeq.com/ The Linux Equivalent Project]
* [https://www.turkishcypriotheritage.org/ turkishcypriotheritage.org]

[[Category:FAQ]]

Linux software equivalent to Windows software

2024-10-05T00:01:03Z

Kareempharmacist: /* Desktop Publishing */

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.

== Office and Productivity ==

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Office, '''OpenOffice''', '''Libre Office''', '''WPS Office''', '''Softmaker Office''', '''Onlyoffice Desktop'''
| [[Libre Office]], [https://www.wps.com/linux WPS Office](WPS-Community), [[OpenOffice]], [https://www.calligra.org/ Calligra], Softmaker FreeOffice, OnlyOffice Desktop
| Office package
|-
| Microsoft Word, OOwriter, LibreOffice Writer, WPS Writer, Softmaker TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[OOWriter]], [http://www.abiword.org AbiWord], WPS Writer, LibreOffice Writer, Calligra Words, FreeOffice TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop, Lyx, [[LaTeX]]
| [[Word Processing]]
|-
| Notepad, Wordpad, TheGun, EditPlus, SciTE, Notepad++ ||
[[Vim]], [[KWrite]],
[[Kate]], [http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/ BlueFish], [[Gedit]], [[Joe]], Sublime Text, [[Leafpad]], [[Nano]]
| [[Text Editors]]
|-
| Access, dBase, Foxpro, Paradox, '''OOBase''', '''LibreOffice Base'''
| [http://userbase.kde.org/Kexi Kexi], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Base OOBase], LibreOffice Base
| [[Database]]
|-
| Excel, Corel WordPrefect, '''LibreOffice Calc''', '''Softmaker Office PlanMaker''', '''WPS Spreedsheets''', '''OOCalc''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Calc, Calligra Sheets, Softmaker Office PlanMaker, WPS Spreedsheets, [[OOCalc]], [http://www.gnumeric.org gnumeric], OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Spreadsheet]]
|-
| Visio, [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html '''yED'''], '''LibreOffice Draw'''
| [https://www.calligra.org/flow/ Calligra Flow], [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html yED], LibreOffice Draw
| Diagramming
|-
| PowerPoint, '''LibreOffice Impress''', '''OOImpress''', '''WPS Presentation''', '''Softmaker Office Presentations''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Impress, [[OOImpress]], Calligra Stage, WPS Presentation, Softmaker Office Presentations, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Presentation software]]
|-
| Final Draft, Script Studio, '''Fade In''', '''KIT Scenarist''', '''Story Architect''', '''Trelby''', '''Scrite'''
| Fade In, KIT Scenarist, Story Architect, Trelby, Scrite
| Screenwriting software
|-
| Microsoft Project Manager
| [[MOOS Project Viewer]], Calligra Plan
| Project management
|-
| '''Wondershare EdrawMax''', XMind
| Wondershare EdrawMax, Minder, XMind
| Mind maps
|-
| Outlook, '''Thunderbird + Lightning'''
| [[Kontact]], [https://pawsa.fedorapeople.org/balsa/ BALSA], [[Thunderbird]] + [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/ Lightning]
| Personal information managers
|-
| Alcohol 120%, Discjuggler, Easy CD Creator, Nero Burning ROM ||
[[K3b]], [[XCDRoast]], Brasero, Xfburn, [[CD/DVD_Burning|''more'']]
|DVD/CD burning
|-
|Alcohol 120%, Nero Burning ROM, '''MakeMKV''', ImgBurn, Infrarecorder || MakeMKV, Thoggen, Dvdbackup, HandBrake, DVD::RIP, AcidRIP
| DVD ripping software
|-
| Quicken, Microsoft Money, TurboTax
| [http://gnucash.org/ GnucAsh], [http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/index-home.html KMyMoney], [[CrossOver]] Office with Quicken, [http://www.lazy8.nu/ lazy8ledger]
| Accounting
|-
| ActiveSync ||
[[SynCE]]
|Synchronization with Windows Mobile devices
|-
| WinEdt, TeXnicCenter
| [[Kile]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texmaker Texmaker], [[LyX]]
| LaTeX IDEs
|-
| Veritas Backup Exec, [http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm Cobian Backup], '''Duplicati''' ||
LuckyBackup, Déjà Dup, Grsync, Duplicati [[list of backUp applications|''more'']]
| [[Backup]]
|-
| Google Desktop ||
[[Recoll]]
| Desktop Search
|-
|}

== File and partition management ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Norton Ghost ||
[[Partition Image]], [[g4u]], [http://www.mondorescue.org/ Mondo Rescue], [[dd]], gDiskDump (a dd frontend), Clonezilla, Trinity Rescue Kit
|Disk imaging
|-
| Norton Partition Magic ||
[[GParted]], Clonezilla (a live cd), KDE Partition Manager, GNOME Disks
|Disk partitioning
|-
|[http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/Disk_Size_Explorer.asp Disk Size Explorer]
|[https://utils.kde.org/projects/filelight/ File Light], [[Konqueror]], Baobab, xdiskusage, duc [https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-analyze-your-disk-usage-pattern-in-linux/ ref.]
| Disk usage analyzers
|-
|[http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html Filemon], [http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Regmon.html Regmon]
| [http://syscalltrack.sourceforge.net/ syscalltrack]
| system call tracking (file monitor & others)
|-
| WinMerge, SyncToy ||
[http://meld.sourceforge.net/ Meld], [[Unison]], [http://synkron.sourceforge.net/ Synkron], [[rSync]]
| File synchronization
|-
| Google Drive, Dropbox, etc ||
[https://rclone.org Rclone]
| Cloud hosted file synchronization (Amazon S3, Dropbox, Google Cloud Storage, Google Drive, FTP, Microsoft OneDrive, sFTP, etc)
|-
| Windows Update, Add/Remove programs||
[[apt-get]], [http://aptitude.sourceforge.net/ Aptitude], [http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Portage portage], [[Rpm|rpm]], [[urpmi]], [[yast]], [[yum]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptic_Package_Manager Synaptic], [https://snapcraft.io Snapcraft (Snap)]
|Every Linux distribution has an infrastructure to manage installed software which is quite different from Windows. For instance, all updates are handled by a single program. See [[package management]].
|-
| WinRunner || [http://hoopajoo.net/projects/xautomation.html xautomation] || automating interactive applications
|-
| 7-Zip, Winzip, Winrar, Peazip ||
[[Karchiver]],
[[File Roller]],
Xarchiver,
[[ark]],
[[hjsplit]]; [[packing and unpacking files|''command line tools'']]
|Archivers
|-
| chkdsk || [[fsck]], [https://www.tecmint.com/linux-disk-scanning-tools/ other tools] || check your file system (and the [[hard disk]] beneath it) for errors
|-
| Daemon Tools ||
[[mount]], Disk Image Mounter in Gnome/KDE, Furius ISO mount, AcetoneISO
|ISO mounting
|-
| Disclib || [http://www.gwhere.org/home.php3 gWhere]
| Disk cataloging programs
|-
| Evernote, OneNote || NixNote, Tusk, Whatever, GeekNote, ForeverNote, [https://joplinapp.org/ Joplin], Xournal, XFCE4 Notes, Xpad, Hnb, Gnote, Feathernotes, Cherrytree, Bijiben, Basket, Noblenote, Nvpy. Thanks to [https://itsfoss.com/evernote-on-linux/]
|Note Taking App
|}

== Desktop Publishing ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Dreamweaver, '''Google Web Designer''', '''Bluefish Editor''', '''Aptana Studio''', '''SeaMonkey''', '''CodeLobster''' ||
[http://www.google.com/webdesigner/ Google Web Designer] (WYSIWYG), Bluefish Editor, Aptana Studio, SeaMonkey, CodeLobster
[[html editors|more]]
|[[Web Design]]
|-
| Quark, Quark Express, Microsoft Publisher, '''Scribus''', '''Karbon''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribus Scribus], Karbon, Laidout, VivaDesigner, QuickSilver, Xara Xtreme
|DTP software
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader, Xpdf Reader, Foxit reader, Sumatra pdf ||

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evince Evince],
Zathura,
Okular,
Bookworm,
Qpdfview,
Foxit reader,
PDF Studio Viewer,
[[Xpdf]],
MuPDF,
Atril,
[[Ghostview]], [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF readers
|-
| Adobe Acrobat Distiller, PDFCreator ||
[http://www.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~vrbehr/cups-pdf/ CUPS-PDF], Libre Office, [[OpenOffice.org]], PDF Studio, [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter] -- can convert to pdf. [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF authoring
|-
| Adobe Acrobat, [http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio '''PDF Studio Pro'''], '''Master PDF Editor''', '''Libreoffice Draw''', '''Scribus''', '''Inkscape''', '''Flexipdf''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop Editors''' ||
[http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio PDF Studio Pro], Master PDF Editor, OnlyOffice Desktop Editors, [http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfedit Pdfedit], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam Pdfjam], [http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk Pdftk], Scribus, Inkscape, Karbon, Flexipdf, Okular, Libreoffice Draw. Thanks to [https://www.ubuntupit.com/linux-pdf-editor-top-15-reviewed-and-compared/ this] [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF editing tools
|-
| SilverFast ||
[[xSane]], [http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html VueScan], Simple Scan, Skanlite, Gscan2pdf, GIMP with Quitelnsane
| [[scanning]]
|-
| FinePrint ||
[http://www.boomaga.org boomaga], [http://wfr.tcl.tk/279 page-crunch], [http://freshmeat.net/projects/mpage/ mpage], [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter], [http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~ajcd/psutils/index.html psnup/PSutils], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam pdfnup/PDFjam]
| Document printing/reformatting tools
|}

== Networking ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Internet Explorer, '''Microsoft Edge''', '''Firefox''', '''Opera''', '''Chrome''', '''Pale Moon''', '''Brave''', '''Vivaldi''', '''Otter Browser''', '''Falkon''', '''Dooble''', '''Slimjet'''
| [[Firefox]], [[Konqueror]], Epiphany (Gnome Web), Falkon, Microsoft Edge, Slimjet, Midori, [http://www.google.com/chrome Chrome], Chromium, [[Opera]], Otter Browser, Brave, Vivaldi, Falkon, Pale Moon, Dillo, Dooble, LibreWolf, Links [[Browsers|''more'']]
| [[Web Browsers]]
|-
| Microsoft Outlook, '''Thunderbird''', Pegasus, Lotus Notes, '''Seamonkey''', '''Claws Mail''', '''Mailspring''' ||
[[Kontact]],
[http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/features/evolution.html Evolution], Seamonkey,
[[Thunderbird]], Claws Mail, Mailspring, Geary [https://itsfoss.com/best-email-clients-linux/ others]
|Email clients.
|-
| '''Trillian''', '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Irssi''', ICQ ||
Trillian, Hexchat, [[PidgIn]], [[Irssi]], [[Kopete]]
| [[Instant messaging]] [[software]].
|-
| Microsoft HyperTerminal ||
[[minicom]]
|-
| FileZilla FTP Client, WS FTP, Bullet Proof FTP, CuteFTP ||
[http://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client FileZilla FTP Client],
[http://www.kftp.org/misc/description KFTP (KFTPGrabber)],
[[Kasablanca]],
[[FireFTP]],
[[Konqueror]],
[[KBear]],
[[gFTP]],
[http://www.crossftp.com/ CrossFTP],
[[Nautilus]]
|FTP clients. Please note GNOME, KDE (and other) programs can directly open and edit files on FTP, SFTP and WebDAV shares, often using [[KIO]], [[GIO]] or [GVfs]].
|-
| mIRC, '''Trillian''', '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Quassel''', '''KVIrc''', '''Irssi''' ||
Trillian, HexChat, [[PidgIn]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quassel_IRC Quassel], [[KVIrc]], Irssi, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konversation Konversation], [[BitchX]]
| [[IRC Clients]]
|-
|[http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/ UltraVNC], TightVNC, RealVNC, Remote Desktop ||
[http://www.tightvnc.com/ TightVNC],
[http://www.realvnc.com/ RealVNC], [http://www.rdesktop.org/ rdesktop],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/freenx/ FreeNX],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/x11vnc/ x11vnc],
[http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ Synergy],
XDMCP, [[SSH]] with X11 forwarding (-X or -Y option)
| [[Desktop Sharing]]
|-
| MailWasher, SpamAssassin for Windows ||
SpamAssassin
| Spam filter
|-
|Forte Free Agent, [[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]] ||
[[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]], [http://www.newsreaders.com/unix/clients.html See More Clients Here]
|News Reader (Usenet [[newsgroup]]s)
|-
| eMule, '''aMule''' || aMule
|ED2K P2P network clients
|-
| [http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php '''Vuze (formerly Azureus)'''], [http://utorrent.com/ utorrent], '''Transmission''', '''Deluge''', '''qBittorrent''', '''Tixati''', '''Frostwire''', '''Tribler''' ||
[http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php Vuze (formerly Azureus)], Transmission, Deluge, qBittorrent, Tixati, Frostwire, Tribler, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qtorrent Qtorrent], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bittornado bittornado], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ktorrent Ktorrent],
|BitTorrent P2P network clients
|-
| '''Skype''', Voipbuster, '''Yate''', '''Linphone''', '''Jitsi''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype Skype], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linphone Linphone], Asterisk, Empathy, Yate, Jitsi
|VoIP software
|-
| Bitvise Tunnelier ||
[http://sourceforge.net/projects/gstm/ gSTM]
|gSTM is a front-end for managing SSH-tunneled port redirects.
|}

== Server ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| IIS, [[Apache]] ||
[[Apache]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nginx Engine-X], [http://www.lighttpd.net/ lighttpd]
|[[Web Servers]]
|-
| Folder sharing, printer sharing ||
[[Samba]]
|Share files and printers between Windows and Linux systems. Installed by default on most distributions.
|-
|IIS, [http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ FileZilla FTP Client & Server]
|[[vsftpd]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure-ftpd pure-ftpd]
|FTP servers, for hosting files.
|-
|[http://www.netlimiter.com/ NetLimiter] ||
[http://monkey.org/~marius/pages/?page=trickle Trickle], [http://l7-filter.sourceforge.net/ Level 7 Filter], [http://www.clarkconnect.com/info/index.php ClarkConnect], [http://www.bandwidtharbitrator.com/ Bandwidth Arbitrator], [http://www.mastershaper.org/index.php/Main_Page MasterShaper]
|Bandwidth shaping and management.
|-
| Exchange ||
[[Citadel]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbra zimbra], [[Open-Xchange]]
|Groupware (sharing of appointments, contacts, e-mail, documents, etc. between members of a group)
|-
| Sharepoint ||
[http://www.knowledgetree.com/opensource KnowledgeTree]
|Manage and secure documents, collaborate around document creation and editing, full document contents indexing
|-
| Norton/McAfee Antivirus, [http://clamwin.com/ ClamWin], AVG, AntiVir, Avast, ClamAV ||
[[ClamAV]], [https://support.avast.com/en-eu/article/131/ Avast Security for Linux]
| Antivirus software.
|-
| ZoneAlarm , Sygate SPF||
[[Guarddog]], [[Firestarter]], [[GUFW]], [[iptables]]
| Firewall software
|}

== Multimedia ==

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
|[http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/ Adobe Photoshop], [http://www.corel.com/ Corel Photo-Paint], '''GIMP''', '''Glimpse''', '''GIMPShop''', '''ImageMagick''', '''Xnview''', '''[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)]''', '''[https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable]''', '''Pinta''', '''MyPaint''', '''Krita''', '''Filmulator''', '''Photivo''', '''RawTherapee''', '''digiKam''', '''nomacs''' ||
[http://www.gimp.org/ GIMP], Glimpse,
[[GIMPShop]], ImageMagick, Pinta, MyPaint,
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krita Krita], Xnview,
[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)], [https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable], Filmulator, Photivo, RawTherapee, digiKam, nomacs
|Raster graphics editors
|-
|[http://www.corel.com/ Corel Draw], [http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator/ Adobe Illustrator], '''Inkscape''', '''Vectr''', '''Gravit''', '''LibreOffice Draw''', '''sK1''', '''SVG-edit''' ||
[http://www.inkscape.org/ Inkscape], Vectr, Gravit, LibreOffice Draw, Karbon, sK1, SVG-edit. [https://itsfoss.com/vector-graphics-editors-linux/ Ref.]
|Vector graphics editors
|-
|Adobe Animate, '''Synfig''', '''Pencil2D''', '''Tupi (Tupitube Desk)''', '''OpenToonz''', '''Blender''', '''Toon Boom Harmony''', '''Krita''', '''Aseprite''', '''TVPaint''', '''Animaker''', '''Ajax Animator''', '''Glaxnimate''', '''Tahoma2D''', '''Enve''' ||
Synfig, Pencil2D, Tupi (Tupitube Desk), OpenToonz, Blender, Toon Boom Harmony, Krita, Aseprite, TVPaint, Animaker, Ajax Animator, Glaxnimate, Tahoma2D , Enve
| 2D Animations
|-
| Irfanview, ACDSee, '''digiKam''', '''Xnview''', '''nomacs''' ||
[[XnView]], [http://mirageiv.berlios.de/ Mirage], [[GThumb]], Shotwell, KPhotoAlbum, Geeqie, digiKam, Gwenview, Ristretto, Viewnior, Nomacs
|Image viewers
|-
| 3D Studio MAX, '''Blender''', [http://www.autodesk.com '''Maya'''], '''Cinema 4D''' ||
[[Blender]], [http://www.autodesk.com Maya], Cinema 4D
|3D modeling software
|-
| Autodesk Inventor, Solidworks, CATIA || [http://www.freecadweb.org FreeCAD], [http://www.salome-platform.org/ SALOME platform]
| Professional 3D CAD software
|-
| Windows Media Player, PowerDVD, SMPlayer, MPV, [[VLC]] ||
SMPlayer, MPV, [[VLC]], [[Xine]], [[Totem]], [[Kaffeine]], Parole, Celluloid, [[MPlayer]]
| [[Video Players]]
|-
| SIA Smaart Live || [http://sf.net/projects/brp-pacu/ BRP-PACU] || [[Sound]] analysis
|-
| Winamp, Sonique, iTunes, [http://www.atunes.org/ aTunes], '''Clementine''', '''VLC''', '''SMplayer''', '''Deadbeef''', '''Audacious''', '''Strawberry''', '''Exaile''' ||
[[Amarok]], [[RhythmBox]], [http://banshee-project.org/index.php/Main_Page Banshee], [[Xine]], Elisa, Clementine, VLC, SMplayer, Deadbeef, Audacious, Strawberry, Exaile, pMusic. See also Video Players section
|[[Music Players]]
|-
| [http://www.otsav.com/ OTSAV, OTS Turntables], [http://serato.com/ Serato], [http://www.native-instruments.com/en/traktor/ Traktor], [http://www.virtualdj.com/ Virtual DJ], [http://www.pcdj.com/ PC DJ], [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
| [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
|Audio & video play out (DJ/presenter)
|-
| Windows Movie Maker, Adobe Premiere Elements, [http://www.goldwave.com/mqrelease.php Multiquence], '''Avidemux''', '''OpenShot''', '''VidCutter''', [https://shotcut.org/ '''Shotcut'''], '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron]''', [https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php '''Olive'''], '''Lightworks''' ||
[[Cinelerra]] (difficult but very professional),
[[KDenlive]] (easy and powerful),
[[LiVES]],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avidemux AviDemux],
OpenShot,
VidCutter,
Flowblade,
Pitivi,
DaVinci Resolve,
[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron],
[https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php Olive],
Lightworks (thanks to Linux Format magazine),
[https://shotcut.org/ Shotcut](thanks to Linux Format magazine)
|[[Video Editors]]
|-
| '''Audacity''', Cubase, '''Ardour''', Adobe Audition (formerly Cool Edit Pro), [http://www.goldwave.com/ GoldWave], Cakewalk/Sonar, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''LMMS''', '''Traverso-DAW''', '''Harrison Mixbus''', '''Bitwig Studio''', '''[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]''' ||
[[Audacity]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden],
[[Beast]],
[[Ardour]],
Harrison Mixbus,
[http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/index.php Radium],
DaVinci Resolve,
Bitwig Studio,
Qtractor,
[https://traverso-daw.org/ Traverso-DAW],
LMMS,
[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]
|Digital audio workstation software
|-
| Audio Catalyst, '''Ocenaudio''', dbpoweramp, CDex, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''Audacity''' ||
[[Audacity]],
Ocenaudio,
DaVinci Resolve,
[[Grip]]
| [[Audio Editors]]
|-
| '''Wavesurfer''', '''Audacity''', '''Sox'''||[https://itsfoss.com/record-streaming-audio/ Audio Recorder], Ecasound, Audacity, Sox, Wavesurfer
|Audio recorders
|-
| Cakewalk/Sonar ||
[[kmid]],
[[kmidi]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden]
| [[MIDI]]
|-
|[http://www.noteworthysoftware.com/ NoteWorthy Composer], '''MuseScore''', '''LilyPond'''||
[http://www.musescore.org/ MuseScore], [http://lilypond.org/web/ LilyPond]
|Musical score typesetting
|-
|[http://www.guitar-pro.com/ GuitarPro], TuxGuitar ||
[http://www.tuxguitar.com.ar/ TuxGuitar]
|Guitar tablature editors
|-
| Microsoft Paint, Kid Pix, '''Tux Paint''', '''Pencil 2D''', '''Krita''', '''Pinta''', '''Mypaint''', '''Mtpaint''' ||
[http://www.tuxpaint.org/ Tuxpaint], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KolourPaint KolourPaint], Pencil 2D, Krita, [https://launchpad.net/dibuja Dibuja], Pinta, Mypaint, Mtpaint
|Basic raster painting programs
|-
| Videora, [https://handbrake.fr/ '''Handbrake'''], '''WinFF''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || [https://handbrake.fr/ Handbrake], WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, Transmageddon, VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Video converter
|-
| '''WinFF''', '''Handbrake''', '''fre:ac - free audio converter (freac)''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || Handbrake, WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, fre:ac - free audio converter (freac), VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Audio converter
|-
|TMPGEnc DVD Author, Roxio DVDit, '''Open DVD Producer''', '''DVDStyler''' ||
DVDStyler, [http://opendvdproducer.jonata.org/ Open DVD Producer], [http://www.rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html DeVeDe]
|DVD authoring software
|-
|'''uTox''', '''qTox''', '''Jitsi''', '''OpenMeetings''', '''Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone)''', '''Microsoft Teams''', '''Zoom''' || uTox, qTox, OpenMettings, Jitsi, Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone), Empathy, Microsoft Teams, Zoom
| Video Conferencing
|}

== Education ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| '''Klavaro''', '''Tipp10''' || Klavaro, Tipp10, [[KTouch]], Tux Typing, GNU Typist || Touch typing tutors
|-
| '''Maple''', '''Mathematica''' || Maple, Mathematica, [http://maxima.sourceforge.net/ Maxima]
| Computer algebra systems
|-
| '''Matlab''', '''Octave''', '''Scilab''' ||
Matlab, [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ Octave],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SciLab SciLab], Sage, KAlgebra
| High level numeric computation environments
|-
| '''SPSS''', '''Stata''', EViews, '''PSPP''', '''[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project]''', '''[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]''' ||
[http://www.stata.com/products/unix.html Stata], SPSS,
[http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/pspp.html PSPP],
[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Plus S-Plus],
[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]
| Statistical analysis
|-
| Verilog ||
[http://www.icarus.com/eda/verilog/ iverilog]
| Verilog Simulator
|-
| '''Google Earth''', NASA World Wind, '''Celestia''', '''Stellarium''', '''Skychart''', '''Aladin Sky Atlas''', Microsoft Flight Simulator, '''FlightGear''' ||
[http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html Google Earth], [https://celestia.space/index.html Celestia], [http://www.stellarium.org/ Stellarium], [https://marble.kde.org/ Marble], [http://www.geody.com/ Geody], Kstars, Skychart, Aladin Sky Atlas, [http://www.flightgear.org/ FlightGear]
| Geography, astronomy and simulation
|}

''Please add new applications to this list. A good resource is the [http://www.nawaz.org/wiki/index.php?title=Table_of_Equivalents BeetleSpace Windows/Linux Software Table of Equivalents], which is GNU FDL licensed.''

== See also ==

* [[running windows software]]
* [http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux.]
* [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareEquivalents Ubuntu software equivalents's page]
* [http://www.linuxeq.com/ The Linux Equivalent Project]
* [https://www.turkishcypriotheritage.org/ turkishcypriotheritage.org]

[[Category:FAQ]]

Linux software equivalent to Windows software

2024-10-04T23:56:18Z

Kareempharmacist: /* Desktop Publishing */

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.

== Office and Productivity ==

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Office, '''OpenOffice''', '''Libre Office''', '''WPS Office''', '''Softmaker Office''', '''Onlyoffice Desktop'''
| [[Libre Office]], [https://www.wps.com/linux WPS Office](WPS-Community), [[OpenOffice]], [https://www.calligra.org/ Calligra], Softmaker FreeOffice, OnlyOffice Desktop
| Office package
|-
| Microsoft Word, OOwriter, LibreOffice Writer, WPS Writer, Softmaker TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[OOWriter]], [http://www.abiword.org AbiWord], WPS Writer, LibreOffice Writer, Calligra Words, FreeOffice TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop, Lyx, [[LaTeX]]
| [[Word Processing]]
|-
| Notepad, Wordpad, TheGun, EditPlus, SciTE, Notepad++ ||
[[Vim]], [[KWrite]],
[[Kate]], [http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/ BlueFish], [[Gedit]], [[Joe]], Sublime Text, [[Leafpad]], [[Nano]]
| [[Text Editors]]
|-
| Access, dBase, Foxpro, Paradox, '''OOBase''', '''LibreOffice Base'''
| [http://userbase.kde.org/Kexi Kexi], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Base OOBase], LibreOffice Base
| [[Database]]
|-
| Excel, Corel WordPrefect, '''LibreOffice Calc''', '''Softmaker Office PlanMaker''', '''WPS Spreedsheets''', '''OOCalc''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Calc, Calligra Sheets, Softmaker Office PlanMaker, WPS Spreedsheets, [[OOCalc]], [http://www.gnumeric.org gnumeric], OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Spreadsheet]]
|-
| Visio, [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html '''yED'''], '''LibreOffice Draw'''
| [https://www.calligra.org/flow/ Calligra Flow], [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html yED], LibreOffice Draw
| Diagramming
|-
| PowerPoint, '''LibreOffice Impress''', '''OOImpress''', '''WPS Presentation''', '''Softmaker Office Presentations''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Impress, [[OOImpress]], Calligra Stage, WPS Presentation, Softmaker Office Presentations, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Presentation software]]
|-
| Final Draft, Script Studio, '''Fade In''', '''KIT Scenarist''', '''Story Architect''', '''Trelby''', '''Scrite'''
| Fade In, KIT Scenarist, Story Architect, Trelby, Scrite
| Screenwriting software
|-
| Microsoft Project Manager
| [[MOOS Project Viewer]], Calligra Plan
| Project management
|-
| '''Wondershare EdrawMax''', XMind
| Wondershare EdrawMax, Minder, XMind
| Mind maps
|-
| Outlook, '''Thunderbird + Lightning'''
| [[Kontact]], [https://pawsa.fedorapeople.org/balsa/ BALSA], [[Thunderbird]] + [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/ Lightning]
| Personal information managers
|-
| Alcohol 120%, Discjuggler, Easy CD Creator, Nero Burning ROM ||
[[K3b]], [[XCDRoast]], Brasero, Xfburn, [[CD/DVD_Burning|''more'']]
|DVD/CD burning
|-
|Alcohol 120%, Nero Burning ROM, '''MakeMKV''', ImgBurn, Infrarecorder || MakeMKV, Thoggen, Dvdbackup, HandBrake, DVD::RIP, AcidRIP
| DVD ripping software
|-
| Quicken, Microsoft Money, TurboTax
| [http://gnucash.org/ GnucAsh], [http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/index-home.html KMyMoney], [[CrossOver]] Office with Quicken, [http://www.lazy8.nu/ lazy8ledger]
| Accounting
|-
| ActiveSync ||
[[SynCE]]
|Synchronization with Windows Mobile devices
|-
| WinEdt, TeXnicCenter
| [[Kile]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texmaker Texmaker], [[LyX]]
| LaTeX IDEs
|-
| Veritas Backup Exec, [http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm Cobian Backup], '''Duplicati''' ||
LuckyBackup, Déjà Dup, Grsync, Duplicati [[list of backUp applications|''more'']]
| [[Backup]]
|-
| Google Desktop ||
[[Recoll]]
| Desktop Search
|-
|}

== File and partition management ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Norton Ghost ||
[[Partition Image]], [[g4u]], [http://www.mondorescue.org/ Mondo Rescue], [[dd]], gDiskDump (a dd frontend), Clonezilla, Trinity Rescue Kit
|Disk imaging
|-
| Norton Partition Magic ||
[[GParted]], Clonezilla (a live cd), KDE Partition Manager, GNOME Disks
|Disk partitioning
|-
|[http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/Disk_Size_Explorer.asp Disk Size Explorer]
|[https://utils.kde.org/projects/filelight/ File Light], [[Konqueror]], Baobab, xdiskusage, duc [https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-analyze-your-disk-usage-pattern-in-linux/ ref.]
| Disk usage analyzers
|-
|[http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html Filemon], [http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Regmon.html Regmon]
| [http://syscalltrack.sourceforge.net/ syscalltrack]
| system call tracking (file monitor & others)
|-
| WinMerge, SyncToy ||
[http://meld.sourceforge.net/ Meld], [[Unison]], [http://synkron.sourceforge.net/ Synkron], [[rSync]]
| File synchronization
|-
| Google Drive, Dropbox, etc ||
[https://rclone.org Rclone]
| Cloud hosted file synchronization (Amazon S3, Dropbox, Google Cloud Storage, Google Drive, FTP, Microsoft OneDrive, sFTP, etc)
|-
| Windows Update, Add/Remove programs||
[[apt-get]], [http://aptitude.sourceforge.net/ Aptitude], [http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Portage portage], [[Rpm|rpm]], [[urpmi]], [[yast]], [[yum]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptic_Package_Manager Synaptic], [https://snapcraft.io Snapcraft (Snap)]
|Every Linux distribution has an infrastructure to manage installed software which is quite different from Windows. For instance, all updates are handled by a single program. See [[package management]].
|-
| WinRunner || [http://hoopajoo.net/projects/xautomation.html xautomation] || automating interactive applications
|-
| 7-Zip, Winzip, Winrar, Peazip ||
[[Karchiver]],
[[File Roller]],
Xarchiver,
[[ark]],
[[hjsplit]]; [[packing and unpacking files|''command line tools'']]
|Archivers
|-
| chkdsk || [[fsck]], [https://www.tecmint.com/linux-disk-scanning-tools/ other tools] || check your file system (and the [[hard disk]] beneath it) for errors
|-
| Daemon Tools ||
[[mount]], Disk Image Mounter in Gnome/KDE, Furius ISO mount, AcetoneISO
|ISO mounting
|-
| Disclib || [http://www.gwhere.org/home.php3 gWhere]
| Disk cataloging programs
|-
| Evernote, OneNote || NixNote, Tusk, Whatever, GeekNote, ForeverNote, [https://joplinapp.org/ Joplin], Xournal, XFCE4 Notes, Xpad, Hnb, Gnote, Feathernotes, Cherrytree, Bijiben, Basket, Noblenote, Nvpy. Thanks to [https://itsfoss.com/evernote-on-linux/]
|Note Taking App
|}

== Desktop Publishing ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Dreamweaver, '''Google Web Designer''', '''Bluefish Editor''', '''Aptana Studio''', '''SeaMonkey''', '''CodeLobster''' ||
[http://www.google.com/webdesigner/ Google Web Designer] (WYSIWYG), Bluefish Editor, Aptana Studio, SeaMonkey, CodeLobster
[[html editors|more]]
|[[Web Design]]
|-
| Quark, Quark Express, Microsoft Publisher, '''Scribus''', '''Karbon''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribus Scribus], Karbon, Laidout, VivaDesigner, QuickSilver, Xara Xtreme
|DTP software
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader, Xpdf Reader, Foxit reader, Sumatra pdf ||

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evince Evince],
Zathura,
Okular,
Bookworm,
Qpdfview,
Foxit reader,
PDF Studio Viewer,
[[Xpdf]],
MuPDF,
Atril,
[[Ghostview]], [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF readers
|-
| Adobe Acrobat Distiller, PDFCreator ||
[http://www.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~vrbehr/cups-pdf/ CUPS-PDF], Libre Office, [[OpenOffice.org]], PDF Studio, [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter] -- can convert to pdf. [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF authoring
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF editor, [http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio '''PDF Studio Pro'''], '''Master PDF Editor''', '''Libreoffice Draw''', '''Scribus''', '''Inkscape''', '''Flexipdf''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop Editors''' ||
[http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio PDF Studio Pro], Master PDF Editor, OnlyOffice Desktop Editors, [http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfedit Pdfedit], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam Pdfjam], [http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk Pdftk], Scribus, Inkscape, Karbon, Flexipdf, Okular, Libreoffice Draw. Thanks to [https://www.ubuntupit.com/linux-pdf-editor-top-15-reviewed-and-compared/ this] [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF editing tools
|-
| SilverFast ||
[[xSane]], [http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html VueScan], Simple Scan, Skanlite, Gscan2pdf, GIMP with Quitelnsane
| [[scanning]]
|-
| FinePrint ||
[http://www.boomaga.org boomaga], [http://wfr.tcl.tk/279 page-crunch], [http://freshmeat.net/projects/mpage/ mpage], [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter], [http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~ajcd/psutils/index.html psnup/PSutils], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam pdfnup/PDFjam]
| Document printing/reformatting tools
|}

== Networking ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Internet Explorer, '''Microsoft Edge''', '''Firefox''', '''Opera''', '''Chrome''', '''Pale Moon''', '''Brave''', '''Vivaldi''', '''Otter Browser''', '''Falkon''', '''Dooble''', '''Slimjet'''
| [[Firefox]], [[Konqueror]], Epiphany (Gnome Web), Falkon, Microsoft Edge, Slimjet, Midori, [http://www.google.com/chrome Chrome], Chromium, [[Opera]], Otter Browser, Brave, Vivaldi, Falkon, Pale Moon, Dillo, Dooble, LibreWolf, Links [[Browsers|''more'']]
| [[Web Browsers]]
|-
| Microsoft Outlook, '''Thunderbird''', Pegasus, Lotus Notes, '''Seamonkey''', '''Claws Mail''', '''Mailspring''' ||
[[Kontact]],
[http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/features/evolution.html Evolution], Seamonkey,
[[Thunderbird]], Claws Mail, Mailspring, Geary [https://itsfoss.com/best-email-clients-linux/ others]
|Email clients.
|-
| '''Trillian''', '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Irssi''', ICQ ||
Trillian, Hexchat, [[PidgIn]], [[Irssi]], [[Kopete]]
| [[Instant messaging]] [[software]].
|-
| Microsoft HyperTerminal ||
[[minicom]]
|-
| FileZilla FTP Client, WS FTP, Bullet Proof FTP, CuteFTP ||
[http://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client FileZilla FTP Client],
[http://www.kftp.org/misc/description KFTP (KFTPGrabber)],
[[Kasablanca]],
[[FireFTP]],
[[Konqueror]],
[[KBear]],
[[gFTP]],
[http://www.crossftp.com/ CrossFTP],
[[Nautilus]]
|FTP clients. Please note GNOME, KDE (and other) programs can directly open and edit files on FTP, SFTP and WebDAV shares, often using [[KIO]], [[GIO]] or [GVfs]].
|-
| mIRC, '''Trillian''', '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Quassel''', '''KVIrc''', '''Irssi''' ||
Trillian, HexChat, [[PidgIn]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quassel_IRC Quassel], [[KVIrc]], Irssi, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konversation Konversation], [[BitchX]]
| [[IRC Clients]]
|-
|[http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/ UltraVNC], TightVNC, RealVNC, Remote Desktop ||
[http://www.tightvnc.com/ TightVNC],
[http://www.realvnc.com/ RealVNC], [http://www.rdesktop.org/ rdesktop],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/freenx/ FreeNX],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/x11vnc/ x11vnc],
[http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ Synergy],
XDMCP, [[SSH]] with X11 forwarding (-X or -Y option)
| [[Desktop Sharing]]
|-
| MailWasher, SpamAssassin for Windows ||
SpamAssassin
| Spam filter
|-
|Forte Free Agent, [[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]] ||
[[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]], [http://www.newsreaders.com/unix/clients.html See More Clients Here]
|News Reader (Usenet [[newsgroup]]s)
|-
| eMule, '''aMule''' || aMule
|ED2K P2P network clients
|-
| [http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php '''Vuze (formerly Azureus)'''], [http://utorrent.com/ utorrent], '''Transmission''', '''Deluge''', '''qBittorrent''', '''Tixati''', '''Frostwire''', '''Tribler''' ||
[http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php Vuze (formerly Azureus)], Transmission, Deluge, qBittorrent, Tixati, Frostwire, Tribler, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qtorrent Qtorrent], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bittornado bittornado], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ktorrent Ktorrent],
|BitTorrent P2P network clients
|-
| '''Skype''', Voipbuster, '''Yate''', '''Linphone''', '''Jitsi''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype Skype], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linphone Linphone], Asterisk, Empathy, Yate, Jitsi
|VoIP software
|-
| Bitvise Tunnelier ||
[http://sourceforge.net/projects/gstm/ gSTM]
|gSTM is a front-end for managing SSH-tunneled port redirects.
|}

== Server ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| IIS, [[Apache]] ||
[[Apache]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nginx Engine-X], [http://www.lighttpd.net/ lighttpd]
|[[Web Servers]]
|-
| Folder sharing, printer sharing ||
[[Samba]]
|Share files and printers between Windows and Linux systems. Installed by default on most distributions.
|-
|IIS, [http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ FileZilla FTP Client & Server]
|[[vsftpd]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure-ftpd pure-ftpd]
|FTP servers, for hosting files.
|-
|[http://www.netlimiter.com/ NetLimiter] ||
[http://monkey.org/~marius/pages/?page=trickle Trickle], [http://l7-filter.sourceforge.net/ Level 7 Filter], [http://www.clarkconnect.com/info/index.php ClarkConnect], [http://www.bandwidtharbitrator.com/ Bandwidth Arbitrator], [http://www.mastershaper.org/index.php/Main_Page MasterShaper]
|Bandwidth shaping and management.
|-
| Exchange ||
[[Citadel]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbra zimbra], [[Open-Xchange]]
|Groupware (sharing of appointments, contacts, e-mail, documents, etc. between members of a group)
|-
| Sharepoint ||
[http://www.knowledgetree.com/opensource KnowledgeTree]
|Manage and secure documents, collaborate around document creation and editing, full document contents indexing
|-
| Norton/McAfee Antivirus, [http://clamwin.com/ ClamWin], AVG, AntiVir, Avast, ClamAV ||
[[ClamAV]], [https://support.avast.com/en-eu/article/131/ Avast Security for Linux]
| Antivirus software.
|-
| ZoneAlarm , Sygate SPF||
[[Guarddog]], [[Firestarter]], [[GUFW]], [[iptables]]
| Firewall software
|}

== Multimedia ==

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
|[http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/ Adobe Photoshop], [http://www.corel.com/ Corel Photo-Paint], '''GIMP''', '''Glimpse''', '''GIMPShop''', '''ImageMagick''', '''Xnview''', '''[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)]''', '''[https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable]''', '''Pinta''', '''MyPaint''', '''Krita''', '''Filmulator''', '''Photivo''', '''RawTherapee''', '''digiKam''', '''nomacs''' ||
[http://www.gimp.org/ GIMP], Glimpse,
[[GIMPShop]], ImageMagick, Pinta, MyPaint,
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krita Krita], Xnview,
[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)], [https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable], Filmulator, Photivo, RawTherapee, digiKam, nomacs
|Raster graphics editors
|-
|[http://www.corel.com/ Corel Draw], [http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator/ Adobe Illustrator], '''Inkscape''', '''Vectr''', '''Gravit''', '''LibreOffice Draw''', '''sK1''', '''SVG-edit''' ||
[http://www.inkscape.org/ Inkscape], Vectr, Gravit, LibreOffice Draw, Karbon, sK1, SVG-edit. [https://itsfoss.com/vector-graphics-editors-linux/ Ref.]
|Vector graphics editors
|-
|Adobe Animate, '''Synfig''', '''Pencil2D''', '''Tupi (Tupitube Desk)''', '''OpenToonz''', '''Blender''', '''Toon Boom Harmony''', '''Krita''', '''Aseprite''', '''TVPaint''', '''Animaker''', '''Ajax Animator''', '''Glaxnimate''', '''Tahoma2D''', '''Enve''' ||
Synfig, Pencil2D, Tupi (Tupitube Desk), OpenToonz, Blender, Toon Boom Harmony, Krita, Aseprite, TVPaint, Animaker, Ajax Animator, Glaxnimate, Tahoma2D , Enve
| 2D Animations
|-
| Irfanview, ACDSee, '''digiKam''', '''Xnview''', '''nomacs''' ||
[[XnView]], [http://mirageiv.berlios.de/ Mirage], [[GThumb]], Shotwell, KPhotoAlbum, Geeqie, digiKam, Gwenview, Ristretto, Viewnior, Nomacs
|Image viewers
|-
| 3D Studio MAX, '''Blender''', [http://www.autodesk.com '''Maya'''], '''Cinema 4D''' ||
[[Blender]], [http://www.autodesk.com Maya], Cinema 4D
|3D modeling software
|-
| Autodesk Inventor, Solidworks, CATIA || [http://www.freecadweb.org FreeCAD], [http://www.salome-platform.org/ SALOME platform]
| Professional 3D CAD software
|-
| Windows Media Player, PowerDVD, SMPlayer, MPV, [[VLC]] ||
SMPlayer, MPV, [[VLC]], [[Xine]], [[Totem]], [[Kaffeine]], Parole, Celluloid, [[MPlayer]]
| [[Video Players]]
|-
| SIA Smaart Live || [http://sf.net/projects/brp-pacu/ BRP-PACU] || [[Sound]] analysis
|-
| Winamp, Sonique, iTunes, [http://www.atunes.org/ aTunes], '''Clementine''', '''VLC''', '''SMplayer''', '''Deadbeef''', '''Audacious''', '''Strawberry''', '''Exaile''' ||
[[Amarok]], [[RhythmBox]], [http://banshee-project.org/index.php/Main_Page Banshee], [[Xine]], Elisa, Clementine, VLC, SMplayer, Deadbeef, Audacious, Strawberry, Exaile, pMusic. See also Video Players section
|[[Music Players]]
|-
| [http://www.otsav.com/ OTSAV, OTS Turntables], [http://serato.com/ Serato], [http://www.native-instruments.com/en/traktor/ Traktor], [http://www.virtualdj.com/ Virtual DJ], [http://www.pcdj.com/ PC DJ], [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
| [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
|Audio & video play out (DJ/presenter)
|-
| Windows Movie Maker, Adobe Premiere Elements, [http://www.goldwave.com/mqrelease.php Multiquence], '''Avidemux''', '''OpenShot''', '''VidCutter''', [https://shotcut.org/ '''Shotcut'''], '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron]''', [https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php '''Olive'''], '''Lightworks''' ||
[[Cinelerra]] (difficult but very professional),
[[KDenlive]] (easy and powerful),
[[LiVES]],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avidemux AviDemux],
OpenShot,
VidCutter,
Flowblade,
Pitivi,
DaVinci Resolve,
[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron],
[https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php Olive],
Lightworks (thanks to Linux Format magazine),
[https://shotcut.org/ Shotcut](thanks to Linux Format magazine)
|[[Video Editors]]
|-
| '''Audacity''', Cubase, '''Ardour''', Adobe Audition (formerly Cool Edit Pro), [http://www.goldwave.com/ GoldWave], Cakewalk/Sonar, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''LMMS''', '''Traverso-DAW''', '''Harrison Mixbus''', '''Bitwig Studio''', '''[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]''' ||
[[Audacity]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden],
[[Beast]],
[[Ardour]],
Harrison Mixbus,
[http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/index.php Radium],
DaVinci Resolve,
Bitwig Studio,
Qtractor,
[https://traverso-daw.org/ Traverso-DAW],
LMMS,
[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]
|Digital audio workstation software
|-
| Audio Catalyst, '''Ocenaudio''', dbpoweramp, CDex, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''Audacity''' ||
[[Audacity]],
Ocenaudio,
DaVinci Resolve,
[[Grip]]
| [[Audio Editors]]
|-
| '''Wavesurfer''', '''Audacity''', '''Sox'''||[https://itsfoss.com/record-streaming-audio/ Audio Recorder], Ecasound, Audacity, Sox, Wavesurfer
|Audio recorders
|-
| Cakewalk/Sonar ||
[[kmid]],
[[kmidi]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden]
| [[MIDI]]
|-
|[http://www.noteworthysoftware.com/ NoteWorthy Composer], '''MuseScore''', '''LilyPond'''||
[http://www.musescore.org/ MuseScore], [http://lilypond.org/web/ LilyPond]
|Musical score typesetting
|-
|[http://www.guitar-pro.com/ GuitarPro], TuxGuitar ||
[http://www.tuxguitar.com.ar/ TuxGuitar]
|Guitar tablature editors
|-
| Microsoft Paint, Kid Pix, '''Tux Paint''', '''Pencil 2D''', '''Krita''', '''Pinta''', '''Mypaint''', '''Mtpaint''' ||
[http://www.tuxpaint.org/ Tuxpaint], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KolourPaint KolourPaint], Pencil 2D, Krita, [https://launchpad.net/dibuja Dibuja], Pinta, Mypaint, Mtpaint
|Basic raster painting programs
|-
| Videora, [https://handbrake.fr/ '''Handbrake'''], '''WinFF''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || [https://handbrake.fr/ Handbrake], WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, Transmageddon, VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Video converter
|-
| '''WinFF''', '''Handbrake''', '''fre:ac - free audio converter (freac)''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || Handbrake, WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, fre:ac - free audio converter (freac), VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Audio converter
|-
|TMPGEnc DVD Author, Roxio DVDit, '''Open DVD Producer''', '''DVDStyler''' ||
DVDStyler, [http://opendvdproducer.jonata.org/ Open DVD Producer], [http://www.rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html DeVeDe]
|DVD authoring software
|-
|'''uTox''', '''qTox''', '''Jitsi''', '''OpenMeetings''', '''Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone)''', '''Microsoft Teams''', '''Zoom''' || uTox, qTox, OpenMettings, Jitsi, Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone), Empathy, Microsoft Teams, Zoom
| Video Conferencing
|}

== Education ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| '''Klavaro''', '''Tipp10''' || Klavaro, Tipp10, [[KTouch]], Tux Typing, GNU Typist || Touch typing tutors
|-
| '''Maple''', '''Mathematica''' || Maple, Mathematica, [http://maxima.sourceforge.net/ Maxima]
| Computer algebra systems
|-
| '''Matlab''', '''Octave''', '''Scilab''' ||
Matlab, [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ Octave],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SciLab SciLab], Sage, KAlgebra
| High level numeric computation environments
|-
| '''SPSS''', '''Stata''', EViews, '''PSPP''', '''[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project]''', '''[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]''' ||
[http://www.stata.com/products/unix.html Stata], SPSS,
[http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/pspp.html PSPP],
[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Plus S-Plus],
[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]
| Statistical analysis
|-
| Verilog ||
[http://www.icarus.com/eda/verilog/ iverilog]
| Verilog Simulator
|-
| '''Google Earth''', NASA World Wind, '''Celestia''', '''Stellarium''', '''Skychart''', '''Aladin Sky Atlas''', Microsoft Flight Simulator, '''FlightGear''' ||
[http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html Google Earth], [https://celestia.space/index.html Celestia], [http://www.stellarium.org/ Stellarium], [https://marble.kde.org/ Marble], [http://www.geody.com/ Geody], Kstars, Skychart, Aladin Sky Atlas, [http://www.flightgear.org/ FlightGear]
| Geography, astronomy and simulation
|}

''Please add new applications to this list. A good resource is the [http://www.nawaz.org/wiki/index.php?title=Table_of_Equivalents BeetleSpace Windows/Linux Software Table of Equivalents], which is GNU FDL licensed.''

== See also ==

* [[running windows software]]
* [http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux.]
* [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareEquivalents Ubuntu software equivalents's page]
* [http://www.linuxeq.com/ The Linux Equivalent Project]
* [https://www.turkishcypriotheritage.org/ turkishcypriotheritage.org]

[[Category:FAQ]]

Linux software equivalent to Windows software

2024-10-04T23:54:02Z

Kareempharmacist: /* Desktop Publishing */

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.

== Office and Productivity ==

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Office, '''OpenOffice''', '''Libre Office''', '''WPS Office''', '''Softmaker Office''', '''Onlyoffice Desktop'''
| [[Libre Office]], [https://www.wps.com/linux WPS Office](WPS-Community), [[OpenOffice]], [https://www.calligra.org/ Calligra], Softmaker FreeOffice, OnlyOffice Desktop
| Office package
|-
| Microsoft Word, OOwriter, LibreOffice Writer, WPS Writer, Softmaker TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[OOWriter]], [http://www.abiword.org AbiWord], WPS Writer, LibreOffice Writer, Calligra Words, FreeOffice TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop, Lyx, [[LaTeX]]
| [[Word Processing]]
|-
| Notepad, Wordpad, TheGun, EditPlus, SciTE, Notepad++ ||
[[Vim]], [[KWrite]],
[[Kate]], [http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/ BlueFish], [[Gedit]], [[Joe]], Sublime Text, [[Leafpad]], [[Nano]]
| [[Text Editors]]
|-
| Access, dBase, Foxpro, Paradox, '''OOBase''', '''LibreOffice Base'''
| [http://userbase.kde.org/Kexi Kexi], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Base OOBase], LibreOffice Base
| [[Database]]
|-
| Excel, Corel WordPrefect, '''LibreOffice Calc''', '''Softmaker Office PlanMaker''', '''WPS Spreedsheets''', '''OOCalc''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Calc, Calligra Sheets, Softmaker Office PlanMaker, WPS Spreedsheets, [[OOCalc]], [http://www.gnumeric.org gnumeric], OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Spreadsheet]]
|-
| Visio, [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html '''yED'''], '''LibreOffice Draw'''
| [https://www.calligra.org/flow/ Calligra Flow], [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html yED], LibreOffice Draw
| Diagramming
|-
| PowerPoint, '''LibreOffice Impress''', '''OOImpress''', '''WPS Presentation''', '''Softmaker Office Presentations''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Impress, [[OOImpress]], Calligra Stage, WPS Presentation, Softmaker Office Presentations, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Presentation software]]
|-
| Final Draft, Script Studio, '''Fade In''', '''KIT Scenarist''', '''Story Architect''', '''Trelby''', '''Scrite'''
| Fade In, KIT Scenarist, Story Architect, Trelby, Scrite
| Screenwriting software
|-
| Microsoft Project Manager
| [[MOOS Project Viewer]], Calligra Plan
| Project management
|-
| '''Wondershare EdrawMax''', XMind
| Wondershare EdrawMax, Minder, XMind
| Mind maps
|-
| Outlook, '''Thunderbird + Lightning'''
| [[Kontact]], [https://pawsa.fedorapeople.org/balsa/ BALSA], [[Thunderbird]] + [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/ Lightning]
| Personal information managers
|-
| Alcohol 120%, Discjuggler, Easy CD Creator, Nero Burning ROM ||
[[K3b]], [[XCDRoast]], Brasero, Xfburn, [[CD/DVD_Burning|''more'']]
|DVD/CD burning
|-
|Alcohol 120%, Nero Burning ROM, '''MakeMKV''', ImgBurn, Infrarecorder || MakeMKV, Thoggen, Dvdbackup, HandBrake, DVD::RIP, AcidRIP
| DVD ripping software
|-
| Quicken, Microsoft Money, TurboTax
| [http://gnucash.org/ GnucAsh], [http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/index-home.html KMyMoney], [[CrossOver]] Office with Quicken, [http://www.lazy8.nu/ lazy8ledger]
| Accounting
|-
| ActiveSync ||
[[SynCE]]
|Synchronization with Windows Mobile devices
|-
| WinEdt, TeXnicCenter
| [[Kile]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texmaker Texmaker], [[LyX]]
| LaTeX IDEs
|-
| Veritas Backup Exec, [http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm Cobian Backup], '''Duplicati''' ||
LuckyBackup, Déjà Dup, Grsync, Duplicati [[list of backUp applications|''more'']]
| [[Backup]]
|-
| Google Desktop ||
[[Recoll]]
| Desktop Search
|-
|}

== File and partition management ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Norton Ghost ||
[[Partition Image]], [[g4u]], [http://www.mondorescue.org/ Mondo Rescue], [[dd]], gDiskDump (a dd frontend), Clonezilla, Trinity Rescue Kit
|Disk imaging
|-
| Norton Partition Magic ||
[[GParted]], Clonezilla (a live cd), KDE Partition Manager, GNOME Disks
|Disk partitioning
|-
|[http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/Disk_Size_Explorer.asp Disk Size Explorer]
|[https://utils.kde.org/projects/filelight/ File Light], [[Konqueror]], Baobab, xdiskusage, duc [https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-analyze-your-disk-usage-pattern-in-linux/ ref.]
| Disk usage analyzers
|-
|[http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html Filemon], [http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Regmon.html Regmon]
| [http://syscalltrack.sourceforge.net/ syscalltrack]
| system call tracking (file monitor & others)
|-
| WinMerge, SyncToy ||
[http://meld.sourceforge.net/ Meld], [[Unison]], [http://synkron.sourceforge.net/ Synkron], [[rSync]]
| File synchronization
|-
| Google Drive, Dropbox, etc ||
[https://rclone.org Rclone]
| Cloud hosted file synchronization (Amazon S3, Dropbox, Google Cloud Storage, Google Drive, FTP, Microsoft OneDrive, sFTP, etc)
|-
| Windows Update, Add/Remove programs||
[[apt-get]], [http://aptitude.sourceforge.net/ Aptitude], [http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Portage portage], [[Rpm|rpm]], [[urpmi]], [[yast]], [[yum]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptic_Package_Manager Synaptic], [https://snapcraft.io Snapcraft (Snap)]
|Every Linux distribution has an infrastructure to manage installed software which is quite different from Windows. For instance, all updates are handled by a single program. See [[package management]].
|-
| WinRunner || [http://hoopajoo.net/projects/xautomation.html xautomation] || automating interactive applications
|-
| 7-Zip, Winzip, Winrar, Peazip ||
[[Karchiver]],
[[File Roller]],
Xarchiver,
[[ark]],
[[hjsplit]]; [[packing and unpacking files|''command line tools'']]
|Archivers
|-
| chkdsk || [[fsck]], [https://www.tecmint.com/linux-disk-scanning-tools/ other tools] || check your file system (and the [[hard disk]] beneath it) for errors
|-
| Daemon Tools ||
[[mount]], Disk Image Mounter in Gnome/KDE, Furius ISO mount, AcetoneISO
|ISO mounting
|-
| Disclib || [http://www.gwhere.org/home.php3 gWhere]
| Disk cataloging programs
|-
| Evernote, OneNote || NixNote, Tusk, Whatever, GeekNote, ForeverNote, [https://joplinapp.org/ Joplin], Xournal, XFCE4 Notes, Xpad, Hnb, Gnote, Feathernotes, Cherrytree, Bijiben, Basket, Noblenote, Nvpy. Thanks to [https://itsfoss.com/evernote-on-linux/]
|Note Taking App
|}

== Desktop Publishing ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Dreamweaver, '''Google Web Designer''', '''Bluefish Editor''', '''Aptana Studio''', '''SeaMonkey''', '''CodeLobster''' ||
[http://www.google.com/webdesigner/ Google Web Designer] (WYSIWYG), Bluefish Editor, Aptana Studio, SeaMonkey, CodeLobster
[[html editors|more]]
|[[Web Design]]
|-
| Quark, Quark Express, Microsoft Publisher, '''Scribus''', '''Karbon''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribus Scribus], Karbon, Laidout, VivaDesigner, QuickSilver, Xara Xtreme
|DTP software
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader, Xpdf Reader, Foxit reader, Sumatra pdf ||

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evince Evince],
Zathura,
Okular,
Bookworm,
Qpdfview,
Foxit reader,
PDF Studio Viewer,
[[Xpdf]],
MuPDF,
Atril,
[[Ghostview]], [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF readers
|-
| Adobe Acrobat Distiller, PDFCreator ||
[http://www.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~vrbehr/cups-pdf/ CUPS-PDF], Libre Office, [[OpenOffice.org]], PDF Studio, [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter] -- can convert to pdf. [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF authoring
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF editor, [http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio '''PDF Studio Pro'''], '''Master PDF Editor''', '''Libreoffice Draw''', '''Scribus''', '''Inkscape''', '''Flexipdf''' ||
[http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio PDF Studio Pro], Master PDF Editor, OnlyOffice Desktop Editors, [http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfedit Pdfedit], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam Pdfjam], [http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk Pdftk], Scribus, Inkscape, Karbon, Flexipdf, Okular, Libreoffice Draw. Thanks to [https://www.ubuntupit.com/linux-pdf-editor-top-15-reviewed-and-compared/ this] [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF editing tools
|-
| SilverFast ||
[[xSane]], [http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html VueScan], Simple Scan, Skanlite, Gscan2pdf, GIMP with Quitelnsane
| [[scanning]]
|-
| FinePrint ||
[http://www.boomaga.org boomaga], [http://wfr.tcl.tk/279 page-crunch], [http://freshmeat.net/projects/mpage/ mpage], [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter], [http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~ajcd/psutils/index.html psnup/PSutils], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam pdfnup/PDFjam]
| Document printing/reformatting tools
|}

== Networking ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Internet Explorer, '''Microsoft Edge''', '''Firefox''', '''Opera''', '''Chrome''', '''Pale Moon''', '''Brave''', '''Vivaldi''', '''Otter Browser''', '''Falkon''', '''Dooble''', '''Slimjet'''
| [[Firefox]], [[Konqueror]], Epiphany (Gnome Web), Falkon, Microsoft Edge, Slimjet, Midori, [http://www.google.com/chrome Chrome], Chromium, [[Opera]], Otter Browser, Brave, Vivaldi, Falkon, Pale Moon, Dillo, Dooble, LibreWolf, Links [[Browsers|''more'']]
| [[Web Browsers]]
|-
| Microsoft Outlook, '''Thunderbird''', Pegasus, Lotus Notes, '''Seamonkey''', '''Claws Mail''', '''Mailspring''' ||
[[Kontact]],
[http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/features/evolution.html Evolution], Seamonkey,
[[Thunderbird]], Claws Mail, Mailspring, Geary [https://itsfoss.com/best-email-clients-linux/ others]
|Email clients.
|-
| '''Trillian''', '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Irssi''', ICQ ||
Trillian, Hexchat, [[PidgIn]], [[Irssi]], [[Kopete]]
| [[Instant messaging]] [[software]].
|-
| Microsoft HyperTerminal ||
[[minicom]]
|-
| FileZilla FTP Client, WS FTP, Bullet Proof FTP, CuteFTP ||
[http://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client FileZilla FTP Client],
[http://www.kftp.org/misc/description KFTP (KFTPGrabber)],
[[Kasablanca]],
[[FireFTP]],
[[Konqueror]],
[[KBear]],
[[gFTP]],
[http://www.crossftp.com/ CrossFTP],
[[Nautilus]]
|FTP clients. Please note GNOME, KDE (and other) programs can directly open and edit files on FTP, SFTP and WebDAV shares, often using [[KIO]], [[GIO]] or [GVfs]].
|-
| mIRC, '''Trillian''', '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Quassel''', '''KVIrc''', '''Irssi''' ||
Trillian, HexChat, [[PidgIn]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quassel_IRC Quassel], [[KVIrc]], Irssi, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konversation Konversation], [[BitchX]]
| [[IRC Clients]]
|-
|[http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/ UltraVNC], TightVNC, RealVNC, Remote Desktop ||
[http://www.tightvnc.com/ TightVNC],
[http://www.realvnc.com/ RealVNC], [http://www.rdesktop.org/ rdesktop],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/freenx/ FreeNX],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/x11vnc/ x11vnc],
[http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ Synergy],
XDMCP, [[SSH]] with X11 forwarding (-X or -Y option)
| [[Desktop Sharing]]
|-
| MailWasher, SpamAssassin for Windows ||
SpamAssassin
| Spam filter
|-
|Forte Free Agent, [[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]] ||
[[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]], [http://www.newsreaders.com/unix/clients.html See More Clients Here]
|News Reader (Usenet [[newsgroup]]s)
|-
| eMule, '''aMule''' || aMule
|ED2K P2P network clients
|-
| [http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php '''Vuze (formerly Azureus)'''], [http://utorrent.com/ utorrent], '''Transmission''', '''Deluge''', '''qBittorrent''', '''Tixati''', '''Frostwire''', '''Tribler''' ||
[http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php Vuze (formerly Azureus)], Transmission, Deluge, qBittorrent, Tixati, Frostwire, Tribler, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qtorrent Qtorrent], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bittornado bittornado], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ktorrent Ktorrent],
|BitTorrent P2P network clients
|-
| '''Skype''', Voipbuster, '''Yate''', '''Linphone''', '''Jitsi''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype Skype], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linphone Linphone], Asterisk, Empathy, Yate, Jitsi
|VoIP software
|-
| Bitvise Tunnelier ||
[http://sourceforge.net/projects/gstm/ gSTM]
|gSTM is a front-end for managing SSH-tunneled port redirects.
|}

== Server ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| IIS, [[Apache]] ||
[[Apache]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nginx Engine-X], [http://www.lighttpd.net/ lighttpd]
|[[Web Servers]]
|-
| Folder sharing, printer sharing ||
[[Samba]]
|Share files and printers between Windows and Linux systems. Installed by default on most distributions.
|-
|IIS, [http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ FileZilla FTP Client & Server]
|[[vsftpd]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure-ftpd pure-ftpd]
|FTP servers, for hosting files.
|-
|[http://www.netlimiter.com/ NetLimiter] ||
[http://monkey.org/~marius/pages/?page=trickle Trickle], [http://l7-filter.sourceforge.net/ Level 7 Filter], [http://www.clarkconnect.com/info/index.php ClarkConnect], [http://www.bandwidtharbitrator.com/ Bandwidth Arbitrator], [http://www.mastershaper.org/index.php/Main_Page MasterShaper]
|Bandwidth shaping and management.
|-
| Exchange ||
[[Citadel]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbra zimbra], [[Open-Xchange]]
|Groupware (sharing of appointments, contacts, e-mail, documents, etc. between members of a group)
|-
| Sharepoint ||
[http://www.knowledgetree.com/opensource KnowledgeTree]
|Manage and secure documents, collaborate around document creation and editing, full document contents indexing
|-
| Norton/McAfee Antivirus, [http://clamwin.com/ ClamWin], AVG, AntiVir, Avast, ClamAV ||
[[ClamAV]], [https://support.avast.com/en-eu/article/131/ Avast Security for Linux]
| Antivirus software.
|-
| ZoneAlarm , Sygate SPF||
[[Guarddog]], [[Firestarter]], [[GUFW]], [[iptables]]
| Firewall software
|}

== Multimedia ==

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
|[http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/ Adobe Photoshop], [http://www.corel.com/ Corel Photo-Paint], '''GIMP''', '''Glimpse''', '''GIMPShop''', '''ImageMagick''', '''Xnview''', '''[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)]''', '''[https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable]''', '''Pinta''', '''MyPaint''', '''Krita''', '''Filmulator''', '''Photivo''', '''RawTherapee''', '''digiKam''', '''nomacs''' ||
[http://www.gimp.org/ GIMP], Glimpse,
[[GIMPShop]], ImageMagick, Pinta, MyPaint,
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krita Krita], Xnview,
[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)], [https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable], Filmulator, Photivo, RawTherapee, digiKam, nomacs
|Raster graphics editors
|-
|[http://www.corel.com/ Corel Draw], [http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator/ Adobe Illustrator], '''Inkscape''', '''Vectr''', '''Gravit''', '''LibreOffice Draw''', '''sK1''', '''SVG-edit''' ||
[http://www.inkscape.org/ Inkscape], Vectr, Gravit, LibreOffice Draw, Karbon, sK1, SVG-edit. [https://itsfoss.com/vector-graphics-editors-linux/ Ref.]
|Vector graphics editors
|-
|Adobe Animate, '''Synfig''', '''Pencil2D''', '''Tupi (Tupitube Desk)''', '''OpenToonz''', '''Blender''', '''Toon Boom Harmony''', '''Krita''', '''Aseprite''', '''TVPaint''', '''Animaker''', '''Ajax Animator''', '''Glaxnimate''', '''Tahoma2D''', '''Enve''' ||
Synfig, Pencil2D, Tupi (Tupitube Desk), OpenToonz, Blender, Toon Boom Harmony, Krita, Aseprite, TVPaint, Animaker, Ajax Animator, Glaxnimate, Tahoma2D , Enve
| 2D Animations
|-
| Irfanview, ACDSee, '''digiKam''', '''Xnview''', '''nomacs''' ||
[[XnView]], [http://mirageiv.berlios.de/ Mirage], [[GThumb]], Shotwell, KPhotoAlbum, Geeqie, digiKam, Gwenview, Ristretto, Viewnior, Nomacs
|Image viewers
|-
| 3D Studio MAX, '''Blender''', [http://www.autodesk.com '''Maya'''], '''Cinema 4D''' ||
[[Blender]], [http://www.autodesk.com Maya], Cinema 4D
|3D modeling software
|-
| Autodesk Inventor, Solidworks, CATIA || [http://www.freecadweb.org FreeCAD], [http://www.salome-platform.org/ SALOME platform]
| Professional 3D CAD software
|-
| Windows Media Player, PowerDVD, SMPlayer, MPV, [[VLC]] ||
SMPlayer, MPV, [[VLC]], [[Xine]], [[Totem]], [[Kaffeine]], Parole, Celluloid, [[MPlayer]]
| [[Video Players]]
|-
| SIA Smaart Live || [http://sf.net/projects/brp-pacu/ BRP-PACU] || [[Sound]] analysis
|-
| Winamp, Sonique, iTunes, [http://www.atunes.org/ aTunes], '''Clementine''', '''VLC''', '''SMplayer''', '''Deadbeef''', '''Audacious''', '''Strawberry''', '''Exaile''' ||
[[Amarok]], [[RhythmBox]], [http://banshee-project.org/index.php/Main_Page Banshee], [[Xine]], Elisa, Clementine, VLC, SMplayer, Deadbeef, Audacious, Strawberry, Exaile, pMusic. See also Video Players section
|[[Music Players]]
|-
| [http://www.otsav.com/ OTSAV, OTS Turntables], [http://serato.com/ Serato], [http://www.native-instruments.com/en/traktor/ Traktor], [http://www.virtualdj.com/ Virtual DJ], [http://www.pcdj.com/ PC DJ], [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
| [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
|Audio & video play out (DJ/presenter)
|-
| Windows Movie Maker, Adobe Premiere Elements, [http://www.goldwave.com/mqrelease.php Multiquence], '''Avidemux''', '''OpenShot''', '''VidCutter''', [https://shotcut.org/ '''Shotcut'''], '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron]''', [https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php '''Olive'''], '''Lightworks''' ||
[[Cinelerra]] (difficult but very professional),
[[KDenlive]] (easy and powerful),
[[LiVES]],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avidemux AviDemux],
OpenShot,
VidCutter,
Flowblade,
Pitivi,
DaVinci Resolve,
[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron],
[https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php Olive],
Lightworks (thanks to Linux Format magazine),
[https://shotcut.org/ Shotcut](thanks to Linux Format magazine)
|[[Video Editors]]
|-
| '''Audacity''', Cubase, '''Ardour''', Adobe Audition (formerly Cool Edit Pro), [http://www.goldwave.com/ GoldWave], Cakewalk/Sonar, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''LMMS''', '''Traverso-DAW''', '''Harrison Mixbus''', '''Bitwig Studio''', '''[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]''' ||
[[Audacity]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden],
[[Beast]],
[[Ardour]],
Harrison Mixbus,
[http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/index.php Radium],
DaVinci Resolve,
Bitwig Studio,
Qtractor,
[https://traverso-daw.org/ Traverso-DAW],
LMMS,
[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]
|Digital audio workstation software
|-
| Audio Catalyst, '''Ocenaudio''', dbpoweramp, CDex, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''Audacity''' ||
[[Audacity]],
Ocenaudio,
DaVinci Resolve,
[[Grip]]
| [[Audio Editors]]
|-
| '''Wavesurfer''', '''Audacity''', '''Sox'''||[https://itsfoss.com/record-streaming-audio/ Audio Recorder], Ecasound, Audacity, Sox, Wavesurfer
|Audio recorders
|-
| Cakewalk/Sonar ||
[[kmid]],
[[kmidi]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden]
| [[MIDI]]
|-
|[http://www.noteworthysoftware.com/ NoteWorthy Composer], '''MuseScore''', '''LilyPond'''||
[http://www.musescore.org/ MuseScore], [http://lilypond.org/web/ LilyPond]
|Musical score typesetting
|-
|[http://www.guitar-pro.com/ GuitarPro], TuxGuitar ||
[http://www.tuxguitar.com.ar/ TuxGuitar]
|Guitar tablature editors
|-
| Microsoft Paint, Kid Pix, '''Tux Paint''', '''Pencil 2D''', '''Krita''', '''Pinta''', '''Mypaint''', '''Mtpaint''' ||
[http://www.tuxpaint.org/ Tuxpaint], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KolourPaint KolourPaint], Pencil 2D, Krita, [https://launchpad.net/dibuja Dibuja], Pinta, Mypaint, Mtpaint
|Basic raster painting programs
|-
| Videora, [https://handbrake.fr/ '''Handbrake'''], '''WinFF''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || [https://handbrake.fr/ Handbrake], WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, Transmageddon, VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Video converter
|-
| '''WinFF''', '''Handbrake''', '''fre:ac - free audio converter (freac)''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || Handbrake, WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, fre:ac - free audio converter (freac), VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Audio converter
|-
|TMPGEnc DVD Author, Roxio DVDit, '''Open DVD Producer''', '''DVDStyler''' ||
DVDStyler, [http://opendvdproducer.jonata.org/ Open DVD Producer], [http://www.rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html DeVeDe]
|DVD authoring software
|-
|'''uTox''', '''qTox''', '''Jitsi''', '''OpenMeetings''', '''Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone)''', '''Microsoft Teams''', '''Zoom''' || uTox, qTox, OpenMettings, Jitsi, Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone), Empathy, Microsoft Teams, Zoom
| Video Conferencing
|}

== Education ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| '''Klavaro''', '''Tipp10''' || Klavaro, Tipp10, [[KTouch]], Tux Typing, GNU Typist || Touch typing tutors
|-
| '''Maple''', '''Mathematica''' || Maple, Mathematica, [http://maxima.sourceforge.net/ Maxima]
| Computer algebra systems
|-
| '''Matlab''', '''Octave''', '''Scilab''' ||
Matlab, [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ Octave],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SciLab SciLab], Sage, KAlgebra
| High level numeric computation environments
|-
| '''SPSS''', '''Stata''', EViews, '''PSPP''', '''[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project]''', '''[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]''' ||
[http://www.stata.com/products/unix.html Stata], SPSS,
[http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/pspp.html PSPP],
[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Plus S-Plus],
[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]
| Statistical analysis
|-
| Verilog ||
[http://www.icarus.com/eda/verilog/ iverilog]
| Verilog Simulator
|-
| '''Google Earth''', NASA World Wind, '''Celestia''', '''Stellarium''', '''Skychart''', '''Aladin Sky Atlas''', Microsoft Flight Simulator, '''FlightGear''' ||
[http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html Google Earth], [https://celestia.space/index.html Celestia], [http://www.stellarium.org/ Stellarium], [https://marble.kde.org/ Marble], [http://www.geody.com/ Geody], Kstars, Skychart, Aladin Sky Atlas, [http://www.flightgear.org/ FlightGear]
| Geography, astronomy and simulation
|}

''Please add new applications to this list. A good resource is the [http://www.nawaz.org/wiki/index.php?title=Table_of_Equivalents BeetleSpace Windows/Linux Software Table of Equivalents], which is GNU FDL licensed.''

== See also ==

* [[running windows software]]
* [http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux.]
* [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareEquivalents Ubuntu software equivalents's page]
* [http://www.linuxeq.com/ The Linux Equivalent Project]
* [https://www.turkishcypriotheritage.org/ turkishcypriotheritage.org]

[[Category:FAQ]]

Linux software equivalent to Windows software

2024-09-29T23:14:27Z

Kareempharmacist: /* Multimedia */

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.

== Office and Productivity ==

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Office, '''OpenOffice''', '''Libre Office''', '''WPS Office''', '''Softmaker Office''', '''Onlyoffice Desktop'''
| [[Libre Office]], [https://www.wps.com/linux WPS Office](WPS-Community), [[OpenOffice]], [https://www.calligra.org/ Calligra], Softmaker FreeOffice, OnlyOffice Desktop
| Office package
|-
| Microsoft Word, OOwriter, LibreOffice Writer, WPS Writer, Softmaker TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[OOWriter]], [http://www.abiword.org AbiWord], WPS Writer, LibreOffice Writer, Calligra Words, FreeOffice TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop, Lyx, [[LaTeX]]
| [[Word Processing]]
|-
| Notepad, Wordpad, TheGun, EditPlus, SciTE, Notepad++ ||
[[Vim]], [[KWrite]],
[[Kate]], [http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/ BlueFish], [[Gedit]], [[Joe]], Sublime Text, [[Leafpad]], [[Nano]]
| [[Text Editors]]
|-
| Access, dBase, Foxpro, Paradox, '''OOBase''', '''LibreOffice Base'''
| [http://userbase.kde.org/Kexi Kexi], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Base OOBase], LibreOffice Base
| [[Database]]
|-
| Excel, Corel WordPrefect, '''LibreOffice Calc''', '''Softmaker Office PlanMaker''', '''WPS Spreedsheets''', '''OOCalc''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Calc, Calligra Sheets, Softmaker Office PlanMaker, WPS Spreedsheets, [[OOCalc]], [http://www.gnumeric.org gnumeric], OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Spreadsheet]]
|-
| Visio, [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html '''yED'''], '''LibreOffice Draw'''
| [https://www.calligra.org/flow/ Calligra Flow], [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html yED], LibreOffice Draw
| Diagramming
|-
| PowerPoint, '''LibreOffice Impress''', '''OOImpress''', '''WPS Presentation''', '''Softmaker Office Presentations''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Impress, [[OOImpress]], Calligra Stage, WPS Presentation, Softmaker Office Presentations, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Presentation software]]
|-
| Final Draft, Script Studio, '''Fade In''', '''KIT Scenarist''', '''Story Architect''', '''Trelby''', '''Scrite'''
| Fade In, KIT Scenarist, Story Architect, Trelby, Scrite
| Screenwriting software
|-
| Microsoft Project Manager
| [[MOOS Project Viewer]], Calligra Plan
| Project management
|-
| '''Wondershare EdrawMax''', XMind
| Wondershare EdrawMax, Minder, XMind
| Mind maps
|-
| Outlook, '''Thunderbird + Lightning'''
| [[Kontact]], [https://pawsa.fedorapeople.org/balsa/ BALSA], [[Thunderbird]] + [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/ Lightning]
| Personal information managers
|-
| Alcohol 120%, Discjuggler, Easy CD Creator, Nero Burning ROM ||
[[K3b]], [[XCDRoast]], Brasero, Xfburn, [[CD/DVD_Burning|''more'']]
|DVD/CD burning
|-
|Alcohol 120%, Nero Burning ROM, '''MakeMKV''', ImgBurn, Infrarecorder || MakeMKV, Thoggen, Dvdbackup, HandBrake, DVD::RIP, AcidRIP
| DVD ripping software
|-
| Quicken, Microsoft Money, TurboTax
| [http://gnucash.org/ GnucAsh], [http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/index-home.html KMyMoney], [[CrossOver]] Office with Quicken, [http://www.lazy8.nu/ lazy8ledger]
| Accounting
|-
| ActiveSync ||
[[SynCE]]
|Synchronization with Windows Mobile devices
|-
| WinEdt, TeXnicCenter
| [[Kile]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texmaker Texmaker], [[LyX]]
| LaTeX IDEs
|-
| Veritas Backup Exec, [http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm Cobian Backup], '''Duplicati''' ||
LuckyBackup, Déjà Dup, Grsync, Duplicati [[list of backUp applications|''more'']]
| [[Backup]]
|-
| Google Desktop ||
[[Recoll]]
| Desktop Search
|-
|}

== File and partition management ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Norton Ghost ||
[[Partition Image]], [[g4u]], [http://www.mondorescue.org/ Mondo Rescue], [[dd]], gDiskDump (a dd frontend), Clonezilla, Trinity Rescue Kit
|Disk imaging
|-
| Norton Partition Magic ||
[[GParted]], Clonezilla (a live cd), KDE Partition Manager, GNOME Disks
|Disk partitioning
|-
|[http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/Disk_Size_Explorer.asp Disk Size Explorer]
|[https://utils.kde.org/projects/filelight/ File Light], [[Konqueror]], Baobab, xdiskusage, duc [https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-analyze-your-disk-usage-pattern-in-linux/ ref.]
| Disk usage analyzers
|-
|[http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html Filemon], [http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Regmon.html Regmon]
| [http://syscalltrack.sourceforge.net/ syscalltrack]
| system call tracking (file monitor & others)
|-
| WinMerge, SyncToy ||
[http://meld.sourceforge.net/ Meld], [[Unison]], [http://synkron.sourceforge.net/ Synkron], [[rSync]]
| File synchronization
|-
| Google Drive, Dropbox, etc ||
[https://rclone.org Rclone]
| Cloud hosted file synchronization (Amazon S3, Dropbox, Google Cloud Storage, Google Drive, FTP, Microsoft OneDrive, sFTP, etc)
|-
| Windows Update, Add/Remove programs||
[[apt-get]], [http://aptitude.sourceforge.net/ Aptitude], [http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Portage portage], [[Rpm|rpm]], [[urpmi]], [[yast]], [[yum]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptic_Package_Manager Synaptic], [https://snapcraft.io Snapcraft (Snap)]
|Every Linux distribution has an infrastructure to manage installed software which is quite different from Windows. For instance, all updates are handled by a single program. See [[package management]].
|-
| WinRunner || [http://hoopajoo.net/projects/xautomation.html xautomation] || automating interactive applications
|-
| 7-Zip, Winzip, Winrar, Peazip ||
[[Karchiver]],
[[File Roller]],
Xarchiver,
[[ark]],
[[hjsplit]]; [[packing and unpacking files|''command line tools'']]
|Archivers
|-
| chkdsk || [[fsck]], [https://www.tecmint.com/linux-disk-scanning-tools/ other tools] || check your file system (and the [[hard disk]] beneath it) for errors
|-
| Daemon Tools ||
[[mount]], Disk Image Mounter in Gnome/KDE, Furius ISO mount, AcetoneISO
|ISO mounting
|-
| Disclib || [http://www.gwhere.org/home.php3 gWhere]
| Disk cataloging programs
|-
| Evernote, OneNote || NixNote, Tusk, Whatever, GeekNote, ForeverNote, [https://joplinapp.org/ Joplin], Xournal, XFCE4 Notes, Xpad, Hnb, Gnote, Feathernotes, Cherrytree, Bijiben, Basket, Noblenote, Nvpy. Thanks to [https://itsfoss.com/evernote-on-linux/]
|Note Taking App
|}

== Desktop Publishing ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Dreamweaver, '''Google Web Designer''', '''Bluefish Editor''', '''Aptana Studio''', '''SeaMonkey''', '''CodeLobster''' ||
[http://www.google.com/webdesigner/ Google Web Designer] (WYSIWYG), Bluefish Editor, Aptana Studio, SeaMonkey, CodeLobster
[[html editors|more]]
|[[Web Design]]
|-
| Quark, Quark Express, Microsoft Publisher, '''Scribus''', '''Karbon''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribus Scribus], Karbon, Laidout, VivaDesigner, QuickSilver, Xara Xtreme
|DTP software
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader, Xpdf Reader, Foxit reader, Sumatra pdf ||

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evince Evince],
Zathura,
Okular,
Bookworm,
Qpdfview,
Foxit reader,
PDF Studio Viewer,
[[Xpdf]],
MuPDF,
Atril,
[[Ghostview]], [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF readers
|-
| Adobe Acrobat Distiller, PDFCreator ||
[http://www.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~vrbehr/cups-pdf/ CUPS-PDF], Libre Office, [[OpenOffice.org]], PDF Studio, [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter] -- can convert to pdf. [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF authoring
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF editor, [http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio '''PDF Studio Pro'''], '''Master PDF Editor''', '''Libreoffice Draw''', '''Scribus''', '''Inkscape''' ||
[http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio PDF Studio Pro], Master PDF Editor, OnlyOffice Desktop Editors, [http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfedit Pdfedit], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam Pdfjam], [http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk Pdftk], Scribus, Inkscape, Karbon, Okular, Libreoffice Draw. Thanks to [https://www.ubuntupit.com/linux-pdf-editor-top-15-reviewed-and-compared/ this] [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF editing tools
|-
| SilverFast ||
[[xSane]], [http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html VueScan], Simple Scan, Skanlite, Gscan2pdf, GIMP with Quitelnsane
| [[scanning]]
|-
| FinePrint ||
[http://www.boomaga.org boomaga], [http://wfr.tcl.tk/279 page-crunch], [http://freshmeat.net/projects/mpage/ mpage], [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter], [http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~ajcd/psutils/index.html psnup/PSutils], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam pdfnup/PDFjam]
| Document printing/reformatting tools
|}

== Networking ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Internet Explorer, '''Microsoft Edge''', '''Firefox''', '''Opera''', '''Chrome''', '''Pale Moon''', '''Brave''', '''Vivaldi''', '''Otter Browser''', '''Falkon''', '''Dooble''', '''Slimjet'''
| [[Firefox]], [[Konqueror]], Epiphany (Gnome Web), Falkon, Microsoft Edge, Slimjet, Midori, [http://www.google.com/chrome Chrome], Chromium, [[Opera]], Otter Browser, Brave, Vivaldi, Falkon, Pale Moon, Dillo, Dooble, LibreWolf, Links [[Browsers|''more'']]
| [[Web Browsers]]
|-
| Microsoft Outlook, '''Thunderbird''', Pegasus, Lotus Notes, '''Seamonkey''', '''Claws Mail''', '''Mailspring''' ||
[[Kontact]],
[http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/features/evolution.html Evolution], Seamonkey,
[[Thunderbird]], Claws Mail, Mailspring, Geary [https://itsfoss.com/best-email-clients-linux/ others]
|Email clients.
|-
| '''Trillian''', '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Irssi''', ICQ ||
Trillian, Hexchat, [[PidgIn]], [[Irssi]], [[Kopete]]
| [[Instant messaging]] [[software]].
|-
| Microsoft HyperTerminal ||
[[minicom]]
|-
| FileZilla FTP Client, WS FTP, Bullet Proof FTP, CuteFTP ||
[http://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client FileZilla FTP Client],
[http://www.kftp.org/misc/description KFTP (KFTPGrabber)],
[[Kasablanca]],
[[FireFTP]],
[[Konqueror]],
[[KBear]],
[[gFTP]],
[http://www.crossftp.com/ CrossFTP],
[[Nautilus]]
|FTP clients. Please note GNOME, KDE (and other) programs can directly open and edit files on FTP, SFTP and WebDAV shares, often using [[KIO]], [[GIO]] or [GVfs]].
|-
| mIRC, '''Trillian''', '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Quassel''', '''KVIrc''', '''Irssi''' ||
Trillian, HexChat, [[PidgIn]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quassel_IRC Quassel], [[KVIrc]], Irssi, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konversation Konversation], [[BitchX]]
| [[IRC Clients]]
|-
|[http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/ UltraVNC], TightVNC, RealVNC, Remote Desktop ||
[http://www.tightvnc.com/ TightVNC],
[http://www.realvnc.com/ RealVNC], [http://www.rdesktop.org/ rdesktop],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/freenx/ FreeNX],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/x11vnc/ x11vnc],
[http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ Synergy],
XDMCP, [[SSH]] with X11 forwarding (-X or -Y option)
| [[Desktop Sharing]]
|-
| MailWasher, SpamAssassin for Windows ||
SpamAssassin
| Spam filter
|-
|Forte Free Agent, [[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]] ||
[[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]], [http://www.newsreaders.com/unix/clients.html See More Clients Here]
|News Reader (Usenet [[newsgroup]]s)
|-
| eMule, '''aMule''' || aMule
|ED2K P2P network clients
|-
| [http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php '''Vuze (formerly Azureus)'''], [http://utorrent.com/ utorrent], '''Transmission''', '''Deluge''', '''qBittorrent''', '''Tixati''', '''Frostwire''', '''Tribler''' ||
[http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php Vuze (formerly Azureus)], Transmission, Deluge, qBittorrent, Tixati, Frostwire, Tribler, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qtorrent Qtorrent], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bittornado bittornado], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ktorrent Ktorrent],
|BitTorrent P2P network clients
|-
| '''Skype''', Voipbuster, '''Yate''', '''Linphone''', '''Jitsi''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype Skype], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linphone Linphone], Asterisk, Empathy, Yate, Jitsi
|VoIP software
|-
| Bitvise Tunnelier ||
[http://sourceforge.net/projects/gstm/ gSTM]
|gSTM is a front-end for managing SSH-tunneled port redirects.
|}

== Server ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| IIS, [[Apache]] ||
[[Apache]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nginx Engine-X], [http://www.lighttpd.net/ lighttpd]
|[[Web Servers]]
|-
| Folder sharing, printer sharing ||
[[Samba]]
|Share files and printers between Windows and Linux systems. Installed by default on most distributions.
|-
|IIS, [http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ FileZilla FTP Client & Server]
|[[vsftpd]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure-ftpd pure-ftpd]
|FTP servers, for hosting files.
|-
|[http://www.netlimiter.com/ NetLimiter] ||
[http://monkey.org/~marius/pages/?page=trickle Trickle], [http://l7-filter.sourceforge.net/ Level 7 Filter], [http://www.clarkconnect.com/info/index.php ClarkConnect], [http://www.bandwidtharbitrator.com/ Bandwidth Arbitrator], [http://www.mastershaper.org/index.php/Main_Page MasterShaper]
|Bandwidth shaping and management.
|-
| Exchange ||
[[Citadel]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbra zimbra], [[Open-Xchange]]
|Groupware (sharing of appointments, contacts, e-mail, documents, etc. between members of a group)
|-
| Sharepoint ||
[http://www.knowledgetree.com/opensource KnowledgeTree]
|Manage and secure documents, collaborate around document creation and editing, full document contents indexing
|-
| Norton/McAfee Antivirus, [http://clamwin.com/ ClamWin], AVG, AntiVir, Avast, ClamAV ||
[[ClamAV]], [https://support.avast.com/en-eu/article/131/ Avast Security for Linux]
| Antivirus software.
|-
| ZoneAlarm , Sygate SPF||
[[Guarddog]], [[Firestarter]], [[GUFW]], [[iptables]]
| Firewall software
|}

== Multimedia ==

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
|[http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/ Adobe Photoshop], [http://www.corel.com/ Corel Photo-Paint], '''GIMP''', '''Glimpse''', '''GIMPShop''', '''ImageMagick''', '''Xnview''', '''[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)]''', '''[https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable]''', '''Pinta''', '''MyPaint''', '''Krita''', '''Filmulator''', '''Photivo''', '''RawTherapee''', '''digiKam''', '''nomacs''' ||
[http://www.gimp.org/ GIMP], Glimpse,
[[GIMPShop]], ImageMagick, Pinta, MyPaint,
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krita Krita], Xnview,
[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)], [https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable], Filmulator, Photivo, RawTherapee, digiKam, nomacs
|Raster graphics editors
|-
|[http://www.corel.com/ Corel Draw], [http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator/ Adobe Illustrator], '''Inkscape''', '''Vectr''', '''Gravit''', '''LibreOffice Draw''', '''sK1''', '''SVG-edit''' ||
[http://www.inkscape.org/ Inkscape], Vectr, Gravit, LibreOffice Draw, Karbon, sK1, SVG-edit. [https://itsfoss.com/vector-graphics-editors-linux/ Ref.]
|Vector graphics editors
|-
|Adobe Animate, '''Synfig''', '''Pencil2D''', '''Tupi (Tupitube Desk)''', '''OpenToonz''', '''Blender''', '''Toon Boom Harmony''', '''Krita''', '''Aseprite''', '''TVPaint''', '''Animaker''', '''Ajax Animator''', '''Glaxnimate''', '''Tahoma2D''', '''Enve''' ||
Synfig, Pencil2D, Tupi (Tupitube Desk), OpenToonz, Blender, Toon Boom Harmony, Krita, Aseprite, TVPaint, Animaker, Ajax Animator, Glaxnimate, Tahoma2D , Enve
| 2D Animations
|-
| Irfanview, ACDSee, '''digiKam''', '''Xnview''', '''nomacs''' ||
[[XnView]], [http://mirageiv.berlios.de/ Mirage], [[GThumb]], Shotwell, KPhotoAlbum, Geeqie, digiKam, Gwenview, Ristretto, Viewnior, Nomacs
|Image viewers
|-
| 3D Studio MAX, '''Blender''', [http://www.autodesk.com '''Maya'''], '''Cinema 4D''' ||
[[Blender]], [http://www.autodesk.com Maya], Cinema 4D
|3D modeling software
|-
| Autodesk Inventor, Solidworks, CATIA || [http://www.freecadweb.org FreeCAD], [http://www.salome-platform.org/ SALOME platform]
| Professional 3D CAD software
|-
| Windows Media Player, PowerDVD, SMPlayer, MPV, [[VLC]] ||
SMPlayer, MPV, [[VLC]], [[Xine]], [[Totem]], [[Kaffeine]], Parole, Celluloid, [[MPlayer]]
| [[Video Players]]
|-
| SIA Smaart Live || [http://sf.net/projects/brp-pacu/ BRP-PACU] || [[Sound]] analysis
|-
| Winamp, Sonique, iTunes, [http://www.atunes.org/ aTunes], '''Clementine''', '''VLC''', '''SMplayer''', '''Deadbeef''', '''Audacious''', '''Strawberry''', '''Exaile''' ||
[[Amarok]], [[RhythmBox]], [http://banshee-project.org/index.php/Main_Page Banshee], [[Xine]], Elisa, Clementine, VLC, SMplayer, Deadbeef, Audacious, Strawberry, Exaile, pMusic. See also Video Players section
|[[Music Players]]
|-
| [http://www.otsav.com/ OTSAV, OTS Turntables], [http://serato.com/ Serato], [http://www.native-instruments.com/en/traktor/ Traktor], [http://www.virtualdj.com/ Virtual DJ], [http://www.pcdj.com/ PC DJ], [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
| [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
|Audio & video play out (DJ/presenter)
|-
| Windows Movie Maker, Adobe Premiere Elements, [http://www.goldwave.com/mqrelease.php Multiquence], '''Avidemux''', '''OpenShot''', '''VidCutter''', [https://shotcut.org/ '''Shotcut'''], '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron]''', [https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php '''Olive'''], '''Lightworks''' ||
[[Cinelerra]] (difficult but very professional),
[[KDenlive]] (easy and powerful),
[[LiVES]],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avidemux AviDemux],
OpenShot,
VidCutter,
Flowblade,
Pitivi,
DaVinci Resolve,
[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron],
[https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php Olive],
Lightworks (thanks to Linux Format magazine),
[https://shotcut.org/ Shotcut](thanks to Linux Format magazine)
|[[Video Editors]]
|-
| '''Audacity''', Cubase, '''Ardour''', Adobe Audition (formerly Cool Edit Pro), [http://www.goldwave.com/ GoldWave], Cakewalk/Sonar, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''LMMS''', '''Traverso-DAW''', '''Harrison Mixbus''', '''Bitwig Studio''', '''[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]''' ||
[[Audacity]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden],
[[Beast]],
[[Ardour]],
Harrison Mixbus,
[http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/index.php Radium],
DaVinci Resolve,
Bitwig Studio,
Qtractor,
[https://traverso-daw.org/ Traverso-DAW],
LMMS,
[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]
|Digital audio workstation software
|-
| Audio Catalyst, '''Ocenaudio''', dbpoweramp, CDex, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''Audacity''' ||
[[Audacity]],
Ocenaudio,
DaVinci Resolve,
[[Grip]]
| [[Audio Editors]]
|-
| '''Wavesurfer''', '''Audacity''', '''Sox'''||[https://itsfoss.com/record-streaming-audio/ Audio Recorder], Ecasound, Audacity, Sox, Wavesurfer
|Audio recorders
|-
| Cakewalk/Sonar ||
[[kmid]],
[[kmidi]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden]
| [[MIDI]]
|-
|[http://www.noteworthysoftware.com/ NoteWorthy Composer], '''MuseScore''', '''LilyPond'''||
[http://www.musescore.org/ MuseScore], [http://lilypond.org/web/ LilyPond]
|Musical score typesetting
|-
|[http://www.guitar-pro.com/ GuitarPro], TuxGuitar ||
[http://www.tuxguitar.com.ar/ TuxGuitar]
|Guitar tablature editors
|-
| Microsoft Paint, Kid Pix, '''Tux Paint''', '''Pencil 2D''', '''Krita''', '''Pinta''', '''Mypaint''', '''Mtpaint''' ||
[http://www.tuxpaint.org/ Tuxpaint], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KolourPaint KolourPaint], Pencil 2D, Krita, [https://launchpad.net/dibuja Dibuja], Pinta, Mypaint, Mtpaint
|Basic raster painting programs
|-
| Videora, [https://handbrake.fr/ '''Handbrake'''], '''WinFF''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || [https://handbrake.fr/ Handbrake], WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, Transmageddon, VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Video converter
|-
| '''WinFF''', '''Handbrake''', '''fre:ac - free audio converter (freac)''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || Handbrake, WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, fre:ac - free audio converter (freac), VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Audio converter
|-
|TMPGEnc DVD Author, Roxio DVDit, '''Open DVD Producer''', '''DVDStyler''' ||
DVDStyler, [http://opendvdproducer.jonata.org/ Open DVD Producer], [http://www.rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html DeVeDe]
|DVD authoring software
|-
|'''uTox''', '''qTox''', '''Jitsi''', '''OpenMeetings''', '''Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone)''', '''Microsoft Teams''', '''Zoom''' || uTox, qTox, OpenMettings, Jitsi, Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone), Empathy, Microsoft Teams, Zoom
| Video Conferencing
|}

== Education ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| '''Klavaro''', '''Tipp10''' || Klavaro, Tipp10, [[KTouch]], Tux Typing, GNU Typist || Touch typing tutors
|-
| '''Maple''', '''Mathematica''' || Maple, Mathematica, [http://maxima.sourceforge.net/ Maxima]
| Computer algebra systems
|-
| '''Matlab''', '''Octave''', '''Scilab''' ||
Matlab, [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ Octave],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SciLab SciLab], Sage, KAlgebra
| High level numeric computation environments
|-
| '''SPSS''', '''Stata''', EViews, '''PSPP''', '''[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project]''', '''[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]''' ||
[http://www.stata.com/products/unix.html Stata], SPSS,
[http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/pspp.html PSPP],
[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Plus S-Plus],
[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]
| Statistical analysis
|-
| Verilog ||
[http://www.icarus.com/eda/verilog/ iverilog]
| Verilog Simulator
|-
| '''Google Earth''', NASA World Wind, '''Celestia''', '''Stellarium''', '''Skychart''', '''Aladin Sky Atlas''', Microsoft Flight Simulator, '''FlightGear''' ||
[http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html Google Earth], [https://celestia.space/index.html Celestia], [http://www.stellarium.org/ Stellarium], [https://marble.kde.org/ Marble], [http://www.geody.com/ Geody], Kstars, Skychart, Aladin Sky Atlas, [http://www.flightgear.org/ FlightGear]
| Geography, astronomy and simulation
|}

''Please add new applications to this list. A good resource is the [http://www.nawaz.org/wiki/index.php?title=Table_of_Equivalents BeetleSpace Windows/Linux Software Table of Equivalents], which is GNU FDL licensed.''

== See also ==

* [[running windows software]]
* [http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux.]
* [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareEquivalents Ubuntu software equivalents's page]
* [http://www.linuxeq.com/ The Linux Equivalent Project]
* [https://www.turkishcypriotheritage.org/ turkishcypriotheritage.org]

[[Category:FAQ]]

Linux software equivalent to Windows software

2024-09-16T18:01:28Z

Kareempharmacist: /* Multimedia */

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.

= Office and Productivity =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Office, '''OpenOffice''', '''Libre Office''', '''WPS Office''', '''Softmaker Office''', '''Onlyoffice Desktop'''
| [[Libre Office]], [https://www.wps.com/linux WPS Office](WPS-Community), [[OpenOffice]], [https://www.calligra.org/ Calligra], Softmaker FreeOffice, OnlyOffice Desktop
| Office package
|-
| Microsoft Word, OOwriter, LibreOffice Writer, WPS Writer, Softmaker TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[OOWriter]], [http://www.abiword.org AbiWord], WPS Writer, LibreOffice Writer, Calligra Words, FreeOffice TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop, Lyx, [[LaTeX]]
| [[Word Processing]]
|-
| Notepad, Wordpad, TheGun, EditPlus, SciTE, Notepad++ ||
[[Vim]], [[KWrite]],
[[Kate]], [http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/ BlueFish], [[Gedit]], [[Joe]], Sublime Text, [[Leafpad]], [[Nano]]
| [[Text Editors]]
|-
| Access, dBase, Foxpro, Paradox, '''OOBase''', '''LibreOffice Base'''
| [http://userbase.kde.org/Kexi Kexi], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Base OOBase], LibreOffice Base
| [[Database]]
|-
| Excel, Corel WordPrefect, '''LibreOffice Calc''', '''Softmaker Office PlanMaker''', '''WPS Spreedsheets''', '''OOCalc''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Calc, Calligra Sheets, Softmaker Office PlanMaker, WPS Spreedsheets, [[OOCalc]], [http://www.gnumeric.org gnumeric], OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Spreadsheet]]
|-
| Visio, [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html '''yED'''], '''LibreOffice Draw'''
| [https://www.calligra.org/flow/ Calligra Flow], [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html yED], LibreOffice Draw
| Diagramming
|-
| PowerPoint, '''LibreOffice Impress''', '''OOImpress''', '''WPS Presentation''', '''Softmaker Office Presentations''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Impress, [[OOImpress]], Calligra Stage, WPS Presentation, Softmaker Office Presentations, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Presentation software]]
|-
| Final Draft, Script Studio, '''Fade In''', '''KIT Scenarist''', '''Story Architect''', '''Trelby''', '''Scrite'''
| Fade In, KIT Scenarist, Story Architect, Trelby, Scrite
| Screenwriting software
|-
| Microsoft Project Manager
| [[MOOS Project Viewer]], Calligra Plan
| Project management
|-
| '''Wondershare EdrawMax''', XMind
| Wondershare EdrawMax, Minder, XMind
| Mind maps
|-
| Outlook, '''Thunderbird + Lightning'''
| [[Kontact]], [https://pawsa.fedorapeople.org/balsa/ BALSA], [[Thunderbird]] + [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/ Lightning]
| Personal information managers
|-
| Alcohol 120%, Discjuggler, Easy CD Creator, Nero Burning ROM ||
[[K3b]], [[XCDRoast]], Brasero, Xfburn, [[CD/DVD_Burning|''more'']]
|DVD/CD burning
|-
|Alcohol 120%, Nero Burning ROM, '''MakeMKV''', ImgBurn, Infrarecorder || MakeMKV, Thoggen, Dvdbackup, HandBrake, DVD::RIP, AcidRIP
| DVD ripping software
|-
| Quicken, Microsoft Money, TurboTax
| [http://gnucash.org/ GnucAsh], [http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/index-home.html KMyMoney], [[CrossOver]] Office with Quicken, [http://www.lazy8.nu/ lazy8ledger]
| Accounting
|-
| ActiveSync ||
[[SynCE]]
|Synchronization with Windows Mobile devices
|-
| WinEdt, TeXnicCenter
| [[Kile]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texmaker Texmaker], [[LyX]]
| LaTeX IDEs
|-
| Veritas Backup Exec, [http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm Cobian Backup], '''Duplicati''' ||
LuckyBackup, Déjà Dup, Grsync, Duplicati [[list of backUp applications|''more'']]
| [[Backup]]
|-
| Google Desktop ||
[[Recoll]]
| Desktop Search
|-
| Norton Ghost ||
[[Partition Image]], [[g4u]], [http://www.mondorescue.org/ Mondo Rescue], [[dd]], gDiskDump (a dd frontend), Clonezilla, Trinity Rescue Kit
|Disk imaging
|-
| Norton Partition Magic ||
[[GParted]], Clonezilla (a live cd), KDE Partition Manager, GNOME Disks
|Disk partitioning
|-
|[http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/Disk_Size_Explorer.asp Disk Size Explorer]
|[https://utils.kde.org/projects/filelight/ File Light], [[Konqueror]], Baobab, xdiskusage, duc [https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-analyze-your-disk-usage-pattern-in-linux/ ref.]
| Disk usage analyzers
|-
|[http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html Filemon], [http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Regmon.html Regmon]
| [http://syscalltrack.sourceforge.net/ syscalltrack]
| system call tracking (file monitor & others)
|-
| WinMerge, SyncToy ||
[http://meld.sourceforge.net/ Meld], [[Unison]], [http://synkron.sourceforge.net/ Synkron], [[rSync]]
| File synchronization
|-
| Google Drive, Dropbox, etc ||
[https://rclone.org Rclone]
| Cloud hosted file synchronization (Amazon S3, Dropbox, Google Cloud Storage, Google Drive, FTP, Microsoft OneDrive, sFTP, etc)
|-
| Windows Update, Add/Remove programs||
[[apt-get]], [http://aptitude.sourceforge.net/ Aptitude], [http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Portage portage], [[Rpm|rpm]], [[urpmi]], [[yast]], [[yum]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptic_Package_Manager Synaptic], [https://snapcraft.io Snapcraft (Snap)]
|Every Linux distribution has an infrastructure to manage installed software which is quite different from Windows. For instance, all updates are handled by a single program. See [[package management]].
|-
| WinRunner || [http://hoopajoo.net/projects/xautomation.html xautomation] || automating interactive applications
|-
| 7-Zip, Winzip, Winrar, Peazip ||
[[Karchiver]],
[[File Roller]],
Xarchiver,
[[ark]],
[[hjsplit]]; [[packing and unpacking files|''command line tools'']]
|Archivers
|-
| chkdsk || [[fsck]], [https://www.tecmint.com/linux-disk-scanning-tools/ other tools] || check your file system (and the [[hard disk]] beneath it) for errors
|-
| Daemon Tools ||
[[mount]], Disk Image Mounter in Gnome/KDE, Furius ISO mount, AcetoneISO
|ISO mounting
|-
| Disclib || [http://www.gwhere.org/home.php3 gWhere]
| Disk cataloging programs
|-
| Evernote, OneNote || NixNote, Tusk, Whatever, GeekNote, ForeverNote, [https://joplinapp.org/ Joplin], Xournal, XFCE4 Notes, Xpad, Hnb, Gnote, Feathernotes, Cherrytree, Bijiben, Basket, Noblenote, Nvpy. Thanks to [https://itsfoss.com/evernote-on-linux/]
|Note Taking App
|}

== Desktop Publishing ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Dreamweaver, '''Google Web Designer''', '''Bluefish Editor''', '''Aptana Studio''', '''SeaMonkey''', '''CodeLobster''' ||
[http://www.google.com/webdesigner/ Google Web Designer] (WYSIWYG), Bluefish Editor, Aptana Studio, SeaMonkey, CodeLobster
[[html editors|more]]
|[[Web Design]]
|-
| Quark, Quark Express, Microsoft Publisher, '''Scribus''', '''Karbon''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribus Scribus], Karbon, Laidout, VivaDesigner, QuickSilver, Xara Xtreme
|DTP software
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader, Xpdf Reader, Foxit reader, Sumatra pdf ||

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evince Evince],
Zathura,
Okular,
Bookworm,
Qpdfview,
Foxit reader,
PDF Studio Viewer,
[[Xpdf]],
MuPDF,
Atril,
[[Ghostview]], [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF readers
|-
| Adobe Acrobat Distiller, PDFCreator ||
[http://www.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~vrbehr/cups-pdf/ CUPS-PDF], Libre Office, [[OpenOffice.org]], PDF Studio, [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter] -- can convert to pdf. [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF authoring
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF editor, [http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio '''PDF Studio Pro'''], '''Master PDF Editor''', '''Libreoffice Draw''', '''Scribus''', '''Inkscape''' ||
[http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio PDF Studio Pro], Master PDF Editor, OnlyOffice Desktop Editors, [http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfedit Pdfedit], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam Pdfjam], [http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk Pdftk], Scribus, Inkscape, Karbon, Okular, Libreoffice Draw. Thanks to [https://www.ubuntupit.com/linux-pdf-editor-top-15-reviewed-and-compared/ this] [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF editing tools
|-
| SilverFast ||
[[xSane]], [http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html VueScan], Simple Scan, Skanlite, Gscan2pdf, GIMP with Quitelnsane
| [[scanning]]
|-
| FinePrint ||
[http://www.boomaga.org boomaga], [http://wfr.tcl.tk/279 page-crunch], [http://freshmeat.net/projects/mpage/ mpage], [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter], [http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~ajcd/psutils/index.html psnup/PSutils], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam pdfnup/PDFjam]
| Document printing/reformatting tools
|}

= Networking =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Internet Explorer, '''Microsoft Edge''', '''Firefox''', '''Opera''', '''Chrome''', '''Pale Moon''', '''Brave''', '''Vivaldi''', '''Otter Browser''', '''Falkon''', '''Dooble''', '''Slimjet''' ||
[[Firefox]], [[Konqueror]], Epiphany (Gnome Web), Falkon, Microsoft Edge, Slimjet, Midori, [http://www.google.com/chrome Chrome], Chromium, [[Opera]], Otter Browser, Brave, Vivaldi, Falkon, Pale Moon, Dillo, Dooble, Links [[Browsers|''more'']]
| [[Web Browsers]]
|-
| Microsoft Outlook, '''Thunderbird''', Pegasus, Lotus Notes, '''Seamonkey''', '''Claws Mail''', '''Mailspring''' ||
[[Kontact]],
[http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/features/evolution.html Evolution], Seamonkey,
[[Thunderbird]], Claws Mail, Mailspring, Geary [https://itsfoss.com/best-email-clients-linux/ others]
|Email clients.
|-
| '''Trillian''', '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Irssi''', ICQ ||
Trillian, Hexchat, [[PidgIn]], [[Irssi]], [[Kopete]]
| [[Instant messaging]] [[software]].
|-
| Microsoft HyperTerminal ||
[[minicom]]
|-
| FileZilla FTP Client, WS FTP, Bullet Proof FTP, CuteFTP ||
[http://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client FileZilla FTP Client],
[http://www.kftp.org/misc/description KFTP (KFTPGrabber)],
[[Kasablanca]],
[[FireFTP]],
[[Konqueror]],
[[KBear]],
[[gFTP]],
[http://www.crossftp.com/ CrossFTP],
[[Nautilus]]
|FTP clients. Please note GNOME, KDE (and other) programs can directly open and edit files on FTP, SFTP and WebDAV shares, often using [[KIO]], [[GIO]] or [GVfs]].
|-
| mIRC, '''Trillian''', '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Quassel''', '''KVIrc''', '''Irssi''' ||
Trillian, HexChat, [[PidgIn]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quassel_IRC Quassel], [[KVIrc]], Irssi, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konversation Konversation], [[BitchX]]
| [[IRC Clients]]
|-
|[http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/ UltraVNC], TightVNC, RealVNC, Remote Desktop ||
[http://www.tightvnc.com/ TightVNC],
[http://www.realvnc.com/ RealVNC], [http://www.rdesktop.org/ rdesktop],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/freenx/ FreeNX],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/x11vnc/ x11vnc],
[http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ Synergy],
XDMCP, [[SSH]] with X11 forwarding (-X or -Y option)
| [[Desktop Sharing]]
|-
| MailWasher, SpamAssassin for Windows ||
SpamAssassin
| Spam filter
|-
|Forte Free Agent, [[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]] ||
[[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]], [http://www.newsreaders.com/unix/clients.html See More Clients Here]
|News Reader (Usenet [[newsgroup]]s)
|-
| eMule, '''aMule''' || aMule
|ED2K P2P network clients
|-
| [http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php '''Vuze (formerly Azureus)'''], [http://utorrent.com/ utorrent], '''Transmission''', '''Deluge''', '''qBittorrent''', '''Tixati''', '''Frostwire''', '''Tribler''' ||
[http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php Vuze (formerly Azureus)], Transmission, Deluge, qBittorrent, Tixati, Frostwire, Tribler, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qtorrent Qtorrent], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bittornado bittornado], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ktorrent Ktorrent],
|BitTorrent P2P network clients
|-
| '''Skype''', Voipbuster, '''Yate''', '''Linphone''', '''Jitsi''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype Skype], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linphone Linphone], Asterisk, Empathy, Yate, Jitsi
|VoIP software
|-
| Bitvise Tunnelier ||
[http://sourceforge.net/projects/gstm/ gSTM]
|gSTM is a front-end for managing SSH-tunneled port redirects.
|}

== Server ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| IIS, [[Apache]] ||
[[Apache]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nginx Engine-X], [http://www.lighttpd.net/ lighttpd]
|[[Web Servers]]
|-
| Folder sharing, printer sharing ||
[[Samba]]
|Share files and printers between Windows and Linux systems. Installed by default on most distributions.
|-
|IIS, [http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ FileZilla FTP Client & Server]
|[[vsftpd]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure-ftpd pure-ftpd]
|FTP servers, for hosting files.
|-
|[http://www.netlimiter.com/ NetLimiter] ||
[http://monkey.org/~marius/pages/?page=trickle Trickle], [http://l7-filter.sourceforge.net/ Level 7 Filter], [http://www.clarkconnect.com/info/index.php ClarkConnect], [http://www.bandwidtharbitrator.com/ Bandwidth Arbitrator], [http://www.mastershaper.org/index.php/Main_Page MasterShaper]
|Bandwidth shaping and management.
|-
| Exchange ||
[[Citadel]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbra zimbra], [[Open-Xchange]]
|Groupware (sharing of appointments, contacts, e-mail, documents, etc. between members of a group)
|-
| Sharepoint ||
[http://www.knowledgetree.com/opensource KnowledgeTree]
|Manage and secure documents, collaborate around document creation and editing, full document contents indexing
|-
| Norton/McAfee Antivirus, [http://clamwin.com/ ClamWin], AVG, AntiVir, Avast, ClamAV ||
[[ClamAV]], [https://support.avast.com/en-eu/article/131/ Avast Security for Linux]
| Antivirus software.
|-
| ZoneAlarm , Sygate SPF||
[[Guarddog]], [[Firestarter]], [[GUFW]], [[iptables]]
| Firewall software
|}

= Multimedia =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
|[http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/ Adobe Photoshop], [http://www.corel.com/ Corel Photo-Paint], '''GIMP''', '''Glimpse''', '''GIMPShop''', '''ImageMagick''', '''Xnview''', '''[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)]''', '''[https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable]''', '''Pinta''', '''MyPaint''', '''Krita''', '''Filmulator''', '''Photivo''', '''RawTherapee''', '''digiKam''', '''nomacs''' ||
[http://www.gimp.org/ GIMP], Glimpse,
[[GIMPShop]], ImageMagick, Pinta, MyPaint,
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krita Krita], Xnview,
[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)], [https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable], Filmulator, Photivo, RawTherapee, digiKam, nomacs
|Raster graphics editors
|-
|[http://www.corel.com/ Corel Draw], [http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator/ Adobe Illustrator], '''Inkscape''', '''Vectr''', '''Gravit''', '''LibreOffice Draw''', '''sK1''', '''SVG-edit''' ||
[http://www.inkscape.org/ Inkscape], Vectr, Gravit, LibreOffice Draw, Karbon, sK1, SVG-edit. [https://itsfoss.com/vector-graphics-editors-linux/ Ref.]
|Vector graphics editors
|-
|Adobe Animate, '''Synfig''', '''Pencil2D''', '''Tupi (Tupitube Desk)''', '''OpenToonz''', '''Blender''', '''Toon Boom Harmony''', '''Krita''', '''Aseprite''', '''TVPaint''', '''Animaker''', '''Ajax Animator''', '''Glaxnimate''', '''Tahoma2D''', '''Enve''' ||
Synfig, Pencil2D, Tupi (Tupitube Desk), OpenToonz, Blender, Toon Boom Harmony, Krita, Aseprite, TVPaint, Animaker, Ajax Animator, Glaxnimate, Tahoma2D , Enve
| 2D Animations
|-
| Irfanview, ACDSee, '''digiKam''', '''Xnview''', '''nomacs''' ||
[[XnView]], [http://mirageiv.berlios.de/ Mirage], [[GThumb]], Shotwell, KPhotoAlbum, Geeqie, digiKam, Gwenview, Ristretto, Viewnior, Nomacs
|Image viewers
|-
| 3D Studio MAX, '''Blender''', [http://www.autodesk.com '''Maya'''], '''Cinema 4D''' ||
[[Blender]], [http://www.autodesk.com Maya], Cinema 4D
|3D modeling software
|-
| Autodesk Inventor, Solidworks, CATIA || [http://www.freecadweb.org FreeCAD], [http://www.salome-platform.org/ SALOME platform]
| Professional 3D CAD software
|-
| Windows Media Player, PowerDVD, SMPlayer, MPV, [[VLC]] ||
SMPlayer, MPV, [[VLC]], [[Xine]], [[Totem]], [[Kaffeine]], Parole, Celluloid, [[MPlayer]]
| [[Video Players]]
|-
| SIA Smaart Live || [http://sf.net/projects/brp-pacu/ BRP-PACU] || [[Sound]] analysis
|-
| Winamp, Sonique, iTunes, [http://www.atunes.org/ aTunes], '''Clementine''', '''VLC''', '''SMplayer''', '''Deadbeef''', '''Audacious''', '''Strawberry''', '''Exaile''' ||
[[Amarok]], [[RhythmBox]], [http://banshee-project.org/index.php/Main_Page Banshee], [[Xine]], Elisa, Clementine, VLC, SMplayer, Deadbeef, Audacious, Strawberry, Exaile, pMusic. See also Video Players section
|[[Music Players]]
|-
| [http://www.otsav.com/ OTSAV, OTS Turntables], [http://serato.com/ Serato], [http://www.native-instruments.com/en/traktor/ Traktor], [http://www.virtualdj.com/ Virtual DJ], [http://www.pcdj.com/ PC DJ], [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
| [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
|Audio & video play out (DJ/presenter)
|-
| Windows Movie Maker, Adobe Premiere Elements, [http://www.goldwave.com/mqrelease.php Multiquence], '''Avidemux''', '''OpenShot''', '''VidCutter''', [https://shotcut.org/ '''Shotcut'''], '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron]''', [https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php '''Olive'''], '''Lightworks''' ||
[[Cinelerra]] (difficult but very professional),
[[KDenlive]] (easy and powerful),
[[LiVES]],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avidemux AviDemux],
OpenShot,
VidCutter,
Flowblade,
Pitivi,
DaVinci Resolve,
[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron],
[https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php Olive],
Lightworks (thanks to Linux Format magazine),
[https://shotcut.org/ Shotcut](thanks to Linux Format magazine)
|[[Video Editors]]
|-
| '''Audacity''', Cubase, '''Ardour''', Adobe Audition (formerly Cool Edit Pro), [http://www.goldwave.com/ GoldWave], Cakewalk/Sonar, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''LMMS''', '''Traverso-DAW''', '''[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]''' ||
[[Audacity]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden],
[[Beast]],
[[Ardour]],
Harrison Mixbus,
[http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/index.php Radium],
DaVinci Resolve,
Bitwig Studio,
Qtractor,
[https://traverso-daw.org/ Traverso-DAW],
LMMS,
[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]
|Digital audio workstation software
|-
| Audio Catalyst, '''Ocenaudio''', dbpoweramp, CDex, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''Audacity''' ||
[[Audacity]],
Ocenaudio,
DaVinci Resolve,
[[Grip]]
| [[Audio Editors]]
|-
| '''Wavesurfer''', '''Audacity''', '''Sox'''||[https://itsfoss.com/record-streaming-audio/ Audio Recorder], Ecasound, Audacity, Sox, Wavesurfer
|Audio recorders
|-
| Cakewalk/Sonar ||
[[kmid]],
[[kmidi]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden]
| [[MIDI]]
|-
|[http://www.noteworthysoftware.com/ NoteWorthy Composer], '''MuseScore''', '''LilyPond'''||
[http://www.musescore.org/ MuseScore], [http://lilypond.org/web/ LilyPond]
|Musical score typesetting
|-
|[http://www.guitar-pro.com/ GuitarPro], TuxGuitar ||
[http://www.tuxguitar.com.ar/ TuxGuitar]
|Guitar tablature editors
|-
| Microsoft Paint, Kid Pix, '''Tux Paint''', '''Pencil 2D''', '''Krita''', '''Pinta''', '''Mypaint''', '''Mtpaint''' ||
[http://www.tuxpaint.org/ Tuxpaint], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KolourPaint KolourPaint], Pencil 2D, Krita, [https://launchpad.net/dibuja Dibuja], Pinta, Mypaint, Mtpaint
|Basic raster painting programs
|-
| Videora, [https://handbrake.fr/ '''Handbrake'''], '''WinFF''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || [https://handbrake.fr/ Handbrake], WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, Transmageddon, VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Video converter
|-
| '''WinFF''', '''Handbrake''', '''fre:ac - free audio converter (freac)''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || Handbrake, WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, fre:ac - free audio converter (freac), VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Audio converter
|-
|TMPGEnc DVD Author, Roxio DVDit, '''Open DVD Producer''', '''DVDStyler''' ||
DVDStyler, [http://opendvdproducer.jonata.org/ Open DVD Producer], [http://www.rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html DeVeDe]
|DVD authoring software
|-
|'''uTox''', '''qTox''', '''Jitsi''', '''OpenMeetings''', '''Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone)''', '''Microsoft Teams''', '''Zoom''' || uTox, qTox, OpenMettings, Jitsi, Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone), Empathy, Microsoft Teams, Zoom
| Video Conferencing
|}

= Education =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| '''Klavaro''', '''Tipp10''' || Klavaro, Tipp10, [[KTouch]], Tux Typing, GNU Typist || Touch typing tutors
|-
| '''Maple''', '''Mathematica''' || Maple, Mathematica, [http://maxima.sourceforge.net/ Maxima]
| Computer algebra systems
|-
| '''Matlab''', '''Octave''', '''Scilab''' ||
Matlab, [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ Octave],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SciLab SciLab], Sage, KAlgebra
| High level numeric computation environments
|-
| '''SPSS''', '''Stata''', EViews, '''PSPP''', '''[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project]''', '''[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]''' ||
[http://www.stata.com/products/unix.html Stata], SPSS,
[http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/pspp.html PSPP],
[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Plus S-Plus],
[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]
| Statistical analysis
|-
| Verilog ||
[http://www.icarus.com/eda/verilog/ iverilog]
| Verilog Simulator
|-
| '''Google Earth''', NASA World Wind, '''Celestia''', '''Stellarium''', '''Skychart''', '''Aladin Sky Atlas''', Microsoft Flight Simulator, '''FlightGear''' ||
[http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html Google Earth], [https://celestia.space/index.html Celestia], [http://www.stellarium.org/ Stellarium], [https://marble.kde.org/ Marble], [http://www.geody.com/ Geody], Kstars, Skychart, Aladin Sky Atlas, [http://www.flightgear.org/ FlightGear]
| Geography, astronomy and simulation
|}

''Please add new applications to this list. A good resource is the [http://www.nawaz.org/wiki/index.php?title=Table_of_Equivalents BeetleSpace Windows/Linux Software Table of Equivalents], which is GNU FDL licensed.''

= See also =

* [[running windows software]]
* [http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux.]
* [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareEquivalents Ubuntu software equivalents's page]
* [http://www.linuxeq.com/ The Linux Equivalent Project]
* [https://www.turkishcypriotheritage.org/ turkishcypriotheritage.org]

[[Category:FAQ]]

Linux software equivalent to Windows software

2024-09-16T18:01:03Z

Kareempharmacist: /* Multimedia */

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.

= Office and Productivity =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Office, '''OpenOffice''', '''Libre Office''', '''WPS Office''', '''Softmaker Office''', '''Onlyoffice Desktop'''
| [[Libre Office]], [https://www.wps.com/linux WPS Office](WPS-Community), [[OpenOffice]], [https://www.calligra.org/ Calligra], Softmaker FreeOffice, OnlyOffice Desktop
| Office package
|-
| Microsoft Word, OOwriter, LibreOffice Writer, WPS Writer, Softmaker TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[OOWriter]], [http://www.abiword.org AbiWord], WPS Writer, LibreOffice Writer, Calligra Words, FreeOffice TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop, Lyx, [[LaTeX]]
| [[Word Processing]]
|-
| Notepad, Wordpad, TheGun, EditPlus, SciTE, Notepad++ ||
[[Vim]], [[KWrite]],
[[Kate]], [http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/ BlueFish], [[Gedit]], [[Joe]], Sublime Text, [[Leafpad]], [[Nano]]
| [[Text Editors]]
|-
| Access, dBase, Foxpro, Paradox, '''OOBase''', '''LibreOffice Base'''
| [http://userbase.kde.org/Kexi Kexi], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Base OOBase], LibreOffice Base
| [[Database]]
|-
| Excel, Corel WordPrefect, '''LibreOffice Calc''', '''Softmaker Office PlanMaker''', '''WPS Spreedsheets''', '''OOCalc''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Calc, Calligra Sheets, Softmaker Office PlanMaker, WPS Spreedsheets, [[OOCalc]], [http://www.gnumeric.org gnumeric], OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Spreadsheet]]
|-
| Visio, [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html '''yED'''], '''LibreOffice Draw'''
| [https://www.calligra.org/flow/ Calligra Flow], [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html yED], LibreOffice Draw
| Diagramming
|-
| PowerPoint, '''LibreOffice Impress''', '''OOImpress''', '''WPS Presentation''', '''Softmaker Office Presentations''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Impress, [[OOImpress]], Calligra Stage, WPS Presentation, Softmaker Office Presentations, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Presentation software]]
|-
| Final Draft, Script Studio, '''Fade In''', '''KIT Scenarist''', '''Story Architect''', '''Trelby''', '''Scrite'''
| Fade In, KIT Scenarist, Story Architect, Trelby, Scrite
| Screenwriting software
|-
| Microsoft Project Manager
| [[MOOS Project Viewer]], Calligra Plan
| Project management
|-
| '''Wondershare EdrawMax''', XMind
| Wondershare EdrawMax, Minder, XMind
| Mind maps
|-
| Outlook, '''Thunderbird + Lightning'''
| [[Kontact]], [https://pawsa.fedorapeople.org/balsa/ BALSA], [[Thunderbird]] + [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/ Lightning]
| Personal information managers
|-
| Alcohol 120%, Discjuggler, Easy CD Creator, Nero Burning ROM ||
[[K3b]], [[XCDRoast]], Brasero, Xfburn, [[CD/DVD_Burning|''more'']]
|DVD/CD burning
|-
|Alcohol 120%, Nero Burning ROM, '''MakeMKV''', ImgBurn, Infrarecorder || MakeMKV, Thoggen, Dvdbackup, HandBrake, DVD::RIP, AcidRIP
| DVD ripping software
|-
| Quicken, Microsoft Money, TurboTax
| [http://gnucash.org/ GnucAsh], [http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/index-home.html KMyMoney], [[CrossOver]] Office with Quicken, [http://www.lazy8.nu/ lazy8ledger]
| Accounting
|-
| ActiveSync ||
[[SynCE]]
|Synchronization with Windows Mobile devices
|-
| WinEdt, TeXnicCenter
| [[Kile]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texmaker Texmaker], [[LyX]]
| LaTeX IDEs
|-
| Veritas Backup Exec, [http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm Cobian Backup], '''Duplicati''' ||
LuckyBackup, Déjà Dup, Grsync, Duplicati [[list of backUp applications|''more'']]
| [[Backup]]
|-
| Google Desktop ||
[[Recoll]]
| Desktop Search
|-
| Norton Ghost ||
[[Partition Image]], [[g4u]], [http://www.mondorescue.org/ Mondo Rescue], [[dd]], gDiskDump (a dd frontend), Clonezilla, Trinity Rescue Kit
|Disk imaging
|-
| Norton Partition Magic ||
[[GParted]], Clonezilla (a live cd), KDE Partition Manager, GNOME Disks
|Disk partitioning
|-
|[http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/Disk_Size_Explorer.asp Disk Size Explorer]
|[https://utils.kde.org/projects/filelight/ File Light], [[Konqueror]], Baobab, xdiskusage, duc [https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-analyze-your-disk-usage-pattern-in-linux/ ref.]
| Disk usage analyzers
|-
|[http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html Filemon], [http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Regmon.html Regmon]
| [http://syscalltrack.sourceforge.net/ syscalltrack]
| system call tracking (file monitor & others)
|-
| WinMerge, SyncToy ||
[http://meld.sourceforge.net/ Meld], [[Unison]], [http://synkron.sourceforge.net/ Synkron], [[rSync]]
| File synchronization
|-
| Google Drive, Dropbox, etc ||
[https://rclone.org Rclone]
| Cloud hosted file synchronization (Amazon S3, Dropbox, Google Cloud Storage, Google Drive, FTP, Microsoft OneDrive, sFTP, etc)
|-
| Windows Update, Add/Remove programs||
[[apt-get]], [http://aptitude.sourceforge.net/ Aptitude], [http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Portage portage], [[Rpm|rpm]], [[urpmi]], [[yast]], [[yum]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptic_Package_Manager Synaptic], [https://snapcraft.io Snapcraft (Snap)]
|Every Linux distribution has an infrastructure to manage installed software which is quite different from Windows. For instance, all updates are handled by a single program. See [[package management]].
|-
| WinRunner || [http://hoopajoo.net/projects/xautomation.html xautomation] || automating interactive applications
|-
| 7-Zip, Winzip, Winrar, Peazip ||
[[Karchiver]],
[[File Roller]],
Xarchiver,
[[ark]],
[[hjsplit]]; [[packing and unpacking files|''command line tools'']]
|Archivers
|-
| chkdsk || [[fsck]], [https://www.tecmint.com/linux-disk-scanning-tools/ other tools] || check your file system (and the [[hard disk]] beneath it) for errors
|-
| Daemon Tools ||
[[mount]], Disk Image Mounter in Gnome/KDE, Furius ISO mount, AcetoneISO
|ISO mounting
|-
| Disclib || [http://www.gwhere.org/home.php3 gWhere]
| Disk cataloging programs
|-
| Evernote, OneNote || NixNote, Tusk, Whatever, GeekNote, ForeverNote, [https://joplinapp.org/ Joplin], Xournal, XFCE4 Notes, Xpad, Hnb, Gnote, Feathernotes, Cherrytree, Bijiben, Basket, Noblenote, Nvpy. Thanks to [https://itsfoss.com/evernote-on-linux/]
|Note Taking App
|}

== Desktop Publishing ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Dreamweaver, '''Google Web Designer''', '''Bluefish Editor''', '''Aptana Studio''', '''SeaMonkey''', '''CodeLobster''' ||
[http://www.google.com/webdesigner/ Google Web Designer] (WYSIWYG), Bluefish Editor, Aptana Studio, SeaMonkey, CodeLobster
[[html editors|more]]
|[[Web Design]]
|-
| Quark, Quark Express, Microsoft Publisher, '''Scribus''', '''Karbon''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribus Scribus], Karbon, Laidout, VivaDesigner, QuickSilver, Xara Xtreme
|DTP software
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader, Xpdf Reader, Foxit reader, Sumatra pdf ||

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evince Evince],
Zathura,
Okular,
Bookworm,
Qpdfview,
Foxit reader,
PDF Studio Viewer,
[[Xpdf]],
MuPDF,
Atril,
[[Ghostview]], [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF readers
|-
| Adobe Acrobat Distiller, PDFCreator ||
[http://www.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~vrbehr/cups-pdf/ CUPS-PDF], Libre Office, [[OpenOffice.org]], PDF Studio, [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter] -- can convert to pdf. [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF authoring
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF editor, [http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio '''PDF Studio Pro'''], '''Master PDF Editor''', '''Libreoffice Draw''', '''Scribus''', '''Inkscape''' ||
[http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio PDF Studio Pro], Master PDF Editor, OnlyOffice Desktop Editors, [http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfedit Pdfedit], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam Pdfjam], [http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk Pdftk], Scribus, Inkscape, Karbon, Okular, Libreoffice Draw. Thanks to [https://www.ubuntupit.com/linux-pdf-editor-top-15-reviewed-and-compared/ this] [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF editing tools
|-
| SilverFast ||
[[xSane]], [http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html VueScan], Simple Scan, Skanlite, Gscan2pdf, GIMP with Quitelnsane
| [[scanning]]
|-
| FinePrint ||
[http://www.boomaga.org boomaga], [http://wfr.tcl.tk/279 page-crunch], [http://freshmeat.net/projects/mpage/ mpage], [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter], [http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~ajcd/psutils/index.html psnup/PSutils], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam pdfnup/PDFjam]
| Document printing/reformatting tools
|}

= Networking =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Internet Explorer, '''Microsoft Edge''', '''Firefox''', '''Opera''', '''Chrome''', '''Pale Moon''', '''Brave''', '''Vivaldi''', '''Otter Browser''', '''Falkon''', '''Dooble''', '''Slimjet''' ||
[[Firefox]], [[Konqueror]], Epiphany (Gnome Web), Falkon, Microsoft Edge, Slimjet, Midori, [http://www.google.com/chrome Chrome], Chromium, [[Opera]], Otter Browser, Brave, Vivaldi, Falkon, Pale Moon, Dillo, Dooble, Links [[Browsers|''more'']]
| [[Web Browsers]]
|-
| Microsoft Outlook, '''Thunderbird''', Pegasus, Lotus Notes, '''Seamonkey''', '''Claws Mail''', '''Mailspring''' ||
[[Kontact]],
[http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/features/evolution.html Evolution], Seamonkey,
[[Thunderbird]], Claws Mail, Mailspring, Geary [https://itsfoss.com/best-email-clients-linux/ others]
|Email clients.
|-
| '''Trillian''', '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Irssi''', ICQ ||
Trillian, Hexchat, [[PidgIn]], [[Irssi]], [[Kopete]]
| [[Instant messaging]] [[software]].
|-
| Microsoft HyperTerminal ||
[[minicom]]
|-
| FileZilla FTP Client, WS FTP, Bullet Proof FTP, CuteFTP ||
[http://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client FileZilla FTP Client],
[http://www.kftp.org/misc/description KFTP (KFTPGrabber)],
[[Kasablanca]],
[[FireFTP]],
[[Konqueror]],
[[KBear]],
[[gFTP]],
[http://www.crossftp.com/ CrossFTP],
[[Nautilus]]
|FTP clients. Please note GNOME, KDE (and other) programs can directly open and edit files on FTP, SFTP and WebDAV shares, often using [[KIO]], [[GIO]] or [GVfs]].
|-
| mIRC, '''Trillian''', '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Quassel''', '''KVIrc''', '''Irssi''' ||
Trillian, HexChat, [[PidgIn]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quassel_IRC Quassel], [[KVIrc]], Irssi, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konversation Konversation], [[BitchX]]
| [[IRC Clients]]
|-
|[http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/ UltraVNC], TightVNC, RealVNC, Remote Desktop ||
[http://www.tightvnc.com/ TightVNC],
[http://www.realvnc.com/ RealVNC], [http://www.rdesktop.org/ rdesktop],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/freenx/ FreeNX],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/x11vnc/ x11vnc],
[http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ Synergy],
XDMCP, [[SSH]] with X11 forwarding (-X or -Y option)
| [[Desktop Sharing]]
|-
| MailWasher, SpamAssassin for Windows ||
SpamAssassin
| Spam filter
|-
|Forte Free Agent, [[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]] ||
[[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]], [http://www.newsreaders.com/unix/clients.html See More Clients Here]
|News Reader (Usenet [[newsgroup]]s)
|-
| eMule, '''aMule''' || aMule
|ED2K P2P network clients
|-
| [http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php '''Vuze (formerly Azureus)'''], [http://utorrent.com/ utorrent], '''Transmission''', '''Deluge''', '''qBittorrent''', '''Tixati''', '''Frostwire''', '''Tribler''' ||
[http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php Vuze (formerly Azureus)], Transmission, Deluge, qBittorrent, Tixati, Frostwire, Tribler, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qtorrent Qtorrent], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bittornado bittornado], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ktorrent Ktorrent],
|BitTorrent P2P network clients
|-
| '''Skype''', Voipbuster, '''Yate''', '''Linphone''', '''Jitsi''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype Skype], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linphone Linphone], Asterisk, Empathy, Yate, Jitsi
|VoIP software
|-
| Bitvise Tunnelier ||
[http://sourceforge.net/projects/gstm/ gSTM]
|gSTM is a front-end for managing SSH-tunneled port redirects.
|}

== Server ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| IIS, [[Apache]] ||
[[Apache]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nginx Engine-X], [http://www.lighttpd.net/ lighttpd]
|[[Web Servers]]
|-
| Folder sharing, printer sharing ||
[[Samba]]
|Share files and printers between Windows and Linux systems. Installed by default on most distributions.
|-
|IIS, [http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ FileZilla FTP Client & Server]
|[[vsftpd]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure-ftpd pure-ftpd]
|FTP servers, for hosting files.
|-
|[http://www.netlimiter.com/ NetLimiter] ||
[http://monkey.org/~marius/pages/?page=trickle Trickle], [http://l7-filter.sourceforge.net/ Level 7 Filter], [http://www.clarkconnect.com/info/index.php ClarkConnect], [http://www.bandwidtharbitrator.com/ Bandwidth Arbitrator], [http://www.mastershaper.org/index.php/Main_Page MasterShaper]
|Bandwidth shaping and management.
|-
| Exchange ||
[[Citadel]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbra zimbra], [[Open-Xchange]]
|Groupware (sharing of appointments, contacts, e-mail, documents, etc. between members of a group)
|-
| Sharepoint ||
[http://www.knowledgetree.com/opensource KnowledgeTree]
|Manage and secure documents, collaborate around document creation and editing, full document contents indexing
|-
| Norton/McAfee Antivirus, [http://clamwin.com/ ClamWin], AVG, AntiVir, Avast, ClamAV ||
[[ClamAV]], [https://support.avast.com/en-eu/article/131/ Avast Security for Linux]
| Antivirus software.
|-
| ZoneAlarm , Sygate SPF||
[[Guarddog]], [[Firestarter]], [[GUFW]], [[iptables]]
| Firewall software
|}

= Multimedia =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
|[http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/ Adobe Photoshop], [http://www.corel.com/ Corel Photo-Paint], '''GIMP''', '''Glimpse''', '''GIMPShop''', '''ImageMagick''', '''Xnview''', '''[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)]''', '''[https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable]''', '''Pinta''', '''MyPaint''', '''Krita''', '''Filmulator''', '''Photivo''', '''RawTherapee''', '''digiKam''', '''nomacs''' ||
[http://www.gimp.org/ GIMP], Glimpse,
[[GIMPShop]], ImageMagick, Pinta, MyPaint,
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krita Krita], Xnview,
[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)], [https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable], Filmulator, Photivo, RawTherapee, digiKam, nomacs
|Raster graphics editors
|-
|[http://www.corel.com/ Corel Draw], [http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator/ Adobe Illustrator], '''Inkscape''', '''Vectr''', '''Gravit''', '''LibreOffice Draw''', '''sK1''', '''SVG-edit''' ||
[http://www.inkscape.org/ Inkscape], Vectr, Gravit, LibreOffice Draw, Karbon, sK1, SVG-edit. [https://itsfoss.com/vector-graphics-editors-linux/ Ref.]
|Vector graphics editors
|-
|Adobe Animate, '''Synfig''', '''Pencil2D''', '''Tupi (Tupitube Desk)''', '''OpenToonz''', '''Blender''', '''Toon Boom Harmony''', '''Krita''', '''Aseprite''', '''TVPaint''', '''Animaker''', '''Ajax Animator''', '''Glaxnimate''', '''Tahoma2D''', '''Enve''' ||
Synfig, Pencil2D, Tupi (Tupitube Desk), OpenToonz, Blender, Toon Boom Harmony, Krita, Aseprite, TVPaint, Animaker, Ajax Animator, Glaxnimate, Tahoma2D , Enve
| 2D Animations
|-
| Irfanview, ACDSee, '''digiKam''', '''Xnview''', '''nomacs''' ||
[[XnView]], [http://mirageiv.berlios.de/ Mirage], [[GThumb]], Shotwell, KPhotoAlbum, Geeqie, digiKam, Gwenview, Ristretto, Viewnior, Nomacs
|Image viewers
|-
| 3D Studio MAX, '''Blender''', [http://www.autodesk.com '''Maya'''], ''''Cinema 4D''' ||
[[Blender]], [http://www.autodesk.com Maya], Cinema 4D
|3D modeling software
|-
| Autodesk Inventor, Solidworks, CATIA || [http://www.freecadweb.org FreeCAD], [http://www.salome-platform.org/ SALOME platform]
| Professional 3D CAD software
|-
| Windows Media Player, PowerDVD, SMPlayer, MPV, [[VLC]] ||
SMPlayer, MPV, [[VLC]], [[Xine]], [[Totem]], [[Kaffeine]], Parole, Celluloid, [[MPlayer]]
| [[Video Players]]
|-
| SIA Smaart Live || [http://sf.net/projects/brp-pacu/ BRP-PACU] || [[Sound]] analysis
|-
| Winamp, Sonique, iTunes, [http://www.atunes.org/ aTunes], '''Clementine''', '''VLC''', '''SMplayer''', '''Deadbeef''', '''Audacious''', '''Strawberry''', '''Exaile''' ||
[[Amarok]], [[RhythmBox]], [http://banshee-project.org/index.php/Main_Page Banshee], [[Xine]], Elisa, Clementine, VLC, SMplayer, Deadbeef, Audacious, Strawberry, Exaile, pMusic. See also Video Players section
|[[Music Players]]
|-
| [http://www.otsav.com/ OTSAV, OTS Turntables], [http://serato.com/ Serato], [http://www.native-instruments.com/en/traktor/ Traktor], [http://www.virtualdj.com/ Virtual DJ], [http://www.pcdj.com/ PC DJ], [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
| [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
|Audio & video play out (DJ/presenter)
|-
| Windows Movie Maker, Adobe Premiere Elements, [http://www.goldwave.com/mqrelease.php Multiquence], '''Avidemux''', '''OpenShot''', '''VidCutter''', [https://shotcut.org/ '''Shotcut'''], '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron]''', [https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php '''Olive'''], '''Lightworks''' ||
[[Cinelerra]] (difficult but very professional),
[[KDenlive]] (easy and powerful),
[[LiVES]],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avidemux AviDemux],
OpenShot,
VidCutter,
Flowblade,
Pitivi,
DaVinci Resolve,
[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron],
[https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php Olive],
Lightworks (thanks to Linux Format magazine),
[https://shotcut.org/ Shotcut](thanks to Linux Format magazine)
|[[Video Editors]]
|-
| '''Audacity''', Cubase, '''Ardour''', Adobe Audition (formerly Cool Edit Pro), [http://www.goldwave.com/ GoldWave], Cakewalk/Sonar, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''LMMS''', '''Traverso-DAW''', '''[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]''' ||
[[Audacity]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden],
[[Beast]],
[[Ardour]],
Harrison Mixbus,
[http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/index.php Radium],
DaVinci Resolve,
Bitwig Studio,
Qtractor,
[https://traverso-daw.org/ Traverso-DAW],
LMMS,
[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]
|Digital audio workstation software
|-
| Audio Catalyst, '''Ocenaudio''', dbpoweramp, CDex, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''Audacity''' ||
[[Audacity]],
Ocenaudio,
DaVinci Resolve,
[[Grip]]
| [[Audio Editors]]
|-
| '''Wavesurfer''', '''Audacity''', '''Sox'''||[https://itsfoss.com/record-streaming-audio/ Audio Recorder], Ecasound, Audacity, Sox, Wavesurfer
|Audio recorders
|-
| Cakewalk/Sonar ||
[[kmid]],
[[kmidi]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden]
| [[MIDI]]
|-
|[http://www.noteworthysoftware.com/ NoteWorthy Composer], '''MuseScore''', '''LilyPond'''||
[http://www.musescore.org/ MuseScore], [http://lilypond.org/web/ LilyPond]
|Musical score typesetting
|-
|[http://www.guitar-pro.com/ GuitarPro], TuxGuitar ||
[http://www.tuxguitar.com.ar/ TuxGuitar]
|Guitar tablature editors
|-
| Microsoft Paint, Kid Pix, '''Tux Paint''', '''Pencil 2D''', '''Krita''', '''Pinta''', '''Mypaint''', '''Mtpaint''' ||
[http://www.tuxpaint.org/ Tuxpaint], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KolourPaint KolourPaint], Pencil 2D, Krita, [https://launchpad.net/dibuja Dibuja], Pinta, Mypaint, Mtpaint
|Basic raster painting programs
|-
| Videora, [https://handbrake.fr/ '''Handbrake'''], '''WinFF''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || [https://handbrake.fr/ Handbrake], WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, Transmageddon, VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Video converter
|-
| '''WinFF''', '''Handbrake''', '''fre:ac - free audio converter (freac)''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || Handbrake, WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, fre:ac - free audio converter (freac), VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Audio converter
|-
|TMPGEnc DVD Author, Roxio DVDit, '''Open DVD Producer''', '''DVDStyler''' ||
DVDStyler, [http://opendvdproducer.jonata.org/ Open DVD Producer], [http://www.rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html DeVeDe]
|DVD authoring software
|-
|'''uTox''', '''qTox''', '''Jitsi''', '''OpenMeetings''', '''Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone)''', '''Microsoft Teams''', '''Zoom''' || uTox, qTox, OpenMettings, Jitsi, Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone), Empathy, Microsoft Teams, Zoom
| Video Conferencing
|}

= Education =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| '''Klavaro''', '''Tipp10''' || Klavaro, Tipp10, [[KTouch]], Tux Typing, GNU Typist || Touch typing tutors
|-
| '''Maple''', '''Mathematica''' || Maple, Mathematica, [http://maxima.sourceforge.net/ Maxima]
| Computer algebra systems
|-
| '''Matlab''', '''Octave''', '''Scilab''' ||
Matlab, [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ Octave],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SciLab SciLab], Sage, KAlgebra
| High level numeric computation environments
|-
| '''SPSS''', '''Stata''', EViews, '''PSPP''', '''[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project]''', '''[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]''' ||
[http://www.stata.com/products/unix.html Stata], SPSS,
[http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/pspp.html PSPP],
[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Plus S-Plus],
[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]
| Statistical analysis
|-
| Verilog ||
[http://www.icarus.com/eda/verilog/ iverilog]
| Verilog Simulator
|-
| '''Google Earth''', NASA World Wind, '''Celestia''', '''Stellarium''', '''Skychart''', '''Aladin Sky Atlas''', Microsoft Flight Simulator, '''FlightGear''' ||
[http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html Google Earth], [https://celestia.space/index.html Celestia], [http://www.stellarium.org/ Stellarium], [https://marble.kde.org/ Marble], [http://www.geody.com/ Geody], Kstars, Skychart, Aladin Sky Atlas, [http://www.flightgear.org/ FlightGear]
| Geography, astronomy and simulation
|}

''Please add new applications to this list. A good resource is the [http://www.nawaz.org/wiki/index.php?title=Table_of_Equivalents BeetleSpace Windows/Linux Software Table of Equivalents], which is GNU FDL licensed.''

= See also =

* [[running windows software]]
* [http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux.]
* [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareEquivalents Ubuntu software equivalents's page]
* [http://www.linuxeq.com/ The Linux Equivalent Project]
* [https://www.turkishcypriotheritage.org/ turkishcypriotheritage.org]

[[Category:FAQ]]

Linux software equivalent to Windows software

2024-09-16T18:00:36Z

Kareempharmacist: /* Multimedia */

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.

= Office and Productivity =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Office, '''OpenOffice''', '''Libre Office''', '''WPS Office''', '''Softmaker Office''', '''Onlyoffice Desktop'''
| [[Libre Office]], [https://www.wps.com/linux WPS Office](WPS-Community), [[OpenOffice]], [https://www.calligra.org/ Calligra], Softmaker FreeOffice, OnlyOffice Desktop
| Office package
|-
| Microsoft Word, OOwriter, LibreOffice Writer, WPS Writer, Softmaker TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[OOWriter]], [http://www.abiword.org AbiWord], WPS Writer, LibreOffice Writer, Calligra Words, FreeOffice TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop, Lyx, [[LaTeX]]
| [[Word Processing]]
|-
| Notepad, Wordpad, TheGun, EditPlus, SciTE, Notepad++ ||
[[Vim]], [[KWrite]],
[[Kate]], [http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/ BlueFish], [[Gedit]], [[Joe]], Sublime Text, [[Leafpad]], [[Nano]]
| [[Text Editors]]
|-
| Access, dBase, Foxpro, Paradox, '''OOBase''', '''LibreOffice Base'''
| [http://userbase.kde.org/Kexi Kexi], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Base OOBase], LibreOffice Base
| [[Database]]
|-
| Excel, Corel WordPrefect, '''LibreOffice Calc''', '''Softmaker Office PlanMaker''', '''WPS Spreedsheets''', '''OOCalc''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Calc, Calligra Sheets, Softmaker Office PlanMaker, WPS Spreedsheets, [[OOCalc]], [http://www.gnumeric.org gnumeric], OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Spreadsheet]]
|-
| Visio, [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html '''yED'''], '''LibreOffice Draw'''
| [https://www.calligra.org/flow/ Calligra Flow], [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html yED], LibreOffice Draw
| Diagramming
|-
| PowerPoint, '''LibreOffice Impress''', '''OOImpress''', '''WPS Presentation''', '''Softmaker Office Presentations''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Impress, [[OOImpress]], Calligra Stage, WPS Presentation, Softmaker Office Presentations, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Presentation software]]
|-
| Final Draft, Script Studio, '''Fade In''', '''KIT Scenarist''', '''Story Architect''', '''Trelby''', '''Scrite'''
| Fade In, KIT Scenarist, Story Architect, Trelby, Scrite
| Screenwriting software
|-
| Microsoft Project Manager
| [[MOOS Project Viewer]], Calligra Plan
| Project management
|-
| '''Wondershare EdrawMax''', XMind
| Wondershare EdrawMax, Minder, XMind
| Mind maps
|-
| Outlook, '''Thunderbird + Lightning'''
| [[Kontact]], [https://pawsa.fedorapeople.org/balsa/ BALSA], [[Thunderbird]] + [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/ Lightning]
| Personal information managers
|-
| Alcohol 120%, Discjuggler, Easy CD Creator, Nero Burning ROM ||
[[K3b]], [[XCDRoast]], Brasero, Xfburn, [[CD/DVD_Burning|''more'']]
|DVD/CD burning
|-
|Alcohol 120%, Nero Burning ROM, '''MakeMKV''', ImgBurn, Infrarecorder || MakeMKV, Thoggen, Dvdbackup, HandBrake, DVD::RIP, AcidRIP
| DVD ripping software
|-
| Quicken, Microsoft Money, TurboTax
| [http://gnucash.org/ GnucAsh], [http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/index-home.html KMyMoney], [[CrossOver]] Office with Quicken, [http://www.lazy8.nu/ lazy8ledger]
| Accounting
|-
| ActiveSync ||
[[SynCE]]
|Synchronization with Windows Mobile devices
|-
| WinEdt, TeXnicCenter
| [[Kile]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texmaker Texmaker], [[LyX]]
| LaTeX IDEs
|-
| Veritas Backup Exec, [http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm Cobian Backup], '''Duplicati''' ||
LuckyBackup, Déjà Dup, Grsync, Duplicati [[list of backUp applications|''more'']]
| [[Backup]]
|-
| Google Desktop ||
[[Recoll]]
| Desktop Search
|-
| Norton Ghost ||
[[Partition Image]], [[g4u]], [http://www.mondorescue.org/ Mondo Rescue], [[dd]], gDiskDump (a dd frontend), Clonezilla, Trinity Rescue Kit
|Disk imaging
|-
| Norton Partition Magic ||
[[GParted]], Clonezilla (a live cd), KDE Partition Manager, GNOME Disks
|Disk partitioning
|-
|[http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/Disk_Size_Explorer.asp Disk Size Explorer]
|[https://utils.kde.org/projects/filelight/ File Light], [[Konqueror]], Baobab, xdiskusage, duc [https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-analyze-your-disk-usage-pattern-in-linux/ ref.]
| Disk usage analyzers
|-
|[http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html Filemon], [http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Regmon.html Regmon]
| [http://syscalltrack.sourceforge.net/ syscalltrack]
| system call tracking (file monitor & others)
|-
| WinMerge, SyncToy ||
[http://meld.sourceforge.net/ Meld], [[Unison]], [http://synkron.sourceforge.net/ Synkron], [[rSync]]
| File synchronization
|-
| Google Drive, Dropbox, etc ||
[https://rclone.org Rclone]
| Cloud hosted file synchronization (Amazon S3, Dropbox, Google Cloud Storage, Google Drive, FTP, Microsoft OneDrive, sFTP, etc)
|-
| Windows Update, Add/Remove programs||
[[apt-get]], [http://aptitude.sourceforge.net/ Aptitude], [http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Portage portage], [[Rpm|rpm]], [[urpmi]], [[yast]], [[yum]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptic_Package_Manager Synaptic], [https://snapcraft.io Snapcraft (Snap)]
|Every Linux distribution has an infrastructure to manage installed software which is quite different from Windows. For instance, all updates are handled by a single program. See [[package management]].
|-
| WinRunner || [http://hoopajoo.net/projects/xautomation.html xautomation] || automating interactive applications
|-
| 7-Zip, Winzip, Winrar, Peazip ||
[[Karchiver]],
[[File Roller]],
Xarchiver,
[[ark]],
[[hjsplit]]; [[packing and unpacking files|''command line tools'']]
|Archivers
|-
| chkdsk || [[fsck]], [https://www.tecmint.com/linux-disk-scanning-tools/ other tools] || check your file system (and the [[hard disk]] beneath it) for errors
|-
| Daemon Tools ||
[[mount]], Disk Image Mounter in Gnome/KDE, Furius ISO mount, AcetoneISO
|ISO mounting
|-
| Disclib || [http://www.gwhere.org/home.php3 gWhere]
| Disk cataloging programs
|-
| Evernote, OneNote || NixNote, Tusk, Whatever, GeekNote, ForeverNote, [https://joplinapp.org/ Joplin], Xournal, XFCE4 Notes, Xpad, Hnb, Gnote, Feathernotes, Cherrytree, Bijiben, Basket, Noblenote, Nvpy. Thanks to [https://itsfoss.com/evernote-on-linux/]
|Note Taking App
|}

== Desktop Publishing ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Dreamweaver, '''Google Web Designer''', '''Bluefish Editor''', '''Aptana Studio''', '''SeaMonkey''', '''CodeLobster''' ||
[http://www.google.com/webdesigner/ Google Web Designer] (WYSIWYG), Bluefish Editor, Aptana Studio, SeaMonkey, CodeLobster
[[html editors|more]]
|[[Web Design]]
|-
| Quark, Quark Express, Microsoft Publisher, '''Scribus''', '''Karbon''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribus Scribus], Karbon, Laidout, VivaDesigner, QuickSilver, Xara Xtreme
|DTP software
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader, Xpdf Reader, Foxit reader, Sumatra pdf ||

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evince Evince],
Zathura,
Okular,
Bookworm,
Qpdfview,
Foxit reader,
PDF Studio Viewer,
[[Xpdf]],
MuPDF,
Atril,
[[Ghostview]], [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF readers
|-
| Adobe Acrobat Distiller, PDFCreator ||
[http://www.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~vrbehr/cups-pdf/ CUPS-PDF], Libre Office, [[OpenOffice.org]], PDF Studio, [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter] -- can convert to pdf. [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF authoring
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF editor, [http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio '''PDF Studio Pro'''], '''Master PDF Editor''', '''Libreoffice Draw''', '''Scribus''', '''Inkscape''' ||
[http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio PDF Studio Pro], Master PDF Editor, OnlyOffice Desktop Editors, [http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfedit Pdfedit], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam Pdfjam], [http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk Pdftk], Scribus, Inkscape, Karbon, Okular, Libreoffice Draw. Thanks to [https://www.ubuntupit.com/linux-pdf-editor-top-15-reviewed-and-compared/ this] [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF editing tools
|-
| SilverFast ||
[[xSane]], [http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html VueScan], Simple Scan, Skanlite, Gscan2pdf, GIMP with Quitelnsane
| [[scanning]]
|-
| FinePrint ||
[http://www.boomaga.org boomaga], [http://wfr.tcl.tk/279 page-crunch], [http://freshmeat.net/projects/mpage/ mpage], [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter], [http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~ajcd/psutils/index.html psnup/PSutils], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam pdfnup/PDFjam]
| Document printing/reformatting tools
|}

= Networking =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Internet Explorer, '''Microsoft Edge''', '''Firefox''', '''Opera''', '''Chrome''', '''Pale Moon''', '''Brave''', '''Vivaldi''', '''Otter Browser''', '''Falkon''', '''Dooble''', '''Slimjet''' ||
[[Firefox]], [[Konqueror]], Epiphany (Gnome Web), Falkon, Microsoft Edge, Slimjet, Midori, [http://www.google.com/chrome Chrome], Chromium, [[Opera]], Otter Browser, Brave, Vivaldi, Falkon, Pale Moon, Dillo, Dooble, Links [[Browsers|''more'']]
| [[Web Browsers]]
|-
| Microsoft Outlook, '''Thunderbird''', Pegasus, Lotus Notes, '''Seamonkey''', '''Claws Mail''', '''Mailspring''' ||
[[Kontact]],
[http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/features/evolution.html Evolution], Seamonkey,
[[Thunderbird]], Claws Mail, Mailspring, Geary [https://itsfoss.com/best-email-clients-linux/ others]
|Email clients.
|-
| '''Trillian''', '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Irssi''', ICQ ||
Trillian, Hexchat, [[PidgIn]], [[Irssi]], [[Kopete]]
| [[Instant messaging]] [[software]].
|-
| Microsoft HyperTerminal ||
[[minicom]]
|-
| FileZilla FTP Client, WS FTP, Bullet Proof FTP, CuteFTP ||
[http://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client FileZilla FTP Client],
[http://www.kftp.org/misc/description KFTP (KFTPGrabber)],
[[Kasablanca]],
[[FireFTP]],
[[Konqueror]],
[[KBear]],
[[gFTP]],
[http://www.crossftp.com/ CrossFTP],
[[Nautilus]]
|FTP clients. Please note GNOME, KDE (and other) programs can directly open and edit files on FTP, SFTP and WebDAV shares, often using [[KIO]], [[GIO]] or [GVfs]].
|-
| mIRC, '''Trillian''', '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Quassel''', '''KVIrc''', '''Irssi''' ||
Trillian, HexChat, [[PidgIn]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quassel_IRC Quassel], [[KVIrc]], Irssi, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konversation Konversation], [[BitchX]]
| [[IRC Clients]]
|-
|[http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/ UltraVNC], TightVNC, RealVNC, Remote Desktop ||
[http://www.tightvnc.com/ TightVNC],
[http://www.realvnc.com/ RealVNC], [http://www.rdesktop.org/ rdesktop],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/freenx/ FreeNX],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/x11vnc/ x11vnc],
[http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ Synergy],
XDMCP, [[SSH]] with X11 forwarding (-X or -Y option)
| [[Desktop Sharing]]
|-
| MailWasher, SpamAssassin for Windows ||
SpamAssassin
| Spam filter
|-
|Forte Free Agent, [[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]] ||
[[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]], [http://www.newsreaders.com/unix/clients.html See More Clients Here]
|News Reader (Usenet [[newsgroup]]s)
|-
| eMule, '''aMule''' || aMule
|ED2K P2P network clients
|-
| [http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php '''Vuze (formerly Azureus)'''], [http://utorrent.com/ utorrent], '''Transmission''', '''Deluge''', '''qBittorrent''', '''Tixati''', '''Frostwire''', '''Tribler''' ||
[http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php Vuze (formerly Azureus)], Transmission, Deluge, qBittorrent, Tixati, Frostwire, Tribler, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qtorrent Qtorrent], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bittornado bittornado], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ktorrent Ktorrent],
|BitTorrent P2P network clients
|-
| '''Skype''', Voipbuster, '''Yate''', '''Linphone''', '''Jitsi''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype Skype], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linphone Linphone], Asterisk, Empathy, Yate, Jitsi
|VoIP software
|-
| Bitvise Tunnelier ||
[http://sourceforge.net/projects/gstm/ gSTM]
|gSTM is a front-end for managing SSH-tunneled port redirects.
|}

== Server ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| IIS, [[Apache]] ||
[[Apache]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nginx Engine-X], [http://www.lighttpd.net/ lighttpd]
|[[Web Servers]]
|-
| Folder sharing, printer sharing ||
[[Samba]]
|Share files and printers between Windows and Linux systems. Installed by default on most distributions.
|-
|IIS, [http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ FileZilla FTP Client & Server]
|[[vsftpd]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure-ftpd pure-ftpd]
|FTP servers, for hosting files.
|-
|[http://www.netlimiter.com/ NetLimiter] ||
[http://monkey.org/~marius/pages/?page=trickle Trickle], [http://l7-filter.sourceforge.net/ Level 7 Filter], [http://www.clarkconnect.com/info/index.php ClarkConnect], [http://www.bandwidtharbitrator.com/ Bandwidth Arbitrator], [http://www.mastershaper.org/index.php/Main_Page MasterShaper]
|Bandwidth shaping and management.
|-
| Exchange ||
[[Citadel]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbra zimbra], [[Open-Xchange]]
|Groupware (sharing of appointments, contacts, e-mail, documents, etc. between members of a group)
|-
| Sharepoint ||
[http://www.knowledgetree.com/opensource KnowledgeTree]
|Manage and secure documents, collaborate around document creation and editing, full document contents indexing
|-
| Norton/McAfee Antivirus, [http://clamwin.com/ ClamWin], AVG, AntiVir, Avast, ClamAV ||
[[ClamAV]], [https://support.avast.com/en-eu/article/131/ Avast Security for Linux]
| Antivirus software.
|-
| ZoneAlarm , Sygate SPF||
[[Guarddog]], [[Firestarter]], [[GUFW]], [[iptables]]
| Firewall software
|}

= Multimedia =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
|[http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/ Adobe Photoshop], [http://www.corel.com/ Corel Photo-Paint], '''GIMP''', '''Glimpse''', '''GIMPShop''', '''ImageMagick''', '''Xnview''', '''[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)]''', '''[https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable]''', '''Pinta''', '''MyPaint''', '''Krita''', '''Filmulator''', '''Photivo''', '''RawTherapee''', '''digiKam''', '''nomacs''' ||
[http://www.gimp.org/ GIMP], Glimpse,
[[GIMPShop]], ImageMagick, Pinta, MyPaint,
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krita Krita], Xnview,
[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)], [https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable], Filmulator, Photivo, RawTherapee, digiKam, nomacs
|Raster graphics editors
|-
|[http://www.corel.com/ Corel Draw], [http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator/ Adobe Illustrator], '''Inkscape''', '''Vectr''', '''Gravit''', '''LibreOffice Draw''', '''sK1''', '''SVG-edit''' ||
[http://www.inkscape.org/ Inkscape], Vectr, Gravit, LibreOffice Draw, Karbon, sK1, SVG-edit. [https://itsfoss.com/vector-graphics-editors-linux/ Ref.]
|Vector graphics editors
|-
|Adobe Animate, '''Synfig''', '''Pencil2D''', '''Tupi (Tupitube Desk)''', '''OpenToonz''', '''Blender''', '''Toon Boom Harmony''', '''Krita''', '''Aseprite''', '''TVPaint''', '''Animaker''', '''Ajax Animator''', '''Glaxnimate''', '''Tahoma2D''', '''Enve''' ||
Synfig, Pencil2D, Tupi (Tupitube Desk), OpenToonz, Blender, Toon Boom Harmony, Krita, Aseprite, TVPaint, Animaker, Ajax Animator, Glaxnimate, Tahoma2D , Enve
| 2D Animations
|-
| Irfanview, ACDSee, '''digiKam''', '''Xnview''', '''nomacs''' ||
[[XnView]], [http://mirageiv.berlios.de/ Mirage], [[GThumb]], Shotwell, KPhotoAlbum, Geeqie, digiKam, Gwenview, Ristretto, Viewnior, Nomacs
|Image viewers
|-
| 3D Studio MAX, '''Blender''', [http://www.autodesk.com '''Maya'''], ''''inema 4D''' ||
[[Blender]], [http://www.autodesk.com Maya], Cinema 4D
|3D modeling software
|-
| Autodesk Inventor, Solidworks, CATIA || [http://www.freecadweb.org FreeCAD], [http://www.salome-platform.org/ SALOME platform]
| Professional 3D CAD software
|-
| Windows Media Player, PowerDVD, SMPlayer, MPV, [[VLC]] ||
SMPlayer, MPV, [[VLC]], [[Xine]], [[Totem]], [[Kaffeine]], Parole, Celluloid, [[MPlayer]]
| [[Video Players]]
|-
| SIA Smaart Live || [http://sf.net/projects/brp-pacu/ BRP-PACU] || [[Sound]] analysis
|-
| Winamp, Sonique, iTunes, [http://www.atunes.org/ aTunes], '''Clementine''', '''VLC''', '''SMplayer''', '''Deadbeef''', '''Audacious''', '''Strawberry''', '''Exaile''' ||
[[Amarok]], [[RhythmBox]], [http://banshee-project.org/index.php/Main_Page Banshee], [[Xine]], Elisa, Clementine, VLC, SMplayer, Deadbeef, Audacious, Strawberry, Exaile, pMusic. See also Video Players section
|[[Music Players]]
|-
| [http://www.otsav.com/ OTSAV, OTS Turntables], [http://serato.com/ Serato], [http://www.native-instruments.com/en/traktor/ Traktor], [http://www.virtualdj.com/ Virtual DJ], [http://www.pcdj.com/ PC DJ], [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
| [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
|Audio & video play out (DJ/presenter)
|-
| Windows Movie Maker, Adobe Premiere Elements, [http://www.goldwave.com/mqrelease.php Multiquence], '''Avidemux''', '''OpenShot''', '''VidCutter''', [https://shotcut.org/ '''Shotcut'''], '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron]''', [https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php '''Olive'''], '''Lightworks''' ||
[[Cinelerra]] (difficult but very professional),
[[KDenlive]] (easy and powerful),
[[LiVES]],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avidemux AviDemux],
OpenShot,
VidCutter,
Flowblade,
Pitivi,
DaVinci Resolve,
[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron],
[https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php Olive],
Lightworks (thanks to Linux Format magazine),
[https://shotcut.org/ Shotcut](thanks to Linux Format magazine)
|[[Video Editors]]
|-
| '''Audacity''', Cubase, '''Ardour''', Adobe Audition (formerly Cool Edit Pro), [http://www.goldwave.com/ GoldWave], Cakewalk/Sonar, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''LMMS''', '''Traverso-DAW''', '''[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]''' ||
[[Audacity]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden],
[[Beast]],
[[Ardour]],
Harrison Mixbus,
[http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/index.php Radium],
DaVinci Resolve,
Bitwig Studio,
Qtractor,
[https://traverso-daw.org/ Traverso-DAW],
LMMS,
[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]
|Digital audio workstation software
|-
| Audio Catalyst, '''Ocenaudio''', dbpoweramp, CDex, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''Audacity''' ||
[[Audacity]],
Ocenaudio,
DaVinci Resolve,
[[Grip]]
| [[Audio Editors]]
|-
| '''Wavesurfer''', '''Audacity''', '''Sox'''||[https://itsfoss.com/record-streaming-audio/ Audio Recorder], Ecasound, Audacity, Sox, Wavesurfer
|Audio recorders
|-
| Cakewalk/Sonar ||
[[kmid]],
[[kmidi]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden]
| [[MIDI]]
|-
|[http://www.noteworthysoftware.com/ NoteWorthy Composer], '''MuseScore''', '''LilyPond'''||
[http://www.musescore.org/ MuseScore], [http://lilypond.org/web/ LilyPond]
|Musical score typesetting
|-
|[http://www.guitar-pro.com/ GuitarPro], TuxGuitar ||
[http://www.tuxguitar.com.ar/ TuxGuitar]
|Guitar tablature editors
|-
| Microsoft Paint, Kid Pix, '''Tux Paint''', '''Pencil 2D''', '''Krita''', '''Pinta''', '''Mypaint''', '''Mtpaint''' ||
[http://www.tuxpaint.org/ Tuxpaint], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KolourPaint KolourPaint], Pencil 2D, Krita, [https://launchpad.net/dibuja Dibuja], Pinta, Mypaint, Mtpaint
|Basic raster painting programs
|-
| Videora, [https://handbrake.fr/ '''Handbrake'''], '''WinFF''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || [https://handbrake.fr/ Handbrake], WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, Transmageddon, VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Video converter
|-
| '''WinFF''', '''Handbrake''', '''fre:ac - free audio converter (freac)''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || Handbrake, WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, fre:ac - free audio converter (freac), VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Audio converter
|-
|TMPGEnc DVD Author, Roxio DVDit, '''Open DVD Producer''', '''DVDStyler''' ||
DVDStyler, [http://opendvdproducer.jonata.org/ Open DVD Producer], [http://www.rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html DeVeDe]
|DVD authoring software
|-
|'''uTox''', '''qTox''', '''Jitsi''', '''OpenMeetings''', '''Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone)''', '''Microsoft Teams''', '''Zoom''' || uTox, qTox, OpenMettings, Jitsi, Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone), Empathy, Microsoft Teams, Zoom
| Video Conferencing
|}

= Education =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| '''Klavaro''', '''Tipp10''' || Klavaro, Tipp10, [[KTouch]], Tux Typing, GNU Typist || Touch typing tutors
|-
| '''Maple''', '''Mathematica''' || Maple, Mathematica, [http://maxima.sourceforge.net/ Maxima]
| Computer algebra systems
|-
| '''Matlab''', '''Octave''', '''Scilab''' ||
Matlab, [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ Octave],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SciLab SciLab], Sage, KAlgebra
| High level numeric computation environments
|-
| '''SPSS''', '''Stata''', EViews, '''PSPP''', '''[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project]''', '''[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]''' ||
[http://www.stata.com/products/unix.html Stata], SPSS,
[http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/pspp.html PSPP],
[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Plus S-Plus],
[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]
| Statistical analysis
|-
| Verilog ||
[http://www.icarus.com/eda/verilog/ iverilog]
| Verilog Simulator
|-
| '''Google Earth''', NASA World Wind, '''Celestia''', '''Stellarium''', '''Skychart''', '''Aladin Sky Atlas''', Microsoft Flight Simulator, '''FlightGear''' ||
[http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html Google Earth], [https://celestia.space/index.html Celestia], [http://www.stellarium.org/ Stellarium], [https://marble.kde.org/ Marble], [http://www.geody.com/ Geody], Kstars, Skychart, Aladin Sky Atlas, [http://www.flightgear.org/ FlightGear]
| Geography, astronomy and simulation
|}

''Please add new applications to this list. A good resource is the [http://www.nawaz.org/wiki/index.php?title=Table_of_Equivalents BeetleSpace Windows/Linux Software Table of Equivalents], which is GNU FDL licensed.''

= See also =

* [[running windows software]]
* [http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux.]
* [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareEquivalents Ubuntu software equivalents's page]
* [http://www.linuxeq.com/ The Linux Equivalent Project]
* [https://www.turkishcypriotheritage.org/ turkishcypriotheritage.org]

[[Category:FAQ]]

Linux software equivalent to Windows software

2024-09-16T17:59:35Z

Kareempharmacist: /* Multimedia */

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.

= Office and Productivity =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Office, '''OpenOffice''', '''Libre Office''', '''WPS Office''', '''Softmaker Office''', '''Onlyoffice Desktop'''
| [[Libre Office]], [https://www.wps.com/linux WPS Office](WPS-Community), [[OpenOffice]], [https://www.calligra.org/ Calligra], Softmaker FreeOffice, OnlyOffice Desktop
| Office package
|-
| Microsoft Word, OOwriter, LibreOffice Writer, WPS Writer, Softmaker TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[OOWriter]], [http://www.abiword.org AbiWord], WPS Writer, LibreOffice Writer, Calligra Words, FreeOffice TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop, Lyx, [[LaTeX]]
| [[Word Processing]]
|-
| Notepad, Wordpad, TheGun, EditPlus, SciTE, Notepad++ ||
[[Vim]], [[KWrite]],
[[Kate]], [http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/ BlueFish], [[Gedit]], [[Joe]], Sublime Text, [[Leafpad]], [[Nano]]
| [[Text Editors]]
|-
| Access, dBase, Foxpro, Paradox, '''OOBase''', '''LibreOffice Base'''
| [http://userbase.kde.org/Kexi Kexi], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Base OOBase], LibreOffice Base
| [[Database]]
|-
| Excel, Corel WordPrefect, '''LibreOffice Calc''', '''Softmaker Office PlanMaker''', '''WPS Spreedsheets''', '''OOCalc''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Calc, Calligra Sheets, Softmaker Office PlanMaker, WPS Spreedsheets, [[OOCalc]], [http://www.gnumeric.org gnumeric], OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Spreadsheet]]
|-
| Visio, [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html '''yED'''], '''LibreOffice Draw'''
| [https://www.calligra.org/flow/ Calligra Flow], [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html yED], LibreOffice Draw
| Diagramming
|-
| PowerPoint, '''LibreOffice Impress''', '''OOImpress''', '''WPS Presentation''', '''Softmaker Office Presentations''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Impress, [[OOImpress]], Calligra Stage, WPS Presentation, Softmaker Office Presentations, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Presentation software]]
|-
| Final Draft, Script Studio, '''Fade In''', '''KIT Scenarist''', '''Story Architect''', '''Trelby''', '''Scrite'''
| Fade In, KIT Scenarist, Story Architect, Trelby, Scrite
| Screenwriting software
|-
| Microsoft Project Manager
| [[MOOS Project Viewer]], Calligra Plan
| Project management
|-
| '''Wondershare EdrawMax''', XMind
| Wondershare EdrawMax, Minder, XMind
| Mind maps
|-
| Outlook, '''Thunderbird + Lightning'''
| [[Kontact]], [https://pawsa.fedorapeople.org/balsa/ BALSA], [[Thunderbird]] + [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/ Lightning]
| Personal information managers
|-
| Alcohol 120%, Discjuggler, Easy CD Creator, Nero Burning ROM ||
[[K3b]], [[XCDRoast]], Brasero, Xfburn, [[CD/DVD_Burning|''more'']]
|DVD/CD burning
|-
|Alcohol 120%, Nero Burning ROM, '''MakeMKV''', ImgBurn, Infrarecorder || MakeMKV, Thoggen, Dvdbackup, HandBrake, DVD::RIP, AcidRIP
| DVD ripping software
|-
| Quicken, Microsoft Money, TurboTax
| [http://gnucash.org/ GnucAsh], [http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/index-home.html KMyMoney], [[CrossOver]] Office with Quicken, [http://www.lazy8.nu/ lazy8ledger]
| Accounting
|-
| ActiveSync ||
[[SynCE]]
|Synchronization with Windows Mobile devices
|-
| WinEdt, TeXnicCenter
| [[Kile]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texmaker Texmaker], [[LyX]]
| LaTeX IDEs
|-
| Veritas Backup Exec, [http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm Cobian Backup], '''Duplicati''' ||
LuckyBackup, Déjà Dup, Grsync, Duplicati [[list of backUp applications|''more'']]
| [[Backup]]
|-
| Google Desktop ||
[[Recoll]]
| Desktop Search
|-
| Norton Ghost ||
[[Partition Image]], [[g4u]], [http://www.mondorescue.org/ Mondo Rescue], [[dd]], gDiskDump (a dd frontend), Clonezilla, Trinity Rescue Kit
|Disk imaging
|-
| Norton Partition Magic ||
[[GParted]], Clonezilla (a live cd), KDE Partition Manager, GNOME Disks
|Disk partitioning
|-
|[http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/Disk_Size_Explorer.asp Disk Size Explorer]
|[https://utils.kde.org/projects/filelight/ File Light], [[Konqueror]], Baobab, xdiskusage, duc [https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-analyze-your-disk-usage-pattern-in-linux/ ref.]
| Disk usage analyzers
|-
|[http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html Filemon], [http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Regmon.html Regmon]
| [http://syscalltrack.sourceforge.net/ syscalltrack]
| system call tracking (file monitor & others)
|-
| WinMerge, SyncToy ||
[http://meld.sourceforge.net/ Meld], [[Unison]], [http://synkron.sourceforge.net/ Synkron], [[rSync]]
| File synchronization
|-
| Google Drive, Dropbox, etc ||
[https://rclone.org Rclone]
| Cloud hosted file synchronization (Amazon S3, Dropbox, Google Cloud Storage, Google Drive, FTP, Microsoft OneDrive, sFTP, etc)
|-
| Windows Update, Add/Remove programs||
[[apt-get]], [http://aptitude.sourceforge.net/ Aptitude], [http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Portage portage], [[Rpm|rpm]], [[urpmi]], [[yast]], [[yum]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptic_Package_Manager Synaptic], [https://snapcraft.io Snapcraft (Snap)]
|Every Linux distribution has an infrastructure to manage installed software which is quite different from Windows. For instance, all updates are handled by a single program. See [[package management]].
|-
| WinRunner || [http://hoopajoo.net/projects/xautomation.html xautomation] || automating interactive applications
|-
| 7-Zip, Winzip, Winrar, Peazip ||
[[Karchiver]],
[[File Roller]],
Xarchiver,
[[ark]],
[[hjsplit]]; [[packing and unpacking files|''command line tools'']]
|Archivers
|-
| chkdsk || [[fsck]], [https://www.tecmint.com/linux-disk-scanning-tools/ other tools] || check your file system (and the [[hard disk]] beneath it) for errors
|-
| Daemon Tools ||
[[mount]], Disk Image Mounter in Gnome/KDE, Furius ISO mount, AcetoneISO
|ISO mounting
|-
| Disclib || [http://www.gwhere.org/home.php3 gWhere]
| Disk cataloging programs
|-
| Evernote, OneNote || NixNote, Tusk, Whatever, GeekNote, ForeverNote, [https://joplinapp.org/ Joplin], Xournal, XFCE4 Notes, Xpad, Hnb, Gnote, Feathernotes, Cherrytree, Bijiben, Basket, Noblenote, Nvpy. Thanks to [https://itsfoss.com/evernote-on-linux/]
|Note Taking App
|}

== Desktop Publishing ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Dreamweaver, '''Google Web Designer''', '''Bluefish Editor''', '''Aptana Studio''', '''SeaMonkey''', '''CodeLobster''' ||
[http://www.google.com/webdesigner/ Google Web Designer] (WYSIWYG), Bluefish Editor, Aptana Studio, SeaMonkey, CodeLobster
[[html editors|more]]
|[[Web Design]]
|-
| Quark, Quark Express, Microsoft Publisher, '''Scribus''', '''Karbon''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribus Scribus], Karbon, Laidout, VivaDesigner, QuickSilver, Xara Xtreme
|DTP software
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader, Xpdf Reader, Foxit reader, Sumatra pdf ||

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evince Evince],
Zathura,
Okular,
Bookworm,
Qpdfview,
Foxit reader,
PDF Studio Viewer,
[[Xpdf]],
MuPDF,
Atril,
[[Ghostview]], [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF readers
|-
| Adobe Acrobat Distiller, PDFCreator ||
[http://www.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~vrbehr/cups-pdf/ CUPS-PDF], Libre Office, [[OpenOffice.org]], PDF Studio, [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter] -- can convert to pdf. [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF authoring
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF editor, [http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio '''PDF Studio Pro'''], '''Master PDF Editor''', '''Libreoffice Draw''', '''Scribus''', '''Inkscape''' ||
[http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio PDF Studio Pro], Master PDF Editor, OnlyOffice Desktop Editors, [http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfedit Pdfedit], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam Pdfjam], [http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk Pdftk], Scribus, Inkscape, Karbon, Okular, Libreoffice Draw. Thanks to [https://www.ubuntupit.com/linux-pdf-editor-top-15-reviewed-and-compared/ this] [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF editing tools
|-
| SilverFast ||
[[xSane]], [http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html VueScan], Simple Scan, Skanlite, Gscan2pdf, GIMP with Quitelnsane
| [[scanning]]
|-
| FinePrint ||
[http://www.boomaga.org boomaga], [http://wfr.tcl.tk/279 page-crunch], [http://freshmeat.net/projects/mpage/ mpage], [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter], [http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~ajcd/psutils/index.html psnup/PSutils], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam pdfnup/PDFjam]
| Document printing/reformatting tools
|}

= Networking =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Internet Explorer, '''Microsoft Edge''', '''Firefox''', '''Opera''', '''Chrome''', '''Pale Moon''', '''Brave''', '''Vivaldi''', '''Otter Browser''', '''Falkon''', '''Dooble''', '''Slimjet''' ||
[[Firefox]], [[Konqueror]], Epiphany (Gnome Web), Falkon, Microsoft Edge, Slimjet, Midori, [http://www.google.com/chrome Chrome], Chromium, [[Opera]], Otter Browser, Brave, Vivaldi, Falkon, Pale Moon, Dillo, Dooble, Links [[Browsers|''more'']]
| [[Web Browsers]]
|-
| Microsoft Outlook, '''Thunderbird''', Pegasus, Lotus Notes, '''Seamonkey''', '''Claws Mail''', '''Mailspring''' ||
[[Kontact]],
[http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/features/evolution.html Evolution], Seamonkey,
[[Thunderbird]], Claws Mail, Mailspring, Geary [https://itsfoss.com/best-email-clients-linux/ others]
|Email clients.
|-
| '''Trillian''', '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Irssi''', ICQ ||
Trillian, Hexchat, [[PidgIn]], [[Irssi]], [[Kopete]]
| [[Instant messaging]] [[software]].
|-
| Microsoft HyperTerminal ||
[[minicom]]
|-
| FileZilla FTP Client, WS FTP, Bullet Proof FTP, CuteFTP ||
[http://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client FileZilla FTP Client],
[http://www.kftp.org/misc/description KFTP (KFTPGrabber)],
[[Kasablanca]],
[[FireFTP]],
[[Konqueror]],
[[KBear]],
[[gFTP]],
[http://www.crossftp.com/ CrossFTP],
[[Nautilus]]
|FTP clients. Please note GNOME, KDE (and other) programs can directly open and edit files on FTP, SFTP and WebDAV shares, often using [[KIO]], [[GIO]] or [GVfs]].
|-
| mIRC, '''Trillian''', '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Quassel''', '''KVIrc''', '''Irssi''' ||
Trillian, HexChat, [[PidgIn]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quassel_IRC Quassel], [[KVIrc]], Irssi, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konversation Konversation], [[BitchX]]
| [[IRC Clients]]
|-
|[http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/ UltraVNC], TightVNC, RealVNC, Remote Desktop ||
[http://www.tightvnc.com/ TightVNC],
[http://www.realvnc.com/ RealVNC], [http://www.rdesktop.org/ rdesktop],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/freenx/ FreeNX],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/x11vnc/ x11vnc],
[http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ Synergy],
XDMCP, [[SSH]] with X11 forwarding (-X or -Y option)
| [[Desktop Sharing]]
|-
| MailWasher, SpamAssassin for Windows ||
SpamAssassin
| Spam filter
|-
|Forte Free Agent, [[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]] ||
[[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]], [http://www.newsreaders.com/unix/clients.html See More Clients Here]
|News Reader (Usenet [[newsgroup]]s)
|-
| eMule, '''aMule''' || aMule
|ED2K P2P network clients
|-
| [http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php '''Vuze (formerly Azureus)'''], [http://utorrent.com/ utorrent], '''Transmission''', '''Deluge''', '''qBittorrent''', '''Tixati''', '''Frostwire''', '''Tribler''' ||
[http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php Vuze (formerly Azureus)], Transmission, Deluge, qBittorrent, Tixati, Frostwire, Tribler, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qtorrent Qtorrent], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bittornado bittornado], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ktorrent Ktorrent],
|BitTorrent P2P network clients
|-
| '''Skype''', Voipbuster, '''Yate''', '''Linphone''', '''Jitsi''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype Skype], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linphone Linphone], Asterisk, Empathy, Yate, Jitsi
|VoIP software
|-
| Bitvise Tunnelier ||
[http://sourceforge.net/projects/gstm/ gSTM]
|gSTM is a front-end for managing SSH-tunneled port redirects.
|}

== Server ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| IIS, [[Apache]] ||
[[Apache]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nginx Engine-X], [http://www.lighttpd.net/ lighttpd]
|[[Web Servers]]
|-
| Folder sharing, printer sharing ||
[[Samba]]
|Share files and printers between Windows and Linux systems. Installed by default on most distributions.
|-
|IIS, [http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ FileZilla FTP Client & Server]
|[[vsftpd]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure-ftpd pure-ftpd]
|FTP servers, for hosting files.
|-
|[http://www.netlimiter.com/ NetLimiter] ||
[http://monkey.org/~marius/pages/?page=trickle Trickle], [http://l7-filter.sourceforge.net/ Level 7 Filter], [http://www.clarkconnect.com/info/index.php ClarkConnect], [http://www.bandwidtharbitrator.com/ Bandwidth Arbitrator], [http://www.mastershaper.org/index.php/Main_Page MasterShaper]
|Bandwidth shaping and management.
|-
| Exchange ||
[[Citadel]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbra zimbra], [[Open-Xchange]]
|Groupware (sharing of appointments, contacts, e-mail, documents, etc. between members of a group)
|-
| Sharepoint ||
[http://www.knowledgetree.com/opensource KnowledgeTree]
|Manage and secure documents, collaborate around document creation and editing, full document contents indexing
|-
| Norton/McAfee Antivirus, [http://clamwin.com/ ClamWin], AVG, AntiVir, Avast, ClamAV ||
[[ClamAV]], [https://support.avast.com/en-eu/article/131/ Avast Security for Linux]
| Antivirus software.
|-
| ZoneAlarm , Sygate SPF||
[[Guarddog]], [[Firestarter]], [[GUFW]], [[iptables]]
| Firewall software
|}

= Multimedia =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
|[http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/ Adobe Photoshop], [http://www.corel.com/ Corel Photo-Paint], '''GIMP''', '''Glimpse''', '''GIMPShop''', '''ImageMagick''', '''Xnview''', '''[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)]''', '''[https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable]''', '''Pinta''', '''MyPaint''', '''Krita''', '''Filmulator''', '''Photivo''', '''RawTherapee''', '''digiKam''', '''nomacs''' ||
[http://www.gimp.org/ GIMP], Glimpse,
[[GIMPShop]], ImageMagick, Pinta, MyPaint,
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krita Krita], Xnview,
[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)], [https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable], Filmulator, Photivo, RawTherapee, digiKam, nomacs
|Raster graphics editors
|-
|[http://www.corel.com/ Corel Draw], [http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator/ Adobe Illustrator], '''Inkscape''', '''Vectr''', '''Gravit''', '''LibreOffice Draw''', '''sK1''', '''SVG-edit''' ||
[http://www.inkscape.org/ Inkscape], Vectr, Gravit, LibreOffice Draw, Karbon, sK1, SVG-edit. [https://itsfoss.com/vector-graphics-editors-linux/ Ref.]
|Vector graphics editors
|-
|Adobe Animate, '''Synfig''', '''Pencil2D''', '''Tupi (Tupitube Desk)''', '''OpenToonz''', '''Blender''', '''Toon Boom Harmony''', '''Krita''', '''Aseprite''', '''TVPaint''', '''Animaker''', '''Ajax Animator''', '''Glaxnimate''', '''Tahoma2D''', '''Enve''' ||
Synfig, Pencil2D, Tupi (Tupitube Desk), OpenToonz, Blender, Toon Boom Harmony, Krita, Aseprite, TVPaint, Animaker, Ajax Animator, Glaxnimate, Tahoma2D , Enve
| 2D Animations
|-
| Irfanview, ACDSee, '''digiKam''', '''Xnview''', '''nomacs''' ||
[[XnView]], [http://mirageiv.berlios.de/ Mirage], [[GThumb]], Shotwell, KPhotoAlbum, Geeqie, digiKam, Gwenview, Ristretto, Viewnior, Nomacs
|Image viewers
|-
| 3D Studio MAX, '''Blender''', [http://www.autodesk.com '''Maya'''], Cinema 4D ||
[[Blender]], [http://www.autodesk.com Maya], Cinema 4D
|3D modeling software
|-
| Autodesk Inventor, Solidworks, CATIA || [http://www.freecadweb.org FreeCAD], [http://www.salome-platform.org/ SALOME platform]
| Professional 3D CAD software
|-
| Windows Media Player, PowerDVD, SMPlayer, MPV, [[VLC]] ||
SMPlayer, MPV, [[VLC]], [[Xine]], [[Totem]], [[Kaffeine]], Parole, Celluloid, [[MPlayer]]
| [[Video Players]]
|-
| SIA Smaart Live || [http://sf.net/projects/brp-pacu/ BRP-PACU] || [[Sound]] analysis
|-
| Winamp, Sonique, iTunes, [http://www.atunes.org/ aTunes], '''Clementine''', '''VLC''', '''SMplayer''', '''Deadbeef''', '''Audacious''', '''Strawberry''', '''Exaile''' ||
[[Amarok]], [[RhythmBox]], [http://banshee-project.org/index.php/Main_Page Banshee], [[Xine]], Elisa, Clementine, VLC, SMplayer, Deadbeef, Audacious, Strawberry, Exaile, pMusic. See also Video Players section
|[[Music Players]]
|-
| [http://www.otsav.com/ OTSAV, OTS Turntables], [http://serato.com/ Serato], [http://www.native-instruments.com/en/traktor/ Traktor], [http://www.virtualdj.com/ Virtual DJ], [http://www.pcdj.com/ PC DJ], [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
| [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
|Audio & video play out (DJ/presenter)
|-
| Windows Movie Maker, Adobe Premiere Elements, [http://www.goldwave.com/mqrelease.php Multiquence], '''Avidemux''', '''OpenShot''', '''VidCutter''', [https://shotcut.org/ '''Shotcut'''], '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron]''', [https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php '''Olive'''], '''Lightworks''' ||
[[Cinelerra]] (difficult but very professional),
[[KDenlive]] (easy and powerful),
[[LiVES]],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avidemux AviDemux],
OpenShot,
VidCutter,
Flowblade,
Pitivi,
DaVinci Resolve,
[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron],
[https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php Olive],
Lightworks (thanks to Linux Format magazine),
[https://shotcut.org/ Shotcut](thanks to Linux Format magazine)
|[[Video Editors]]
|-
| '''Audacity''', Cubase, '''Ardour''', Adobe Audition (formerly Cool Edit Pro), [http://www.goldwave.com/ GoldWave], Cakewalk/Sonar, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''LMMS''', '''Traverso-DAW''', '''[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]''' ||
[[Audacity]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden],
[[Beast]],
[[Ardour]],
Harrison Mixbus,
[http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/index.php Radium],
DaVinci Resolve,
Bitwig Studio,
Qtractor,
[https://traverso-daw.org/ Traverso-DAW],
LMMS,
[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]
|Digital audio workstation software
|-
| Audio Catalyst, '''Ocenaudio''', dbpoweramp, CDex, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''Audacity''' ||
[[Audacity]],
Ocenaudio,
DaVinci Resolve,
[[Grip]]
| [[Audio Editors]]
|-
| '''Wavesurfer''', '''Audacity''', '''Sox'''||[https://itsfoss.com/record-streaming-audio/ Audio Recorder], Ecasound, Audacity, Sox, Wavesurfer
|Audio recorders
|-
| Cakewalk/Sonar ||
[[kmid]],
[[kmidi]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden]
| [[MIDI]]
|-
|[http://www.noteworthysoftware.com/ NoteWorthy Composer], '''MuseScore''', '''LilyPond'''||
[http://www.musescore.org/ MuseScore], [http://lilypond.org/web/ LilyPond]
|Musical score typesetting
|-
|[http://www.guitar-pro.com/ GuitarPro], TuxGuitar ||
[http://www.tuxguitar.com.ar/ TuxGuitar]
|Guitar tablature editors
|-
| Microsoft Paint, Kid Pix, '''Tux Paint''', '''Pencil 2D''', '''Krita''', '''Pinta''', '''Mypaint''', '''Mtpaint''' ||
[http://www.tuxpaint.org/ Tuxpaint], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KolourPaint KolourPaint], Pencil 2D, Krita, [https://launchpad.net/dibuja Dibuja], Pinta, Mypaint, Mtpaint
|Basic raster painting programs
|-
| Videora, [https://handbrake.fr/ '''Handbrake'''], '''WinFF''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || [https://handbrake.fr/ Handbrake], WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, Transmageddon, VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Video converter
|-
| '''WinFF''', '''Handbrake''', '''fre:ac - free audio converter (freac)''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || Handbrake, WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, fre:ac - free audio converter (freac), VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Audio converter
|-
|TMPGEnc DVD Author, Roxio DVDit, '''Open DVD Producer''', '''DVDStyler''' ||
DVDStyler, [http://opendvdproducer.jonata.org/ Open DVD Producer], [http://www.rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html DeVeDe]
|DVD authoring software
|-
|'''uTox''', '''qTox''', '''Jitsi''', '''OpenMeetings''', '''Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone)''', '''Microsoft Teams''', '''Zoom''' || uTox, qTox, OpenMettings, Jitsi, Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone), Empathy, Microsoft Teams, Zoom
| Video Conferencing
|}

= Education =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| '''Klavaro''', '''Tipp10''' || Klavaro, Tipp10, [[KTouch]], Tux Typing, GNU Typist || Touch typing tutors
|-
| '''Maple''', '''Mathematica''' || Maple, Mathematica, [http://maxima.sourceforge.net/ Maxima]
| Computer algebra systems
|-
| '''Matlab''', '''Octave''', '''Scilab''' ||
Matlab, [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ Octave],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SciLab SciLab], Sage, KAlgebra
| High level numeric computation environments
|-
| '''SPSS''', '''Stata''', EViews, '''PSPP''', '''[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project]''', '''[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]''' ||
[http://www.stata.com/products/unix.html Stata], SPSS,
[http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/pspp.html PSPP],
[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Plus S-Plus],
[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]
| Statistical analysis
|-
| Verilog ||
[http://www.icarus.com/eda/verilog/ iverilog]
| Verilog Simulator
|-
| '''Google Earth''', NASA World Wind, '''Celestia''', '''Stellarium''', '''Skychart''', '''Aladin Sky Atlas''', Microsoft Flight Simulator, '''FlightGear''' ||
[http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html Google Earth], [https://celestia.space/index.html Celestia], [http://www.stellarium.org/ Stellarium], [https://marble.kde.org/ Marble], [http://www.geody.com/ Geody], Kstars, Skychart, Aladin Sky Atlas, [http://www.flightgear.org/ FlightGear]
| Geography, astronomy and simulation
|}

''Please add new applications to this list. A good resource is the [http://www.nawaz.org/wiki/index.php?title=Table_of_Equivalents BeetleSpace Windows/Linux Software Table of Equivalents], which is GNU FDL licensed.''

= See also =

* [[running windows software]]
* [http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux.]
* [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareEquivalents Ubuntu software equivalents's page]
* [http://www.linuxeq.com/ The Linux Equivalent Project]
* [https://www.turkishcypriotheritage.org/ turkishcypriotheritage.org]

[[Category:FAQ]]

Linux software equivalent to Windows software

2024-09-16T17:56:03Z

Kareempharmacist: /* Multimedia */

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.

= Office and Productivity =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Office, '''OpenOffice''', '''Libre Office''', '''WPS Office''', '''Softmaker Office''', '''Onlyoffice Desktop'''
| [[Libre Office]], [https://www.wps.com/linux WPS Office](WPS-Community), [[OpenOffice]], [https://www.calligra.org/ Calligra], Softmaker FreeOffice, OnlyOffice Desktop
| Office package
|-
| Microsoft Word, OOwriter, LibreOffice Writer, WPS Writer, Softmaker TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[OOWriter]], [http://www.abiword.org AbiWord], WPS Writer, LibreOffice Writer, Calligra Words, FreeOffice TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop, Lyx, [[LaTeX]]
| [[Word Processing]]
|-
| Notepad, Wordpad, TheGun, EditPlus, SciTE, Notepad++ ||
[[Vim]], [[KWrite]],
[[Kate]], [http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/ BlueFish], [[Gedit]], [[Joe]], Sublime Text, [[Leafpad]], [[Nano]]
| [[Text Editors]]
|-
| Access, dBase, Foxpro, Paradox, '''OOBase''', '''LibreOffice Base'''
| [http://userbase.kde.org/Kexi Kexi], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Base OOBase], LibreOffice Base
| [[Database]]
|-
| Excel, Corel WordPrefect, '''LibreOffice Calc''', '''Softmaker Office PlanMaker''', '''WPS Spreedsheets''', '''OOCalc''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Calc, Calligra Sheets, Softmaker Office PlanMaker, WPS Spreedsheets, [[OOCalc]], [http://www.gnumeric.org gnumeric], OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Spreadsheet]]
|-
| Visio, [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html '''yED'''], '''LibreOffice Draw'''
| [https://www.calligra.org/flow/ Calligra Flow], [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html yED], LibreOffice Draw
| Diagramming
|-
| PowerPoint, '''LibreOffice Impress''', '''OOImpress''', '''WPS Presentation''', '''Softmaker Office Presentations''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Impress, [[OOImpress]], Calligra Stage, WPS Presentation, Softmaker Office Presentations, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Presentation software]]
|-
| Final Draft, Script Studio, '''Fade In''', '''KIT Scenarist''', '''Story Architect''', '''Trelby''', '''Scrite'''
| Fade In, KIT Scenarist, Story Architect, Trelby, Scrite
| Screenwriting software
|-
| Microsoft Project Manager
| [[MOOS Project Viewer]], Calligra Plan
| Project management
|-
| '''Wondershare EdrawMax''', XMind
| Wondershare EdrawMax, Minder, XMind
| Mind maps
|-
| Outlook, '''Thunderbird + Lightning'''
| [[Kontact]], [https://pawsa.fedorapeople.org/balsa/ BALSA], [[Thunderbird]] + [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/ Lightning]
| Personal information managers
|-
| Alcohol 120%, Discjuggler, Easy CD Creator, Nero Burning ROM ||
[[K3b]], [[XCDRoast]], Brasero, Xfburn, [[CD/DVD_Burning|''more'']]
|DVD/CD burning
|-
|Alcohol 120%, Nero Burning ROM, '''MakeMKV''', ImgBurn, Infrarecorder || MakeMKV, Thoggen, Dvdbackup, HandBrake, DVD::RIP, AcidRIP
| DVD ripping software
|-
| Quicken, Microsoft Money, TurboTax
| [http://gnucash.org/ GnucAsh], [http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/index-home.html KMyMoney], [[CrossOver]] Office with Quicken, [http://www.lazy8.nu/ lazy8ledger]
| Accounting
|-
| ActiveSync ||
[[SynCE]]
|Synchronization with Windows Mobile devices
|-
| WinEdt, TeXnicCenter
| [[Kile]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texmaker Texmaker], [[LyX]]
| LaTeX IDEs
|-
| Veritas Backup Exec, [http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm Cobian Backup], '''Duplicati''' ||
LuckyBackup, Déjà Dup, Grsync, Duplicati [[list of backUp applications|''more'']]
| [[Backup]]
|-
| Google Desktop ||
[[Recoll]]
| Desktop Search
|-
| Norton Ghost ||
[[Partition Image]], [[g4u]], [http://www.mondorescue.org/ Mondo Rescue], [[dd]], gDiskDump (a dd frontend), Clonezilla, Trinity Rescue Kit
|Disk imaging
|-
| Norton Partition Magic ||
[[GParted]], Clonezilla (a live cd), KDE Partition Manager, GNOME Disks
|Disk partitioning
|-
|[http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/Disk_Size_Explorer.asp Disk Size Explorer]
|[https://utils.kde.org/projects/filelight/ File Light], [[Konqueror]], Baobab, xdiskusage, duc [https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-analyze-your-disk-usage-pattern-in-linux/ ref.]
| Disk usage analyzers
|-
|[http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html Filemon], [http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Regmon.html Regmon]
| [http://syscalltrack.sourceforge.net/ syscalltrack]
| system call tracking (file monitor & others)
|-
| WinMerge, SyncToy ||
[http://meld.sourceforge.net/ Meld], [[Unison]], [http://synkron.sourceforge.net/ Synkron], [[rSync]]
| File synchronization
|-
| Google Drive, Dropbox, etc ||
[https://rclone.org Rclone]
| Cloud hosted file synchronization (Amazon S3, Dropbox, Google Cloud Storage, Google Drive, FTP, Microsoft OneDrive, sFTP, etc)
|-
| Windows Update, Add/Remove programs||
[[apt-get]], [http://aptitude.sourceforge.net/ Aptitude], [http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Portage portage], [[Rpm|rpm]], [[urpmi]], [[yast]], [[yum]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptic_Package_Manager Synaptic], [https://snapcraft.io Snapcraft (Snap)]
|Every Linux distribution has an infrastructure to manage installed software which is quite different from Windows. For instance, all updates are handled by a single program. See [[package management]].
|-
| WinRunner || [http://hoopajoo.net/projects/xautomation.html xautomation] || automating interactive applications
|-
| 7-Zip, Winzip, Winrar, Peazip ||
[[Karchiver]],
[[File Roller]],
Xarchiver,
[[ark]],
[[hjsplit]]; [[packing and unpacking files|''command line tools'']]
|Archivers
|-
| chkdsk || [[fsck]], [https://www.tecmint.com/linux-disk-scanning-tools/ other tools] || check your file system (and the [[hard disk]] beneath it) for errors
|-
| Daemon Tools ||
[[mount]], Disk Image Mounter in Gnome/KDE, Furius ISO mount, AcetoneISO
|ISO mounting
|-
| Disclib || [http://www.gwhere.org/home.php3 gWhere]
| Disk cataloging programs
|-
| Evernote, OneNote || NixNote, Tusk, Whatever, GeekNote, ForeverNote, [https://joplinapp.org/ Joplin], Xournal, XFCE4 Notes, Xpad, Hnb, Gnote, Feathernotes, Cherrytree, Bijiben, Basket, Noblenote, Nvpy. Thanks to [https://itsfoss.com/evernote-on-linux/]
|Note Taking App
|}

== Desktop Publishing ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Dreamweaver, '''Google Web Designer''', '''Bluefish Editor''', '''Aptana Studio''', '''SeaMonkey''', '''CodeLobster''' ||
[http://www.google.com/webdesigner/ Google Web Designer] (WYSIWYG), Bluefish Editor, Aptana Studio, SeaMonkey, CodeLobster
[[html editors|more]]
|[[Web Design]]
|-
| Quark, Quark Express, Microsoft Publisher, '''Scribus''', '''Karbon''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribus Scribus], Karbon, Laidout, VivaDesigner, QuickSilver, Xara Xtreme
|DTP software
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader, Xpdf Reader, Foxit reader, Sumatra pdf ||

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evince Evince],
Zathura,
Okular,
Bookworm,
Qpdfview,
Foxit reader,
PDF Studio Viewer,
[[Xpdf]],
MuPDF,
Atril,
[[Ghostview]], [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF readers
|-
| Adobe Acrobat Distiller, PDFCreator ||
[http://www.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~vrbehr/cups-pdf/ CUPS-PDF], Libre Office, [[OpenOffice.org]], PDF Studio, [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter] -- can convert to pdf. [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF authoring
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF editor, [http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio '''PDF Studio Pro'''], '''Master PDF Editor''', '''Libreoffice Draw''', '''Scribus''', '''Inkscape''' ||
[http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio PDF Studio Pro], Master PDF Editor, OnlyOffice Desktop Editors, [http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfedit Pdfedit], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam Pdfjam], [http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk Pdftk], Scribus, Inkscape, Karbon, Okular, Libreoffice Draw. Thanks to [https://www.ubuntupit.com/linux-pdf-editor-top-15-reviewed-and-compared/ this] [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF editing tools
|-
| SilverFast ||
[[xSane]], [http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html VueScan], Simple Scan, Skanlite, Gscan2pdf, GIMP with Quitelnsane
| [[scanning]]
|-
| FinePrint ||
[http://www.boomaga.org boomaga], [http://wfr.tcl.tk/279 page-crunch], [http://freshmeat.net/projects/mpage/ mpage], [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter], [http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~ajcd/psutils/index.html psnup/PSutils], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam pdfnup/PDFjam]
| Document printing/reformatting tools
|}

= Networking =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Internet Explorer, '''Microsoft Edge''', '''Firefox''', '''Opera''', '''Chrome''', '''Pale Moon''', '''Brave''', '''Vivaldi''', '''Otter Browser''', '''Falkon''', '''Dooble''', '''Slimjet''' ||
[[Firefox]], [[Konqueror]], Epiphany (Gnome Web), Falkon, Microsoft Edge, Slimjet, Midori, [http://www.google.com/chrome Chrome], Chromium, [[Opera]], Otter Browser, Brave, Vivaldi, Falkon, Pale Moon, Dillo, Dooble, Links [[Browsers|''more'']]
| [[Web Browsers]]
|-
| Microsoft Outlook, '''Thunderbird''', Pegasus, Lotus Notes, '''Seamonkey''', '''Claws Mail''', '''Mailspring''' ||
[[Kontact]],
[http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/features/evolution.html Evolution], Seamonkey,
[[Thunderbird]], Claws Mail, Mailspring, Geary [https://itsfoss.com/best-email-clients-linux/ others]
|Email clients.
|-
| '''Trillian''', '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Irssi''', ICQ ||
Trillian, Hexchat, [[PidgIn]], [[Irssi]], [[Kopete]]
| [[Instant messaging]] [[software]].
|-
| Microsoft HyperTerminal ||
[[minicom]]
|-
| FileZilla FTP Client, WS FTP, Bullet Proof FTP, CuteFTP ||
[http://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client FileZilla FTP Client],
[http://www.kftp.org/misc/description KFTP (KFTPGrabber)],
[[Kasablanca]],
[[FireFTP]],
[[Konqueror]],
[[KBear]],
[[gFTP]],
[http://www.crossftp.com/ CrossFTP],
[[Nautilus]]
|FTP clients. Please note GNOME, KDE (and other) programs can directly open and edit files on FTP, SFTP and WebDAV shares, often using [[KIO]], [[GIO]] or [GVfs]].
|-
| mIRC, '''Trillian''', '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Quassel''', '''KVIrc''', '''Irssi''' ||
Trillian, HexChat, [[PidgIn]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quassel_IRC Quassel], [[KVIrc]], Irssi, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konversation Konversation], [[BitchX]]
| [[IRC Clients]]
|-
|[http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/ UltraVNC], TightVNC, RealVNC, Remote Desktop ||
[http://www.tightvnc.com/ TightVNC],
[http://www.realvnc.com/ RealVNC], [http://www.rdesktop.org/ rdesktop],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/freenx/ FreeNX],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/x11vnc/ x11vnc],
[http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ Synergy],
XDMCP, [[SSH]] with X11 forwarding (-X or -Y option)
| [[Desktop Sharing]]
|-
| MailWasher, SpamAssassin for Windows ||
SpamAssassin
| Spam filter
|-
|Forte Free Agent, [[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]] ||
[[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]], [http://www.newsreaders.com/unix/clients.html See More Clients Here]
|News Reader (Usenet [[newsgroup]]s)
|-
| eMule, '''aMule''' || aMule
|ED2K P2P network clients
|-
| [http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php '''Vuze (formerly Azureus)'''], [http://utorrent.com/ utorrent], '''Transmission''', '''Deluge''', '''qBittorrent''', '''Tixati''', '''Frostwire''', '''Tribler''' ||
[http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php Vuze (formerly Azureus)], Transmission, Deluge, qBittorrent, Tixati, Frostwire, Tribler, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qtorrent Qtorrent], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bittornado bittornado], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ktorrent Ktorrent],
|BitTorrent P2P network clients
|-
| '''Skype''', Voipbuster, '''Yate''', '''Linphone''', '''Jitsi''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype Skype], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linphone Linphone], Asterisk, Empathy, Yate, Jitsi
|VoIP software
|-
| Bitvise Tunnelier ||
[http://sourceforge.net/projects/gstm/ gSTM]
|gSTM is a front-end for managing SSH-tunneled port redirects.
|}

== Server ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| IIS, [[Apache]] ||
[[Apache]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nginx Engine-X], [http://www.lighttpd.net/ lighttpd]
|[[Web Servers]]
|-
| Folder sharing, printer sharing ||
[[Samba]]
|Share files and printers between Windows and Linux systems. Installed by default on most distributions.
|-
|IIS, [http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ FileZilla FTP Client & Server]
|[[vsftpd]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure-ftpd pure-ftpd]
|FTP servers, for hosting files.
|-
|[http://www.netlimiter.com/ NetLimiter] ||
[http://monkey.org/~marius/pages/?page=trickle Trickle], [http://l7-filter.sourceforge.net/ Level 7 Filter], [http://www.clarkconnect.com/info/index.php ClarkConnect], [http://www.bandwidtharbitrator.com/ Bandwidth Arbitrator], [http://www.mastershaper.org/index.php/Main_Page MasterShaper]
|Bandwidth shaping and management.
|-
| Exchange ||
[[Citadel]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbra zimbra], [[Open-Xchange]]
|Groupware (sharing of appointments, contacts, e-mail, documents, etc. between members of a group)
|-
| Sharepoint ||
[http://www.knowledgetree.com/opensource KnowledgeTree]
|Manage and secure documents, collaborate around document creation and editing, full document contents indexing
|-
| Norton/McAfee Antivirus, [http://clamwin.com/ ClamWin], AVG, AntiVir, Avast, ClamAV ||
[[ClamAV]], [https://support.avast.com/en-eu/article/131/ Avast Security for Linux]
| Antivirus software.
|-
| ZoneAlarm , Sygate SPF||
[[Guarddog]], [[Firestarter]], [[GUFW]], [[iptables]]
| Firewall software
|}

= Multimedia =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
|[http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/ Adobe Photoshop], [http://www.corel.com/ Corel Photo-Paint], '''GIMP''', '''Glimpse''', '''GIMPShop''', '''ImageMagick''', '''Xnview''', '''[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)]''', '''[https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable]''', '''Pinta''', '''MyPaint''', '''Krita''', '''Filmulator''', '''Photivo''', '''RawTherapee''', '''digiKam''', '''nomacs''' ||
[http://www.gimp.org/ GIMP], Glimpse,
[[GIMPShop]], ImageMagick, Pinta, MyPaint,
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krita Krita], Xnview,
[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)], [https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable], Filmulator, Photivo, RawTherapee, digiKam, nomacs
|Raster graphics editors
|-
|[http://www.corel.com/ Corel Draw], [http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator/ Adobe Illustrator], '''Inkscape''', '''Vectr''', '''Gravit''', '''LibreOffice Draw''', '''sK1''', '''SVG-edit''' ||
[http://www.inkscape.org/ Inkscape], Vectr, Gravit, LibreOffice Draw, Karbon, sK1, SVG-edit. [https://itsfoss.com/vector-graphics-editors-linux/ Ref.]
|Vector graphics editors
|-
|Adobe Animate, '''Synfig''', '''Pencil2D''', '''Tupi (Tupitube Desk)''', '''OpenToonz''', '''Blender''', '''Toon Boom Harmony''', '''Krita''', '''Aseprite''', '''TVPaint''', '''Animaker''', '''Ajax Animator''', '''Glaxnimate''', '''Tahoma2D''', '''Enve''' ||
Synfig, Pencil2D, Tupi (Tupitube Desk), OpenToonz, Blender, Toon Boom Harmony, Krita, Aseprite, TVPaint, Animaker, Ajax Animator, Glaxnimate, Tahoma2D , Enve
| 2D Animations
|-
| Irfanview, ACDSee, '''digiKam''', '''Xnview''', '''nomacs''' ||
[[XnView]], [http://mirageiv.berlios.de/ Mirage], [[GThumb]], Shotwell, KPhotoAlbum, Geeqie, digiKam, Gwenview, Ristretto, Viewnior, Nomacs
|Image viewers
|-
| 3D Studio MAX, '''Blender''', [http://www.autodesk.com '''Maya'''] ||
[[Blender]], [http://www.autodesk.com Maya], [[K-3D]] , Cinema 4D
|3D modeling software
|-
| Autodesk Inventor, Solidworks, CATIA || [http://www.freecadweb.org FreeCAD], [http://www.salome-platform.org/ SALOME platform]
| Professional 3D CAD software
|-
| Windows Media Player, PowerDVD, SMPlayer, MPV, [[VLC]] ||
SMPlayer, MPV, [[VLC]], [[Xine]], [[Totem]], [[Kaffeine]], Parole, Celluloid, [[MPlayer]]
| [[Video Players]]
|-
| SIA Smaart Live || [http://sf.net/projects/brp-pacu/ BRP-PACU] || [[Sound]] analysis
|-
| Winamp, Sonique, iTunes, [http://www.atunes.org/ aTunes], '''Clementine''', '''VLC''', '''SMplayer''', '''Deadbeef''', '''Audacious''', '''Strawberry''', '''Exaile''' ||
[[Amarok]], [[RhythmBox]], [http://banshee-project.org/index.php/Main_Page Banshee], [[Xine]], Elisa, Clementine, VLC, SMplayer, Deadbeef, Audacious, Strawberry, Exaile, pMusic. See also Video Players section
|[[Music Players]]
|-
| [http://www.otsav.com/ OTSAV, OTS Turntables], [http://serato.com/ Serato], [http://www.native-instruments.com/en/traktor/ Traktor], [http://www.virtualdj.com/ Virtual DJ], [http://www.pcdj.com/ PC DJ], [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
| [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
|Audio & video play out (DJ/presenter)
|-
| Windows Movie Maker, Adobe Premiere Elements, [http://www.goldwave.com/mqrelease.php Multiquence], '''Avidemux''', '''OpenShot''', '''VidCutter''', [https://shotcut.org/ '''Shotcut'''], '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron]''', [https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php '''Olive'''], '''Lightworks''' ||
[[Cinelerra]] (difficult but very professional),
[[KDenlive]] (easy and powerful),
[[LiVES]],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avidemux AviDemux],
OpenShot,
VidCutter,
Flowblade,
Pitivi,
DaVinci Resolve,
[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron],
[https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php Olive],
Lightworks (thanks to Linux Format magazine),
[https://shotcut.org/ Shotcut](thanks to Linux Format magazine)
|[[Video Editors]]
|-
| '''Audacity''', Cubase, '''Ardour''', Adobe Audition (formerly Cool Edit Pro), [http://www.goldwave.com/ GoldWave], Cakewalk/Sonar, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''LMMS''', '''Traverso-DAW''', '''[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]''' ||
[[Audacity]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden],
[[Beast]],
[[Ardour]],
Harrison Mixbus,
[http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/index.php Radium],
DaVinci Resolve,
Bitwig Studio,
Qtractor,
[https://traverso-daw.org/ Traverso-DAW],
LMMS,
[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]
|Digital audio workstation software
|-
| Audio Catalyst, '''Ocenaudio''', dbpoweramp, CDex, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''Audacity''' ||
[[Audacity]],
Ocenaudio,
DaVinci Resolve,
[[Grip]]
| [[Audio Editors]]
|-
| '''Wavesurfer''', '''Audacity''', '''Sox'''||[https://itsfoss.com/record-streaming-audio/ Audio Recorder], Ecasound, Audacity, Sox, Wavesurfer
|Audio recorders
|-
| Cakewalk/Sonar ||
[[kmid]],
[[kmidi]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden]
| [[MIDI]]
|-
|[http://www.noteworthysoftware.com/ NoteWorthy Composer], '''MuseScore''', '''LilyPond'''||
[http://www.musescore.org/ MuseScore], [http://lilypond.org/web/ LilyPond]
|Musical score typesetting
|-
|[http://www.guitar-pro.com/ GuitarPro], TuxGuitar ||
[http://www.tuxguitar.com.ar/ TuxGuitar]
|Guitar tablature editors
|-
| Microsoft Paint, Kid Pix, '''Tux Paint''', '''Pencil 2D''', '''Krita''', '''Pinta''', '''Mypaint''', '''Mtpaint''' ||
[http://www.tuxpaint.org/ Tuxpaint], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KolourPaint KolourPaint], Pencil 2D, Krita, [https://launchpad.net/dibuja Dibuja], Pinta, Mypaint, Mtpaint
|Basic raster painting programs
|-
| Videora, [https://handbrake.fr/ '''Handbrake'''], '''WinFF''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || [https://handbrake.fr/ Handbrake], WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, Transmageddon, VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Video converter
|-
| '''WinFF''', '''Handbrake''', '''fre:ac - free audio converter (freac)''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || Handbrake, WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, fre:ac - free audio converter (freac), VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Audio converter
|-
|TMPGEnc DVD Author, Roxio DVDit, '''Open DVD Producer''', '''DVDStyler''' ||
DVDStyler, [http://opendvdproducer.jonata.org/ Open DVD Producer], [http://www.rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html DeVeDe]
|DVD authoring software
|-
|'''uTox''', '''qTox''', '''Jitsi''', '''OpenMeetings''', '''Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone)''', '''Microsoft Teams''', '''Zoom''' || uTox, qTox, OpenMettings, Jitsi, Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone), Empathy, Microsoft Teams, Zoom
| Video Conferencing
|}

= Education =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| '''Klavaro''', '''Tipp10''' || Klavaro, Tipp10, [[KTouch]], Tux Typing, GNU Typist || Touch typing tutors
|-
| '''Maple''', '''Mathematica''' || Maple, Mathematica, [http://maxima.sourceforge.net/ Maxima]
| Computer algebra systems
|-
| '''Matlab''', '''Octave''', '''Scilab''' ||
Matlab, [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ Octave],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SciLab SciLab], Sage, KAlgebra
| High level numeric computation environments
|-
| '''SPSS''', '''Stata''', EViews, '''PSPP''', '''[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project]''', '''[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]''' ||
[http://www.stata.com/products/unix.html Stata], SPSS,
[http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/pspp.html PSPP],
[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Plus S-Plus],
[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]
| Statistical analysis
|-
| Verilog ||
[http://www.icarus.com/eda/verilog/ iverilog]
| Verilog Simulator
|-
| '''Google Earth''', NASA World Wind, '''Celestia''', '''Stellarium''', '''Skychart''', '''Aladin Sky Atlas''', Microsoft Flight Simulator, '''FlightGear''' ||
[http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html Google Earth], [https://celestia.space/index.html Celestia], [http://www.stellarium.org/ Stellarium], [https://marble.kde.org/ Marble], [http://www.geody.com/ Geody], Kstars, Skychart, Aladin Sky Atlas, [http://www.flightgear.org/ FlightGear]
| Geography, astronomy and simulation
|}

''Please add new applications to this list. A good resource is the [http://www.nawaz.org/wiki/index.php?title=Table_of_Equivalents BeetleSpace Windows/Linux Software Table of Equivalents], which is GNU FDL licensed.''

= See also =

* [[running windows software]]
* [http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux.]
* [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareEquivalents Ubuntu software equivalents's page]
* [http://www.linuxeq.com/ The Linux Equivalent Project]
* [https://www.turkishcypriotheritage.org/ turkishcypriotheritage.org]

[[Category:FAQ]]

Linux software equivalent to Windows software

2024-08-05T01:05:20Z

Kareempharmacist: /* Networking */

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.

= Office and Productivity =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Office, '''OpenOffice''', '''Libre Office''', '''WPS Office''', '''Softmaker Office''', '''Onlyoffice Desktop'''
| [[Libre Office]], [https://www.wps.com/linux WPS Office](WPS-Community), [[OpenOffice]], [https://www.calligra.org/ Calligra], Softmaker FreeOffice, OnlyOffice Desktop
| Office package
|-
| Microsoft Word, OOwriter, LibreOffice Writer, WPS Writer, Softmaker TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[OOWriter]], [http://www.abiword.org AbiWord], WPS Writer, LibreOffice Writer, Calligra Words, FreeOffice TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop, Lyx, [[LaTeX]]
| [[Word Processing]]
|-
| Notepad, Wordpad, TheGun, EditPlus, SciTE, Notepad++ ||
[[Vim]], [[KWrite]],
[[Kate]], [http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/ BlueFish], [[Gedit]], [[Joe]], Sublime Text, [[Leafpad]], [[Nano]]
| [[Text Editors]]
|-
| Access, dBase, Foxpro, Paradox, '''OOBase''', '''LibreOffice Base'''
| [http://userbase.kde.org/Kexi Kexi], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Base OOBase], LibreOffice Base
| [[Database]]
|-
| Excel, Corel WordPrefect, '''LibreOffice Calc''', '''Softmaker Office PlanMaker''', '''WPS Spreedsheets''', '''OOCalc''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Calc, Calligra Sheets, Softmaker Office PlanMaker, WPS Spreedsheets, [[OOCalc]], [http://www.gnumeric.org gnumeric], OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Spreadsheet]]
|-
| Visio, [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html '''yED'''], '''LibreOffice Draw'''
| [https://www.calligra.org/flow/ Calligra Flow], [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html yED], LibreOffice Draw
| Diagramming
|-
| PowerPoint, '''LibreOffice Impress''', '''OOImpress''', '''WPS Presentation''', '''Softmaker Office Presentations''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Impress, [[OOImpress]], Calligra Stage, WPS Presentation, Softmaker Office Presentations, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Presentation software]]
|-
| Final Draft, Script Studio, '''Fade In''', '''KIT Scenarist''', '''Story Architect''', '''Trelby''', '''Scrite'''
| Fade In, KIT Scenarist, Story Architect, Trelby, Scrite
| Screenwriting software
|-
| Microsoft Project Manager
| [[MOOS Project Viewer]], Calligra Plan
| Project management
|-
| '''Wondershare EdrawMax''', XMind
| Wondershare EdrawMax, Minder, XMind
| Mind maps
|-
| Outlook, '''Thunderbird + Lightning'''
| [[Kontact]], [https://pawsa.fedorapeople.org/balsa/ BALSA], [[Thunderbird]] + [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/ Lightning]
| Personal information managers
|-
| Alcohol 120%, Discjuggler, Easy CD Creator, Nero Burning ROM ||
[[K3b]], [[XCDRoast]], Brasero, Xfburn, [[CD/DVD_Burning|''more'']]
|DVD/CD burning
|-
|Alcohol 120%, Nero Burning ROM, '''MakeMKV''', ImgBurn, Infrarecorder || MakeMKV, Thoggen, Dvdbackup, HandBrake, DVD::RIP, AcidRIP
| DVD ripping software
|-
| Quicken, Microsoft Money, TurboTax
| [http://gnucash.org/ GnucAsh], [http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/index-home.html KMyMoney], [[CrossOver]] Office with Quicken, [http://www.lazy8.nu/ lazy8ledger]
| Accounting
|-
| ActiveSync ||
[[SynCE]]
|Synchronization with Windows Mobile devices
|-
| WinEdt, TeXnicCenter
| [[Kile]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texmaker Texmaker], [[LyX]]
| LaTeX IDEs
|-
| Veritas Backup Exec, [http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm Cobian Backup], '''Duplicati''' ||
LuckyBackup, Déjà Dup, Grsync, Duplicati [[list of backUp applications|''more'']]
| [[Backup]]
|-
| Google Desktop ||
[[Recoll]]
| Desktop Search
|-
| Norton Ghost ||
[[Partition Image]], [[g4u]], [http://www.mondorescue.org/ Mondo Rescue], [[dd]], gDiskDump (a dd frontend), Clonezilla, Trinity Rescue Kit
|Disk imaging
|-
| Norton Partition Magic ||
[[GParted]], Clonezilla (a live cd), KDE Partition Manager, GNOME Disks
|Disk partitioning
|-
|[http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/Disk_Size_Explorer.asp Disk Size Explorer]
|[https://utils.kde.org/projects/filelight/ File Light], [[Konqueror]], Baobab, xdiskusage, duc [https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-analyze-your-disk-usage-pattern-in-linux/ ref.]
| Disk usage analyzers
|-
|[http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html Filemon], [http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Regmon.html Regmon]
| [http://syscalltrack.sourceforge.net/ syscalltrack]
| system call tracking (file monitor & others)
|-
| WinMerge, SyncToy ||
[http://meld.sourceforge.net/ Meld], [[Unison]], [http://synkron.sourceforge.net/ Synkron], [[rSync]]
| File synchronization
|-
| Google Drive, Dropbox, etc ||
[https://rclone.org Rclone]
| Cloud hosted file synchronization (Amazon S3, Dropbox, Google Cloud Storage, Google Drive, FTP, Microsoft OneDrive, sFTP, etc)
|-
| Windows Update, Add/Remove programs||
[[apt-get]], [http://aptitude.sourceforge.net/ Aptitude], [http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Portage portage], [[Rpm|rpm]], [[urpmi]], [[yast]], [[yum]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptic_Package_Manager Synaptic], [https://snapcraft.io Snapcraft (Snap)]
|Every Linux distribution has an infrastructure to manage installed software which is quite different from Windows. For instance, all updates are handled by a single program. See [[package management]].
|-
| WinRunner || [http://hoopajoo.net/projects/xautomation.html xautomation] || automating interactive applications
|-
| 7-Zip, Winzip, Winrar, Peazip ||
[[Karchiver]],
[[File Roller]],
Xarchiver,
[[ark]],
[[hjsplit]]; [[packing and unpacking files|''command line tools'']]
|Archivers
|-
| chkdsk || [[fsck]], [https://www.tecmint.com/linux-disk-scanning-tools/ other tools] || check your file system (and the [[hard disk]] beneath it) for errors
|-
| Daemon Tools ||
[[mount]], Disk Image Mounter in Gnome/KDE, Furius ISO mount, AcetoneISO
|ISO mounting
|-
| Disclib || [http://www.gwhere.org/home.php3 gWhere]
| Disk cataloging programs
|-
| Evernote, OneNote || NixNote, Tusk, Whatever, GeekNote, ForeverNote, [https://joplinapp.org/ Joplin], Xournal, XFCE4 Notes, Xpad, Hnb, Gnote, Feathernotes, Cherrytree, Bijiben, Basket, Noblenote, Nvpy. Thanks to [https://itsfoss.com/evernote-on-linux/]
|Note Taking App
|}

== Desktop Publishing ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Dreamweaver, '''Google Web Designer''', '''Bluefish Editor''', '''Aptana Studio''', '''SeaMonkey''', '''CodeLobster''' ||
[http://www.google.com/webdesigner/ Google Web Designer] (WYSIWYG), Bluefish Editor, Aptana Studio, SeaMonkey, CodeLobster
[[html editors|more]]
|[[Web Design]]
|-
| Quark, Quark Express, Microsoft Publisher, '''Scribus''', '''Karbon''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribus Scribus], Karbon, Laidout, VivaDesigner, QuickSilver, Xara Xtreme
|DTP software
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader, Xpdf Reader, Foxit reader, Sumatra pdf ||

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evince Evince],
Zathura,
Okular,
Bookworm,
Qpdfview,
Foxit reader,
PDF Studio Viewer,
[[Xpdf]],
MuPDF,
Atril,
[[Ghostview]], [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF readers
|-
| Adobe Acrobat Distiller, PDFCreator ||
[http://www.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~vrbehr/cups-pdf/ CUPS-PDF], Libre Office, [[OpenOffice.org]], PDF Studio, [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter] -- can convert to pdf. [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF authoring
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF editor, [http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio '''PDF Studio Pro'''], '''Master PDF Editor''', '''Libreoffice Draw''', '''Scribus''', '''Inkscape''' ||
[http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio PDF Studio Pro], Master PDF Editor, OnlyOffice Desktop Editors, [http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfedit Pdfedit], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam Pdfjam], [http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk Pdftk], Scribus, Inkscape, Karbon, Okular, Libreoffice Draw. Thanks to [https://www.ubuntupit.com/linux-pdf-editor-top-15-reviewed-and-compared/ this] [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF editing tools
|-
| SilverFast ||
[[xSane]], [http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html VueScan], Simple Scan, Skanlite, Gscan2pdf, GIMP with Quitelnsane
| [[scanning]]
|-
| FinePrint ||
[http://www.boomaga.org boomaga], [http://wfr.tcl.tk/279 page-crunch], [http://freshmeat.net/projects/mpage/ mpage], [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter], [http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~ajcd/psutils/index.html psnup/PSutils], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam pdfnup/PDFjam]
| Document printing/reformatting tools
|}

= Networking =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Internet Explorer, '''Microsoft Edge''', '''Firefox''', '''Opera''', '''Chrome''', '''Pale Moon''', '''Brave''', '''Vivaldi''', '''Otter Browser''', '''Falkon''', '''Dooble''', '''Slimjet''' ||
[[Firefox]], [[Konqueror]], Epiphany (Gnome Web), Falkon, Microsoft Edge, Slimjet, Midori, [http://www.google.com/chrome Chrome], Chromium, [[Opera]], Otter Browser, Brave, Vivaldi, Falkon, Pale Moon, Dillo, Dooble, Links [[Browsers|''more'']]
| [[Web Browsers]]
|-
| Microsoft Outlook, '''Thunderbird''', Pegasus, Lotus Notes, '''Seamonkey''', '''Claws Mail''', '''Mailspring''' ||
[[Kontact]],
[http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/features/evolution.html Evolution], Seamonkey,
[[Thunderbird]], Claws Mail, Mailspring, Geary [https://itsfoss.com/best-email-clients-linux/ others]
|Email clients.
|-
| '''Trillian''', '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Irssi''', ICQ ||
Trillian, Hexchat, [[PidgIn]], [[Irssi]], [[Kopete]]
| [[Instant messaging]] [[software]].
|-
| Microsoft HyperTerminal ||
[[minicom]]
|-
| FileZilla FTP Client, WS FTP, Bullet Proof FTP, CuteFTP ||
[http://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client FileZilla FTP Client],
[http://www.kftp.org/misc/description KFTP (KFTPGrabber)],
[[Kasablanca]],
[[FireFTP]],
[[Konqueror]],
[[KBear]],
[[gFTP]],
[http://www.crossftp.com/ CrossFTP],
[[Nautilus]]
|FTP clients. Please note GNOME, KDE (and other) programs can directly open and edit files on FTP, SFTP and WebDAV shares, often using [[KIO]], [[GIO]] or [GVfs]].
|-
| mIRC, '''Trillian''', '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Quassel''', '''KVIrc''', '''Irssi''' ||
Trillian, HexChat, [[PidgIn]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quassel_IRC Quassel], [[KVIrc]], Irssi, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konversation Konversation], [[BitchX]]
| [[IRC Clients]]
|-
|[http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/ UltraVNC], TightVNC, RealVNC, Remote Desktop ||
[http://www.tightvnc.com/ TightVNC],
[http://www.realvnc.com/ RealVNC], [http://www.rdesktop.org/ rdesktop],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/freenx/ FreeNX],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/x11vnc/ x11vnc],
[http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ Synergy],
XDMCP, [[SSH]] with X11 forwarding (-X or -Y option)
| [[Desktop Sharing]]
|-
| MailWasher, SpamAssassin for Windows ||
SpamAssassin
| Spam filter
|-
|Forte Free Agent, [[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]] ||
[[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]], [http://www.newsreaders.com/unix/clients.html See More Clients Here]
|News Reader (Usenet [[newsgroup]]s)
|-
| eMule, '''aMule''' || aMule
|ED2K P2P network clients
|-
| [http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php '''Vuze (formerly Azureus)'''], [http://utorrent.com/ utorrent], '''Transmission''', '''Deluge''', '''qBittorrent''', '''Tixati''', '''Frostwire''', '''Tribler''' ||
[http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php Vuze (formerly Azureus)], Transmission, Deluge, qBittorrent, Tixati, Frostwire, Tribler, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qtorrent Qtorrent], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bittornado bittornado], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ktorrent Ktorrent],
|BitTorrent P2P network clients
|-
| '''Skype''', Voipbuster, '''Yate''', '''Linphone''', '''Jitsi''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype Skype], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linphone Linphone], Asterisk, Empathy, Yate, Jitsi
|VoIP software
|-
| Bitvise Tunnelier ||
[http://sourceforge.net/projects/gstm/ gSTM]
|gSTM is a front-end for managing SSH-tunneled port redirects.
|}

== Server ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| IIS, [[Apache]] ||
[[Apache]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nginx Engine-X], [http://www.lighttpd.net/ lighttpd]
|[[Web Servers]]
|-
| Folder sharing, printer sharing ||
[[Samba]]
|Share files and printers between Windows and Linux systems. Installed by default on most distributions.
|-
|IIS, [http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ FileZilla FTP Client & Server]
|[[vsftpd]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure-ftpd pure-ftpd]
|FTP servers, for hosting files.
|-
|[http://www.netlimiter.com/ NetLimiter] ||
[http://monkey.org/~marius/pages/?page=trickle Trickle], [http://l7-filter.sourceforge.net/ Level 7 Filter], [http://www.clarkconnect.com/info/index.php ClarkConnect], [http://www.bandwidtharbitrator.com/ Bandwidth Arbitrator], [http://www.mastershaper.org/index.php/Main_Page MasterShaper]
|Bandwidth shaping and management.
|-
| Exchange ||
[[Citadel]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbra zimbra], [[Open-Xchange]]
|Groupware (sharing of appointments, contacts, e-mail, documents, etc. between members of a group)
|-
| Sharepoint ||
[http://www.knowledgetree.com/opensource KnowledgeTree]
|Manage and secure documents, collaborate around document creation and editing, full document contents indexing
|-
| Norton/McAfee Antivirus, [http://clamwin.com/ ClamWin], AVG, AntiVir, Avast, ClamAV ||
[[ClamAV]], [https://support.avast.com/en-eu/article/131/ Avast Security for Linux]
| Antivirus software.
|-
| ZoneAlarm , Sygate SPF||
[[Guarddog]], [[Firestarter]], [[GUFW]], [[iptables]]
| Firewall software
|}

= Multimedia =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
|[http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/ Adobe Photoshop], [http://www.corel.com/ Corel Photo-Paint], '''GIMP''', '''Glimpse''', '''GIMPShop''', '''ImageMagick''', '''Xnview''', '''[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)]''', '''[https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable]''', '''Pinta''', '''MyPaint''', '''Krita''', '''Filmulator''', '''Photivo''', '''RawTherapee''', '''digiKam''', '''nomacs''' ||
[http://www.gimp.org/ GIMP], Glimpse,
[[GIMPShop]], ImageMagick, Pinta, MyPaint,
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krita Krita], Xnview,
[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)], [https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable], Filmulator, Photivo, RawTherapee, digiKam, nomacs
|Raster graphics editors
|-
|[http://www.corel.com/ Corel Draw], [http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator/ Adobe Illustrator], '''Inkscape''', '''Vectr''', '''Gravit''', '''LibreOffice Draw''', '''sK1''', '''SVG-edit''' ||
[http://www.inkscape.org/ Inkscape], Vectr, Gravit, LibreOffice Draw, Karbon, sK1, SVG-edit. [https://itsfoss.com/vector-graphics-editors-linux/ Ref.]
|Vector graphics editors
|-
|Adobe Animate, '''Synfig''', '''Pencil2D''', '''Tupi (Tupitube Desk)''', '''OpenToonz''', '''Blender''', '''Toon Boom Harmony''', '''Krita''', '''Aseprite''', '''TVPaint''', '''Animaker''', '''Ajax Animator''', '''Glaxnimate''', '''Tahoma2D''', '''Enve''' ||
Synfig, Pencil2D, Tupi (Tupitube Desk), OpenToonz, Blender, Toon Boom Harmony, Krita, Aseprite, TVPaint, Animaker, Ajax Animator, Glaxnimate, Tahoma2D , Enve
| 2D Animations
|-
| Irfanview, ACDSee, '''digiKam''', '''Xnview''', '''nomacs''' ||
[[XnView]], [http://mirageiv.berlios.de/ Mirage], [[GThumb]], Shotwell, KPhotoAlbum, Geeqie, digiKam, Gwenview, Ristretto, Viewnior, Nomacs
|Image viewers
|-
| 3D Studio MAX, '''Blender''', [http://www.autodesk.com '''Maya'''] ||
[[Blender]],
[http://www.autodesk.com Maya],
[[K-3D]]
|3D modeling software
|-
| Autodesk Inventor, Solidworks, CATIA || [http://www.freecadweb.org FreeCAD], [http://www.salome-platform.org/ SALOME platform]
| Professional 3D CAD software
|-
| Windows Media Player, PowerDVD, SMPlayer, MPV, [[VLC]] ||
SMPlayer, MPV, [[VLC]], [[Xine]], [[Totem]], [[Kaffeine]], Parole, Celluloid, [[MPlayer]]
| [[Video Players]]
|-
| SIA Smaart Live || [http://sf.net/projects/brp-pacu/ BRP-PACU] || [[Sound]] analysis
|-
| Winamp, Sonique, iTunes, [http://www.atunes.org/ aTunes], '''Clementine''', '''VLC''', '''SMplayer''', '''Deadbeef''', '''Audacious''', '''Strawberry''', '''Exaile''' ||
[[Amarok]], [[RhythmBox]], [http://banshee-project.org/index.php/Main_Page Banshee], [[Xine]], Elisa, Clementine, VLC, SMplayer, Deadbeef, Audacious, Strawberry, Exaile, pMusic. See also Video Players section
|[[Music Players]]
|-
| [http://www.otsav.com/ OTSAV, OTS Turntables], [http://serato.com/ Serato], [http://www.native-instruments.com/en/traktor/ Traktor], [http://www.virtualdj.com/ Virtual DJ], [http://www.pcdj.com/ PC DJ], [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
| [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
|Audio & video play out (DJ/presenter)
|-
| Windows Movie Maker, Adobe Premiere Elements, [http://www.goldwave.com/mqrelease.php Multiquence], '''Avidemux''', '''OpenShot''', '''VidCutter''', [https://shotcut.org/ '''Shotcut'''], '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron]''', [https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php '''Olive'''], '''Lightworks''' ||
[[Cinelerra]] (difficult but very professional),
[[KDenlive]] (easy and powerful),
[[LiVES]],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avidemux AviDemux],
OpenShot,
VidCutter,
Flowblade,
Pitivi,
DaVinci Resolve,
[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron],
[https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php Olive],
Lightworks (thanks to Linux Format magazine),
[https://shotcut.org/ Shotcut](thanks to Linux Format magazine)
|[[Video Editors]]
|-
| '''Audacity''', Cubase, '''Ardour''', Adobe Audition (formerly Cool Edit Pro), [http://www.goldwave.com/ GoldWave], Cakewalk/Sonar, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''LMMS''', '''Traverso-DAW''', '''[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]''' ||
[[Audacity]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden],
[[Beast]],
[[Ardour]],
Harrison Mixbus,
[http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/index.php Radium],
DaVinci Resolve,
Bitwig Studio,
Qtractor,
[https://traverso-daw.org/ Traverso-DAW],
LMMS,
[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]
|Digital audio workstation software
|-
| Audio Catalyst, '''Ocenaudio''', dbpoweramp, CDex, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''Audacity''' ||
[[Audacity]],
Ocenaudio,
DaVinci Resolve,
[[Grip]]
| [[Audio Editors]]
|-
| '''Wavesurfer''', '''Audacity''', '''Sox'''||[https://itsfoss.com/record-streaming-audio/ Audio Recorder], Ecasound, Audacity, Sox, Wavesurfer
|Audio recorders
|-
| Cakewalk/Sonar ||
[[kmid]],
[[kmidi]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden]
| [[MIDI]]
|-
|[http://www.noteworthysoftware.com/ NoteWorthy Composer], '''MuseScore''', '''LilyPond'''||
[http://www.musescore.org/ MuseScore], [http://lilypond.org/web/ LilyPond]
|Musical score typesetting
|-
|[http://www.guitar-pro.com/ GuitarPro], TuxGuitar ||
[http://www.tuxguitar.com.ar/ TuxGuitar]
|Guitar tablature editors
|-
| Microsoft Paint, Kid Pix, '''Tux Paint''', '''Pencil 2D''', '''Krita''', '''Pinta''', '''Mypaint''', '''Mtpaint''' ||
[http://www.tuxpaint.org/ Tuxpaint], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KolourPaint KolourPaint], Pencil 2D, Krita, [https://launchpad.net/dibuja Dibuja], Pinta, Mypaint, Mtpaint
|Basic raster painting programs
|-
| Videora, [https://handbrake.fr/ '''Handbrake'''], '''WinFF''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || [https://handbrake.fr/ Handbrake], WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, Transmageddon, VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Video converter
|-
| '''WinFF''', '''Handbrake''', '''fre:ac - free audio converter (freac)''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || Handbrake, WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, fre:ac - free audio converter (freac), VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Audio converter
|-
|TMPGEnc DVD Author, Roxio DVDit, '''Open DVD Producer''', '''DVDStyler''' ||
DVDStyler, [http://opendvdproducer.jonata.org/ Open DVD Producer], [http://www.rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html DeVeDe]
|DVD authoring software
|-
|'''uTox''', '''qTox''', '''Jitsi''', '''OpenMeetings''', '''Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone)''', '''Microsoft Teams''', '''Zoom''' || uTox, qTox, OpenMettings, Jitsi, Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone), Empathy, Microsoft Teams, Zoom
| Video Conferencing
|}

= Education =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| '''Klavaro''', '''Tipp10''' || Klavaro, Tipp10, [[KTouch]], Tux Typing, GNU Typist || Touch typing tutors
|-
| '''Maple''', '''Mathematica''' || Maple, Mathematica, [http://maxima.sourceforge.net/ Maxima]
| Computer algebra systems
|-
| '''Matlab''', '''Octave''', '''Scilab''' ||
Matlab, [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ Octave],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SciLab SciLab], Sage, KAlgebra
| High level numeric computation environments
|-
| '''SPSS''', '''Stata''', EViews, '''PSPP''', '''[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project]''', '''[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]''' ||
[http://www.stata.com/products/unix.html Stata], SPSS,
[http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/pspp.html PSPP],
[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Plus S-Plus],
[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]
| Statistical analysis
|-
| Verilog ||
[http://www.icarus.com/eda/verilog/ iverilog]
| Verilog Simulator
|-
| '''Google Earth''', NASA World Wind, '''Celestia''', '''Stellarium''', '''Skychart''', '''Aladin Sky Atlas''', Microsoft Flight Simulator, '''FlightGear''' ||
[http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html Google Earth], [https://celestia.space/index.html Celestia], [http://www.stellarium.org/ Stellarium], [https://marble.kde.org/ Marble], [http://www.geody.com/ Geody], Kstars, Skychart, Aladin Sky Atlas, [http://www.flightgear.org/ FlightGear]
| Geography, astronomy and simulation
|}

''Please add new applications to this list. A good resource is the [http://www.nawaz.org/wiki/index.php?title=Table_of_Equivalents BeetleSpace Windows/Linux Software Table of Equivalents], which is GNU FDL licensed.''

= See also =

* [[running windows software]]
* [http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux.]
* [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareEquivalents Ubuntu software equivalents's page]
* [http://www.linuxeq.com/ The Linux Equivalent Project]
* [https://www.turkishcypriotheritage.org/ turkishcypriotheritage.org]

[[Category:FAQ]]

Linux software equivalent to Windows software

2024-08-05T01:01:39Z

Kareempharmacist: /* Desktop Publishing */

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.

= Office and Productivity =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Office, '''OpenOffice''', '''Libre Office''', '''WPS Office''', '''Softmaker Office''', '''Onlyoffice Desktop'''
| [[Libre Office]], [https://www.wps.com/linux WPS Office](WPS-Community), [[OpenOffice]], [https://www.calligra.org/ Calligra], Softmaker FreeOffice, OnlyOffice Desktop
| Office package
|-
| Microsoft Word, OOwriter, LibreOffice Writer, WPS Writer, Softmaker TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[OOWriter]], [http://www.abiword.org AbiWord], WPS Writer, LibreOffice Writer, Calligra Words, FreeOffice TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop, Lyx, [[LaTeX]]
| [[Word Processing]]
|-
| Notepad, Wordpad, TheGun, EditPlus, SciTE, Notepad++ ||
[[Vim]], [[KWrite]],
[[Kate]], [http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/ BlueFish], [[Gedit]], [[Joe]], Sublime Text, [[Leafpad]], [[Nano]]
| [[Text Editors]]
|-
| Access, dBase, Foxpro, Paradox, '''OOBase''', '''LibreOffice Base'''
| [http://userbase.kde.org/Kexi Kexi], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Base OOBase], LibreOffice Base
| [[Database]]
|-
| Excel, Corel WordPrefect, '''LibreOffice Calc''', '''Softmaker Office PlanMaker''', '''WPS Spreedsheets''', '''OOCalc''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Calc, Calligra Sheets, Softmaker Office PlanMaker, WPS Spreedsheets, [[OOCalc]], [http://www.gnumeric.org gnumeric], OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Spreadsheet]]
|-
| Visio, [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html '''yED'''], '''LibreOffice Draw'''
| [https://www.calligra.org/flow/ Calligra Flow], [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html yED], LibreOffice Draw
| Diagramming
|-
| PowerPoint, '''LibreOffice Impress''', '''OOImpress''', '''WPS Presentation''', '''Softmaker Office Presentations''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Impress, [[OOImpress]], Calligra Stage, WPS Presentation, Softmaker Office Presentations, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Presentation software]]
|-
| Final Draft, Script Studio, '''Fade In''', '''KIT Scenarist''', '''Story Architect''', '''Trelby''', '''Scrite'''
| Fade In, KIT Scenarist, Story Architect, Trelby, Scrite
| Screenwriting software
|-
| Microsoft Project Manager
| [[MOOS Project Viewer]], Calligra Plan
| Project management
|-
| '''Wondershare EdrawMax''', XMind
| Wondershare EdrawMax, Minder, XMind
| Mind maps
|-
| Outlook, '''Thunderbird + Lightning'''
| [[Kontact]], [https://pawsa.fedorapeople.org/balsa/ BALSA], [[Thunderbird]] + [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/ Lightning]
| Personal information managers
|-
| Alcohol 120%, Discjuggler, Easy CD Creator, Nero Burning ROM ||
[[K3b]], [[XCDRoast]], Brasero, Xfburn, [[CD/DVD_Burning|''more'']]
|DVD/CD burning
|-
|Alcohol 120%, Nero Burning ROM, '''MakeMKV''', ImgBurn, Infrarecorder || MakeMKV, Thoggen, Dvdbackup, HandBrake, DVD::RIP, AcidRIP
| DVD ripping software
|-
| Quicken, Microsoft Money, TurboTax
| [http://gnucash.org/ GnucAsh], [http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/index-home.html KMyMoney], [[CrossOver]] Office with Quicken, [http://www.lazy8.nu/ lazy8ledger]
| Accounting
|-
| ActiveSync ||
[[SynCE]]
|Synchronization with Windows Mobile devices
|-
| WinEdt, TeXnicCenter
| [[Kile]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texmaker Texmaker], [[LyX]]
| LaTeX IDEs
|-
| Veritas Backup Exec, [http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm Cobian Backup], '''Duplicati''' ||
LuckyBackup, Déjà Dup, Grsync, Duplicati [[list of backUp applications|''more'']]
| [[Backup]]
|-
| Google Desktop ||
[[Recoll]]
| Desktop Search
|-
| Norton Ghost ||
[[Partition Image]], [[g4u]], [http://www.mondorescue.org/ Mondo Rescue], [[dd]], gDiskDump (a dd frontend), Clonezilla, Trinity Rescue Kit
|Disk imaging
|-
| Norton Partition Magic ||
[[GParted]], Clonezilla (a live cd), KDE Partition Manager, GNOME Disks
|Disk partitioning
|-
|[http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/Disk_Size_Explorer.asp Disk Size Explorer]
|[https://utils.kde.org/projects/filelight/ File Light], [[Konqueror]], Baobab, xdiskusage, duc [https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-analyze-your-disk-usage-pattern-in-linux/ ref.]
| Disk usage analyzers
|-
|[http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html Filemon], [http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Regmon.html Regmon]
| [http://syscalltrack.sourceforge.net/ syscalltrack]
| system call tracking (file monitor & others)
|-
| WinMerge, SyncToy ||
[http://meld.sourceforge.net/ Meld], [[Unison]], [http://synkron.sourceforge.net/ Synkron], [[rSync]]
| File synchronization
|-
| Google Drive, Dropbox, etc ||
[https://rclone.org Rclone]
| Cloud hosted file synchronization (Amazon S3, Dropbox, Google Cloud Storage, Google Drive, FTP, Microsoft OneDrive, sFTP, etc)
|-
| Windows Update, Add/Remove programs||
[[apt-get]], [http://aptitude.sourceforge.net/ Aptitude], [http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Portage portage], [[Rpm|rpm]], [[urpmi]], [[yast]], [[yum]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptic_Package_Manager Synaptic], [https://snapcraft.io Snapcraft (Snap)]
|Every Linux distribution has an infrastructure to manage installed software which is quite different from Windows. For instance, all updates are handled by a single program. See [[package management]].
|-
| WinRunner || [http://hoopajoo.net/projects/xautomation.html xautomation] || automating interactive applications
|-
| 7-Zip, Winzip, Winrar, Peazip ||
[[Karchiver]],
[[File Roller]],
Xarchiver,
[[ark]],
[[hjsplit]]; [[packing and unpacking files|''command line tools'']]
|Archivers
|-
| chkdsk || [[fsck]], [https://www.tecmint.com/linux-disk-scanning-tools/ other tools] || check your file system (and the [[hard disk]] beneath it) for errors
|-
| Daemon Tools ||
[[mount]], Disk Image Mounter in Gnome/KDE, Furius ISO mount, AcetoneISO
|ISO mounting
|-
| Disclib || [http://www.gwhere.org/home.php3 gWhere]
| Disk cataloging programs
|-
| Evernote, OneNote || NixNote, Tusk, Whatever, GeekNote, ForeverNote, [https://joplinapp.org/ Joplin], Xournal, XFCE4 Notes, Xpad, Hnb, Gnote, Feathernotes, Cherrytree, Bijiben, Basket, Noblenote, Nvpy. Thanks to [https://itsfoss.com/evernote-on-linux/]
|Note Taking App
|}

== Desktop Publishing ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Dreamweaver, '''Google Web Designer''', '''Bluefish Editor''', '''Aptana Studio''', '''SeaMonkey''', '''CodeLobster''' ||
[http://www.google.com/webdesigner/ Google Web Designer] (WYSIWYG), Bluefish Editor, Aptana Studio, SeaMonkey, CodeLobster
[[html editors|more]]
|[[Web Design]]
|-
| Quark, Quark Express, Microsoft Publisher, '''Scribus''', '''Karbon''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribus Scribus], Karbon, Laidout, VivaDesigner, QuickSilver, Xara Xtreme
|DTP software
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader, Xpdf Reader, Foxit reader, Sumatra pdf ||

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evince Evince],
Zathura,
Okular,
Bookworm,
Qpdfview,
Foxit reader,
PDF Studio Viewer,
[[Xpdf]],
MuPDF,
Atril,
[[Ghostview]], [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF readers
|-
| Adobe Acrobat Distiller, PDFCreator ||
[http://www.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~vrbehr/cups-pdf/ CUPS-PDF], Libre Office, [[OpenOffice.org]], PDF Studio, [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter] -- can convert to pdf. [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF authoring
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF editor, [http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio '''PDF Studio Pro'''], '''Master PDF Editor''', '''Libreoffice Draw''', '''Scribus''', '''Inkscape''' ||
[http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio PDF Studio Pro], Master PDF Editor, OnlyOffice Desktop Editors, [http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfedit Pdfedit], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam Pdfjam], [http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk Pdftk], Scribus, Inkscape, Karbon, Okular, Libreoffice Draw. Thanks to [https://www.ubuntupit.com/linux-pdf-editor-top-15-reviewed-and-compared/ this] [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF editing tools
|-
| SilverFast ||
[[xSane]], [http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html VueScan], Simple Scan, Skanlite, Gscan2pdf, GIMP with Quitelnsane
| [[scanning]]
|-
| FinePrint ||
[http://www.boomaga.org boomaga], [http://wfr.tcl.tk/279 page-crunch], [http://freshmeat.net/projects/mpage/ mpage], [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter], [http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~ajcd/psutils/index.html psnup/PSutils], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam pdfnup/PDFjam]
| Document printing/reformatting tools
|}

= Networking =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Internet Explorer, '''Microsoft Edge''', '''Firefox''', '''Opera''', '''Chrome''', '''Pale Moon''', '''Brave''', '''Vivaldi''', '''Otter Browser''', '''Falkon''', '''Dooble''', '''Slimjet''' ||
[[Firefox]], [[Konqueror]], Epiphany (Gnome Web), Falkon, Microsoft Edge, Slimjet, Midori, [http://www.google.com/chrome Chrome], Chromium, [[Opera]], Otter Browser, Brave, Vivaldi, Falkon, Pale Moon, Dillo, Dooble, Links [[Browsers|''more'']]
| [[Web Browsers]]
|-
| Microsoft Outlook, '''Thunderbird''', Pegasus, Lotus Notes, '''Seamonkey''', '''Claws Mail''', '''Mailspring''' ||
[[Kontact]],
[http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/features/evolution.html Evolution], Seamonkey,
[[Thunderbird]], Claws Mail, Mailspring, Geary [https://itsfoss.com/best-email-clients-linux/ others]
|Email clients.
|-
| '''Trillian''', '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Irssi''', ICQ ||
Trillian, Hexchat, [[PidgIn]], [[Irssi]], [[Kopete]]
| [[Instant messaging]] [[software]].
|-
| Microsoft HyperTerminal ||
[[minicom]]
|-
| FileZilla FTP Client, WS FTP, Bullet Proof FTP, CuteFTP ||
[http://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client FileZilla FTP Client],
[http://www.kftp.org/misc/description KFTP (KFTPGrabber)],
[[Kasablanca]],
[[FireFTP]],
[[Konqueror]],
[[KBear]],
[[gFTP]],
[http://www.crossftp.com/ CrossFTP],
[[Nautilus]]
|FTP clients. Please note GNOME, KDE (and other) programs can directly open and edit files on FTP, SFTP and WebDAV shares, often using [[KIO]], [[GIO]] or [GVfs]].
|-
| mIRC, '''Trillian''', '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Quassel''', '''KVIrc''', '''Irssi''' ||
Trillian, HexChat, [[PidgIn]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quassel_IRC Quassel], [[KVIrc]], Irssi, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konversation Konversation], [[BitchX]]
| [[IRC Clients]]
|-
|[http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/ UltraVNC], TightVNC, RealVNC, Remote Desktop ||
[http://www.tightvnc.com/ TightVNC],
[http://www.realvnc.com/ RealVNC], [http://www.rdesktop.org/ rdesktop],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/freenx/ FreeNX],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/x11vnc/ x11vnc],
[http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ Synergy],
XDMCP, [[SSH]] with X11 forwarding (-X or -Y option)
| [[Desktop Sharing]]
|-
| MailWasher, SpamAssassin for Windows ||
SpamAssassin
| Spam filter
|-
|Forte Free Agent, [[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]] ||
[[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]], [http://www.newsreaders.com/unix/clients.html See More Clients Here]
|News Reader (Usenet [[newsgroup]]s)
|-
| eMule, '''aMule''' || aMule
|ED2K P2P network clients
|-
| [http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php '''Vuze (formerly Azureus)'''], [http://utorrent.com/ utorrent], '''Transmission''', '''Deluge''', '''qBittorrent''', '''Tixati''', '''Frostwire''', '''Tribler''' ||
[http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php Vuze (formerly Azureus)], Tranmission, Deluge, qBittorrent, Tixati, Frostwire, Tribler, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qtorrent Qtorrent], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bittornado bittornado], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ktorrent Ktorrent],
|BitTorrent P2P network clients
|-
| '''Skype''', Voipbuster, '''Yate''', '''Linphone''', '''Jitsi''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype Skype], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linphone Linphone], Asterisk, Empathy, Yate, Jitsi
|VoIP software
|-
| Bitvise Tunnelier ||
[http://sourceforge.net/projects/gstm/ gSTM]
|gSTM is a front-end for managing SSH-tunneled port redirects.
|}

== Server ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| IIS, [[Apache]] ||
[[Apache]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nginx Engine-X], [http://www.lighttpd.net/ lighttpd]
|[[Web Servers]]
|-
| Folder sharing, printer sharing ||
[[Samba]]
|Share files and printers between Windows and Linux systems. Installed by default on most distributions.
|-
|IIS, [http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ FileZilla FTP Client & Server]
|[[vsftpd]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure-ftpd pure-ftpd]
|FTP servers, for hosting files.
|-
|[http://www.netlimiter.com/ NetLimiter] ||
[http://monkey.org/~marius/pages/?page=trickle Trickle], [http://l7-filter.sourceforge.net/ Level 7 Filter], [http://www.clarkconnect.com/info/index.php ClarkConnect], [http://www.bandwidtharbitrator.com/ Bandwidth Arbitrator], [http://www.mastershaper.org/index.php/Main_Page MasterShaper]
|Bandwidth shaping and management.
|-
| Exchange ||
[[Citadel]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbra zimbra], [[Open-Xchange]]
|Groupware (sharing of appointments, contacts, e-mail, documents, etc. between members of a group)
|-
| Sharepoint ||
[http://www.knowledgetree.com/opensource KnowledgeTree]
|Manage and secure documents, collaborate around document creation and editing, full document contents indexing
|-
| Norton/McAfee Antivirus, [http://clamwin.com/ ClamWin], AVG, AntiVir, Avast, ClamAV ||
[[ClamAV]], [https://support.avast.com/en-eu/article/131/ Avast Security for Linux]
| Antivirus software.
|-
| ZoneAlarm , Sygate SPF||
[[Guarddog]], [[Firestarter]], [[GUFW]], [[iptables]]
| Firewall software
|}

= Multimedia =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
|[http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/ Adobe Photoshop], [http://www.corel.com/ Corel Photo-Paint], '''GIMP''', '''Glimpse''', '''GIMPShop''', '''ImageMagick''', '''Xnview''', '''[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)]''', '''[https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable]''', '''Pinta''', '''MyPaint''', '''Krita''', '''Filmulator''', '''Photivo''', '''RawTherapee''', '''digiKam''', '''nomacs''' ||
[http://www.gimp.org/ GIMP], Glimpse,
[[GIMPShop]], ImageMagick, Pinta, MyPaint,
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krita Krita], Xnview,
[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)], [https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable], Filmulator, Photivo, RawTherapee, digiKam, nomacs
|Raster graphics editors
|-
|[http://www.corel.com/ Corel Draw], [http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator/ Adobe Illustrator], '''Inkscape''', '''Vectr''', '''Gravit''', '''LibreOffice Draw''', '''sK1''', '''SVG-edit''' ||
[http://www.inkscape.org/ Inkscape], Vectr, Gravit, LibreOffice Draw, Karbon, sK1, SVG-edit. [https://itsfoss.com/vector-graphics-editors-linux/ Ref.]
|Vector graphics editors
|-
|Adobe Animate, '''Synfig''', '''Pencil2D''', '''Tupi (Tupitube Desk)''', '''OpenToonz''', '''Blender''', '''Toon Boom Harmony''', '''Krita''', '''Aseprite''', '''TVPaint''', '''Animaker''', '''Ajax Animator''', '''Glaxnimate''', '''Tahoma2D''', '''Enve''' ||
Synfig, Pencil2D, Tupi (Tupitube Desk), OpenToonz, Blender, Toon Boom Harmony, Krita, Aseprite, TVPaint, Animaker, Ajax Animator, Glaxnimate, Tahoma2D , Enve
| 2D Animations
|-
| Irfanview, ACDSee, '''digiKam''', '''Xnview''', '''nomacs''' ||
[[XnView]], [http://mirageiv.berlios.de/ Mirage], [[GThumb]], Shotwell, KPhotoAlbum, Geeqie, digiKam, Gwenview, Ristretto, Viewnior, Nomacs
|Image viewers
|-
| 3D Studio MAX, '''Blender''', [http://www.autodesk.com '''Maya'''] ||
[[Blender]],
[http://www.autodesk.com Maya],
[[K-3D]]
|3D modeling software
|-
| Autodesk Inventor, Solidworks, CATIA || [http://www.freecadweb.org FreeCAD], [http://www.salome-platform.org/ SALOME platform]
| Professional 3D CAD software
|-
| Windows Media Player, PowerDVD, SMPlayer, MPV, [[VLC]] ||
SMPlayer, MPV, [[VLC]], [[Xine]], [[Totem]], [[Kaffeine]], Parole, Celluloid, [[MPlayer]]
| [[Video Players]]
|-
| SIA Smaart Live || [http://sf.net/projects/brp-pacu/ BRP-PACU] || [[Sound]] analysis
|-
| Winamp, Sonique, iTunes, [http://www.atunes.org/ aTunes], '''Clementine''', '''VLC''', '''SMplayer''', '''Deadbeef''', '''Audacious''', '''Strawberry''', '''Exaile''' ||
[[Amarok]], [[RhythmBox]], [http://banshee-project.org/index.php/Main_Page Banshee], [[Xine]], Elisa, Clementine, VLC, SMplayer, Deadbeef, Audacious, Strawberry, Exaile, pMusic. See also Video Players section
|[[Music Players]]
|-
| [http://www.otsav.com/ OTSAV, OTS Turntables], [http://serato.com/ Serato], [http://www.native-instruments.com/en/traktor/ Traktor], [http://www.virtualdj.com/ Virtual DJ], [http://www.pcdj.com/ PC DJ], [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
| [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
|Audio & video play out (DJ/presenter)
|-
| Windows Movie Maker, Adobe Premiere Elements, [http://www.goldwave.com/mqrelease.php Multiquence], '''Avidemux''', '''OpenShot''', '''VidCutter''', [https://shotcut.org/ '''Shotcut'''], '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron]''', [https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php '''Olive'''], '''Lightworks''' ||
[[Cinelerra]] (difficult but very professional),
[[KDenlive]] (easy and powerful),
[[LiVES]],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avidemux AviDemux],
OpenShot,
VidCutter,
Flowblade,
Pitivi,
DaVinci Resolve,
[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron],
[https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php Olive],
Lightworks (thanks to Linux Format magazine),
[https://shotcut.org/ Shotcut](thanks to Linux Format magazine)
|[[Video Editors]]
|-
| '''Audacity''', Cubase, '''Ardour''', Adobe Audition (formerly Cool Edit Pro), [http://www.goldwave.com/ GoldWave], Cakewalk/Sonar, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''LMMS''', '''Traverso-DAW''', '''[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]''' ||
[[Audacity]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden],
[[Beast]],
[[Ardour]],
Harrison Mixbus,
[http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/index.php Radium],
DaVinci Resolve,
Bitwig Studio,
Qtractor,
[https://traverso-daw.org/ Traverso-DAW],
LMMS,
[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]
|Digital audio workstation software
|-
| Audio Catalyst, '''Ocenaudio''', dbpoweramp, CDex, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''Audacity''' ||
[[Audacity]],
Ocenaudio,
DaVinci Resolve,
[[Grip]]
| [[Audio Editors]]
|-
| '''Wavesurfer''', '''Audacity''', '''Sox'''||[https://itsfoss.com/record-streaming-audio/ Audio Recorder], Ecasound, Audacity, Sox, Wavesurfer
|Audio recorders
|-
| Cakewalk/Sonar ||
[[kmid]],
[[kmidi]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden]
| [[MIDI]]
|-
|[http://www.noteworthysoftware.com/ NoteWorthy Composer], '''MuseScore''', '''LilyPond'''||
[http://www.musescore.org/ MuseScore], [http://lilypond.org/web/ LilyPond]
|Musical score typesetting
|-
|[http://www.guitar-pro.com/ GuitarPro], TuxGuitar ||
[http://www.tuxguitar.com.ar/ TuxGuitar]
|Guitar tablature editors
|-
| Microsoft Paint, Kid Pix, '''Tux Paint''', '''Pencil 2D''', '''Krita''', '''Pinta''', '''Mypaint''', '''Mtpaint''' ||
[http://www.tuxpaint.org/ Tuxpaint], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KolourPaint KolourPaint], Pencil 2D, Krita, [https://launchpad.net/dibuja Dibuja], Pinta, Mypaint, Mtpaint
|Basic raster painting programs
|-
| Videora, [https://handbrake.fr/ '''Handbrake'''], '''WinFF''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || [https://handbrake.fr/ Handbrake], WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, Transmageddon, VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Video converter
|-
| '''WinFF''', '''Handbrake''', '''fre:ac - free audio converter (freac)''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || Handbrake, WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, fre:ac - free audio converter (freac), VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Audio converter
|-
|TMPGEnc DVD Author, Roxio DVDit, '''Open DVD Producer''', '''DVDStyler''' ||
DVDStyler, [http://opendvdproducer.jonata.org/ Open DVD Producer], [http://www.rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html DeVeDe]
|DVD authoring software
|-
|'''uTox''', '''qTox''', '''Jitsi''', '''OpenMeetings''', '''Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone)''', '''Microsoft Teams''', '''Zoom''' || uTox, qTox, OpenMettings, Jitsi, Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone), Empathy, Microsoft Teams, Zoom
| Video Conferencing
|}

= Education =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| '''Klavaro''', '''Tipp10''' || Klavaro, Tipp10, [[KTouch]], Tux Typing, GNU Typist || Touch typing tutors
|-
| '''Maple''', '''Mathematica''' || Maple, Mathematica, [http://maxima.sourceforge.net/ Maxima]
| Computer algebra systems
|-
| '''Matlab''', '''Octave''', '''Scilab''' ||
Matlab, [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ Octave],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SciLab SciLab], Sage, KAlgebra
| High level numeric computation environments
|-
| '''SPSS''', '''Stata''', EViews, '''PSPP''', '''[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project]''', '''[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]''' ||
[http://www.stata.com/products/unix.html Stata], SPSS,
[http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/pspp.html PSPP],
[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Plus S-Plus],
[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]
| Statistical analysis
|-
| Verilog ||
[http://www.icarus.com/eda/verilog/ iverilog]
| Verilog Simulator
|-
| '''Google Earth''', NASA World Wind, '''Celestia''', '''Stellarium''', '''Skychart''', '''Aladin Sky Atlas''', Microsoft Flight Simulator, '''FlightGear''' ||
[http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html Google Earth], [https://celestia.space/index.html Celestia], [http://www.stellarium.org/ Stellarium], [https://marble.kde.org/ Marble], [http://www.geody.com/ Geody], Kstars, Skychart, Aladin Sky Atlas, [http://www.flightgear.org/ FlightGear]
| Geography, astronomy and simulation
|}

''Please add new applications to this list. A good resource is the [http://www.nawaz.org/wiki/index.php?title=Table_of_Equivalents BeetleSpace Windows/Linux Software Table of Equivalents], which is GNU FDL licensed.''

= See also =

* [[running windows software]]
* [http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux.]
* [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareEquivalents Ubuntu software equivalents's page]
* [http://www.linuxeq.com/ The Linux Equivalent Project]
* [https://www.turkishcypriotheritage.org/ turkishcypriotheritage.org]

[[Category:FAQ]]

Linux software equivalent to Windows software

2024-02-17T01:09:53Z

Kareempharmacist: /* Multimedia */

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.

= Office and Productivity =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Office, '''OpenOffice''', '''Libre Office''', '''WPS Office''', '''Softmaker Office''', '''Onlyoffice Desktop'''
| [[Libre Office]], [https://www.wps.com/linux WPS Office](WPS-Community), [[OpenOffice]], [https://www.calligra.org/ Calligra], Softmaker FreeOffice, OnlyOffice Desktop
| Office package
|-
| Microsoft Word, OOwriter, LibreOffice Writer, WPS Writer, Softmaker TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[OOWriter]], [http://www.abiword.org AbiWord], WPS Writer, LibreOffice Writer, Calligra Words, FreeOffice TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop, Lyx, [[LaTeX]]
| [[Word Processing]]
|-
| Notepad, Wordpad, TheGun, EditPlus, SciTE, Notepad++ ||
[[Vim]], [[KWrite]],
[[Kate]], [http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/ BlueFish], [[Gedit]], [[Joe]], Sublime Text, [[Leafpad]], [[Nano]]
| [[Text Editors]]
|-
| Access, dBase, Foxpro, Paradox, '''OOBase''', '''LibreOffice Base'''
| [http://userbase.kde.org/Kexi Kexi], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Base OOBase], LibreOffice Base
| [[Database]]
|-
| Excel, Corel WordPrefect, '''LibreOffice Calc''', '''Softmaker Office PlanMaker''', '''WPS Spreedsheets''', '''OOCalc''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Calc, Calligra Sheets, Softmaker Office PlanMaker, WPS Spreedsheets, [[OOCalc]], [http://www.gnumeric.org gnumeric], OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Spreadsheet]]
|-
| Visio, [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html '''yED'''], '''LibreOffice Draw'''
| [https://www.calligra.org/flow/ Calligra Flow], [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html yED], LibreOffice Draw
| Diagramming
|-
| PowerPoint, '''LibreOffice Impress''', '''OOImpress''', '''WPS Presentation''', '''Softmaker Office Presentations''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Impress, [[OOImpress]], Calligra Stage, WPS Presentation, Softmaker Office Presentations, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Presentation software]]
|-
| Final Draft, Script Studio, '''Fade In''', '''KIT Scenarist''', '''Story Architect''', '''Trelby''', '''Scrite'''
| Fade In, KIT Scenarist, Story Architect, Trelby, Scrite
| Screenwriting software
|-
| Microsoft Project Manager
| [[MOOS Project Viewer]], Calligra Plan
| Project management
|-
| '''Wondershare EdrawMax''', XMind
| Wondershare EdrawMax, Minder, XMind
| Mind maps
|-
| Outlook, '''Thunderbird + Lightning'''
| [[Kontact]], [https://pawsa.fedorapeople.org/balsa/ BALSA], [[Thunderbird]] + [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/ Lightning]
| Personal information managers
|-
| Alcohol 120%, Discjuggler, Easy CD Creator, Nero Burning ROM ||
[[K3b]], [[XCDRoast]], Brasero, Xfburn, [[CD/DVD_Burning|''more'']]
|DVD/CD burning
|-
|Alcohol 120%, Nero Burning ROM, '''MakeMKV''', ImgBurn, Infrarecorder || MakeMKV, Thoggen, Dvdbackup, HandBrake, DVD::RIP, AcidRIP
| DVD ripping software
|-
| Quicken, Microsoft Money, TurboTax
| [http://gnucash.org/ GnucAsh], [http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/index-home.html KMyMoney], [[CrossOver]] Office with Quicken, [http://www.lazy8.nu/ lazy8ledger]
| Accounting
|-
| ActiveSync ||
[[SynCE]]
|Synchronization with Windows Mobile devices
|-
| WinEdt, TeXnicCenter
| [[Kile]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texmaker Texmaker], [[LyX]]
| LaTeX IDEs
|-
| Veritas Backup Exec, [http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm Cobian Backup], '''Duplicati''' ||
LuckyBackup, Déjà Dup, Grsync, Duplicati [[list of backUp applications|''more'']]
| [[Backup]]
|-
| Google Desktop ||
[[Recoll]]
| Desktop Search
|-
| Norton Ghost ||
[[Partition Image]], [[g4u]], [http://www.mondorescue.org/ Mondo Rescue], [[dd]], gDiskDump (a dd frontend), Clonezilla, Trinity Rescue Kit
|Disk imaging
|-
| Norton Partition Magic ||
[[GParted]], Clonezilla (a live cd), KDE Partition Manager, GNOME Disks
|Disk partitioning
|-
|[http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/Disk_Size_Explorer.asp Disk Size Explorer]
|[https://utils.kde.org/projects/filelight/ File Light], [[Konqueror]], Baobab, xdiskusage, duc [https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-analyze-your-disk-usage-pattern-in-linux/ ref.]
| Disk usage analyzers
|-
|[http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html Filemon], [http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Regmon.html Regmon]
| [http://syscalltrack.sourceforge.net/ syscalltrack]
| system call tracking (file monitor & others)
|-
| WinMerge, SyncToy ||
[http://meld.sourceforge.net/ Meld], [[Unison]], [http://synkron.sourceforge.net/ Synkron], [[rSync]]
| File synchronization
|-
| Google Drive, Dropbox, etc ||
[https://rclone.org Rclone]
| Cloud hosted file synchronization (Amazon S3, Dropbox, Google Cloud Storage, Google Drive, FTP, Microsoft OneDrive, sFTP, etc)
|-
| Windows Update, Add/Remove programs||
[[apt-get]], [http://aptitude.sourceforge.net/ Aptitude], [http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Portage portage], [[Rpm|rpm]], [[urpmi]], [[yast]], [[yum]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptic_Package_Manager Synaptic], [https://snapcraft.io Snapcraft (Snap)]
|Every Linux distribution has an infrastructure to manage installed software which is quite different from Windows. For instance, all updates are handled by a single program. See [[package management]].
|-
| WinRunner || [http://hoopajoo.net/projects/xautomation.html xautomation] || automating interactive applications
|-
| 7-Zip, Winzip, Winrar, Peazip ||
[[Karchiver]],
[[File Roller]],
Xarchiver,
[[ark]],
[[hjsplit]]; [[packing and unpacking files|''command line tools'']]
|Archivers
|-
| chkdsk || [[fsck]], [https://www.tecmint.com/linux-disk-scanning-tools/ other tools] || check your file system (and the [[hard disk]] beneath it) for errors
|-
| Daemon Tools ||
[[mount]], Disk Image Mounter in Gnome/KDE, Furius ISO mount, AcetoneISO
|ISO mounting
|-
| Disclib || [http://www.gwhere.org/home.php3 gWhere]
| Disk cataloging programs
|-
| Evernote, OneNote || NixNote, Tusk, Whatever, GeekNote, ForeverNote, [https://joplinapp.org/ Joplin], Xournal, XFCE4 Notes, Xpad, Hnb, Gnote, Feathernotes, Cherrytree, Bijiben, Basket, Noblenote, Nvpy. Thanks to [https://itsfoss.com/evernote-on-linux/]
|Note Taking App
|}

== Desktop Publishing ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Dreamweaver, '''Google Web Designer''', '''Bluefish Editor''', '''Aptana Studio''', '''SeaMonkey''', '''CodeLobster''' ||
[http://www.google.com/webdesigner/ Google Web Designer] (WYSIWYG), Bluefish Editor, Aptana Studio, SeaMonkey, CodeLobster
[[html editors|more]]
|[[Web Design]]
|-
| Quark, Quark Express, Microsoft Publisher, '''Scribus''', '''Karbon''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribus Scribus], Karbon, Laidout, VivaDesigner, QuickSilver, Xara Xtreme
|DTP software
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader, Xpdf Reader, Foxit reader, Sumatra pdf ||

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evince Evince],
Zathura,
Okular,
Bookworm,
Qpdfview,
Foxit reader,
PDF Studio Viewer,
[[Xpdf]],
MuPDF,
Atril,
[[Ghostview]], [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF readers
|-
| Adobe Acrobat Distiller, PDFCreator ||
[http://www.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~vrbehr/cups-pdf/ CUPS-PDF], Libre Office, [[OpenOffice.org]], PDF Studio, [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter] -- can convert to pdf. [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF authoring
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF editor, [http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio '''PDF Studio Pro'''], '''Master PDF Editor''', '''Libreoffice Draw''', '''Scribus''', '''Inkscape''' ||
[http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio PDF Studio Pro], Master PDF Editor, [http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfedit Pdfedit], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam Pdfjam], [http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk Pdftk], Scribus, Inkscape, Karbon, Okular, Libreoffice Draw. Thanks to [https://www.ubuntupit.com/linux-pdf-editor-top-15-reviewed-and-compared/ this] [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF editing tools
|-
| SilverFast ||
[[xSane]], [http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html VueScan], Simple Scan, Skanlite, Gscan2pdf, GIMP with Quitelnsane
| [[scanning]]
|-
| FinePrint ||
[http://www.boomaga.org boomaga], [http://wfr.tcl.tk/279 page-crunch], [http://freshmeat.net/projects/mpage/ mpage], [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter], [http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~ajcd/psutils/index.html psnup/PSutils], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam pdfnup/PDFjam]
| Document printing/reformatting tools
|}

= Networking =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Internet Explorer, '''Microsoft Edge''', '''Firefox''', '''Opera''', '''Chrome''', '''Pale Moon''', '''Brave''', '''Vivaldi''', '''Otter Browser''', '''Falkon''', '''Dooble''', '''Slimjet''' ||
[[Firefox]], [[Konqueror]], Epiphany (Gnome Web), Falkon, Microsoft Edge, Slimjet, Midori, [http://www.google.com/chrome Chrome], Chromium, [[Opera]], Otter Browser, Brave, Vivaldi, Falkon, Pale Moon, Dillo, Dooble, Links [[Browsers|''more'']]
| [[Web Browsers]]
|-
| Microsoft Outlook, '''Thunderbird''', Pegasus, Lotus Notes, '''Seamonkey''', '''Claws Mail''', '''Mailspring''' ||
[[Kontact]],
[http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/features/evolution.html Evolution], Seamonkey,
[[Thunderbird]], Claws Mail, Mailspring, Geary [https://itsfoss.com/best-email-clients-linux/ others]
|Email clients.
|-
| '''Trillian''', '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Irssi''', ICQ ||
Trillian, Hexchat, [[PidgIn]], [[Irssi]], [[Kopete]]
| [[Instant messaging]] [[software]].
|-
| Microsoft HyperTerminal ||
[[minicom]]
|-
| FileZilla FTP Client, WS FTP, Bullet Proof FTP, CuteFTP ||
[http://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client FileZilla FTP Client],
[http://www.kftp.org/misc/description KFTP (KFTPGrabber)],
[[Kasablanca]],
[[FireFTP]],
[[Konqueror]],
[[KBear]],
[[gFTP]],
[http://www.crossftp.com/ CrossFTP],
[[Nautilus]]
|FTP clients. Please note GNOME, KDE (and other) programs can directly open and edit files on FTP, SFTP and WebDAV shares, often using [[KIO]], [[GIO]] or [GVfs]].
|-
| mIRC, '''Trillian''', '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Quassel''', '''KVIrc''', '''Irssi''' ||
Trillian, HexChat, [[PidgIn]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quassel_IRC Quassel], [[KVIrc]], Irssi, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konversation Konversation], [[BitchX]]
| [[IRC Clients]]
|-
|[http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/ UltraVNC], TightVNC, RealVNC, Remote Desktop ||
[http://www.tightvnc.com/ TightVNC],
[http://www.realvnc.com/ RealVNC], [http://www.rdesktop.org/ rdesktop],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/freenx/ FreeNX],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/x11vnc/ x11vnc],
[http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ Synergy],
XDMCP, [[SSH]] with X11 forwarding (-X or -Y option)
| [[Desktop Sharing]]
|-
| MailWasher, SpamAssassin for Windows ||
SpamAssassin
| Spam filter
|-
|Forte Free Agent, [[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]] ||
[[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]], [http://www.newsreaders.com/unix/clients.html See More Clients Here]
|News Reader (Usenet [[newsgroup]]s)
|-
| eMule, '''aMule''' || aMule
|ED2K P2P network clients
|-
| [http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php '''Vuze (formerly Azureus)'''], [http://utorrent.com/ utorrent], '''Transmission''', '''Deluge''', '''qBittorrent''', '''Tixati''', '''Frostwire''', '''Tribler''' ||
[http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php Vuze (formerly Azureus)], Tranmission, Deluge, qBittorrent, Tixati, Frostwire, Tribler, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qtorrent Qtorrent], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bittornado bittornado], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ktorrent Ktorrent],
|BitTorrent P2P network clients
|-
| '''Skype''', Voipbuster, '''Yate''', '''Linphone''', '''Jitsi''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype Skype], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linphone Linphone], Asterisk, Empathy, Yate, Jitsi
|VoIP software
|-
| Bitvise Tunnelier ||
[http://sourceforge.net/projects/gstm/ gSTM]
|gSTM is a front-end for managing SSH-tunneled port redirects.
|}

== Server ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| IIS, [[Apache]] ||
[[Apache]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nginx Engine-X], [http://www.lighttpd.net/ lighttpd]
|[[Web Servers]]
|-
| Folder sharing, printer sharing ||
[[Samba]]
|Share files and printers between Windows and Linux systems. Installed by default on most distributions.
|-
|IIS, [http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ FileZilla FTP Client & Server]
|[[vsftpd]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure-ftpd pure-ftpd]
|FTP servers, for hosting files.
|-
|[http://www.netlimiter.com/ NetLimiter] ||
[http://monkey.org/~marius/pages/?page=trickle Trickle], [http://l7-filter.sourceforge.net/ Level 7 Filter], [http://www.clarkconnect.com/info/index.php ClarkConnect], [http://www.bandwidtharbitrator.com/ Bandwidth Arbitrator], [http://www.mastershaper.org/index.php/Main_Page MasterShaper]
|Bandwidth shaping and management.
|-
| Exchange ||
[[Citadel]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbra zimbra], [[Open-Xchange]]
|Groupware (sharing of appointments, contacts, e-mail, documents, etc. between members of a group)
|-
| Sharepoint ||
[http://www.knowledgetree.com/opensource KnowledgeTree]
|Manage and secure documents, collaborate around document creation and editing, full document contents indexing
|-
| Norton/McAfee Antivirus, [http://clamwin.com/ ClamWin], AVG, AntiVir, Avast, ClamAV ||
[[ClamAV]], [https://support.avast.com/en-eu/article/131/ Avast Security for Linux]
| Antivirus software.
|-
| ZoneAlarm , Sygate SPF||
[[Guarddog]], [[Firestarter]], [[GUFW]], [[iptables]]
| Firewall software
|}

= Multimedia =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
|[http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/ Adobe Photoshop], [http://www.corel.com/ Corel Photo-Paint], '''GIMP''', '''Glimpse''', '''GIMPShop''', '''ImageMagick''', '''Xnview''', '''[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)]''', '''[https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable]''', '''Pinta''', '''MyPaint''', '''Krita''', '''Filmulator''', '''Photivo''', '''RawTherapee''', '''digiKam''', '''nomacs''' ||
[http://www.gimp.org/ GIMP], Glimpse,
[[GIMPShop]], ImageMagick, Pinta, MyPaint,
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krita Krita], Xnview,
[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)], [https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable], Filmulator, Photivo, RawTherapee, digiKam, nomacs
|Raster graphics editors
|-
|[http://www.corel.com/ Corel Draw], [http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator/ Adobe Illustrator], '''Inkscape''', '''Vectr''', '''Gravit''', '''LibreOffice Draw''', '''sK1''', '''SVG-edit''' ||
[http://www.inkscape.org/ Inkscape], Vectr, Gravit, LibreOffice Draw, Karbon, sK1, SVG-edit. [https://itsfoss.com/vector-graphics-editors-linux/ Ref.]
|Vector graphics editors
|-
|Adobe Animate, '''Synfig''', '''Pencil2D''', '''Tupi (Tupitube Desk)''', '''OpenToonz''', '''Blender''', '''Toon Boom Harmony''', '''Krita''', '''Aseprite''', '''TVPaint''', '''Animaker''', '''Ajax Animator''', '''Glaxnimate''', '''Tahoma2D''', '''Enve''' ||
Synfig, Pencil2D, Tupi (Tupitube Desk), OpenToonz, Blender, Toon Boom Harmony, Krita, Aseprite, TVPaint, Animaker, Ajax Animator, Glaxnimate, Tahoma2D , Enve
| 2D Animations
|-
| Irfanview, ACDSee, '''digiKam''', '''Xnview''', '''nomacs''' ||
[[XnView]], [http://mirageiv.berlios.de/ Mirage], [[GThumb]], Shotwell, KPhotoAlbum, Geeqie, digiKam, Gwenview, Ristretto, Viewnior, Nomacs
|Image viewers
|-
| 3D Studio MAX, '''Blender''', [http://www.autodesk.com '''Maya'''] ||
[[Blender]],
[http://www.autodesk.com Maya],
[[K-3D]]
|3D modeling software
|-
| Autodesk Inventor, Solidworks, CATIA || [http://www.freecadweb.org FreeCAD], [http://www.salome-platform.org/ SALOME platform]
| Professional 3D CAD software
|-
| Windows Media Player, PowerDVD, SMPlayer, MPV, [[VLC]] ||
SMPlayer, MPV, [[VLC]], [[Xine]], [[Totem]], [[Kaffeine]], Parole, Celluloid, [[MPlayer]]
| [[Video Players]]
|-
| SIA Smaart Live || [http://sf.net/projects/brp-pacu/ BRP-PACU] || [[Sound]] analysis
|-
| Winamp, Sonique, iTunes, [http://www.atunes.org/ aTunes], '''Clementine''', '''VLC''', '''SMplayer''', '''Deadbeef''', '''Audacious''', '''Strawberry''', '''Exaile''' ||
[[Amarok]], [[RhythmBox]], [http://banshee-project.org/index.php/Main_Page Banshee], [[Xine]], Elisa, Clementine, VLC, SMplayer, Deadbeef, Audacious, Strawberry, Exaile, pMusic. See also Video Players section
|[[Music Players]]
|-
| [http://www.otsav.com/ OTSAV, OTS Turntables], [http://serato.com/ Serato], [http://www.native-instruments.com/en/traktor/ Traktor], [http://www.virtualdj.com/ Virtual DJ], [http://www.pcdj.com/ PC DJ], [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
| [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
|Audio & video play out (DJ/presenter)
|-
| Windows Movie Maker, Adobe Premiere Elements, [http://www.goldwave.com/mqrelease.php Multiquence], '''Avidemux''', '''OpenShot''', '''VidCutter''', [https://shotcut.org/ '''Shotcut'''], '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron]''', [https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php '''Olive'''], '''Lightworks''' ||
[[Cinelerra]] (difficult but very professional),
[[KDenlive]] (easy and powerful),
[[LiVES]],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avidemux AviDemux],
OpenShot,
VidCutter,
Flowblade,
Pitivi,
DaVinci Resolve,
[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron],
[https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php Olive],
Lightworks (thanks to Linux Format magazine),
[https://shotcut.org/ Shotcut](thanks to Linux Format magazine)
|[[Video Editors]]
|-
| '''Audacity''', Cubase, '''Ardour''', Adobe Audition (formerly Cool Edit Pro), [http://www.goldwave.com/ GoldWave], Cakewalk/Sonar, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''LMMS''', '''Traverso-DAW''', '''[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]''' ||
[[Audacity]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden],
[[Beast]],
[[Ardour]],
Harrison Mixbus,
[http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/index.php Radium],
DaVinci Resolve,
Bitwig Studio,
Qtractor,
[https://traverso-daw.org/ Traverso-DAW],
LMMS,
[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]
|Digital audio workstation software
|-
| Audio Catalyst, '''Ocenaudio''', dbpoweramp, CDex, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''Audacity''' ||
[[Audacity]],
Ocenaudio,
DaVinci Resolve,
[[Grip]]
| [[Audio Editors]]
|-
| '''Wavesurfer''', '''Audacity''', '''Sox'''||[https://itsfoss.com/record-streaming-audio/ Audio Recorder], Ecasound, Audacity, Sox, Wavesurfer
|Audio recorders
|-
| Cakewalk/Sonar ||
[[kmid]],
[[kmidi]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden]
| [[MIDI]]
|-
|[http://www.noteworthysoftware.com/ NoteWorthy Composer], '''MuseScore''', '''LilyPond'''||
[http://www.musescore.org/ MuseScore], [http://lilypond.org/web/ LilyPond]
|Musical score typesetting
|-
|[http://www.guitar-pro.com/ GuitarPro], TuxGuitar ||
[http://www.tuxguitar.com.ar/ TuxGuitar]
|Guitar tablature editors
|-
| Microsoft Paint, Kid Pix, '''Tux Paint''', '''Pencil 2D''', '''Krita''', '''Pinta''', '''Mypaint''', '''Mtpaint''' ||
[http://www.tuxpaint.org/ Tuxpaint], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KolourPaint KolourPaint], Pencil 2D, Krita, [https://launchpad.net/dibuja Dibuja], Pinta, Mypaint, Mtpaint
|Basic raster painting programs
|-
| Videora, [https://handbrake.fr/ '''Handbrake'''], '''WinFF''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || [https://handbrake.fr/ Handbrake], WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, Transmageddon, VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Video converter
|-
| '''WinFF''', '''Handbrake''', '''fre:ac - free audio converter (freac)''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || Handbrake, WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, fre:ac - free audio converter (freac), VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Audio converter
|-
|TMPGEnc DVD Author, Roxio DVDit, '''Open DVD Producer''', '''DVDStyler''' ||
DVDStyler, [http://opendvdproducer.jonata.org/ Open DVD Producer], [http://www.rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html DeVeDe]
|DVD authoring software
|-
|'''uTox''', '''qTox''', '''Jitsi''', '''OpenMeetings''', '''Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone)''', '''Microsoft Teams''', '''Zoom''' || uTox, qTox, OpenMettings, Jitsi, Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone), Empathy, Microsoft Teams, Zoom
| Video Conferencing
|}

= Education =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| '''Klavaro''', '''Tipp10''' || Klavaro, Tipp10, [[KTouch]], Tux Typing, GNU Typist || Touch typing tutors
|-
| '''Maple''', '''Mathematica''' || Maple, Mathematica, [http://maxima.sourceforge.net/ Maxima]
| Computer algebra systems
|-
| '''Matlab''', '''Octave''', '''Scilab''' ||
Matlab, [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ Octave],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SciLab SciLab], Sage, KAlgebra
| High level numeric computation environments
|-
| '''SPSS''', '''Stata''', EViews, '''PSPP''', '''[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project]''', '''[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]''' ||
[http://www.stata.com/products/unix.html Stata], SPSS,
[http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/pspp.html PSPP],
[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Plus S-Plus],
[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]
| Statistical analysis
|-
| Verilog ||
[http://www.icarus.com/eda/verilog/ iverilog]
| Verilog Simulator
|-
| '''Google Earth''', NASA World Wind, '''Celestia''', '''Stellarium''', '''Skychart''', '''Aladin Sky Atlas''', Microsoft Flight Simulator, '''FlightGear''' ||
[http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html Google Earth], [https://celestia.space/index.html Celestia], [http://www.stellarium.org/ Stellarium], [https://marble.kde.org/ Marble], [http://www.geody.com/ Geody], Kstars, Skychart, Aladin Sky Atlas, [http://www.flightgear.org/ FlightGear]
| Geography, astronomy and simulation
|}

''Please add new applications to this list. A good resource is the [http://www.nawaz.org/wiki/index.php?title=Table_of_Equivalents BeetleSpace Windows/Linux Software Table of Equivalents], which is GNU FDL licensed.''

= See also =

* [[running windows software]]
* [http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux.]
* [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareEquivalents Ubuntu software equivalents's page]
* [http://www.linuxeq.com/ The Linux Equivalent Project]
* [https://www.turkishcypriotheritage.org/ turkishcypriotheritage.org]

[[Category:FAQ]]

Linux software equivalent to Windows software

2024-02-17T00:49:05Z

Kareempharmacist: /* Multimedia */

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.

= Office and Productivity =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Office, '''OpenOffice''', '''Libre Office''', '''WPS Office''', '''Softmaker Office''', '''Onlyoffice Desktop'''
| [[Libre Office]], [https://www.wps.com/linux WPS Office](WPS-Community), [[OpenOffice]], [https://www.calligra.org/ Calligra], Softmaker FreeOffice, OnlyOffice Desktop
| Office package
|-
| Microsoft Word, OOwriter, LibreOffice Writer, WPS Writer, Softmaker TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[OOWriter]], [http://www.abiword.org AbiWord], WPS Writer, LibreOffice Writer, Calligra Words, FreeOffice TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop, Lyx, [[LaTeX]]
| [[Word Processing]]
|-
| Notepad, Wordpad, TheGun, EditPlus, SciTE, Notepad++ ||
[[Vim]], [[KWrite]],
[[Kate]], [http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/ BlueFish], [[Gedit]], [[Joe]], Sublime Text, [[Leafpad]], [[Nano]]
| [[Text Editors]]
|-
| Access, dBase, Foxpro, Paradox, '''OOBase''', '''LibreOffice Base'''
| [http://userbase.kde.org/Kexi Kexi], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Base OOBase], LibreOffice Base
| [[Database]]
|-
| Excel, Corel WordPrefect, '''LibreOffice Calc''', '''Softmaker Office PlanMaker''', '''WPS Spreedsheets''', '''OOCalc''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Calc, Calligra Sheets, Softmaker Office PlanMaker, WPS Spreedsheets, [[OOCalc]], [http://www.gnumeric.org gnumeric], OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Spreadsheet]]
|-
| Visio, [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html '''yED'''], '''LibreOffice Draw'''
| [https://www.calligra.org/flow/ Calligra Flow], [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html yED], LibreOffice Draw
| Diagramming
|-
| PowerPoint, '''LibreOffice Impress''', '''OOImpress''', '''WPS Presentation''', '''Softmaker Office Presentations''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Impress, [[OOImpress]], Calligra Stage, WPS Presentation, Softmaker Office Presentations, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Presentation software]]
|-
| Final Draft, Script Studio, '''Fade In''', '''KIT Scenarist''', '''Story Architect''', '''Trelby''', '''Scrite'''
| Fade In, KIT Scenarist, Story Architect, Trelby, Scrite
| Screenwriting software
|-
| Microsoft Project Manager
| [[MOOS Project Viewer]], Calligra Plan
| Project management
|-
| '''Wondershare EdrawMax''', XMind
| Wondershare EdrawMax, Minder, XMind
| Mind maps
|-
| Outlook, '''Thunderbird + Lightning'''
| [[Kontact]], [https://pawsa.fedorapeople.org/balsa/ BALSA], [[Thunderbird]] + [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/ Lightning]
| Personal information managers
|-
| Alcohol 120%, Discjuggler, Easy CD Creator, Nero Burning ROM ||
[[K3b]], [[XCDRoast]], Brasero, Xfburn, [[CD/DVD_Burning|''more'']]
|DVD/CD burning
|-
|Alcohol 120%, Nero Burning ROM, '''MakeMKV''', ImgBurn, Infrarecorder || MakeMKV, Thoggen, Dvdbackup, HandBrake, DVD::RIP, AcidRIP
| DVD ripping software
|-
| Quicken, Microsoft Money, TurboTax
| [http://gnucash.org/ GnucAsh], [http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/index-home.html KMyMoney], [[CrossOver]] Office with Quicken, [http://www.lazy8.nu/ lazy8ledger]
| Accounting
|-
| ActiveSync ||
[[SynCE]]
|Synchronization with Windows Mobile devices
|-
| WinEdt, TeXnicCenter
| [[Kile]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texmaker Texmaker], [[LyX]]
| LaTeX IDEs
|-
| Veritas Backup Exec, [http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm Cobian Backup], '''Duplicati''' ||
LuckyBackup, Déjà Dup, Grsync, Duplicati [[list of backUp applications|''more'']]
| [[Backup]]
|-
| Google Desktop ||
[[Recoll]]
| Desktop Search
|-
| Norton Ghost ||
[[Partition Image]], [[g4u]], [http://www.mondorescue.org/ Mondo Rescue], [[dd]], gDiskDump (a dd frontend), Clonezilla, Trinity Rescue Kit
|Disk imaging
|-
| Norton Partition Magic ||
[[GParted]], Clonezilla (a live cd), KDE Partition Manager, GNOME Disks
|Disk partitioning
|-
|[http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/Disk_Size_Explorer.asp Disk Size Explorer]
|[https://utils.kde.org/projects/filelight/ File Light], [[Konqueror]], Baobab, xdiskusage, duc [https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-analyze-your-disk-usage-pattern-in-linux/ ref.]
| Disk usage analyzers
|-
|[http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html Filemon], [http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Regmon.html Regmon]
| [http://syscalltrack.sourceforge.net/ syscalltrack]
| system call tracking (file monitor & others)
|-
| WinMerge, SyncToy ||
[http://meld.sourceforge.net/ Meld], [[Unison]], [http://synkron.sourceforge.net/ Synkron], [[rSync]]
| File synchronization
|-
| Google Drive, Dropbox, etc ||
[https://rclone.org Rclone]
| Cloud hosted file synchronization (Amazon S3, Dropbox, Google Cloud Storage, Google Drive, FTP, Microsoft OneDrive, sFTP, etc)
|-
| Windows Update, Add/Remove programs||
[[apt-get]], [http://aptitude.sourceforge.net/ Aptitude], [http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Portage portage], [[Rpm|rpm]], [[urpmi]], [[yast]], [[yum]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptic_Package_Manager Synaptic], [https://snapcraft.io Snapcraft (Snap)]
|Every Linux distribution has an infrastructure to manage installed software which is quite different from Windows. For instance, all updates are handled by a single program. See [[package management]].
|-
| WinRunner || [http://hoopajoo.net/projects/xautomation.html xautomation] || automating interactive applications
|-
| 7-Zip, Winzip, Winrar, Peazip ||
[[Karchiver]],
[[File Roller]],
Xarchiver,
[[ark]],
[[hjsplit]]; [[packing and unpacking files|''command line tools'']]
|Archivers
|-
| chkdsk || [[fsck]], [https://www.tecmint.com/linux-disk-scanning-tools/ other tools] || check your file system (and the [[hard disk]] beneath it) for errors
|-
| Daemon Tools ||
[[mount]], Disk Image Mounter in Gnome/KDE, Furius ISO mount, AcetoneISO
|ISO mounting
|-
| Disclib || [http://www.gwhere.org/home.php3 gWhere]
| Disk cataloging programs
|-
| Evernote, OneNote || NixNote, Tusk, Whatever, GeekNote, ForeverNote, [https://joplinapp.org/ Joplin], Xournal, XFCE4 Notes, Xpad, Hnb, Gnote, Feathernotes, Cherrytree, Bijiben, Basket, Noblenote, Nvpy. Thanks to [https://itsfoss.com/evernote-on-linux/]
|Note Taking App
|}

== Desktop Publishing ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Dreamweaver, '''Google Web Designer''', '''Bluefish Editor''', '''Aptana Studio''', '''SeaMonkey''', '''CodeLobster''' ||
[http://www.google.com/webdesigner/ Google Web Designer] (WYSIWYG), Bluefish Editor, Aptana Studio, SeaMonkey, CodeLobster
[[html editors|more]]
|[[Web Design]]
|-
| Quark, Quark Express, Microsoft Publisher, '''Scribus''', '''Karbon''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribus Scribus], Karbon, Laidout, VivaDesigner, QuickSilver, Xara Xtreme
|DTP software
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader, Xpdf Reader, Foxit reader, Sumatra pdf ||

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evince Evince],
Zathura,
Okular,
Bookworm,
Qpdfview,
Foxit reader,
PDF Studio Viewer,
[[Xpdf]],
MuPDF,
Atril,
[[Ghostview]], [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF readers
|-
| Adobe Acrobat Distiller, PDFCreator ||
[http://www.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~vrbehr/cups-pdf/ CUPS-PDF], Libre Office, [[OpenOffice.org]], PDF Studio, [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter] -- can convert to pdf. [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF authoring
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF editor, [http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio '''PDF Studio Pro'''], '''Master PDF Editor''', '''Libreoffice Draw''', '''Scribus''', '''Inkscape''' ||
[http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio PDF Studio Pro], Master PDF Editor, [http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfedit Pdfedit], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam Pdfjam], [http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk Pdftk], Scribus, Inkscape, Karbon, Okular, Libreoffice Draw. Thanks to [https://www.ubuntupit.com/linux-pdf-editor-top-15-reviewed-and-compared/ this] [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF editing tools
|-
| SilverFast ||
[[xSane]], [http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html VueScan], Simple Scan, Skanlite, Gscan2pdf, GIMP with Quitelnsane
| [[scanning]]
|-
| FinePrint ||
[http://www.boomaga.org boomaga], [http://wfr.tcl.tk/279 page-crunch], [http://freshmeat.net/projects/mpage/ mpage], [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter], [http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~ajcd/psutils/index.html psnup/PSutils], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam pdfnup/PDFjam]
| Document printing/reformatting tools
|}

= Networking =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Internet Explorer, '''Microsoft Edge''', '''Firefox''', '''Opera''', '''Chrome''', '''Pale Moon''', '''Brave''', '''Vivaldi''', '''Otter Browser''', '''Falkon''', '''Dooble''', '''Slimjet''' ||
[[Firefox]], [[Konqueror]], Epiphany (Gnome Web), Falkon, Microsoft Edge, Slimjet, Midori, [http://www.google.com/chrome Chrome], Chromium, [[Opera]], Otter Browser, Brave, Vivaldi, Falkon, Pale Moon, Dillo, Dooble, Links [[Browsers|''more'']]
| [[Web Browsers]]
|-
| Microsoft Outlook, '''Thunderbird''', Pegasus, Lotus Notes, '''Seamonkey''', '''Claws Mail''', '''Mailspring''' ||
[[Kontact]],
[http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/features/evolution.html Evolution], Seamonkey,
[[Thunderbird]], Claws Mail, Mailspring, Geary [https://itsfoss.com/best-email-clients-linux/ others]
|Email clients.
|-
| '''Trillian''', '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Irssi''', ICQ ||
Trillian, Hexchat, [[PidgIn]], [[Irssi]], [[Kopete]]
| [[Instant messaging]] [[software]].
|-
| Microsoft HyperTerminal ||
[[minicom]]
|-
| FileZilla FTP Client, WS FTP, Bullet Proof FTP, CuteFTP ||
[http://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client FileZilla FTP Client],
[http://www.kftp.org/misc/description KFTP (KFTPGrabber)],
[[Kasablanca]],
[[FireFTP]],
[[Konqueror]],
[[KBear]],
[[gFTP]],
[http://www.crossftp.com/ CrossFTP],
[[Nautilus]]
|FTP clients. Please note GNOME, KDE (and other) programs can directly open and edit files on FTP, SFTP and WebDAV shares, often using [[KIO]], [[GIO]] or [GVfs]].
|-
| mIRC, '''Trillian''', '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Quassel''', '''KVIrc''', '''Irssi''' ||
Trillian, HexChat, [[PidgIn]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quassel_IRC Quassel], [[KVIrc]], Irssi, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konversation Konversation], [[BitchX]]
| [[IRC Clients]]
|-
|[http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/ UltraVNC], TightVNC, RealVNC, Remote Desktop ||
[http://www.tightvnc.com/ TightVNC],
[http://www.realvnc.com/ RealVNC], [http://www.rdesktop.org/ rdesktop],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/freenx/ FreeNX],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/x11vnc/ x11vnc],
[http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ Synergy],
XDMCP, [[SSH]] with X11 forwarding (-X or -Y option)
| [[Desktop Sharing]]
|-
| MailWasher, SpamAssassin for Windows ||
SpamAssassin
| Spam filter
|-
|Forte Free Agent, [[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]] ||
[[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]], [http://www.newsreaders.com/unix/clients.html See More Clients Here]
|News Reader (Usenet [[newsgroup]]s)
|-
| eMule, '''aMule''' || aMule
|ED2K P2P network clients
|-
| [http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php '''Vuze (formerly Azureus)'''], [http://utorrent.com/ utorrent], '''Transmission''', '''Deluge''', '''qBittorrent''', '''Tixati''', '''Frostwire''', '''Tribler''' ||
[http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php Vuze (formerly Azureus)], Tranmission, Deluge, qBittorrent, Tixati, Frostwire, Tribler, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qtorrent Qtorrent], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bittornado bittornado], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ktorrent Ktorrent],
|BitTorrent P2P network clients
|-
| '''Skype''', Voipbuster, '''Yate''', '''Linphone''', '''Jitsi''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype Skype], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linphone Linphone], Asterisk, Empathy, Yate, Jitsi
|VoIP software
|-
| Bitvise Tunnelier ||
[http://sourceforge.net/projects/gstm/ gSTM]
|gSTM is a front-end for managing SSH-tunneled port redirects.
|}

== Server ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| IIS, [[Apache]] ||
[[Apache]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nginx Engine-X], [http://www.lighttpd.net/ lighttpd]
|[[Web Servers]]
|-
| Folder sharing, printer sharing ||
[[Samba]]
|Share files and printers between Windows and Linux systems. Installed by default on most distributions.
|-
|IIS, [http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ FileZilla FTP Client & Server]
|[[vsftpd]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure-ftpd pure-ftpd]
|FTP servers, for hosting files.
|-
|[http://www.netlimiter.com/ NetLimiter] ||
[http://monkey.org/~marius/pages/?page=trickle Trickle], [http://l7-filter.sourceforge.net/ Level 7 Filter], [http://www.clarkconnect.com/info/index.php ClarkConnect], [http://www.bandwidtharbitrator.com/ Bandwidth Arbitrator], [http://www.mastershaper.org/index.php/Main_Page MasterShaper]
|Bandwidth shaping and management.
|-
| Exchange ||
[[Citadel]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbra zimbra], [[Open-Xchange]]
|Groupware (sharing of appointments, contacts, e-mail, documents, etc. between members of a group)
|-
| Sharepoint ||
[http://www.knowledgetree.com/opensource KnowledgeTree]
|Manage and secure documents, collaborate around document creation and editing, full document contents indexing
|-
| Norton/McAfee Antivirus, [http://clamwin.com/ ClamWin], AVG, AntiVir, Avast, ClamAV ||
[[ClamAV]], [https://support.avast.com/en-eu/article/131/ Avast Security for Linux]
| Antivirus software.
|-
| ZoneAlarm , Sygate SPF||
[[Guarddog]], [[Firestarter]], [[GUFW]], [[iptables]]
| Firewall software
|}

= Multimedia =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
|[http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/ Adobe Photoshop], [http://www.corel.com/ Corel Photo-Paint], '''GIMP''', '''Glimpse''', '''GIMPShop''', '''ImageMagick''', '''Xnview''', '''[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)]''', '''[https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable]''', '''Pinta''', '''MyPaint''', '''Krita''', '''Filmulator''', '''Photivo''', '''RawTherapee''', '''digiKam''', '''nomacs''' ||
[http://www.gimp.org/ GIMP], Glimpse,
[[GIMPShop]], ImageMagick, Pinta, MyPaint,
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krita Krita], Xnview,
[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)], [https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable], Filmulator, Photivo, RawTherapee, digiKam, nomacs
|Raster graphics editors
|-
|[http://www.corel.com/ Corel Draw], [http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator/ Adobe Illustrator], '''Inkscape''', '''Vectr''', '''Gravit''', '''LibreOffice Draw''', '''sK1''', '''SVG-edit''' ||
[http://www.inkscape.org/ Inkscape], Vectr, Gravit, LibreOffice Draw, Karbon, sK1, SVG-edit. [https://itsfoss.com/vector-graphics-editors-linux/ Ref.]
|Vector graphics editors
|-
|Adobe Animate, '''Synfig''', '''Pencil2D''', '''Tupi (Tupitube Desk)''', '''OpenToonz''', '''Blender''', '''Toon Boom Harmony''', '''Krita''', '''Aseprite''', '''TVPaint''', '''Animaker''', '''Ajax Animator''', '''Glaxnimate''', '''Tahoma2D''', '''Enve''' ||
Synfig, Pencil2D, Tupi (Tupitube Desk), OpenToonz, Blender, Toon Boom Harmony, Krita, Aseprite, TVPaint, Animaker, Ajax Animator, Glaxnimate, Tahoma2D , Enve
| 2D Animations
|-
| Irfanview, ACDSee, '''digiKam''', '''Xnview''', '''nomacs''' ||
[[XnView]], [http://mirageiv.berlios.de/ Mirage], [[GThumb]], Shotwell, KPhotoAlbum, Geeqie, digiKam, Gwenview, Ristretto, Viewnior, Nomacs
|Image viewers
|-
| 3D Studio MAX, '''Blender''', [http://www.autodesk.com '''Maya'''] ||
[[Blender]],
[http://www.autodesk.com Maya],
[[K-3D]]
|3D modeling software
|-
| Autodesk Inventor, Solidworks, CATIA || [http://www.freecadweb.org FreeCAD], [http://www.salome-platform.org/ SALOME platform]
| Professional 3D CAD software
|-
| Windows Media Player, PowerDVD, SMPlayer, MPV, [[VLC]] ||
SMPlayer,
MPV,
[[VLC]],
[[Xine]],
[[Totem]],
[[Kaffeine]],
Parole,
Celluloid,
[[MPlayer]]
| [[Video Players]]
|-
| SIA Smaart Live || [http://sf.net/projects/brp-pacu/ BRP-PACU] || [[Sound]] analysis
|-
| Winamp, Sonique, iTunes, [http://www.atunes.org/ aTunes], '''Clementine''', '''VLC''', '''SMplayer''', '''Deadbeef''', '''Audacious''', '''Strawberry''', '''Exaile''' ||
[[Amarok]], [[RhythmBox]], [http://banshee-project.org/index.php/Main_Page Banshee], [[Xine]], Elisa, Clementine, VLC, SMplayer, Deadbeef, Audacious, Strawberry, Exaile. See also Video Players section
|[[Music Players]]
|-
| [http://www.otsav.com/ OTSAV, OTS Turntables], [http://serato.com/ Serato], [http://www.native-instruments.com/en/traktor/ Traktor], [http://www.virtualdj.com/ Virtual DJ], [http://www.pcdj.com/ PC DJ], [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
| [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
|Audio & video play out (DJ/presenter)
|-
| Windows Movie Maker, Adobe Premiere Elements, [http://www.goldwave.com/mqrelease.php Multiquence], '''Avidemux''', '''OpenShot''', '''VidCutter''', [https://shotcut.org/ '''Shotcut'''], '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron]''', [https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php '''Olive'''], '''Lightworks''' ||
[[Cinelerra]] (difficult but very professional),
[[KDenlive]] (easy and powerful),
[[LiVES]],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avidemux AviDemux],
OpenShot,
VidCutter,
Flowblade,
Pitivi,
DaVinci Resolve,
[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron],
[https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php Olive],
Lightworks (thanks to Linux Format magazine),
[https://shotcut.org/ Shotcut](thanks to Linux Format magazine)
|[[Video Editors]]
|-
| '''Audacity''', Cubase, '''Ardour''', Adobe Audition (formerly Cool Edit Pro), [http://www.goldwave.com/ GoldWave], Cakewalk/Sonar, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''LMMS''', '''Traverso-DAW''', '''[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]''' ||
[[Audacity]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden],
[[Beast]],
[[Ardour]],
Harrison Mixbus,
[http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/index.php Radium],
DaVinci Resolve,
Bitwig Studio,
Qtractor,
[https://traverso-daw.org/ Traverso-DAW],
LMMS,
[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]
|Digital audio workstation software
|-
| Audio Catalyst, '''Ocenaudio''', dbpoweramp, CDex, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''Audacity''' ||
[[Audacity]],
Ocenaudio,
DaVinci Resolve,
[[Grip]]
| [[Audio Editors]]
|-
| '''Wavesurfer''', '''Audacity''', '''Sox'''||[https://itsfoss.com/record-streaming-audio/ Audio Recorder], Ecasound, Audacity, Sox, Wavesurfer
|Audio recorders
|-
| Cakewalk/Sonar ||
[[kmid]],
[[kmidi]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden]
| [[MIDI]]
|-
|[http://www.noteworthysoftware.com/ NoteWorthy Composer], '''MuseScore''', '''LilyPond'''||
[http://www.musescore.org/ MuseScore], [http://lilypond.org/web/ LilyPond]
|Musical score typesetting
|-
|[http://www.guitar-pro.com/ GuitarPro], TuxGuitar ||
[http://www.tuxguitar.com.ar/ TuxGuitar]
|Guitar tablature editors
|-
| Microsoft Paint, Kid Pix, '''Tux Paint''', '''Pencil 2D''', '''Krita''', '''Pinta''', '''Mypaint''', '''Mtpaint''' ||
[http://www.tuxpaint.org/ Tuxpaint], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KolourPaint KolourPaint], Pencil 2D, Krita, [https://launchpad.net/dibuja Dibuja], Pinta, Mypaint, Mtpaint
|Basic raster painting programs
|-
| Videora, [https://handbrake.fr/ '''Handbrake'''], '''WinFF''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || [https://handbrake.fr/ Handbrake], WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, Transmageddon, VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Video converter
|-
| '''WinFF''', '''Handbrake''', '''fre:ac - free audio converter (freac)''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || Handbrake, WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, fre:ac - free audio converter (freac), VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Audio converter
|-
|TMPGEnc DVD Author, Roxio DVDit, '''Open DVD Producer''', '''DVDStyler''' ||
DVDStyler, [http://opendvdproducer.jonata.org/ Open DVD Producer], [http://www.rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html DeVeDe]
|DVD authoring software
|-
|'''uTox''', '''qTox''', '''Jitsi''', '''OpenMeetings''', '''Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone)''', '''Microsoft Teams''', '''Zoom''' || uTox, qTox, OpenMettings, Jitsi, Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone), Empathy, Microsoft Teams, Zoom
| Video Conferencing
|}

= Education =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| '''Klavaro''', '''Tipp10''' || Klavaro, Tipp10, [[KTouch]], Tux Typing, GNU Typist || Touch typing tutors
|-
| '''Maple''', '''Mathematica''' || Maple, Mathematica, [http://maxima.sourceforge.net/ Maxima]
| Computer algebra systems
|-
| '''Matlab''', '''Octave''', '''Scilab''' ||
Matlab, [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ Octave],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SciLab SciLab], Sage, KAlgebra
| High level numeric computation environments
|-
| '''SPSS''', '''Stata''', EViews, '''PSPP''', '''[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project]''', '''[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]''' ||
[http://www.stata.com/products/unix.html Stata], SPSS,
[http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/pspp.html PSPP],
[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Plus S-Plus],
[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]
| Statistical analysis
|-
| Verilog ||
[http://www.icarus.com/eda/verilog/ iverilog]
| Verilog Simulator
|-
| '''Google Earth''', NASA World Wind, '''Celestia''', '''Stellarium''', '''Skychart''', '''Aladin Sky Atlas''', Microsoft Flight Simulator, '''FlightGear''' ||
[http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html Google Earth], [https://celestia.space/index.html Celestia], [http://www.stellarium.org/ Stellarium], [https://marble.kde.org/ Marble], [http://www.geody.com/ Geody], Kstars, Skychart, Aladin Sky Atlas, [http://www.flightgear.org/ FlightGear]
| Geography, astronomy and simulation
|}

''Please add new applications to this list. A good resource is the [http://www.nawaz.org/wiki/index.php?title=Table_of_Equivalents BeetleSpace Windows/Linux Software Table of Equivalents], which is GNU FDL licensed.''

= See also =

* [[running windows software]]
* [http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux.]
* [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareEquivalents Ubuntu software equivalents's page]
* [http://www.linuxeq.com/ The Linux Equivalent Project]
* [https://www.turkishcypriotheritage.org/ turkishcypriotheritage.org]

[[Category:FAQ]]

Linux software equivalent to Windows software

2024-02-15T15:04:12Z

Kareempharmacist: /* Networking */

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.

= Office and Productivity =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Office, '''OpenOffice''', '''Libre Office''', '''WPS Office''', '''Softmaker Office''', '''Onlyoffice Desktop'''
| [[Libre Office]], [https://www.wps.com/linux WPS Office](WPS-Community), [[OpenOffice]], [https://www.calligra.org/ Calligra], Softmaker FreeOffice, OnlyOffice Desktop
| Office package
|-
| Microsoft Word, OOwriter, LibreOffice Writer, WPS Writer, Softmaker TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[OOWriter]], [http://www.abiword.org AbiWord], WPS Writer, LibreOffice Writer, Calligra Words, FreeOffice TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop, Lyx, [[LaTeX]]
| [[Word Processing]]
|-
| Notepad, Wordpad, TheGun, EditPlus, SciTE, Notepad++ ||
[[Vim]], [[KWrite]],
[[Kate]], [http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/ BlueFish], [[Gedit]], [[Joe]], Sublime Text, [[Leafpad]], [[Nano]]
| [[Text Editors]]
|-
| Access, dBase, Foxpro, Paradox, '''OOBase''', '''LibreOffice Base'''
| [http://userbase.kde.org/Kexi Kexi], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Base OOBase], LibreOffice Base
| [[Database]]
|-
| Excel, Corel WordPrefect, '''LibreOffice Calc''', '''Softmaker Office PlanMaker''', '''WPS Spreedsheets''', '''OOCalc''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Calc, Calligra Sheets, Softmaker Office PlanMaker, WPS Spreedsheets, [[OOCalc]], [http://www.gnumeric.org gnumeric], OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Spreadsheet]]
|-
| Visio, [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html '''yED'''], '''LibreOffice Draw'''
| [https://www.calligra.org/flow/ Calligra Flow], [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html yED], LibreOffice Draw
| Diagramming
|-
| PowerPoint, '''LibreOffice Impress''', '''OOImpress''', '''WPS Presentation''', '''Softmaker Office Presentations''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Impress, [[OOImpress]], Calligra Stage, WPS Presentation, Softmaker Office Presentations, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Presentation software]]
|-
| Final Draft, Script Studio, '''Fade In''', '''KIT Scenarist''', '''Story Architect''', '''Trelby''', '''Scrite'''
| Fade In, KIT Scenarist, Story Architect, Trelby, Scrite
| Screenwriting software
|-
| Microsoft Project Manager
| [[MOOS Project Viewer]], Calligra Plan
| Project management
|-
| '''Wondershare EdrawMax''', XMind
| Wondershare EdrawMax, Minder, XMind
| Mind maps
|-
| Outlook, '''Thunderbird + Lightning'''
| [[Kontact]], [https://pawsa.fedorapeople.org/balsa/ BALSA], [[Thunderbird]] + [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/ Lightning]
| Personal information managers
|-
| Alcohol 120%, Discjuggler, Easy CD Creator, Nero Burning ROM ||
[[K3b]], [[XCDRoast]], Brasero, Xfburn, [[CD/DVD_Burning|''more'']]
|DVD/CD burning
|-
|Alcohol 120%, Nero Burning ROM, '''MakeMKV''', ImgBurn, Infrarecorder || MakeMKV, Thoggen, Dvdbackup, HandBrake, DVD::RIP, AcidRIP
| DVD ripping software
|-
| Quicken, Microsoft Money, TurboTax
| [http://gnucash.org/ GnucAsh], [http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/index-home.html KMyMoney], [[CrossOver]] Office with Quicken, [http://www.lazy8.nu/ lazy8ledger]
| Accounting
|-
| ActiveSync ||
[[SynCE]]
|Synchronization with Windows Mobile devices
|-
| WinEdt, TeXnicCenter
| [[Kile]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texmaker Texmaker], [[LyX]]
| LaTeX IDEs
|-
| Veritas Backup Exec, [http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm Cobian Backup], '''Duplicati''' ||
LuckyBackup, Déjà Dup, Grsync, Duplicati [[list of backUp applications|''more'']]
| [[Backup]]
|-
| Google Desktop ||
[[Recoll]]
| Desktop Search
|-
| Norton Ghost ||
[[Partition Image]], [[g4u]], [http://www.mondorescue.org/ Mondo Rescue], [[dd]], gDiskDump (a dd frontend), Clonezilla, Trinity Rescue Kit
|Disk imaging
|-
| Norton Partition Magic ||
[[GParted]], Clonezilla (a live cd), KDE Partition Manager, GNOME Disks
|Disk partitioning
|-
|[http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/Disk_Size_Explorer.asp Disk Size Explorer]
|[https://utils.kde.org/projects/filelight/ File Light], [[Konqueror]], Baobab, xdiskusage, duc [https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-analyze-your-disk-usage-pattern-in-linux/ ref.]
| Disk usage analyzers
|-
|[http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html Filemon], [http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Regmon.html Regmon]
| [http://syscalltrack.sourceforge.net/ syscalltrack]
| system call tracking (file monitor & others)
|-
| WinMerge, SyncToy ||
[http://meld.sourceforge.net/ Meld], [[Unison]], [http://synkron.sourceforge.net/ Synkron], [[rSync]]
| File synchronization
|-
| Google Drive, Dropbox, etc ||
[https://rclone.org Rclone]
| Cloud hosted file synchronization (Amazon S3, Dropbox, Google Cloud Storage, Google Drive, FTP, Microsoft OneDrive, sFTP, etc)
|-
| Windows Update, Add/Remove programs||
[[apt-get]], [http://aptitude.sourceforge.net/ Aptitude], [http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Portage portage], [[Rpm|rpm]], [[urpmi]], [[yast]], [[yum]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptic_Package_Manager Synaptic], [https://snapcraft.io Snapcraft (Snap)]
|Every Linux distribution has an infrastructure to manage installed software which is quite different from Windows. For instance, all updates are handled by a single program. See [[package management]].
|-
| WinRunner || [http://hoopajoo.net/projects/xautomation.html xautomation] || automating interactive applications
|-
| 7-Zip, Winzip, Winrar, Peazip ||
[[Karchiver]],
[[File Roller]],
Xarchiver,
[[ark]],
[[hjsplit]]; [[packing and unpacking files|''command line tools'']]
|Archivers
|-
| chkdsk || [[fsck]], [https://www.tecmint.com/linux-disk-scanning-tools/ other tools] || check your file system (and the [[hard disk]] beneath it) for errors
|-
| Daemon Tools ||
[[mount]], Disk Image Mounter in Gnome/KDE, Furius ISO mount, AcetoneISO
|ISO mounting
|-
| Disclib || [http://www.gwhere.org/home.php3 gWhere]
| Disk cataloging programs
|-
| Evernote, OneNote || NixNote, Tusk, Whatever, GeekNote, ForeverNote, [https://joplinapp.org/ Joplin], Xournal, XFCE4 Notes, Xpad, Hnb, Gnote, Feathernotes, Cherrytree, Bijiben, Basket, Noblenote, Nvpy. Thanks to [https://itsfoss.com/evernote-on-linux/]
|Note Taking App
|}

== Desktop Publishing ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Dreamweaver, '''Google Web Designer''', '''Bluefish Editor''', '''Aptana Studio''', '''SeaMonkey''', '''CodeLobster''' ||
[http://www.google.com/webdesigner/ Google Web Designer] (WYSIWYG), Bluefish Editor, Aptana Studio, SeaMonkey, CodeLobster
[[html editors|more]]
|[[Web Design]]
|-
| Quark, Quark Express, Microsoft Publisher, '''Scribus''', '''Karbon''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribus Scribus], Karbon, Laidout, VivaDesigner, QuickSilver, Xara Xtreme
|DTP software
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader, Xpdf Reader, Foxit reader, Sumatra pdf ||

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evince Evince],
Zathura,
Okular,
Bookworm,
Qpdfview,
Foxit reader,
PDF Studio Viewer,
[[Xpdf]],
MuPDF,
Atril,
[[Ghostview]], [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF readers
|-
| Adobe Acrobat Distiller, PDFCreator ||
[http://www.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~vrbehr/cups-pdf/ CUPS-PDF], Libre Office, [[OpenOffice.org]], PDF Studio, [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter] -- can convert to pdf. [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF authoring
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF editor, [http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio '''PDF Studio Pro'''], '''Master PDF Editor''', '''Libreoffice Draw''', '''Scribus''', '''Inkscape''' ||
[http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio PDF Studio Pro], Master PDF Editor, [http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfedit Pdfedit], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam Pdfjam], [http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk Pdftk], Scribus, Inkscape, Karbon, Okular, Libreoffice Draw. Thanks to [https://www.ubuntupit.com/linux-pdf-editor-top-15-reviewed-and-compared/ this] [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF editing tools
|-
| SilverFast ||
[[xSane]], [http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html VueScan], Simple Scan, Skanlite, Gscan2pdf, GIMP with Quitelnsane
| [[scanning]]
|-
| FinePrint ||
[http://www.boomaga.org boomaga], [http://wfr.tcl.tk/279 page-crunch], [http://freshmeat.net/projects/mpage/ mpage], [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter], [http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~ajcd/psutils/index.html psnup/PSutils], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam pdfnup/PDFjam]
| Document printing/reformatting tools
|}

= Networking =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Internet Explorer, '''Microsoft Edge''', '''Firefox''', '''Opera''', '''Chrome''', '''Pale Moon''', '''Brave''', '''Vivaldi''', '''Otter Browser''', '''Falkon''', '''Dooble''', '''Slimjet''' ||
[[Firefox]], [[Konqueror]], Epiphany (Gnome Web), Falkon, Microsoft Edge, Slimjet, Midori, [http://www.google.com/chrome Chrome], Chromium, [[Opera]], Otter Browser, Brave, Vivaldi, Falkon, Pale Moon, Dillo, Dooble, Links [[Browsers|''more'']]
| [[Web Browsers]]
|-
| Microsoft Outlook, '''Thunderbird''', Pegasus, Lotus Notes, '''Seamonkey''', '''Claws Mail''', '''Mailspring''' ||
[[Kontact]],
[http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/features/evolution.html Evolution], Seamonkey,
[[Thunderbird]], Claws Mail, Mailspring, Geary [https://itsfoss.com/best-email-clients-linux/ others]
|Email clients.
|-
| '''Trillian''', '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Irssi''', ICQ ||
Trillian, Hexchat, [[PidgIn]], [[Irssi]], [[Kopete]]
| [[Instant messaging]] [[software]].
|-
| Microsoft HyperTerminal ||
[[minicom]]
|-
| FileZilla FTP Client, WS FTP, Bullet Proof FTP, CuteFTP ||
[http://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client FileZilla FTP Client],
[http://www.kftp.org/misc/description KFTP (KFTPGrabber)],
[[Kasablanca]],
[[FireFTP]],
[[Konqueror]],
[[KBear]],
[[gFTP]],
[http://www.crossftp.com/ CrossFTP],
[[Nautilus]]
|FTP clients. Please note GNOME, KDE (and other) programs can directly open and edit files on FTP, SFTP and WebDAV shares, often using [[KIO]], [[GIO]] or [GVfs]].
|-
| mIRC, '''Trillian''', '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Quassel''', '''KVIrc''', '''Irssi''' ||
Trillian, HexChat, [[PidgIn]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quassel_IRC Quassel], [[KVIrc]], Irssi, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konversation Konversation], [[BitchX]]
| [[IRC Clients]]
|-
|[http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/ UltraVNC], TightVNC, RealVNC, Remote Desktop ||
[http://www.tightvnc.com/ TightVNC],
[http://www.realvnc.com/ RealVNC], [http://www.rdesktop.org/ rdesktop],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/freenx/ FreeNX],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/x11vnc/ x11vnc],
[http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ Synergy],
XDMCP, [[SSH]] with X11 forwarding (-X or -Y option)
| [[Desktop Sharing]]
|-
| MailWasher, SpamAssassin for Windows ||
SpamAssassin
| Spam filter
|-
|Forte Free Agent, [[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]] ||
[[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]], [http://www.newsreaders.com/unix/clients.html See More Clients Here]
|News Reader (Usenet [[newsgroup]]s)
|-
| eMule, '''aMule''' || aMule
|ED2K P2P network clients
|-
| [http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php '''Vuze (formerly Azureus)'''], [http://utorrent.com/ utorrent], '''Transmission''', '''Deluge''', '''qBittorrent''', '''Tixati''', '''Frostwire''', '''Tribler''' ||
[http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php Vuze (formerly Azureus)], Tranmission, Deluge, qBittorrent, Tixati, Frostwire, Tribler, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qtorrent Qtorrent], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bittornado bittornado], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ktorrent Ktorrent],
|BitTorrent P2P network clients
|-
| '''Skype''', Voipbuster, '''Yate''', '''Linphone''', '''Jitsi''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype Skype], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linphone Linphone], Asterisk, Empathy, Yate, Jitsi
|VoIP software
|-
| Bitvise Tunnelier ||
[http://sourceforge.net/projects/gstm/ gSTM]
|gSTM is a front-end for managing SSH-tunneled port redirects.
|}

== Server ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| IIS, [[Apache]] ||
[[Apache]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nginx Engine-X], [http://www.lighttpd.net/ lighttpd]
|[[Web Servers]]
|-
| Folder sharing, printer sharing ||
[[Samba]]
|Share files and printers between Windows and Linux systems. Installed by default on most distributions.
|-
|IIS, [http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ FileZilla FTP Client & Server]
|[[vsftpd]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure-ftpd pure-ftpd]
|FTP servers, for hosting files.
|-
|[http://www.netlimiter.com/ NetLimiter] ||
[http://monkey.org/~marius/pages/?page=trickle Trickle], [http://l7-filter.sourceforge.net/ Level 7 Filter], [http://www.clarkconnect.com/info/index.php ClarkConnect], [http://www.bandwidtharbitrator.com/ Bandwidth Arbitrator], [http://www.mastershaper.org/index.php/Main_Page MasterShaper]
|Bandwidth shaping and management.
|-
| Exchange ||
[[Citadel]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbra zimbra], [[Open-Xchange]]
|Groupware (sharing of appointments, contacts, e-mail, documents, etc. between members of a group)
|-
| Sharepoint ||
[http://www.knowledgetree.com/opensource KnowledgeTree]
|Manage and secure documents, collaborate around document creation and editing, full document contents indexing
|-
| Norton/McAfee Antivirus, [http://clamwin.com/ ClamWin], AVG, AntiVir, Avast, ClamAV ||
[[ClamAV]], [https://support.avast.com/en-eu/article/131/ Avast Security for Linux]
| Antivirus software.
|-
| ZoneAlarm , Sygate SPF||
[[Guarddog]], [[Firestarter]], [[GUFW]], [[iptables]]
| Firewall software
|}

= Multimedia =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
|[http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/ Adobe Photoshop], [http://www.corel.com/ Corel Photo-Paint], '''GIMP''', '''Glimpse''', '''GIMPShop''', '''ImageMagick''', '''Xnview''', '''[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)]''', '''[https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable]''', '''Pinta''', '''MyPaint''', '''Krita''', '''Filmulator''', '''Photivo''', '''RawTherapee''', '''digiKam''', '''nomacs''' ||
[http://www.gimp.org/ GIMP], Glimpse,
[[GIMPShop]], ImageMagick, Pinta, MyPaint,
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krita Krita], Xnview,
[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)], [https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable], Filmulator, Photivo, RawTherapee, digiKam, nomacs
|Raster graphics editors
|-
|[http://www.corel.com/ Corel Draw], [http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator/ Adobe Illustrator], '''Inkscape''', '''Vectr''', '''Gravit''', '''LibreOffice Draw''', '''sK1''', '''SVG-edit''' ||
[http://www.inkscape.org/ Inkscape], Vectr, Gravit, LibreOffice Draw, Karbon, sK1, SVG-edit. [https://itsfoss.com/vector-graphics-editors-linux/ Ref.]
|Vector graphics editors
|-
|Adobe Animate, '''Synfig''', '''Pencil2D''', '''Tupi (Tupitube Desk)''', '''OpenToonz''', '''Blender''', '''Toon Boom Harmony''', '''Krita''', '''Aseprite''', '''TVPaint''', '''Animaker''', '''Ajax Animator''', '''Glaxnimate''', '''Tahoma2D''', '''Enve''' ||
Synfig, Pencil2D, Tupi (Tupitube Desk), OpenToonz, Blender, Toon Boom Harmony, Krita, Aseprite, TVPaint, Animaker, Ajax Animator, Glaxnimate, Tahoma2D , Enve
| 2D Animations
|-
| Irfanview, ACDSee, '''digiKam''', '''Xnview''', '''nomacs''' ||
[[XnView]], [http://mirageiv.berlios.de/ Mirage], [[GThumb]], Shotwell, KPhotoAlbum, Geeqie, digiKam, Gwenview, Ristretto, Viewnior, nomacs
|Image viewers
|-
| 3D Studio MAX, '''Blender''', [http://www.autodesk.com '''Maya'''] ||
[[Blender]],
[http://www.autodesk.com Maya],
[[K-3D]]
|3D modeling software
|-
| Autodesk Inventor, Solidworks, CATIA || [http://www.freecadweb.org FreeCAD], [http://www.salome-platform.org/ SALOME platform]
| Professional 3D CAD software
|-
| Windows Media Player, PowerDVD, SMPlayer, MPV, [[VLC]] ||
SMPlayer,
MPV,
[[VLC]],
[[Xine]],
[[Totem]],
[[Kaffeine]],
Parole,
Celluloid,
[[MPlayer]]
| [[Video Players]]
|-
| SIA Smaart Live || [http://sf.net/projects/brp-pacu/ BRP-PACU] || [[Sound]] analysis
|-
| Winamp, Sonique, iTunes, [http://www.atunes.org/ aTunes], '''Clementine''', '''VLC''', '''SMplayer''', '''Deadbeef''', '''Audacious''', '''Strawberry''', '''Exaile''' ||
[[Amarok]], [[RhythmBox]], [http://banshee-project.org/index.php/Main_Page Banshee], [[Xine]], Elisa, Clementine, VLC, SMplayer, Deadbeef, Audacious, Strawberry, Exaile. See also Video Players section
|[[Music Players]]
|-
| [http://www.otsav.com/ OTSAV, OTS Turntables], [http://serato.com/ Serato], [http://www.native-instruments.com/en/traktor/ Traktor], [http://www.virtualdj.com/ Virtual DJ], [http://www.pcdj.com/ PC DJ], [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
| [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
|Audio & video play out (DJ/presenter)
|-
| Windows Movie Maker, Adobe Premiere Elements, [http://www.goldwave.com/mqrelease.php Multiquence], '''Avidemux''', '''OpenShot''', '''VidCutter''', [https://shotcut.org/ '''Shotcut'''], '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron]''', [https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php '''Olive'''], '''Lightworks''' ||
[[Cinelerra]] (difficult but very professional),
[[KDenlive]] (easy and powerful),
[[LiVES]],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avidemux AviDemux],
OpenShot,
VidCutter,
Flowblade,
Pitivi,
DaVinci Resolve,
[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron],
[https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php Olive],
Lightworks (thanks to Linux Format magazine),
[https://shotcut.org/ Shotcut](thanks to Linux Format magazine)
|[[Video Editors]]
|-
| '''Audacity''', Cubase, '''Ardour''', Adobe Audition (formerly Cool Edit Pro), [http://www.goldwave.com/ GoldWave], Cakewalk/Sonar, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''LMMS''', '''Traverso-DAW''', '''[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]''' ||
[[Audacity]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden],
[[Beast]],
[[Ardour]],
Harrison Mixbus,
[http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/index.php Radium],
DaVinci Resolve,
Bitwig Studio,
Qtractor,
[https://traverso-daw.org/ Traverso-DAW],
LMMS,
[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]
|Digital audio workstation software
|-
| Audio Catalyst, '''Ocenaudio''', dbpoweramp, CDex, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''Audacity''' ||
[[Audacity]],
Ocenaudio,
DaVinci Resolve,
[[Grip]]
| [[Audio Editors]]
|-
| '''Wavesurfer''', '''Audacity''', '''Sox'''||[https://itsfoss.com/record-streaming-audio/ Audio Recorder], Ecasound, Audacity, Sox, Wavesurfer
|Audio recorders
|-
| Cakewalk/Sonar ||
[[kmid]],
[[kmidi]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden]
| [[MIDI]]
|-
|[http://www.noteworthysoftware.com/ NoteWorthy Composer], '''MuseScore''', '''LilyPond'''||
[http://www.musescore.org/ MuseScore], [http://lilypond.org/web/ LilyPond]
|Musical score typesetting
|-
|[http://www.guitar-pro.com/ GuitarPro], TuxGuitar ||
[http://www.tuxguitar.com.ar/ TuxGuitar]
|Guitar tablature editors
|-
| Microsoft Paint, Kid Pix, '''Tux Paint''', '''Pencil 2D''', '''Krita''', '''Pinta''', '''Mypaint''', '''Mtpaint''' ||
[http://www.tuxpaint.org/ Tuxpaint], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KolourPaint KolourPaint], Pencil 2D, Krita, [https://launchpad.net/dibuja Dibuja], Pinta, Mypaint, Mtpaint
|Basic raster painting programs
|-
| Videora, [https://handbrake.fr/ '''Handbrake'''], '''WinFF''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || [https://handbrake.fr/ Handbrake], WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, Transmageddon, VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Video converter
|-
| '''WinFF''', '''Handbrake''', '''fre:ac - free audio converter (freac)''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || Handbrake, WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, fre:ac - free audio converter (freac), VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Audio converter
|-
|TMPGEnc DVD Author, Roxio DVDit, '''Open DVD Producer''', '''DVDStyler''' ||
DVDStyler, [http://opendvdproducer.jonata.org/ Open DVD Producer], [http://www.rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html DeVeDe]
|DVD authoring software
|-
|'''uTox''', '''qTox''', '''Jitsi''', '''OpenMeetings''', '''Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone)''', '''Microsoft Teams''', '''Zoom''' || uTox, qTox, OpenMettings, Jitsi, Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone), Empathy, Microsoft Teams, Zoom
| Video Conferencing
|}

= Education =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| '''Klavaro''', '''Tipp10''' || Klavaro, Tipp10, [[KTouch]], Tux Typing, GNU Typist || Touch typing tutors
|-
| '''Maple''', '''Mathematica''' || Maple, Mathematica, [http://maxima.sourceforge.net/ Maxima]
| Computer algebra systems
|-
| '''Matlab''', '''Octave''', '''Scilab''' ||
Matlab, [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ Octave],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SciLab SciLab], Sage, KAlgebra
| High level numeric computation environments
|-
| '''SPSS''', '''Stata''', EViews, '''PSPP''', '''[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project]''', '''[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]''' ||
[http://www.stata.com/products/unix.html Stata], SPSS,
[http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/pspp.html PSPP],
[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Plus S-Plus],
[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]
| Statistical analysis
|-
| Verilog ||
[http://www.icarus.com/eda/verilog/ iverilog]
| Verilog Simulator
|-
| '''Google Earth''', NASA World Wind, '''Celestia''', '''Stellarium''', '''Skychart''', '''Aladin Sky Atlas''', Microsoft Flight Simulator, '''FlightGear''' ||
[http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html Google Earth], [https://celestia.space/index.html Celestia], [http://www.stellarium.org/ Stellarium], [https://marble.kde.org/ Marble], [http://www.geody.com/ Geody], Kstars, Skychart, Aladin Sky Atlas, [http://www.flightgear.org/ FlightGear]
| Geography, astronomy and simulation
|}

''Please add new applications to this list. A good resource is the [http://www.nawaz.org/wiki/index.php?title=Table_of_Equivalents BeetleSpace Windows/Linux Software Table of Equivalents], which is GNU FDL licensed.''

= See also =

* [[running windows software]]
* [http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux.]
* [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareEquivalents Ubuntu software equivalents's page]
* [http://www.linuxeq.com/ The Linux Equivalent Project]
* [https://www.turkishcypriotheritage.org/ turkishcypriotheritage.org]

[[Category:FAQ]]

Linux software equivalent to Windows software

2024-02-15T13:40:46Z

Kareempharmacist: /* Multimedia */

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.

= Office and Productivity =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Office, '''OpenOffice''', '''Libre Office''', '''WPS Office''', '''Softmaker Office''', '''Onlyoffice Desktop'''
| [[Libre Office]], [https://www.wps.com/linux WPS Office](WPS-Community), [[OpenOffice]], [https://www.calligra.org/ Calligra], Softmaker FreeOffice, OnlyOffice Desktop
| Office package
|-
| Microsoft Word, OOwriter, LibreOffice Writer, WPS Writer, Softmaker TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[OOWriter]], [http://www.abiword.org AbiWord], WPS Writer, LibreOffice Writer, Calligra Words, FreeOffice TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop, Lyx, [[LaTeX]]
| [[Word Processing]]
|-
| Notepad, Wordpad, TheGun, EditPlus, SciTE, Notepad++ ||
[[Vim]], [[KWrite]],
[[Kate]], [http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/ BlueFish], [[Gedit]], [[Joe]], Sublime Text, [[Leafpad]], [[Nano]]
| [[Text Editors]]
|-
| Access, dBase, Foxpro, Paradox, '''OOBase''', '''LibreOffice Base'''
| [http://userbase.kde.org/Kexi Kexi], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Base OOBase], LibreOffice Base
| [[Database]]
|-
| Excel, Corel WordPrefect, '''LibreOffice Calc''', '''Softmaker Office PlanMaker''', '''WPS Spreedsheets''', '''OOCalc''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Calc, Calligra Sheets, Softmaker Office PlanMaker, WPS Spreedsheets, [[OOCalc]], [http://www.gnumeric.org gnumeric], OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Spreadsheet]]
|-
| Visio, [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html '''yED'''], '''LibreOffice Draw'''
| [https://www.calligra.org/flow/ Calligra Flow], [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html yED], LibreOffice Draw
| Diagramming
|-
| PowerPoint, '''LibreOffice Impress''', '''OOImpress''', '''WPS Presentation''', '''Softmaker Office Presentations''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Impress, [[OOImpress]], Calligra Stage, WPS Presentation, Softmaker Office Presentations, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Presentation software]]
|-
| Final Draft, Script Studio, '''Fade In''', '''KIT Scenarist''', '''Story Architect''', '''Trelby''', '''Scrite'''
| Fade In, KIT Scenarist, Story Architect, Trelby, Scrite
| Screenwriting software
|-
| Microsoft Project Manager
| [[MOOS Project Viewer]], Calligra Plan
| Project management
|-
| '''Wondershare EdrawMax''', XMind
| Wondershare EdrawMax, Minder, XMind
| Mind maps
|-
| Outlook, '''Thunderbird + Lightning'''
| [[Kontact]], [https://pawsa.fedorapeople.org/balsa/ BALSA], [[Thunderbird]] + [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/ Lightning]
| Personal information managers
|-
| Alcohol 120%, Discjuggler, Easy CD Creator, Nero Burning ROM ||
[[K3b]], [[XCDRoast]], Brasero, Xfburn, [[CD/DVD_Burning|''more'']]
|DVD/CD burning
|-
|Alcohol 120%, Nero Burning ROM, '''MakeMKV''', ImgBurn, Infrarecorder || MakeMKV, Thoggen, Dvdbackup, HandBrake, DVD::RIP, AcidRIP
| DVD ripping software
|-
| Quicken, Microsoft Money, TurboTax
| [http://gnucash.org/ GnucAsh], [http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/index-home.html KMyMoney], [[CrossOver]] Office with Quicken, [http://www.lazy8.nu/ lazy8ledger]
| Accounting
|-
| ActiveSync ||
[[SynCE]]
|Synchronization with Windows Mobile devices
|-
| WinEdt, TeXnicCenter
| [[Kile]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texmaker Texmaker], [[LyX]]
| LaTeX IDEs
|-
| Veritas Backup Exec, [http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm Cobian Backup], '''Duplicati''' ||
LuckyBackup, Déjà Dup, Grsync, Duplicati [[list of backUp applications|''more'']]
| [[Backup]]
|-
| Google Desktop ||
[[Recoll]]
| Desktop Search
|-
| Norton Ghost ||
[[Partition Image]], [[g4u]], [http://www.mondorescue.org/ Mondo Rescue], [[dd]], gDiskDump (a dd frontend), Clonezilla, Trinity Rescue Kit
|Disk imaging
|-
| Norton Partition Magic ||
[[GParted]], Clonezilla (a live cd), KDE Partition Manager, GNOME Disks
|Disk partitioning
|-
|[http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/Disk_Size_Explorer.asp Disk Size Explorer]
|[https://utils.kde.org/projects/filelight/ File Light], [[Konqueror]], Baobab, xdiskusage, duc [https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-analyze-your-disk-usage-pattern-in-linux/ ref.]
| Disk usage analyzers
|-
|[http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html Filemon], [http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Regmon.html Regmon]
| [http://syscalltrack.sourceforge.net/ syscalltrack]
| system call tracking (file monitor & others)
|-
| WinMerge, SyncToy ||
[http://meld.sourceforge.net/ Meld], [[Unison]], [http://synkron.sourceforge.net/ Synkron], [[rSync]]
| File synchronization
|-
| Google Drive, Dropbox, etc ||
[https://rclone.org Rclone]
| Cloud hosted file synchronization (Amazon S3, Dropbox, Google Cloud Storage, Google Drive, FTP, Microsoft OneDrive, sFTP, etc)
|-
| Windows Update, Add/Remove programs||
[[apt-get]], [http://aptitude.sourceforge.net/ Aptitude], [http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Portage portage], [[Rpm|rpm]], [[urpmi]], [[yast]], [[yum]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptic_Package_Manager Synaptic], [https://snapcraft.io Snapcraft (Snap)]
|Every Linux distribution has an infrastructure to manage installed software which is quite different from Windows. For instance, all updates are handled by a single program. See [[package management]].
|-
| WinRunner || [http://hoopajoo.net/projects/xautomation.html xautomation] || automating interactive applications
|-
| 7-Zip, Winzip, Winrar, Peazip ||
[[Karchiver]],
[[File Roller]],
Xarchiver,
[[ark]],
[[hjsplit]]; [[packing and unpacking files|''command line tools'']]
|Archivers
|-
| chkdsk || [[fsck]], [https://www.tecmint.com/linux-disk-scanning-tools/ other tools] || check your file system (and the [[hard disk]] beneath it) for errors
|-
| Daemon Tools ||
[[mount]], Disk Image Mounter in Gnome/KDE, Furius ISO mount, AcetoneISO
|ISO mounting
|-
| Disclib || [http://www.gwhere.org/home.php3 gWhere]
| Disk cataloging programs
|-
| Evernote, OneNote || NixNote, Tusk, Whatever, GeekNote, ForeverNote, [https://joplinapp.org/ Joplin], Xournal, XFCE4 Notes, Xpad, Hnb, Gnote, Feathernotes, Cherrytree, Bijiben, Basket, Noblenote, Nvpy. Thanks to [https://itsfoss.com/evernote-on-linux/]
|Note Taking App
|}

== Desktop Publishing ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Dreamweaver, '''Google Web Designer''', '''Bluefish Editor''', '''Aptana Studio''', '''SeaMonkey''', '''CodeLobster''' ||
[http://www.google.com/webdesigner/ Google Web Designer] (WYSIWYG), Bluefish Editor, Aptana Studio, SeaMonkey, CodeLobster
[[html editors|more]]
|[[Web Design]]
|-
| Quark, Quark Express, Microsoft Publisher, '''Scribus''', '''Karbon''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribus Scribus], Karbon, Laidout, VivaDesigner, QuickSilver, Xara Xtreme
|DTP software
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader, Xpdf Reader, Foxit reader, Sumatra pdf ||

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evince Evince],
Zathura,
Okular,
Bookworm,
Qpdfview,
Foxit reader,
PDF Studio Viewer,
[[Xpdf]],
MuPDF,
Atril,
[[Ghostview]], [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF readers
|-
| Adobe Acrobat Distiller, PDFCreator ||
[http://www.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~vrbehr/cups-pdf/ CUPS-PDF], Libre Office, [[OpenOffice.org]], PDF Studio, [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter] -- can convert to pdf. [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF authoring
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF editor, [http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio '''PDF Studio Pro'''], '''Master PDF Editor''', '''Libreoffice Draw''', '''Scribus''', '''Inkscape''' ||
[http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio PDF Studio Pro], Master PDF Editor, [http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfedit Pdfedit], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam Pdfjam], [http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk Pdftk], Scribus, Inkscape, Karbon, Okular, Libreoffice Draw. Thanks to [https://www.ubuntupit.com/linux-pdf-editor-top-15-reviewed-and-compared/ this] [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF editing tools
|-
| SilverFast ||
[[xSane]], [http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html VueScan], Simple Scan, Skanlite, Gscan2pdf, GIMP with Quitelnsane
| [[scanning]]
|-
| FinePrint ||
[http://www.boomaga.org boomaga], [http://wfr.tcl.tk/279 page-crunch], [http://freshmeat.net/projects/mpage/ mpage], [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter], [http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~ajcd/psutils/index.html psnup/PSutils], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam pdfnup/PDFjam]
| Document printing/reformatting tools
|}

= Networking =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Internet Explorer, '''Microsoft Edge''', '''Firefox''', '''Opera''', '''Chrome''', '''Pale Moon''', '''Brave''', '''Vivaldi''', '''Otter Browser''', '''Falkon''', '''Dooble''', '''Slimjet''' ||
[[Firefox]],
[[Konqueror]],
Epiphany (Gnome Web), Falkon, Microsoft Edge, Slimjet, Midori,
[http://www.google.com/chrome Chrome], Chromium,
[[Opera]],
Otter Browser,
Brave,
Vivaldi, Falkon,
Pale Moon, Dillo, Dooble
[[Browsers|''more'']]
| [[Web Browsers]]
|-
| Microsoft Outlook, '''Thunderbird''', Pegasus, Lotus Notes, '''Seamonkey''', '''Claws Mail''', '''Mailspring''' ||
[[Kontact]],
[http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/features/evolution.html Evolution], Seamonkey,
[[Thunderbird]], Claws Mail, Mailspring, Geary [https://itsfoss.com/best-email-clients-linux/ others]
|Email clients.
|-
| '''Trillian''', '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Irssi''', ICQ ||
Trillian, Hexchat, [[PidgIn]], [[Irssi]], [[Kopete]]
| [[Instant messaging]] [[software]].
|-
| Microsoft HyperTerminal ||
[[minicom]]
|-
| FileZilla FTP Client, WS FTP, Bullet Proof FTP, CuteFTP ||
[http://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client FileZilla FTP Client],
[http://www.kftp.org/misc/description KFTP (KFTPGrabber)],
[[Kasablanca]],
[[FireFTP]],
[[Konqueror]],
[[KBear]],
[[gFTP]],
[http://www.crossftp.com/ CrossFTP],
[[Nautilus]]
|FTP clients. Please note GNOME, KDE (and other) programs can directly open and edit files on FTP, SFTP and WebDAV shares, often using [[KIO]], [[GIO]] or [GVfs]].
|-
| mIRC, '''Trillian''', '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Quassel''', '''KVIrc''', '''Irssi''' ||
Trillian, HexChat, [[PidgIn]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quassel_IRC Quassel], [[KVIrc]], Irssi, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konversation Konversation], [[BitchX]]
| [[IRC Clients]]
|-
|[http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/ UltraVNC], TightVNC, RealVNC, Remote Desktop ||
[http://www.tightvnc.com/ TightVNC],
[http://www.realvnc.com/ RealVNC], [http://www.rdesktop.org/ rdesktop],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/freenx/ FreeNX],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/x11vnc/ x11vnc],
[http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ Synergy],
XDMCP, [[SSH]] with X11 forwarding (-X or -Y option)
| [[Desktop Sharing]]
|-
| MailWasher, SpamAssassin for Windows ||
SpamAssassin
| Spam filter
|-
|Forte Free Agent, [[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]] ||
[[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]], [http://www.newsreaders.com/unix/clients.html See More Clients Here]
|News Reader (Usenet [[newsgroup]]s)
|-
| eMule, '''aMule''' || aMule
|ED2K P2P network clients
|-
| [http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php '''Vuze (formerly Azureus)'''], [http://utorrent.com/ utorrent], '''Transmission''', '''Deluge''', '''qBittorrent''', '''Tixati''', '''Frostwire''', '''Tribler''' ||
[http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php Vuze (formerly Azureus)], Tranmission, Deluge, qBittorrent, Tixati, Frostwire, Tribler, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qtorrent Qtorrent], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bittornado bittornado], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ktorrent Ktorrent],
|BitTorrent P2P network clients
|-
| '''Skype''', Voipbuster, '''Yate''', '''Linphone''', '''Jitsi''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype Skype], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linphone Linphone], Asterisk, Empathy, Yate, Jitsi
|VoIP software
|-
| Bitvise Tunnelier ||
[http://sourceforge.net/projects/gstm/ gSTM]
|gSTM is a front-end for managing SSH-tunneled port redirects.
|}

== Server ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| IIS, [[Apache]] ||
[[Apache]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nginx Engine-X], [http://www.lighttpd.net/ lighttpd]
|[[Web Servers]]
|-
| Folder sharing, printer sharing ||
[[Samba]]
|Share files and printers between Windows and Linux systems. Installed by default on most distributions.
|-
|IIS, [http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ FileZilla FTP Client & Server]
|[[vsftpd]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure-ftpd pure-ftpd]
|FTP servers, for hosting files.
|-
|[http://www.netlimiter.com/ NetLimiter] ||
[http://monkey.org/~marius/pages/?page=trickle Trickle], [http://l7-filter.sourceforge.net/ Level 7 Filter], [http://www.clarkconnect.com/info/index.php ClarkConnect], [http://www.bandwidtharbitrator.com/ Bandwidth Arbitrator], [http://www.mastershaper.org/index.php/Main_Page MasterShaper]
|Bandwidth shaping and management.
|-
| Exchange ||
[[Citadel]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbra zimbra], [[Open-Xchange]]
|Groupware (sharing of appointments, contacts, e-mail, documents, etc. between members of a group)
|-
| Sharepoint ||
[http://www.knowledgetree.com/opensource KnowledgeTree]
|Manage and secure documents, collaborate around document creation and editing, full document contents indexing
|-
| Norton/McAfee Antivirus, [http://clamwin.com/ ClamWin], AVG, AntiVir, Avast, ClamAV ||
[[ClamAV]], [https://support.avast.com/en-eu/article/131/ Avast Security for Linux]
| Antivirus software.
|-
| ZoneAlarm , Sygate SPF||
[[Guarddog]], [[Firestarter]], [[GUFW]], [[iptables]]
| Firewall software
|}

= Multimedia =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
|[http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/ Adobe Photoshop], [http://www.corel.com/ Corel Photo-Paint], '''GIMP''', '''Glimpse''', '''GIMPShop''', '''ImageMagick''', '''Xnview''', '''[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)]''', '''[https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable]''', '''Pinta''', '''MyPaint''', '''Krita''', '''Filmulator''', '''Photivo''', '''RawTherapee''', '''digiKam''', '''nomacs''' ||
[http://www.gimp.org/ GIMP], Glimpse,
[[GIMPShop]], ImageMagick, Pinta, MyPaint,
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krita Krita], Xnview,
[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)], [https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable], Filmulator, Photivo, RawTherapee, digiKam, nomacs
|Raster graphics editors
|-
|[http://www.corel.com/ Corel Draw], [http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator/ Adobe Illustrator], '''Inkscape''', '''Vectr''', '''Gravit''', '''LibreOffice Draw''', '''sK1''', '''SVG-edit''' ||
[http://www.inkscape.org/ Inkscape], Vectr, Gravit, LibreOffice Draw, Karbon, sK1, SVG-edit. [https://itsfoss.com/vector-graphics-editors-linux/ Ref.]
|Vector graphics editors
|-
|Adobe Animate, '''Synfig''', '''Pencil2D''', '''Tupi (Tupitube Desk)''', '''OpenToonz''', '''Blender''', '''Toon Boom Harmony''', '''Krita''', '''Aseprite''', '''TVPaint''', '''Animaker''', '''Ajax Animator''', '''Glaxnimate''', '''Tahoma2D''', '''Enve''' ||
Synfig, Pencil2D, Tupi (Tupitube Desk), OpenToonz, Blender, Toon Boom Harmony, Krita, Aseprite, TVPaint, Animaker, Ajax Animator, Glaxnimate, Tahoma2D , Enve
| 2D Animations
|-
| Irfanview, ACDSee, '''digiKam''', '''Xnview''', '''nomacs''' ||
[[XnView]], [http://mirageiv.berlios.de/ Mirage], [[GThumb]], Shotwell, KPhotoAlbum, Geeqie, digiKam, Gwenview, Ristretto, Viewnior, nomacs
|Image viewers
|-
| 3D Studio MAX, '''Blender''', [http://www.autodesk.com '''Maya'''] ||
[[Blender]],
[http://www.autodesk.com Maya],
[[K-3D]]
|3D modeling software
|-
| Autodesk Inventor, Solidworks, CATIA || [http://www.freecadweb.org FreeCAD], [http://www.salome-platform.org/ SALOME platform]
| Professional 3D CAD software
|-
| Windows Media Player, PowerDVD, SMPlayer, MPV, [[VLC]] ||
SMPlayer,
MPV,
[[VLC]],
[[Xine]],
[[Totem]],
[[Kaffeine]],
Parole,
Celluloid,
[[MPlayer]]
| [[Video Players]]
|-
| SIA Smaart Live || [http://sf.net/projects/brp-pacu/ BRP-PACU] || [[Sound]] analysis
|-
| Winamp, Sonique, iTunes, [http://www.atunes.org/ aTunes], '''Clementine''', '''VLC''', '''SMplayer''', '''Deadbeef''', '''Audacious''', '''Strawberry''', '''Exaile''' ||
[[Amarok]], [[RhythmBox]], [http://banshee-project.org/index.php/Main_Page Banshee], [[Xine]], Elisa, Clementine, VLC, SMplayer, Deadbeef, Audacious, Strawberry, Exaile. See also Video Players section
|[[Music Players]]
|-
| [http://www.otsav.com/ OTSAV, OTS Turntables], [http://serato.com/ Serato], [http://www.native-instruments.com/en/traktor/ Traktor], [http://www.virtualdj.com/ Virtual DJ], [http://www.pcdj.com/ PC DJ], [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
| [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
|Audio & video play out (DJ/presenter)
|-
| Windows Movie Maker, Adobe Premiere Elements, [http://www.goldwave.com/mqrelease.php Multiquence], '''Avidemux''', '''OpenShot''', '''VidCutter''', [https://shotcut.org/ '''Shotcut'''], '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron]''', [https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php '''Olive'''], '''Lightworks''' ||
[[Cinelerra]] (difficult but very professional),
[[KDenlive]] (easy and powerful),
[[LiVES]],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avidemux AviDemux],
OpenShot,
VidCutter,
Flowblade,
Pitivi,
DaVinci Resolve,
[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron],
[https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php Olive],
Lightworks (thanks to Linux Format magazine),
[https://shotcut.org/ Shotcut](thanks to Linux Format magazine)
|[[Video Editors]]
|-
| '''Audacity''', Cubase, '''Ardour''', Adobe Audition (formerly Cool Edit Pro), [http://www.goldwave.com/ GoldWave], Cakewalk/Sonar, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''LMMS''', '''Traverso-DAW''', '''[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]''' ||
[[Audacity]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden],
[[Beast]],
[[Ardour]],
Harrison Mixbus,
[http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/index.php Radium],
DaVinci Resolve,
Bitwig Studio,
Qtractor,
[https://traverso-daw.org/ Traverso-DAW],
LMMS,
[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]
|Digital audio workstation software
|-
| Audio Catalyst, '''Ocenaudio''', dbpoweramp, CDex, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''Audacity''' ||
[[Audacity]],
Ocenaudio,
DaVinci Resolve,
[[Grip]]
| [[Audio Editors]]
|-
| '''Wavesurfer''', '''Audacity''', '''Sox'''||[https://itsfoss.com/record-streaming-audio/ Audio Recorder], Ecasound, Audacity, Sox, Wavesurfer
|Audio recorders
|-
| Cakewalk/Sonar ||
[[kmid]],
[[kmidi]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden]
| [[MIDI]]
|-
|[http://www.noteworthysoftware.com/ NoteWorthy Composer], '''MuseScore''', '''LilyPond'''||
[http://www.musescore.org/ MuseScore], [http://lilypond.org/web/ LilyPond]
|Musical score typesetting
|-
|[http://www.guitar-pro.com/ GuitarPro], TuxGuitar ||
[http://www.tuxguitar.com.ar/ TuxGuitar]
|Guitar tablature editors
|-
| Microsoft Paint, Kid Pix, '''Tux Paint''', '''Pencil 2D''', '''Krita''', '''Pinta''', '''Mypaint''', '''Mtpaint''' ||
[http://www.tuxpaint.org/ Tuxpaint], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KolourPaint KolourPaint], Pencil 2D, Krita, [https://launchpad.net/dibuja Dibuja], Pinta, Mypaint, Mtpaint
|Basic raster painting programs
|-
| Videora, [https://handbrake.fr/ '''Handbrake'''], '''WinFF''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || [https://handbrake.fr/ Handbrake], WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, Transmageddon, VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Video converter
|-
| '''WinFF''', '''Handbrake''', '''fre:ac - free audio converter (freac)''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || Handbrake, WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, fre:ac - free audio converter (freac), VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Audio converter
|-
|TMPGEnc DVD Author, Roxio DVDit, '''Open DVD Producer''', '''DVDStyler''' ||
DVDStyler, [http://opendvdproducer.jonata.org/ Open DVD Producer], [http://www.rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html DeVeDe]
|DVD authoring software
|-
|'''uTox''', '''qTox''', '''Jitsi''', '''OpenMeetings''', '''Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone)''', '''Microsoft Teams''', '''Zoom''' || uTox, qTox, OpenMettings, Jitsi, Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone), Empathy, Microsoft Teams, Zoom
| Video Conferencing
|}

= Education =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| '''Klavaro''', '''Tipp10''' || Klavaro, Tipp10, [[KTouch]], Tux Typing, GNU Typist || Touch typing tutors
|-
| '''Maple''', '''Mathematica''' || Maple, Mathematica, [http://maxima.sourceforge.net/ Maxima]
| Computer algebra systems
|-
| '''Matlab''', '''Octave''', '''Scilab''' ||
Matlab, [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ Octave],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SciLab SciLab], Sage, KAlgebra
| High level numeric computation environments
|-
| '''SPSS''', '''Stata''', EViews, '''PSPP''', '''[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project]''', '''[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]''' ||
[http://www.stata.com/products/unix.html Stata], SPSS,
[http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/pspp.html PSPP],
[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Plus S-Plus],
[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]
| Statistical analysis
|-
| Verilog ||
[http://www.icarus.com/eda/verilog/ iverilog]
| Verilog Simulator
|-
| '''Google Earth''', NASA World Wind, '''Celestia''', '''Stellarium''', '''Skychart''', '''Aladin Sky Atlas''', Microsoft Flight Simulator, '''FlightGear''' ||
[http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html Google Earth], [https://celestia.space/index.html Celestia], [http://www.stellarium.org/ Stellarium], [https://marble.kde.org/ Marble], [http://www.geody.com/ Geody], Kstars, Skychart, Aladin Sky Atlas, [http://www.flightgear.org/ FlightGear]
| Geography, astronomy and simulation
|}

''Please add new applications to this list. A good resource is the [http://www.nawaz.org/wiki/index.php?title=Table_of_Equivalents BeetleSpace Windows/Linux Software Table of Equivalents], which is GNU FDL licensed.''

= See also =

* [[running windows software]]
* [http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux.]
* [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareEquivalents Ubuntu software equivalents's page]
* [http://www.linuxeq.com/ The Linux Equivalent Project]
* [https://www.turkishcypriotheritage.org/ turkishcypriotheritage.org]

[[Category:FAQ]]

Linux software equivalent to Windows software

2024-02-15T13:39:15Z

Kareempharmacist: /* Multimedia */

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.

= Office and Productivity =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Office, '''OpenOffice''', '''Libre Office''', '''WPS Office''', '''Softmaker Office''', '''Onlyoffice Desktop'''
| [[Libre Office]], [https://www.wps.com/linux WPS Office](WPS-Community), [[OpenOffice]], [https://www.calligra.org/ Calligra], Softmaker FreeOffice, OnlyOffice Desktop
| Office package
|-
| Microsoft Word, OOwriter, LibreOffice Writer, WPS Writer, Softmaker TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[OOWriter]], [http://www.abiword.org AbiWord], WPS Writer, LibreOffice Writer, Calligra Words, FreeOffice TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop, Lyx, [[LaTeX]]
| [[Word Processing]]
|-
| Notepad, Wordpad, TheGun, EditPlus, SciTE, Notepad++ ||
[[Vim]], [[KWrite]],
[[Kate]], [http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/ BlueFish], [[Gedit]], [[Joe]], Sublime Text, [[Leafpad]], [[Nano]]
| [[Text Editors]]
|-
| Access, dBase, Foxpro, Paradox, '''OOBase''', '''LibreOffice Base'''
| [http://userbase.kde.org/Kexi Kexi], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Base OOBase], LibreOffice Base
| [[Database]]
|-
| Excel, Corel WordPrefect, '''LibreOffice Calc''', '''Softmaker Office PlanMaker''', '''WPS Spreedsheets''', '''OOCalc''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Calc, Calligra Sheets, Softmaker Office PlanMaker, WPS Spreedsheets, [[OOCalc]], [http://www.gnumeric.org gnumeric], OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Spreadsheet]]
|-
| Visio, [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html '''yED'''], '''LibreOffice Draw'''
| [https://www.calligra.org/flow/ Calligra Flow], [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html yED], LibreOffice Draw
| Diagramming
|-
| PowerPoint, '''LibreOffice Impress''', '''OOImpress''', '''WPS Presentation''', '''Softmaker Office Presentations''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Impress, [[OOImpress]], Calligra Stage, WPS Presentation, Softmaker Office Presentations, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Presentation software]]
|-
| Final Draft, Script Studio, '''Fade In''', '''KIT Scenarist''', '''Story Architect''', '''Trelby''', '''Scrite'''
| Fade In, KIT Scenarist, Story Architect, Trelby, Scrite
| Screenwriting software
|-
| Microsoft Project Manager
| [[MOOS Project Viewer]], Calligra Plan
| Project management
|-
| '''Wondershare EdrawMax''', XMind
| Wondershare EdrawMax, Minder, XMind
| Mind maps
|-
| Outlook, '''Thunderbird + Lightning'''
| [[Kontact]], [https://pawsa.fedorapeople.org/balsa/ BALSA], [[Thunderbird]] + [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/ Lightning]
| Personal information managers
|-
| Alcohol 120%, Discjuggler, Easy CD Creator, Nero Burning ROM ||
[[K3b]], [[XCDRoast]], Brasero, Xfburn, [[CD/DVD_Burning|''more'']]
|DVD/CD burning
|-
|Alcohol 120%, Nero Burning ROM, '''MakeMKV''', ImgBurn, Infrarecorder || MakeMKV, Thoggen, Dvdbackup, HandBrake, DVD::RIP, AcidRIP
| DVD ripping software
|-
| Quicken, Microsoft Money, TurboTax
| [http://gnucash.org/ GnucAsh], [http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/index-home.html KMyMoney], [[CrossOver]] Office with Quicken, [http://www.lazy8.nu/ lazy8ledger]
| Accounting
|-
| ActiveSync ||
[[SynCE]]
|Synchronization with Windows Mobile devices
|-
| WinEdt, TeXnicCenter
| [[Kile]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texmaker Texmaker], [[LyX]]
| LaTeX IDEs
|-
| Veritas Backup Exec, [http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm Cobian Backup], '''Duplicati''' ||
LuckyBackup, Déjà Dup, Grsync, Duplicati [[list of backUp applications|''more'']]
| [[Backup]]
|-
| Google Desktop ||
[[Recoll]]
| Desktop Search
|-
| Norton Ghost ||
[[Partition Image]], [[g4u]], [http://www.mondorescue.org/ Mondo Rescue], [[dd]], gDiskDump (a dd frontend), Clonezilla, Trinity Rescue Kit
|Disk imaging
|-
| Norton Partition Magic ||
[[GParted]], Clonezilla (a live cd), KDE Partition Manager, GNOME Disks
|Disk partitioning
|-
|[http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/Disk_Size_Explorer.asp Disk Size Explorer]
|[https://utils.kde.org/projects/filelight/ File Light], [[Konqueror]], Baobab, xdiskusage, duc [https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-analyze-your-disk-usage-pattern-in-linux/ ref.]
| Disk usage analyzers
|-
|[http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html Filemon], [http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Regmon.html Regmon]
| [http://syscalltrack.sourceforge.net/ syscalltrack]
| system call tracking (file monitor & others)
|-
| WinMerge, SyncToy ||
[http://meld.sourceforge.net/ Meld], [[Unison]], [http://synkron.sourceforge.net/ Synkron], [[rSync]]
| File synchronization
|-
| Google Drive, Dropbox, etc ||
[https://rclone.org Rclone]
| Cloud hosted file synchronization (Amazon S3, Dropbox, Google Cloud Storage, Google Drive, FTP, Microsoft OneDrive, sFTP, etc)
|-
| Windows Update, Add/Remove programs||
[[apt-get]], [http://aptitude.sourceforge.net/ Aptitude], [http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Portage portage], [[Rpm|rpm]], [[urpmi]], [[yast]], [[yum]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptic_Package_Manager Synaptic], [https://snapcraft.io Snapcraft (Snap)]
|Every Linux distribution has an infrastructure to manage installed software which is quite different from Windows. For instance, all updates are handled by a single program. See [[package management]].
|-
| WinRunner || [http://hoopajoo.net/projects/xautomation.html xautomation] || automating interactive applications
|-
| 7-Zip, Winzip, Winrar, Peazip ||
[[Karchiver]],
[[File Roller]],
Xarchiver,
[[ark]],
[[hjsplit]]; [[packing and unpacking files|''command line tools'']]
|Archivers
|-
| chkdsk || [[fsck]], [https://www.tecmint.com/linux-disk-scanning-tools/ other tools] || check your file system (and the [[hard disk]] beneath it) for errors
|-
| Daemon Tools ||
[[mount]], Disk Image Mounter in Gnome/KDE, Furius ISO mount, AcetoneISO
|ISO mounting
|-
| Disclib || [http://www.gwhere.org/home.php3 gWhere]
| Disk cataloging programs
|-
| Evernote, OneNote || NixNote, Tusk, Whatever, GeekNote, ForeverNote, [https://joplinapp.org/ Joplin], Xournal, XFCE4 Notes, Xpad, Hnb, Gnote, Feathernotes, Cherrytree, Bijiben, Basket, Noblenote, Nvpy. Thanks to [https://itsfoss.com/evernote-on-linux/]
|Note Taking App
|}

== Desktop Publishing ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Dreamweaver, '''Google Web Designer''', '''Bluefish Editor''', '''Aptana Studio''', '''SeaMonkey''', '''CodeLobster''' ||
[http://www.google.com/webdesigner/ Google Web Designer] (WYSIWYG), Bluefish Editor, Aptana Studio, SeaMonkey, CodeLobster
[[html editors|more]]
|[[Web Design]]
|-
| Quark, Quark Express, Microsoft Publisher, '''Scribus''', '''Karbon''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribus Scribus], Karbon, Laidout, VivaDesigner, QuickSilver, Xara Xtreme
|DTP software
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader, Xpdf Reader, Foxit reader, Sumatra pdf ||

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evince Evince],
Zathura,
Okular,
Bookworm,
Qpdfview,
Foxit reader,
PDF Studio Viewer,
[[Xpdf]],
MuPDF,
Atril,
[[Ghostview]], [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF readers
|-
| Adobe Acrobat Distiller, PDFCreator ||
[http://www.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~vrbehr/cups-pdf/ CUPS-PDF], Libre Office, [[OpenOffice.org]], PDF Studio, [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter] -- can convert to pdf. [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF authoring
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF editor, [http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio '''PDF Studio Pro'''], '''Master PDF Editor''', '''Libreoffice Draw''', '''Scribus''', '''Inkscape''' ||
[http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio PDF Studio Pro], Master PDF Editor, [http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfedit Pdfedit], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam Pdfjam], [http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk Pdftk], Scribus, Inkscape, Karbon, Okular, Libreoffice Draw. Thanks to [https://www.ubuntupit.com/linux-pdf-editor-top-15-reviewed-and-compared/ this] [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF editing tools
|-
| SilverFast ||
[[xSane]], [http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html VueScan], Simple Scan, Skanlite, Gscan2pdf, GIMP with Quitelnsane
| [[scanning]]
|-
| FinePrint ||
[http://www.boomaga.org boomaga], [http://wfr.tcl.tk/279 page-crunch], [http://freshmeat.net/projects/mpage/ mpage], [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter], [http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~ajcd/psutils/index.html psnup/PSutils], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam pdfnup/PDFjam]
| Document printing/reformatting tools
|}

= Networking =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Internet Explorer, '''Microsoft Edge''', '''Firefox''', '''Opera''', '''Chrome''', '''Pale Moon''', '''Brave''', '''Vivaldi''', '''Otter Browser''', '''Falkon''', '''Dooble''', '''Slimjet''' ||
[[Firefox]],
[[Konqueror]],
Epiphany (Gnome Web), Falkon, Microsoft Edge, Slimjet, Midori,
[http://www.google.com/chrome Chrome], Chromium,
[[Opera]],
Otter Browser,
Brave,
Vivaldi, Falkon,
Pale Moon, Dillo, Dooble
[[Browsers|''more'']]
| [[Web Browsers]]
|-
| Microsoft Outlook, '''Thunderbird''', Pegasus, Lotus Notes, '''Seamonkey''', '''Claws Mail''', '''Mailspring''' ||
[[Kontact]],
[http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/features/evolution.html Evolution], Seamonkey,
[[Thunderbird]], Claws Mail, Mailspring, Geary [https://itsfoss.com/best-email-clients-linux/ others]
|Email clients.
|-
| '''Trillian''', '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Irssi''', ICQ ||
Trillian, Hexchat, [[PidgIn]], [[Irssi]], [[Kopete]]
| [[Instant messaging]] [[software]].
|-
| Microsoft HyperTerminal ||
[[minicom]]
|-
| FileZilla FTP Client, WS FTP, Bullet Proof FTP, CuteFTP ||
[http://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client FileZilla FTP Client],
[http://www.kftp.org/misc/description KFTP (KFTPGrabber)],
[[Kasablanca]],
[[FireFTP]],
[[Konqueror]],
[[KBear]],
[[gFTP]],
[http://www.crossftp.com/ CrossFTP],
[[Nautilus]]
|FTP clients. Please note GNOME, KDE (and other) programs can directly open and edit files on FTP, SFTP and WebDAV shares, often using [[KIO]], [[GIO]] or [GVfs]].
|-
| mIRC, '''Trillian''', '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Quassel''', '''KVIrc''', '''Irssi''' ||
Trillian, HexChat, [[PidgIn]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quassel_IRC Quassel], [[KVIrc]], Irssi, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konversation Konversation], [[BitchX]]
| [[IRC Clients]]
|-
|[http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/ UltraVNC], TightVNC, RealVNC, Remote Desktop ||
[http://www.tightvnc.com/ TightVNC],
[http://www.realvnc.com/ RealVNC], [http://www.rdesktop.org/ rdesktop],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/freenx/ FreeNX],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/x11vnc/ x11vnc],
[http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ Synergy],
XDMCP, [[SSH]] with X11 forwarding (-X or -Y option)
| [[Desktop Sharing]]
|-
| MailWasher, SpamAssassin for Windows ||
SpamAssassin
| Spam filter
|-
|Forte Free Agent, [[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]] ||
[[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]], [http://www.newsreaders.com/unix/clients.html See More Clients Here]
|News Reader (Usenet [[newsgroup]]s)
|-
| eMule, '''aMule''' || aMule
|ED2K P2P network clients
|-
| [http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php '''Vuze (formerly Azureus)'''], [http://utorrent.com/ utorrent], '''Transmission''', '''Deluge''', '''qBittorrent''', '''Tixati''', '''Frostwire''', '''Tribler''' ||
[http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php Vuze (formerly Azureus)], Tranmission, Deluge, qBittorrent, Tixati, Frostwire, Tribler, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qtorrent Qtorrent], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bittornado bittornado], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ktorrent Ktorrent],
|BitTorrent P2P network clients
|-
| '''Skype''', Voipbuster, '''Yate''', '''Linphone''', '''Jitsi''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype Skype], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linphone Linphone], Asterisk, Empathy, Yate, Jitsi
|VoIP software
|-
| Bitvise Tunnelier ||
[http://sourceforge.net/projects/gstm/ gSTM]
|gSTM is a front-end for managing SSH-tunneled port redirects.
|}

== Server ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| IIS, [[Apache]] ||
[[Apache]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nginx Engine-X], [http://www.lighttpd.net/ lighttpd]
|[[Web Servers]]
|-
| Folder sharing, printer sharing ||
[[Samba]]
|Share files and printers between Windows and Linux systems. Installed by default on most distributions.
|-
|IIS, [http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ FileZilla FTP Client & Server]
|[[vsftpd]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure-ftpd pure-ftpd]
|FTP servers, for hosting files.
|-
|[http://www.netlimiter.com/ NetLimiter] ||
[http://monkey.org/~marius/pages/?page=trickle Trickle], [http://l7-filter.sourceforge.net/ Level 7 Filter], [http://www.clarkconnect.com/info/index.php ClarkConnect], [http://www.bandwidtharbitrator.com/ Bandwidth Arbitrator], [http://www.mastershaper.org/index.php/Main_Page MasterShaper]
|Bandwidth shaping and management.
|-
| Exchange ||
[[Citadel]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbra zimbra], [[Open-Xchange]]
|Groupware (sharing of appointments, contacts, e-mail, documents, etc. between members of a group)
|-
| Sharepoint ||
[http://www.knowledgetree.com/opensource KnowledgeTree]
|Manage and secure documents, collaborate around document creation and editing, full document contents indexing
|-
| Norton/McAfee Antivirus, [http://clamwin.com/ ClamWin], AVG, AntiVir, Avast, ClamAV ||
[[ClamAV]], [https://support.avast.com/en-eu/article/131/ Avast Security for Linux]
| Antivirus software.
|-
| ZoneAlarm , Sygate SPF||
[[Guarddog]], [[Firestarter]], [[GUFW]], [[iptables]]
| Firewall software
|}

= Multimedia =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
|[http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/ Adobe Photoshop], [http://www.corel.com/ Corel Photo-Paint], '''GIMP''', '''Glimpse''', '''GIMPShop''', '''ImageMagick''', '''Xnview''', '''[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)]''', '''[https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable]''', '''Pinta''', '''MyPaint''', '''Krita''', '''Filmulator''', '''Photivo''', '''RawTherapee''', '''digiKam''', '''nomacs''' ||
[http://www.gimp.org/ GIMP], Glimpse,
[[GIMPShop]], ImageMagick, Pinta, MyPaint,
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krita Krita], Xnview,
[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)], [https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable], Filmulator, Photivo, RawTherapee, digiKam, nomacs
|Raster graphics editors
|-
|[http://www.corel.com/ Corel Draw], [http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator/ Adobe Illustrator], '''Inkscape''', '''Vectr''', '''Gravit''', '''LibreOffice Draw''', '''sK1''', '''SVG-edit''' ||
[http://www.inkscape.org/ Inkscape], Vectr, Gravit, LibreOffice Draw, Karbon, sK1, SVG-edit. [https://itsfoss.com/vector-graphics-editors-linux/ Ref.]
|Vector graphics editors
|-
|Adobe Animate, '''Synfig''', '''Pencil2D''', '''Tupi (Tupitube Desk)''', '''OpenToonz''', '''Blender''', '''Toon Boom Harmony''', '''Krita''', '''Aseprite''', '''TVPaint''', '''Animaker''', '''Ajax Animator''', '''Glaxnimate''', '''Tahoma2D''', '''Enve''' ||
Synfig, Pencil2D, Tupi (Tupitube Desk), OpenToonz, Blender, Toon Boom Harmony, Krita, Aseprite, TVPaint, Animaker, Ajax Animator, Glaxnimate, Tahoma2D , Enve
| 2D Animations
|-
| Irfanview, ACDSee, '''digiKam''', '''Xnview''', '''nomacs''' ||
[[XnView]], [http://mirageiv.berlios.de/ Mirage], [[GThumb]], Shotwell, KPhotoAlbum, Geeqie, digiKam, Gwenview, Ristretto, Viewnior, nomacs
|Image viewers
|-
| 3D Studio MAX, '''Blender''', [http://www.autodesk.com '''Maya'''] ||
[[Blender]],
[http://www.autodesk.com Maya],
[[K-3D]]
|3D modeling software
|-
| Autodesk Inventor, Solidworks, CATIA || [http://www.freecadweb.org FreeCAD], [http://www.salome-platform.org/ SALOME platform]
| Professional 3D CAD software
|-
| Windows Media Player, PowerDVD, SMPlayer, MPV, [[VLC]] ||
SMPlayer,
MPV,
[[VLC]],
[[Xine]],
[[Totem]],
[[Kaffeine]],
Parole,
Celluloid,
[[MPlayer]]
| [[Video Players]]
|-
| SIA Smaart Live || [http://sf.net/projects/brp-pacu/ BRP-PACU] || [[Sound]] analysis
|-
| Winamp, Sonique, iTunes, [http://www.atunes.org/ aTunes], '''Clementine''', '''VLC''', '''SMplayer''', '''Deadbeef''', '''Audacious''', '''Strawberry''', '''Exaile''' ||
[[Amarok]],
Clementine,
[[RhythmBox]],
[http://banshee-project.org/index.php/Main_Page Banshee], [[Xine]], Elisa, VLC, SMplayer, Deadbeef, Audacious, Strawberry, Exaile. See also Video Players section
|[[Music Players]]
|-
| [http://www.otsav.com/ OTSAV, OTS Turntables], [http://serato.com/ Serato], [http://www.native-instruments.com/en/traktor/ Traktor], [http://www.virtualdj.com/ Virtual DJ], [http://www.pcdj.com/ PC DJ], [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
| [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
|Audio & video play out (DJ/presenter)
|-
| Windows Movie Maker, Adobe Premiere Elements, [http://www.goldwave.com/mqrelease.php Multiquence], '''Avidemux''', '''OpenShot''', '''VidCutter''', [https://shotcut.org/ '''Shotcut'''], '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron]''', [https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php '''Olive'''], '''Lightworks''' ||
[[Cinelerra]] (difficult but very professional),
[[KDenlive]] (easy and powerful),
[[LiVES]],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avidemux AviDemux],
OpenShot,
VidCutter,
Flowblade,
Pitivi,
DaVinci Resolve,
[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron],
[https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php Olive],
Lightworks (thanks to Linux Format magazine),
[https://shotcut.org/ Shotcut](thanks to Linux Format magazine)
|[[Video Editors]]
|-
| '''Audacity''', Cubase, '''Ardour''', Adobe Audition (formerly Cool Edit Pro), [http://www.goldwave.com/ GoldWave], Cakewalk/Sonar, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''LMMS''', '''Traverso-DAW''', '''[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]''' ||
[[Audacity]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden],
[[Beast]],
[[Ardour]],
Harrison Mixbus,
[http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/index.php Radium],
DaVinci Resolve,
Bitwig Studio,
Qtractor,
[https://traverso-daw.org/ Traverso-DAW],
LMMS,
[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]
|Digital audio workstation software
|-
| Audio Catalyst, '''Ocenaudio''', dbpoweramp, CDex, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''Audacity''' ||
[[Audacity]],
Ocenaudio,
DaVinci Resolve,
[[Grip]]
| [[Audio Editors]]
|-
| '''Wavesurfer''', '''Audacity''', '''Sox'''||[https://itsfoss.com/record-streaming-audio/ Audio Recorder], Ecasound, Audacity, Sox, Wavesurfer
|Audio recorders
|-
| Cakewalk/Sonar ||
[[kmid]],
[[kmidi]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden]
| [[MIDI]]
|-
|[http://www.noteworthysoftware.com/ NoteWorthy Composer], '''MuseScore''', '''LilyPond'''||
[http://www.musescore.org/ MuseScore], [http://lilypond.org/web/ LilyPond]
|Musical score typesetting
|-
|[http://www.guitar-pro.com/ GuitarPro], TuxGuitar ||
[http://www.tuxguitar.com.ar/ TuxGuitar]
|Guitar tablature editors
|-
| Microsoft Paint, Kid Pix, '''Tux Paint''', '''Pencil 2D''', '''Krita''', '''Pinta''', '''Mypaint''', '''Mtpaint''' ||
[http://www.tuxpaint.org/ Tuxpaint], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KolourPaint KolourPaint], Pencil 2D, Krita, [https://launchpad.net/dibuja Dibuja], Pinta, Mypaint, Mtpaint
|Basic raster painting programs
|-
| Videora, [https://handbrake.fr/ '''Handbrake'''], '''WinFF''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || [https://handbrake.fr/ Handbrake], WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, Transmageddon, VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Video converter
|-
| '''WinFF''', '''Handbrake''', '''fre:ac - free audio converter (freac)''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || Handbrake, WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, fre:ac - free audio converter (freac), VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Audio converter
|-
|TMPGEnc DVD Author, Roxio DVDit, '''Open DVD Producer''', '''DVDStyler''' ||
DVDStyler, [http://opendvdproducer.jonata.org/ Open DVD Producer], [http://www.rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html DeVeDe]
|DVD authoring software
|-
|'''uTox''', '''qTox''', '''Jitsi''', '''OpenMeetings''', '''Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone)''', '''Microsoft Teams''', '''Zoom''' || uTox, qTox, OpenMettings, Jitsi, Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone), Empathy, Microsoft Teams, Zoom
| Video Conferencing
|}

= Education =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| '''Klavaro''', '''Tipp10''' || Klavaro, Tipp10, [[KTouch]], Tux Typing, GNU Typist || Touch typing tutors
|-
| '''Maple''', '''Mathematica''' || Maple, Mathematica, [http://maxima.sourceforge.net/ Maxima]
| Computer algebra systems
|-
| '''Matlab''', '''Octave''', '''Scilab''' ||
Matlab, [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ Octave],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SciLab SciLab], Sage, KAlgebra
| High level numeric computation environments
|-
| '''SPSS''', '''Stata''', EViews, '''PSPP''', '''[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project]''', '''[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]''' ||
[http://www.stata.com/products/unix.html Stata], SPSS,
[http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/pspp.html PSPP],
[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Plus S-Plus],
[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]
| Statistical analysis
|-
| Verilog ||
[http://www.icarus.com/eda/verilog/ iverilog]
| Verilog Simulator
|-
| '''Google Earth''', NASA World Wind, '''Celestia''', '''Stellarium''', '''Skychart''', '''Aladin Sky Atlas''', Microsoft Flight Simulator, '''FlightGear''' ||
[http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html Google Earth], [https://celestia.space/index.html Celestia], [http://www.stellarium.org/ Stellarium], [https://marble.kde.org/ Marble], [http://www.geody.com/ Geody], Kstars, Skychart, Aladin Sky Atlas, [http://www.flightgear.org/ FlightGear]
| Geography, astronomy and simulation
|}

''Please add new applications to this list. A good resource is the [http://www.nawaz.org/wiki/index.php?title=Table_of_Equivalents BeetleSpace Windows/Linux Software Table of Equivalents], which is GNU FDL licensed.''

= See also =

* [[running windows software]]
* [http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux.]
* [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareEquivalents Ubuntu software equivalents's page]
* [http://www.linuxeq.com/ The Linux Equivalent Project]
* [https://www.turkishcypriotheritage.org/ turkishcypriotheritage.org]

[[Category:FAQ]]

Linux software equivalent to Windows software

2024-02-15T13:37:41Z

Kareempharmacist: /* Multimedia */

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.

= Office and Productivity =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Office, '''OpenOffice''', '''Libre Office''', '''WPS Office''', '''Softmaker Office''', '''Onlyoffice Desktop'''
| [[Libre Office]], [https://www.wps.com/linux WPS Office](WPS-Community), [[OpenOffice]], [https://www.calligra.org/ Calligra], Softmaker FreeOffice, OnlyOffice Desktop
| Office package
|-
| Microsoft Word, OOwriter, LibreOffice Writer, WPS Writer, Softmaker TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[OOWriter]], [http://www.abiword.org AbiWord], WPS Writer, LibreOffice Writer, Calligra Words, FreeOffice TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop, Lyx, [[LaTeX]]
| [[Word Processing]]
|-
| Notepad, Wordpad, TheGun, EditPlus, SciTE, Notepad++ ||
[[Vim]], [[KWrite]],
[[Kate]], [http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/ BlueFish], [[Gedit]], [[Joe]], Sublime Text, [[Leafpad]], [[Nano]]
| [[Text Editors]]
|-
| Access, dBase, Foxpro, Paradox, '''OOBase''', '''LibreOffice Base'''
| [http://userbase.kde.org/Kexi Kexi], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Base OOBase], LibreOffice Base
| [[Database]]
|-
| Excel, Corel WordPrefect, '''LibreOffice Calc''', '''Softmaker Office PlanMaker''', '''WPS Spreedsheets''', '''OOCalc''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Calc, Calligra Sheets, Softmaker Office PlanMaker, WPS Spreedsheets, [[OOCalc]], [http://www.gnumeric.org gnumeric], OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Spreadsheet]]
|-
| Visio, [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html '''yED'''], '''LibreOffice Draw'''
| [https://www.calligra.org/flow/ Calligra Flow], [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html yED], LibreOffice Draw
| Diagramming
|-
| PowerPoint, '''LibreOffice Impress''', '''OOImpress''', '''WPS Presentation''', '''Softmaker Office Presentations''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Impress, [[OOImpress]], Calligra Stage, WPS Presentation, Softmaker Office Presentations, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Presentation software]]
|-
| Final Draft, Script Studio, '''Fade In''', '''KIT Scenarist''', '''Story Architect''', '''Trelby''', '''Scrite'''
| Fade In, KIT Scenarist, Story Architect, Trelby, Scrite
| Screenwriting software
|-
| Microsoft Project Manager
| [[MOOS Project Viewer]], Calligra Plan
| Project management
|-
| '''Wondershare EdrawMax''', XMind
| Wondershare EdrawMax, Minder, XMind
| Mind maps
|-
| Outlook, '''Thunderbird + Lightning'''
| [[Kontact]], [https://pawsa.fedorapeople.org/balsa/ BALSA], [[Thunderbird]] + [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/ Lightning]
| Personal information managers
|-
| Alcohol 120%, Discjuggler, Easy CD Creator, Nero Burning ROM ||
[[K3b]], [[XCDRoast]], Brasero, Xfburn, [[CD/DVD_Burning|''more'']]
|DVD/CD burning
|-
|Alcohol 120%, Nero Burning ROM, '''MakeMKV''', ImgBurn, Infrarecorder || MakeMKV, Thoggen, Dvdbackup, HandBrake, DVD::RIP, AcidRIP
| DVD ripping software
|-
| Quicken, Microsoft Money, TurboTax
| [http://gnucash.org/ GnucAsh], [http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/index-home.html KMyMoney], [[CrossOver]] Office with Quicken, [http://www.lazy8.nu/ lazy8ledger]
| Accounting
|-
| ActiveSync ||
[[SynCE]]
|Synchronization with Windows Mobile devices
|-
| WinEdt, TeXnicCenter
| [[Kile]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texmaker Texmaker], [[LyX]]
| LaTeX IDEs
|-
| Veritas Backup Exec, [http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm Cobian Backup], '''Duplicati''' ||
LuckyBackup, Déjà Dup, Grsync, Duplicati [[list of backUp applications|''more'']]
| [[Backup]]
|-
| Google Desktop ||
[[Recoll]]
| Desktop Search
|-
| Norton Ghost ||
[[Partition Image]], [[g4u]], [http://www.mondorescue.org/ Mondo Rescue], [[dd]], gDiskDump (a dd frontend), Clonezilla, Trinity Rescue Kit
|Disk imaging
|-
| Norton Partition Magic ||
[[GParted]], Clonezilla (a live cd), KDE Partition Manager, GNOME Disks
|Disk partitioning
|-
|[http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/Disk_Size_Explorer.asp Disk Size Explorer]
|[https://utils.kde.org/projects/filelight/ File Light], [[Konqueror]], Baobab, xdiskusage, duc [https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-analyze-your-disk-usage-pattern-in-linux/ ref.]
| Disk usage analyzers
|-
|[http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html Filemon], [http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Regmon.html Regmon]
| [http://syscalltrack.sourceforge.net/ syscalltrack]
| system call tracking (file monitor & others)
|-
| WinMerge, SyncToy ||
[http://meld.sourceforge.net/ Meld], [[Unison]], [http://synkron.sourceforge.net/ Synkron], [[rSync]]
| File synchronization
|-
| Google Drive, Dropbox, etc ||
[https://rclone.org Rclone]
| Cloud hosted file synchronization (Amazon S3, Dropbox, Google Cloud Storage, Google Drive, FTP, Microsoft OneDrive, sFTP, etc)
|-
| Windows Update, Add/Remove programs||
[[apt-get]], [http://aptitude.sourceforge.net/ Aptitude], [http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Portage portage], [[Rpm|rpm]], [[urpmi]], [[yast]], [[yum]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptic_Package_Manager Synaptic], [https://snapcraft.io Snapcraft (Snap)]
|Every Linux distribution has an infrastructure to manage installed software which is quite different from Windows. For instance, all updates are handled by a single program. See [[package management]].
|-
| WinRunner || [http://hoopajoo.net/projects/xautomation.html xautomation] || automating interactive applications
|-
| 7-Zip, Winzip, Winrar, Peazip ||
[[Karchiver]],
[[File Roller]],
Xarchiver,
[[ark]],
[[hjsplit]]; [[packing and unpacking files|''command line tools'']]
|Archivers
|-
| chkdsk || [[fsck]], [https://www.tecmint.com/linux-disk-scanning-tools/ other tools] || check your file system (and the [[hard disk]] beneath it) for errors
|-
| Daemon Tools ||
[[mount]], Disk Image Mounter in Gnome/KDE, Furius ISO mount, AcetoneISO
|ISO mounting
|-
| Disclib || [http://www.gwhere.org/home.php3 gWhere]
| Disk cataloging programs
|-
| Evernote, OneNote || NixNote, Tusk, Whatever, GeekNote, ForeverNote, [https://joplinapp.org/ Joplin], Xournal, XFCE4 Notes, Xpad, Hnb, Gnote, Feathernotes, Cherrytree, Bijiben, Basket, Noblenote, Nvpy. Thanks to [https://itsfoss.com/evernote-on-linux/]
|Note Taking App
|}

== Desktop Publishing ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Dreamweaver, '''Google Web Designer''', '''Bluefish Editor''', '''Aptana Studio''', '''SeaMonkey''', '''CodeLobster''' ||
[http://www.google.com/webdesigner/ Google Web Designer] (WYSIWYG), Bluefish Editor, Aptana Studio, SeaMonkey, CodeLobster
[[html editors|more]]
|[[Web Design]]
|-
| Quark, Quark Express, Microsoft Publisher, '''Scribus''', '''Karbon''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribus Scribus], Karbon, Laidout, VivaDesigner, QuickSilver, Xara Xtreme
|DTP software
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader, Xpdf Reader, Foxit reader, Sumatra pdf ||

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evince Evince],
Zathura,
Okular,
Bookworm,
Qpdfview,
Foxit reader,
PDF Studio Viewer,
[[Xpdf]],
MuPDF,
Atril,
[[Ghostview]], [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF readers
|-
| Adobe Acrobat Distiller, PDFCreator ||
[http://www.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~vrbehr/cups-pdf/ CUPS-PDF], Libre Office, [[OpenOffice.org]], PDF Studio, [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter] -- can convert to pdf. [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF authoring
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF editor, [http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio '''PDF Studio Pro'''], '''Master PDF Editor''', '''Libreoffice Draw''', '''Scribus''', '''Inkscape''' ||
[http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio PDF Studio Pro], Master PDF Editor, [http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfedit Pdfedit], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam Pdfjam], [http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk Pdftk], Scribus, Inkscape, Karbon, Okular, Libreoffice Draw. Thanks to [https://www.ubuntupit.com/linux-pdf-editor-top-15-reviewed-and-compared/ this] [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF editing tools
|-
| SilverFast ||
[[xSane]], [http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html VueScan], Simple Scan, Skanlite, Gscan2pdf, GIMP with Quitelnsane
| [[scanning]]
|-
| FinePrint ||
[http://www.boomaga.org boomaga], [http://wfr.tcl.tk/279 page-crunch], [http://freshmeat.net/projects/mpage/ mpage], [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter], [http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~ajcd/psutils/index.html psnup/PSutils], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam pdfnup/PDFjam]
| Document printing/reformatting tools
|}

= Networking =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Internet Explorer, '''Microsoft Edge''', '''Firefox''', '''Opera''', '''Chrome''', '''Pale Moon''', '''Brave''', '''Vivaldi''', '''Otter Browser''', '''Falkon''', '''Dooble''', '''Slimjet''' ||
[[Firefox]],
[[Konqueror]],
Epiphany (Gnome Web), Falkon, Microsoft Edge, Slimjet, Midori,
[http://www.google.com/chrome Chrome], Chromium,
[[Opera]],
Otter Browser,
Brave,
Vivaldi, Falkon,
Pale Moon, Dillo, Dooble
[[Browsers|''more'']]
| [[Web Browsers]]
|-
| Microsoft Outlook, '''Thunderbird''', Pegasus, Lotus Notes, '''Seamonkey''', '''Claws Mail''', '''Mailspring''' ||
[[Kontact]],
[http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/features/evolution.html Evolution], Seamonkey,
[[Thunderbird]], Claws Mail, Mailspring, Geary [https://itsfoss.com/best-email-clients-linux/ others]
|Email clients.
|-
| '''Trillian''', '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Irssi''', ICQ ||
Trillian, Hexchat, [[PidgIn]], [[Irssi]], [[Kopete]]
| [[Instant messaging]] [[software]].
|-
| Microsoft HyperTerminal ||
[[minicom]]
|-
| FileZilla FTP Client, WS FTP, Bullet Proof FTP, CuteFTP ||
[http://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client FileZilla FTP Client],
[http://www.kftp.org/misc/description KFTP (KFTPGrabber)],
[[Kasablanca]],
[[FireFTP]],
[[Konqueror]],
[[KBear]],
[[gFTP]],
[http://www.crossftp.com/ CrossFTP],
[[Nautilus]]
|FTP clients. Please note GNOME, KDE (and other) programs can directly open and edit files on FTP, SFTP and WebDAV shares, often using [[KIO]], [[GIO]] or [GVfs]].
|-
| mIRC, '''Trillian''', '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Quassel''', '''KVIrc''', '''Irssi''' ||
Trillian, HexChat, [[PidgIn]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quassel_IRC Quassel], [[KVIrc]], Irssi, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konversation Konversation], [[BitchX]]
| [[IRC Clients]]
|-
|[http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/ UltraVNC], TightVNC, RealVNC, Remote Desktop ||
[http://www.tightvnc.com/ TightVNC],
[http://www.realvnc.com/ RealVNC], [http://www.rdesktop.org/ rdesktop],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/freenx/ FreeNX],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/x11vnc/ x11vnc],
[http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ Synergy],
XDMCP, [[SSH]] with X11 forwarding (-X or -Y option)
| [[Desktop Sharing]]
|-
| MailWasher, SpamAssassin for Windows ||
SpamAssassin
| Spam filter
|-
|Forte Free Agent, [[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]] ||
[[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]], [http://www.newsreaders.com/unix/clients.html See More Clients Here]
|News Reader (Usenet [[newsgroup]]s)
|-
| eMule, '''aMule''' || aMule
|ED2K P2P network clients
|-
| [http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php '''Vuze (formerly Azureus)'''], [http://utorrent.com/ utorrent], '''Transmission''', '''Deluge''', '''qBittorrent''', '''Tixati''', '''Frostwire''', '''Tribler''' ||
[http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php Vuze (formerly Azureus)], Tranmission, Deluge, qBittorrent, Tixati, Frostwire, Tribler, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qtorrent Qtorrent], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bittornado bittornado], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ktorrent Ktorrent],
|BitTorrent P2P network clients
|-
| '''Skype''', Voipbuster, '''Yate''', '''Linphone''', '''Jitsi''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype Skype], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linphone Linphone], Asterisk, Empathy, Yate, Jitsi
|VoIP software
|-
| Bitvise Tunnelier ||
[http://sourceforge.net/projects/gstm/ gSTM]
|gSTM is a front-end for managing SSH-tunneled port redirects.
|}

== Server ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| IIS, [[Apache]] ||
[[Apache]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nginx Engine-X], [http://www.lighttpd.net/ lighttpd]
|[[Web Servers]]
|-
| Folder sharing, printer sharing ||
[[Samba]]
|Share files and printers between Windows and Linux systems. Installed by default on most distributions.
|-
|IIS, [http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ FileZilla FTP Client & Server]
|[[vsftpd]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure-ftpd pure-ftpd]
|FTP servers, for hosting files.
|-
|[http://www.netlimiter.com/ NetLimiter] ||
[http://monkey.org/~marius/pages/?page=trickle Trickle], [http://l7-filter.sourceforge.net/ Level 7 Filter], [http://www.clarkconnect.com/info/index.php ClarkConnect], [http://www.bandwidtharbitrator.com/ Bandwidth Arbitrator], [http://www.mastershaper.org/index.php/Main_Page MasterShaper]
|Bandwidth shaping and management.
|-
| Exchange ||
[[Citadel]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbra zimbra], [[Open-Xchange]]
|Groupware (sharing of appointments, contacts, e-mail, documents, etc. between members of a group)
|-
| Sharepoint ||
[http://www.knowledgetree.com/opensource KnowledgeTree]
|Manage and secure documents, collaborate around document creation and editing, full document contents indexing
|-
| Norton/McAfee Antivirus, [http://clamwin.com/ ClamWin], AVG, AntiVir, Avast, ClamAV ||
[[ClamAV]], [https://support.avast.com/en-eu/article/131/ Avast Security for Linux]
| Antivirus software.
|-
| ZoneAlarm , Sygate SPF||
[[Guarddog]], [[Firestarter]], [[GUFW]], [[iptables]]
| Firewall software
|}

= Multimedia =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
|[http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/ Adobe Photoshop], [http://www.corel.com/ Corel Photo-Paint], '''GIMP''', '''Glimpse''', '''GIMPShop''', '''ImageMagick''', '''Xnview''', '''[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)]''', '''[https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable]''', '''Pinta''', '''MyPaint''', '''Krita''', '''Filmulator''', '''Photivo''', '''RawTherapee''', '''digiKam''', '''nomacs''' ||
[http://www.gimp.org/ GIMP], Glimpse,
[[GIMPShop]], ImageMagick, Pinta, MyPaint,
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krita Krita], Xnview,
[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)], [https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable], Filmulator, Photivo, RawTherapee, digiKam, nomacs
|Raster graphics editors
|-
|[http://www.corel.com/ Corel Draw], [http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator/ Adobe Illustrator], '''Inkscape''', '''Vectr''', '''Gravit''', '''LibreOffice Draw''', '''sK1''', '''SVG-edit''' ||
[http://www.inkscape.org/ Inkscape], Vectr, Gravit, LibreOffice Draw, Karbon, sK1, SVG-edit. [https://itsfoss.com/vector-graphics-editors-linux/ Ref.]
|Vector graphics editors
|-
|Adobe Animate, '''Synfig''', '''Pencil2D''', '''Tupi (Tupitube Desk)''', '''OpenToonz''', '''Blender''', '''Toon Boom Harmony''', '''Krita''', '''Aseprite''', '''TVPaint''', '''Animaker''', '''Ajax Animator''', '''Glaxnimate''', '''Tahoma2D''', '''Enve''' ||
Synfig, Pencil2D, Tupi (Tupitube Desk), OpenToonz, Blender, Toon Boom Harmony, Krita, Aseprite, TVPaint, Animaker, Ajax Animator, Glaxnimate, Tahoma2D , Enve
| 2D Animations
|-
| Irfanview, ACDSee, '''digiKam''', '''Xnview''', '''nomacs''' ||
[[XnView]], [http://mirageiv.berlios.de/ Mirage], [[GThumb]], Shotwell, KPhotoAlbum, Geeqie, digiKam, Gwenview, Ristretto, Viewnior, nomacs
|Image viewers
|-
| 3D Studio MAX, '''Blender''', [http://www.autodesk.com '''Maya'''] ||
[[Blender]],
[http://www.autodesk.com Maya],
[[K-3D]]
|3D modeling software
|-
| Autodesk Inventor, Solidworks, CATIA || [http://www.freecadweb.org FreeCAD], [http://www.salome-platform.org/ SALOME platform]
| Professional 3D CAD software
|-
| Windows Media Player, PowerDVD, SMPlayer, MPV, [[VLC]] ||
SMPlayer,
MPV,
[[VLC]],
[[Xine]],
[[Totem]],
[[Kaffeine]],
Parole,
Celluloid,
[[MPlayer]]
| [[Video Players]]
|-
| SIA Smaart Live || [http://sf.net/projects/brp-pacu/ BRP-PACU] || [[Sound]] analysis
|-
| Winamp, Sonique, iTunes, [http://www.atunes.org/ aTunes], '''Clementine''', '''VLC''', '''SMplayer''', '''Deadbeef''', '''Strawberry''', '''Audacious''', '''Exaile''' ||
[[Amarok]],
Clementine,
[[RhythmBox]],
[http://banshee-project.org/index.php/Main_Page Banshee], [[Xine]], VLC, SMplayer, Elisa, Deadbeef, Audacious, Strawberry, Exaile. See also Video Players section
|[[Music Players]]
|-
| [http://www.otsav.com/ OTSAV, OTS Turntables], [http://serato.com/ Serato], [http://www.native-instruments.com/en/traktor/ Traktor], [http://www.virtualdj.com/ Virtual DJ], [http://www.pcdj.com/ PC DJ], [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
| [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
|Audio & video play out (DJ/presenter)
|-
| Windows Movie Maker, Adobe Premiere Elements, [http://www.goldwave.com/mqrelease.php Multiquence], '''Avidemux''', '''OpenShot''', '''VidCutter''', [https://shotcut.org/ '''Shotcut'''], '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron]''', [https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php '''Olive'''], '''Lightworks''' ||
[[Cinelerra]] (difficult but very professional),
[[KDenlive]] (easy and powerful),
[[LiVES]],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avidemux AviDemux],
OpenShot,
VidCutter,
Flowblade,
Pitivi,
DaVinci Resolve,
[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron],
[https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php Olive],
Lightworks (thanks to Linux Format magazine),
[https://shotcut.org/ Shotcut](thanks to Linux Format magazine)
|[[Video Editors]]
|-
| '''Audacity''', Cubase, '''Ardour''', Adobe Audition (formerly Cool Edit Pro), [http://www.goldwave.com/ GoldWave], Cakewalk/Sonar, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''LMMS''', '''Traverso-DAW''', '''[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]''' ||
[[Audacity]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden],
[[Beast]],
[[Ardour]],
Harrison Mixbus,
[http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/index.php Radium],
DaVinci Resolve,
Bitwig Studio,
Qtractor,
[https://traverso-daw.org/ Traverso-DAW],
LMMS,
[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]
|Digital audio workstation software
|-
| Audio Catalyst, '''Ocenaudio''', dbpoweramp, CDex, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''Audacity''' ||
[[Audacity]],
Ocenaudio,
DaVinci Resolve,
[[Grip]]
| [[Audio Editors]]
|-
| '''Wavesurfer''', '''Audacity''', '''Sox'''||[https://itsfoss.com/record-streaming-audio/ Audio Recorder], Ecasound, Audacity, Sox, Wavesurfer
|Audio recorders
|-
| Cakewalk/Sonar ||
[[kmid]],
[[kmidi]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden]
| [[MIDI]]
|-
|[http://www.noteworthysoftware.com/ NoteWorthy Composer], '''MuseScore''', '''LilyPond'''||
[http://www.musescore.org/ MuseScore], [http://lilypond.org/web/ LilyPond]
|Musical score typesetting
|-
|[http://www.guitar-pro.com/ GuitarPro], TuxGuitar ||
[http://www.tuxguitar.com.ar/ TuxGuitar]
|Guitar tablature editors
|-
| Microsoft Paint, Kid Pix, '''Tux Paint''', '''Pencil 2D''', '''Krita''', '''Pinta''', '''Mypaint''', '''Mtpaint''' ||
[http://www.tuxpaint.org/ Tuxpaint], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KolourPaint KolourPaint], Pencil 2D, Krita, [https://launchpad.net/dibuja Dibuja], Pinta, Mypaint, Mtpaint
|Basic raster painting programs
|-
| Videora, [https://handbrake.fr/ '''Handbrake'''], '''WinFF''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || [https://handbrake.fr/ Handbrake], WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, Transmageddon, VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Video converter
|-
| '''WinFF''', '''Handbrake''', '''fre:ac - free audio converter (freac)''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || Handbrake, WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, fre:ac - free audio converter (freac), VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Audio converter
|-
|TMPGEnc DVD Author, Roxio DVDit, '''Open DVD Producer''', '''DVDStyler''' ||
DVDStyler, [http://opendvdproducer.jonata.org/ Open DVD Producer], [http://www.rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html DeVeDe]
|DVD authoring software
|-
|'''uTox''', '''qTox''', '''Jitsi''', '''OpenMeetings''', '''Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone)''', '''Microsoft Teams''', '''Zoom''' || uTox, qTox, OpenMettings, Jitsi, Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone), Empathy, Microsoft Teams, Zoom
| Video Conferencing
|}

= Education =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| '''Klavaro''', '''Tipp10''' || Klavaro, Tipp10, [[KTouch]], Tux Typing, GNU Typist || Touch typing tutors
|-
| '''Maple''', '''Mathematica''' || Maple, Mathematica, [http://maxima.sourceforge.net/ Maxima]
| Computer algebra systems
|-
| '''Matlab''', '''Octave''', '''Scilab''' ||
Matlab, [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ Octave],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SciLab SciLab], Sage, KAlgebra
| High level numeric computation environments
|-
| '''SPSS''', '''Stata''', EViews, '''PSPP''', '''[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project]''', '''[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]''' ||
[http://www.stata.com/products/unix.html Stata], SPSS,
[http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/pspp.html PSPP],
[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Plus S-Plus],
[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]
| Statistical analysis
|-
| Verilog ||
[http://www.icarus.com/eda/verilog/ iverilog]
| Verilog Simulator
|-
| '''Google Earth''', NASA World Wind, '''Celestia''', '''Stellarium''', '''Skychart''', '''Aladin Sky Atlas''', Microsoft Flight Simulator, '''FlightGear''' ||
[http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html Google Earth], [https://celestia.space/index.html Celestia], [http://www.stellarium.org/ Stellarium], [https://marble.kde.org/ Marble], [http://www.geody.com/ Geody], Kstars, Skychart, Aladin Sky Atlas, [http://www.flightgear.org/ FlightGear]
| Geography, astronomy and simulation
|}

''Please add new applications to this list. A good resource is the [http://www.nawaz.org/wiki/index.php?title=Table_of_Equivalents BeetleSpace Windows/Linux Software Table of Equivalents], which is GNU FDL licensed.''

= See also =

* [[running windows software]]
* [http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux.]
* [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareEquivalents Ubuntu software equivalents's page]
* [http://www.linuxeq.com/ The Linux Equivalent Project]
* [https://www.turkishcypriotheritage.org/ turkishcypriotheritage.org]

[[Category:FAQ]]

Linux software equivalent to Windows software

2024-02-15T13:36:37Z

Kareempharmacist: /* Multimedia */

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.

= Office and Productivity =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Office, '''OpenOffice''', '''Libre Office''', '''WPS Office''', '''Softmaker Office''', '''Onlyoffice Desktop'''
| [[Libre Office]], [https://www.wps.com/linux WPS Office](WPS-Community), [[OpenOffice]], [https://www.calligra.org/ Calligra], Softmaker FreeOffice, OnlyOffice Desktop
| Office package
|-
| Microsoft Word, OOwriter, LibreOffice Writer, WPS Writer, Softmaker TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[OOWriter]], [http://www.abiword.org AbiWord], WPS Writer, LibreOffice Writer, Calligra Words, FreeOffice TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop, Lyx, [[LaTeX]]
| [[Word Processing]]
|-
| Notepad, Wordpad, TheGun, EditPlus, SciTE, Notepad++ ||
[[Vim]], [[KWrite]],
[[Kate]], [http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/ BlueFish], [[Gedit]], [[Joe]], Sublime Text, [[Leafpad]], [[Nano]]
| [[Text Editors]]
|-
| Access, dBase, Foxpro, Paradox, '''OOBase''', '''LibreOffice Base'''
| [http://userbase.kde.org/Kexi Kexi], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Base OOBase], LibreOffice Base
| [[Database]]
|-
| Excel, Corel WordPrefect, '''LibreOffice Calc''', '''Softmaker Office PlanMaker''', '''WPS Spreedsheets''', '''OOCalc''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Calc, Calligra Sheets, Softmaker Office PlanMaker, WPS Spreedsheets, [[OOCalc]], [http://www.gnumeric.org gnumeric], OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Spreadsheet]]
|-
| Visio, [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html '''yED'''], '''LibreOffice Draw'''
| [https://www.calligra.org/flow/ Calligra Flow], [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html yED], LibreOffice Draw
| Diagramming
|-
| PowerPoint, '''LibreOffice Impress''', '''OOImpress''', '''WPS Presentation''', '''Softmaker Office Presentations''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Impress, [[OOImpress]], Calligra Stage, WPS Presentation, Softmaker Office Presentations, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Presentation software]]
|-
| Final Draft, Script Studio, '''Fade In''', '''KIT Scenarist''', '''Story Architect''', '''Trelby''', '''Scrite'''
| Fade In, KIT Scenarist, Story Architect, Trelby, Scrite
| Screenwriting software
|-
| Microsoft Project Manager
| [[MOOS Project Viewer]], Calligra Plan
| Project management
|-
| '''Wondershare EdrawMax''', XMind
| Wondershare EdrawMax, Minder, XMind
| Mind maps
|-
| Outlook, '''Thunderbird + Lightning'''
| [[Kontact]], [https://pawsa.fedorapeople.org/balsa/ BALSA], [[Thunderbird]] + [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/ Lightning]
| Personal information managers
|-
| Alcohol 120%, Discjuggler, Easy CD Creator, Nero Burning ROM ||
[[K3b]], [[XCDRoast]], Brasero, Xfburn, [[CD/DVD_Burning|''more'']]
|DVD/CD burning
|-
|Alcohol 120%, Nero Burning ROM, '''MakeMKV''', ImgBurn, Infrarecorder || MakeMKV, Thoggen, Dvdbackup, HandBrake, DVD::RIP, AcidRIP
| DVD ripping software
|-
| Quicken, Microsoft Money, TurboTax
| [http://gnucash.org/ GnucAsh], [http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/index-home.html KMyMoney], [[CrossOver]] Office with Quicken, [http://www.lazy8.nu/ lazy8ledger]
| Accounting
|-
| ActiveSync ||
[[SynCE]]
|Synchronization with Windows Mobile devices
|-
| WinEdt, TeXnicCenter
| [[Kile]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texmaker Texmaker], [[LyX]]
| LaTeX IDEs
|-
| Veritas Backup Exec, [http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm Cobian Backup], '''Duplicati''' ||
LuckyBackup, Déjà Dup, Grsync, Duplicati [[list of backUp applications|''more'']]
| [[Backup]]
|-
| Google Desktop ||
[[Recoll]]
| Desktop Search
|-
| Norton Ghost ||
[[Partition Image]], [[g4u]], [http://www.mondorescue.org/ Mondo Rescue], [[dd]], gDiskDump (a dd frontend), Clonezilla, Trinity Rescue Kit
|Disk imaging
|-
| Norton Partition Magic ||
[[GParted]], Clonezilla (a live cd), KDE Partition Manager, GNOME Disks
|Disk partitioning
|-
|[http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/Disk_Size_Explorer.asp Disk Size Explorer]
|[https://utils.kde.org/projects/filelight/ File Light], [[Konqueror]], Baobab, xdiskusage, duc [https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-analyze-your-disk-usage-pattern-in-linux/ ref.]
| Disk usage analyzers
|-
|[http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html Filemon], [http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Regmon.html Regmon]
| [http://syscalltrack.sourceforge.net/ syscalltrack]
| system call tracking (file monitor & others)
|-
| WinMerge, SyncToy ||
[http://meld.sourceforge.net/ Meld], [[Unison]], [http://synkron.sourceforge.net/ Synkron], [[rSync]]
| File synchronization
|-
| Google Drive, Dropbox, etc ||
[https://rclone.org Rclone]
| Cloud hosted file synchronization (Amazon S3, Dropbox, Google Cloud Storage, Google Drive, FTP, Microsoft OneDrive, sFTP, etc)
|-
| Windows Update, Add/Remove programs||
[[apt-get]], [http://aptitude.sourceforge.net/ Aptitude], [http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Portage portage], [[Rpm|rpm]], [[urpmi]], [[yast]], [[yum]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptic_Package_Manager Synaptic], [https://snapcraft.io Snapcraft (Snap)]
|Every Linux distribution has an infrastructure to manage installed software which is quite different from Windows. For instance, all updates are handled by a single program. See [[package management]].
|-
| WinRunner || [http://hoopajoo.net/projects/xautomation.html xautomation] || automating interactive applications
|-
| 7-Zip, Winzip, Winrar, Peazip ||
[[Karchiver]],
[[File Roller]],
Xarchiver,
[[ark]],
[[hjsplit]]; [[packing and unpacking files|''command line tools'']]
|Archivers
|-
| chkdsk || [[fsck]], [https://www.tecmint.com/linux-disk-scanning-tools/ other tools] || check your file system (and the [[hard disk]] beneath it) for errors
|-
| Daemon Tools ||
[[mount]], Disk Image Mounter in Gnome/KDE, Furius ISO mount, AcetoneISO
|ISO mounting
|-
| Disclib || [http://www.gwhere.org/home.php3 gWhere]
| Disk cataloging programs
|-
| Evernote, OneNote || NixNote, Tusk, Whatever, GeekNote, ForeverNote, [https://joplinapp.org/ Joplin], Xournal, XFCE4 Notes, Xpad, Hnb, Gnote, Feathernotes, Cherrytree, Bijiben, Basket, Noblenote, Nvpy. Thanks to [https://itsfoss.com/evernote-on-linux/]
|Note Taking App
|}

== Desktop Publishing ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Dreamweaver, '''Google Web Designer''', '''Bluefish Editor''', '''Aptana Studio''', '''SeaMonkey''', '''CodeLobster''' ||
[http://www.google.com/webdesigner/ Google Web Designer] (WYSIWYG), Bluefish Editor, Aptana Studio, SeaMonkey, CodeLobster
[[html editors|more]]
|[[Web Design]]
|-
| Quark, Quark Express, Microsoft Publisher, '''Scribus''', '''Karbon''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribus Scribus], Karbon, Laidout, VivaDesigner, QuickSilver, Xara Xtreme
|DTP software
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader, Xpdf Reader, Foxit reader, Sumatra pdf ||

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evince Evince],
Zathura,
Okular,
Bookworm,
Qpdfview,
Foxit reader,
PDF Studio Viewer,
[[Xpdf]],
MuPDF,
Atril,
[[Ghostview]], [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF readers
|-
| Adobe Acrobat Distiller, PDFCreator ||
[http://www.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~vrbehr/cups-pdf/ CUPS-PDF], Libre Office, [[OpenOffice.org]], PDF Studio, [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter] -- can convert to pdf. [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF authoring
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF editor, [http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio '''PDF Studio Pro'''], '''Master PDF Editor''', '''Libreoffice Draw''', '''Scribus''', '''Inkscape''' ||
[http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio PDF Studio Pro], Master PDF Editor, [http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfedit Pdfedit], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam Pdfjam], [http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk Pdftk], Scribus, Inkscape, Karbon, Okular, Libreoffice Draw. Thanks to [https://www.ubuntupit.com/linux-pdf-editor-top-15-reviewed-and-compared/ this] [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF editing tools
|-
| SilverFast ||
[[xSane]], [http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html VueScan], Simple Scan, Skanlite, Gscan2pdf, GIMP with Quitelnsane
| [[scanning]]
|-
| FinePrint ||
[http://www.boomaga.org boomaga], [http://wfr.tcl.tk/279 page-crunch], [http://freshmeat.net/projects/mpage/ mpage], [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter], [http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~ajcd/psutils/index.html psnup/PSutils], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam pdfnup/PDFjam]
| Document printing/reformatting tools
|}

= Networking =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Internet Explorer, '''Microsoft Edge''', '''Firefox''', '''Opera''', '''Chrome''', '''Pale Moon''', '''Brave''', '''Vivaldi''', '''Otter Browser''', '''Falkon''', '''Dooble''', '''Slimjet''' ||
[[Firefox]],
[[Konqueror]],
Epiphany (Gnome Web), Falkon, Microsoft Edge, Slimjet, Midori,
[http://www.google.com/chrome Chrome], Chromium,
[[Opera]],
Otter Browser,
Brave,
Vivaldi, Falkon,
Pale Moon, Dillo, Dooble
[[Browsers|''more'']]
| [[Web Browsers]]
|-
| Microsoft Outlook, '''Thunderbird''', Pegasus, Lotus Notes, '''Seamonkey''', '''Claws Mail''', '''Mailspring''' ||
[[Kontact]],
[http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/features/evolution.html Evolution], Seamonkey,
[[Thunderbird]], Claws Mail, Mailspring, Geary [https://itsfoss.com/best-email-clients-linux/ others]
|Email clients.
|-
| '''Trillian''', '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Irssi''', ICQ ||
Trillian, Hexchat, [[PidgIn]], [[Irssi]], [[Kopete]]
| [[Instant messaging]] [[software]].
|-
| Microsoft HyperTerminal ||
[[minicom]]
|-
| FileZilla FTP Client, WS FTP, Bullet Proof FTP, CuteFTP ||
[http://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client FileZilla FTP Client],
[http://www.kftp.org/misc/description KFTP (KFTPGrabber)],
[[Kasablanca]],
[[FireFTP]],
[[Konqueror]],
[[KBear]],
[[gFTP]],
[http://www.crossftp.com/ CrossFTP],
[[Nautilus]]
|FTP clients. Please note GNOME, KDE (and other) programs can directly open and edit files on FTP, SFTP and WebDAV shares, often using [[KIO]], [[GIO]] or [GVfs]].
|-
| mIRC, '''Trillian''', '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Quassel''', '''KVIrc''', '''Irssi''' ||
Trillian, HexChat, [[PidgIn]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quassel_IRC Quassel], [[KVIrc]], Irssi, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konversation Konversation], [[BitchX]]
| [[IRC Clients]]
|-
|[http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/ UltraVNC], TightVNC, RealVNC, Remote Desktop ||
[http://www.tightvnc.com/ TightVNC],
[http://www.realvnc.com/ RealVNC], [http://www.rdesktop.org/ rdesktop],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/freenx/ FreeNX],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/x11vnc/ x11vnc],
[http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ Synergy],
XDMCP, [[SSH]] with X11 forwarding (-X or -Y option)
| [[Desktop Sharing]]
|-
| MailWasher, SpamAssassin for Windows ||
SpamAssassin
| Spam filter
|-
|Forte Free Agent, [[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]] ||
[[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]], [http://www.newsreaders.com/unix/clients.html See More Clients Here]
|News Reader (Usenet [[newsgroup]]s)
|-
| eMule, '''aMule''' || aMule
|ED2K P2P network clients
|-
| [http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php '''Vuze (formerly Azureus)'''], [http://utorrent.com/ utorrent], '''Transmission''', '''Deluge''', '''qBittorrent''', '''Tixati''', '''Frostwire''', '''Tribler''' ||
[http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php Vuze (formerly Azureus)], Tranmission, Deluge, qBittorrent, Tixati, Frostwire, Tribler, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qtorrent Qtorrent], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bittornado bittornado], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ktorrent Ktorrent],
|BitTorrent P2P network clients
|-
| '''Skype''', Voipbuster, '''Yate''', '''Linphone''', '''Jitsi''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype Skype], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linphone Linphone], Asterisk, Empathy, Yate, Jitsi
|VoIP software
|-
| Bitvise Tunnelier ||
[http://sourceforge.net/projects/gstm/ gSTM]
|gSTM is a front-end for managing SSH-tunneled port redirects.
|}

== Server ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| IIS, [[Apache]] ||
[[Apache]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nginx Engine-X], [http://www.lighttpd.net/ lighttpd]
|[[Web Servers]]
|-
| Folder sharing, printer sharing ||
[[Samba]]
|Share files and printers between Windows and Linux systems. Installed by default on most distributions.
|-
|IIS, [http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ FileZilla FTP Client & Server]
|[[vsftpd]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure-ftpd pure-ftpd]
|FTP servers, for hosting files.
|-
|[http://www.netlimiter.com/ NetLimiter] ||
[http://monkey.org/~marius/pages/?page=trickle Trickle], [http://l7-filter.sourceforge.net/ Level 7 Filter], [http://www.clarkconnect.com/info/index.php ClarkConnect], [http://www.bandwidtharbitrator.com/ Bandwidth Arbitrator], [http://www.mastershaper.org/index.php/Main_Page MasterShaper]
|Bandwidth shaping and management.
|-
| Exchange ||
[[Citadel]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbra zimbra], [[Open-Xchange]]
|Groupware (sharing of appointments, contacts, e-mail, documents, etc. between members of a group)
|-
| Sharepoint ||
[http://www.knowledgetree.com/opensource KnowledgeTree]
|Manage and secure documents, collaborate around document creation and editing, full document contents indexing
|-
| Norton/McAfee Antivirus, [http://clamwin.com/ ClamWin], AVG, AntiVir, Avast, ClamAV ||
[[ClamAV]], [https://support.avast.com/en-eu/article/131/ Avast Security for Linux]
| Antivirus software.
|-
| ZoneAlarm , Sygate SPF||
[[Guarddog]], [[Firestarter]], [[GUFW]], [[iptables]]
| Firewall software
|}

= Multimedia =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
|[http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/ Adobe Photoshop], [http://www.corel.com/ Corel Photo-Paint], '''GIMP''', '''Glimpse''', '''GIMPShop''', '''ImageMagick''', '''Xnview''', '''[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)]''', '''[https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable]''', '''Pinta''', '''MyPaint''', '''Krita''', '''Filmulator''', '''Photivo''', '''RawTherapee''', '''digiKam''', '''nomacs''' ||
[http://www.gimp.org/ GIMP], Glimpse,
[[GIMPShop]], ImageMagick, Pinta, MyPaint,
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krita Krita], Xnview,
[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)], [https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable], Filmulator, Photivo, RawTherapee, digiKam, nomacs
|Raster graphics editors
|-
|[http://www.corel.com/ Corel Draw], [http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator/ Adobe Illustrator], '''Inkscape''', '''Vectr''', '''Gravit''', '''LibreOffice Draw''', '''sK1''', '''SVG-edit''' ||
[http://www.inkscape.org/ Inkscape], Vectr, Gravit, LibreOffice Draw, Karbon, sK1, SVG-edit. [https://itsfoss.com/vector-graphics-editors-linux/ Ref.]
|Vector graphics editors
|-
|Adobe Animate, '''Synfig''', '''Pencil2D''', '''Tupi (Tupitube Desk)''', '''OpenToonz''', '''Blender''', '''Toon Boom Harmony''', '''Krita''', '''Aseprite''', '''TVPaint''', '''Animaker''', '''Ajax Animator''', '''Glaxnimate''', '''Tahoma2D''', '''Enve''' ||
Synfig, Pencil2D, Tupi (Tupitube Desk), OpenToonz, Blender, Toon Boom Harmony, Krita, Aseprite, TVPaint, Animaker, Ajax Animator, Glaxnimate, Tahoma2D , Enve
| 2D Animations
|-
| Irfanview, ACDSee, '''digiKam''', '''Xnview''', '''nomacs''' ||
[[XnView]], [http://mirageiv.berlios.de/ Mirage], [[GThumb]], Shotwell, KPhotoAlbum, Geeqie, digiKam, Gwenview, Ristretto, Viewnior, nomacs
|Image viewers
|-
| 3D Studio MAX, '''Blender''', [http://www.autodesk.com '''Maya'''] ||
[[Blender]],
[http://www.autodesk.com Maya],
[[K-3D]]
|3D modeling software
|-
| Autodesk Inventor, Solidworks, CATIA || [http://www.freecadweb.org FreeCAD], [http://www.salome-platform.org/ SALOME platform]
| Professional 3D CAD software
|-
| Windows Media Player, PowerDVD, SMPlayer, MPV, [[VLC]] ||
SMPlayer,
MPV,
[[VLC]],
[[Xine]],
[[Totem]],
[[Kaffeine]],
Parole,
Celluloid,
[[MPlayer]]
| [[Video Players]]
|-
| SIA Smaart Live || [http://sf.net/projects/brp-pacu/ BRP-PACU] || [[Sound]] analysis
|-
| Winamp, Sonique, iTunes, [http://www.atunes.org/ aTunes], '''Clementine''', '''VLC''', '''SMplayer''', '''Deadbeef''', '''Strawberry''', '''Audacious''' ||
[[Amarok]],
Clementine,
[[RhythmBox]],
[http://banshee-project.org/index.php/Main_Page Banshee], [[Xine]], VLC, SMplayer, Elisa, Deadbeef, Audacious, Strawberry, Exaile. See also Video Players section
|[[Music Players]]
|-
| [http://www.otsav.com/ OTSAV, OTS Turntables], [http://serato.com/ Serato], [http://www.native-instruments.com/en/traktor/ Traktor], [http://www.virtualdj.com/ Virtual DJ], [http://www.pcdj.com/ PC DJ], [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
| [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
|Audio & video play out (DJ/presenter)
|-
| Windows Movie Maker, Adobe Premiere Elements, [http://www.goldwave.com/mqrelease.php Multiquence], '''Avidemux''', '''OpenShot''', '''VidCutter''', [https://shotcut.org/ '''Shotcut'''], '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron]''', [https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php '''Olive'''], '''Lightworks''' ||
[[Cinelerra]] (difficult but very professional),
[[KDenlive]] (easy and powerful),
[[LiVES]],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avidemux AviDemux],
OpenShot,
VidCutter,
Flowblade,
Pitivi,
DaVinci Resolve,
[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron],
[https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php Olive],
Lightworks (thanks to Linux Format magazine),
[https://shotcut.org/ Shotcut](thanks to Linux Format magazine)
|[[Video Editors]]
|-
| '''Audacity''', Cubase, '''Ardour''', Adobe Audition (formerly Cool Edit Pro), [http://www.goldwave.com/ GoldWave], Cakewalk/Sonar, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''LMMS''', '''Traverso-DAW''', '''[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]''' ||
[[Audacity]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden],
[[Beast]],
[[Ardour]],
Harrison Mixbus,
[http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/index.php Radium],
DaVinci Resolve,
Bitwig Studio,
Qtractor,
[https://traverso-daw.org/ Traverso-DAW],
LMMS,
[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]
|Digital audio workstation software
|-
| Audio Catalyst, '''Ocenaudio''', dbpoweramp, CDex, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''Audacity''' ||
[[Audacity]],
Ocenaudio,
DaVinci Resolve,
[[Grip]]
| [[Audio Editors]]
|-
| '''Wavesurfer''', '''Audacity''', '''Sox'''||[https://itsfoss.com/record-streaming-audio/ Audio Recorder], Ecasound, Audacity, Sox, Wavesurfer
|Audio recorders
|-
| Cakewalk/Sonar ||
[[kmid]],
[[kmidi]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden]
| [[MIDI]]
|-
|[http://www.noteworthysoftware.com/ NoteWorthy Composer], '''MuseScore''', '''LilyPond'''||
[http://www.musescore.org/ MuseScore], [http://lilypond.org/web/ LilyPond]
|Musical score typesetting
|-
|[http://www.guitar-pro.com/ GuitarPro], TuxGuitar ||
[http://www.tuxguitar.com.ar/ TuxGuitar]
|Guitar tablature editors
|-
| Microsoft Paint, Kid Pix, '''Tux Paint''', '''Pencil 2D''', '''Krita''', '''Pinta''', '''Mypaint''', '''Mtpaint''' ||
[http://www.tuxpaint.org/ Tuxpaint], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KolourPaint KolourPaint], Pencil 2D, Krita, [https://launchpad.net/dibuja Dibuja], Pinta, Mypaint, Mtpaint
|Basic raster painting programs
|-
| Videora, [https://handbrake.fr/ '''Handbrake'''], '''WinFF''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || [https://handbrake.fr/ Handbrake], WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, Transmageddon, VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Video converter
|-
| '''WinFF''', '''Handbrake''', '''fre:ac - free audio converter (freac)''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || Handbrake, WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, fre:ac - free audio converter (freac), VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Audio converter
|-
|TMPGEnc DVD Author, Roxio DVDit, '''Open DVD Producer''', '''DVDStyler''' ||
DVDStyler, [http://opendvdproducer.jonata.org/ Open DVD Producer], [http://www.rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html DeVeDe]
|DVD authoring software
|-
|'''uTox''', '''qTox''', '''Jitsi''', '''OpenMeetings''', '''Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone)''', '''Microsoft Teams''', '''Zoom''' || uTox, qTox, OpenMettings, Jitsi, Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone), Empathy, Microsoft Teams, Zoom
| Video Conferencing
|}

= Education =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| '''Klavaro''', '''Tipp10''' || Klavaro, Tipp10, [[KTouch]], Tux Typing, GNU Typist || Touch typing tutors
|-
| '''Maple''', '''Mathematica''' || Maple, Mathematica, [http://maxima.sourceforge.net/ Maxima]
| Computer algebra systems
|-
| '''Matlab''', '''Octave''', '''Scilab''' ||
Matlab, [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ Octave],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SciLab SciLab], Sage, KAlgebra
| High level numeric computation environments
|-
| '''SPSS''', '''Stata''', EViews, '''PSPP''', '''[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project]''', '''[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]''' ||
[http://www.stata.com/products/unix.html Stata], SPSS,
[http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/pspp.html PSPP],
[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Plus S-Plus],
[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]
| Statistical analysis
|-
| Verilog ||
[http://www.icarus.com/eda/verilog/ iverilog]
| Verilog Simulator
|-
| '''Google Earth''', NASA World Wind, '''Celestia''', '''Stellarium''', '''Skychart''', '''Aladin Sky Atlas''', Microsoft Flight Simulator, '''FlightGear''' ||
[http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html Google Earth], [https://celestia.space/index.html Celestia], [http://www.stellarium.org/ Stellarium], [https://marble.kde.org/ Marble], [http://www.geody.com/ Geody], Kstars, Skychart, Aladin Sky Atlas, [http://www.flightgear.org/ FlightGear]
| Geography, astronomy and simulation
|}

''Please add new applications to this list. A good resource is the [http://www.nawaz.org/wiki/index.php?title=Table_of_Equivalents BeetleSpace Windows/Linux Software Table of Equivalents], which is GNU FDL licensed.''

= See also =

* [[running windows software]]
* [http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux.]
* [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareEquivalents Ubuntu software equivalents's page]
* [http://www.linuxeq.com/ The Linux Equivalent Project]
* [https://www.turkishcypriotheritage.org/ turkishcypriotheritage.org]

[[Category:FAQ]]

Linux software equivalent to Windows software

2024-02-12T18:43:16Z

Kareempharmacist: /* Desktop Publishing */

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.

= Office and Productivity =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Office, '''OpenOffice''', '''Libre Office''', '''WPS Office''', '''Softmaker Office''', '''Onlyoffice Desktop'''
| [[Libre Office]], [https://www.wps.com/linux WPS Office](WPS-Community), [[OpenOffice]], [https://www.calligra.org/ Calligra], Softmaker FreeOffice, OnlyOffice Desktop
| Office package
|-
| Microsoft Word, OOwriter, LibreOffice Writer, WPS Writer, Softmaker TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[OOWriter]], [http://www.abiword.org AbiWord], WPS Writer, LibreOffice Writer, Calligra Words, FreeOffice TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop, Lyx, [[LaTeX]]
| [[Word Processing]]
|-
| Notepad, Wordpad, TheGun, EditPlus, SciTE, Notepad++ ||
[[Vim]], [[KWrite]],
[[Kate]], [http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/ BlueFish], [[Gedit]], [[Joe]], Sublime Text, [[Leafpad]], [[Nano]]
| [[Text Editors]]
|-
| Access, dBase, Foxpro, Paradox, '''OOBase''', '''LibreOffice Base'''
| [http://userbase.kde.org/Kexi Kexi], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Base OOBase], LibreOffice Base
| [[Database]]
|-
| Excel, Corel WordPrefect, '''LibreOffice Calc''', '''Softmaker Office PlanMaker''', '''WPS Spreedsheets''', '''OOCalc''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Calc, Calligra Sheets, Softmaker Office PlanMaker, WPS Spreedsheets, [[OOCalc]], [http://www.gnumeric.org gnumeric], OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Spreadsheet]]
|-
| Visio, [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html '''yED'''], '''LibreOffice Draw'''
| [https://www.calligra.org/flow/ Calligra Flow], [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html yED], LibreOffice Draw
| Diagramming
|-
| PowerPoint, '''LibreOffice Impress''', '''OOImpress''', '''WPS Presentation''', '''Softmaker Office Presentations''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Impress, [[OOImpress]], Calligra Stage, WPS Presentation, Softmaker Office Presentations, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Presentation software]]
|-
| Final Draft, Script Studio, '''Fade In''', '''KIT Scenarist''', '''Story Architect''', '''Trelby''', '''Scrite'''
| Fade In, KIT Scenarist, Story Architect, Trelby, Scrite
| Screenwriting software
|-
| Microsoft Project Manager
| [[MOOS Project Viewer]], Calligra Plan
| Project management
|-
| '''Wondershare EdrawMax''', XMind
| Wondershare EdrawMax, Minder, XMind
| Mind maps
|-
| Outlook, '''Thunderbird + Lightning'''
| [[Kontact]], [https://pawsa.fedorapeople.org/balsa/ BALSA], [[Thunderbird]] + [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/ Lightning]
| Personal information managers
|-
| Alcohol 120%, Discjuggler, Easy CD Creator, Nero Burning ROM ||
[[K3b]], [[XCDRoast]], Brasero, Xfburn, [[CD/DVD_Burning|''more'']]
|DVD/CD burning
|-
|Alcohol 120%, Nero Burning ROM, '''MakeMKV''', ImgBurn, Infrarecorder || MakeMKV, Thoggen, Dvdbackup, HandBrake, DVD::RIP, AcidRIP
| DVD ripping software
|-
| Quicken, Microsoft Money, TurboTax
| [http://gnucash.org/ GnucAsh], [http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/index-home.html KMyMoney], [[CrossOver]] Office with Quicken, [http://www.lazy8.nu/ lazy8ledger]
| Accounting
|-
| ActiveSync ||
[[SynCE]]
|Synchronization with Windows Mobile devices
|-
| WinEdt, TeXnicCenter
| [[Kile]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texmaker Texmaker], [[LyX]]
| LaTeX IDEs
|-
| Veritas Backup Exec, [http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm Cobian Backup], '''Duplicati''' ||
LuckyBackup, Déjà Dup, Grsync, Duplicati [[list of backUp applications|''more'']]
| [[Backup]]
|-
| Google Desktop ||
[[Recoll]]
| Desktop Search
|-
| Norton Ghost ||
[[Partition Image]], [[g4u]], [http://www.mondorescue.org/ Mondo Rescue], [[dd]], gDiskDump (a dd frontend), Clonezilla, Trinity Rescue Kit
|Disk imaging
|-
| Norton Partition Magic ||
[[GParted]], Clonezilla (a live cd), KDE Partition Manager, GNOME Disks
|Disk partitioning
|-
|[http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/Disk_Size_Explorer.asp Disk Size Explorer]
|[https://utils.kde.org/projects/filelight/ File Light], [[Konqueror]], Baobab, xdiskusage, duc [https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-analyze-your-disk-usage-pattern-in-linux/ ref.]
| Disk usage analyzers
|-
|[http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html Filemon], [http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Regmon.html Regmon]
| [http://syscalltrack.sourceforge.net/ syscalltrack]
| system call tracking (file monitor & others)
|-
| WinMerge, SyncToy ||
[http://meld.sourceforge.net/ Meld], [[Unison]], [http://synkron.sourceforge.net/ Synkron], [[rSync]]
| File synchronization
|-
| Google Drive, Dropbox, etc ||
[https://rclone.org Rclone]
| Cloud hosted file synchronization (Amazon S3, Dropbox, Google Cloud Storage, Google Drive, FTP, Microsoft OneDrive, sFTP, etc)
|-
| Windows Update, Add/Remove programs||
[[apt-get]], [http://aptitude.sourceforge.net/ Aptitude], [http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Portage portage], [[Rpm|rpm]], [[urpmi]], [[yast]], [[yum]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptic_Package_Manager Synaptic], [https://snapcraft.io Snapcraft (Snap)]
|Every Linux distribution has an infrastructure to manage installed software which is quite different from Windows. For instance, all updates are handled by a single program. See [[package management]].
|-
| WinRunner || [http://hoopajoo.net/projects/xautomation.html xautomation] || automating interactive applications
|-
| 7-Zip, Winzip, Winrar, Peazip ||
[[Karchiver]],
[[File Roller]],
Xarchiver,
[[ark]],
[[hjsplit]]; [[packing and unpacking files|''command line tools'']]
|Archivers
|-
| chkdsk || [[fsck]], [https://www.tecmint.com/linux-disk-scanning-tools/ other tools] || check your file system (and the [[hard disk]] beneath it) for errors
|-
| Daemon Tools ||
[[mount]], Disk Image Mounter in Gnome/KDE, Furius ISO mount, AcetoneISO
|ISO mounting
|-
| Disclib || [http://www.gwhere.org/home.php3 gWhere]
| Disk cataloging programs
|-
| Evernote, OneNote || NixNote, Tusk, Whatever, GeekNote, ForeverNote, [https://joplinapp.org/ Joplin], Xournal, XFCE4 Notes, Xpad, Hnb, Gnote, Feathernotes, Cherrytree, Bijiben, Basket, Noblenote, Nvpy. Thanks to [https://itsfoss.com/evernote-on-linux/]
|Note Taking App
|}

== Desktop Publishing ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Dreamweaver, '''Google Web Designer''', '''Bluefish Editor''', '''Aptana Studio''', '''SeaMonkey''', '''CodeLobster''' ||
[http://www.google.com/webdesigner/ Google Web Designer] (WYSIWYG), Bluefish Editor, Aptana Studio, SeaMonkey, CodeLobster
[[html editors|more]]
|[[Web Design]]
|-
| Quark, Quark Express, Microsoft Publisher, '''Scribus''', '''Karbon''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribus Scribus], Karbon, Laidout, VivaDesigner, QuickSilver, Xara Xtreme
|DTP software
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader, Xpdf Reader, Foxit reader, Sumatra pdf ||

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evince Evince],
Zathura,
Okular,
Bookworm,
Qpdfview,
Foxit reader,
PDF Studio Viewer,
[[Xpdf]],
MuPDF,
Atril,
[[Ghostview]], [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF readers
|-
| Adobe Acrobat Distiller, PDFCreator ||
[http://www.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~vrbehr/cups-pdf/ CUPS-PDF], Libre Office, [[OpenOffice.org]], PDF Studio, [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter] -- can convert to pdf. [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF authoring
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF editor, [http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio '''PDF Studio Pro'''], '''Master PDF Editor''', '''Libreoffice Draw''', '''Scribus''', '''Inkscape''' ||
[http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio PDF Studio Pro], Master PDF Editor, [http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfedit Pdfedit], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam Pdfjam], [http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk Pdftk], Scribus, Inkscape, Karbon, Okular, Libreoffice Draw. Thanks to [https://www.ubuntupit.com/linux-pdf-editor-top-15-reviewed-and-compared/ this] [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF editing tools
|-
| SilverFast ||
[[xSane]], [http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html VueScan], Simple Scan, Skanlite, Gscan2pdf, GIMP with Quitelnsane
| [[scanning]]
|-
| FinePrint ||
[http://www.boomaga.org boomaga], [http://wfr.tcl.tk/279 page-crunch], [http://freshmeat.net/projects/mpage/ mpage], [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter], [http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~ajcd/psutils/index.html psnup/PSutils], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam pdfnup/PDFjam]
| Document printing/reformatting tools
|}

= Networking =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Internet Explorer, '''Microsoft Edge''', '''Firefox''', '''Opera''', '''Chrome''', '''Pale Moon''', '''Brave''', '''Vivaldi''', '''Otter Browser''', '''Falkon''', '''Dooble''', '''Slimjet''' ||
[[Firefox]],
[[Konqueror]],
Epiphany (Gnome Web), Falkon, Microsoft Edge, Slimjet, Midori,
[http://www.google.com/chrome Chrome], Chromium,
[[Opera]],
Otter Browser,
Brave,
Vivaldi, Falkon,
Pale Moon, Dillo, Dooble
[[Browsers|''more'']]
| [[Web Browsers]]
|-
| Microsoft Outlook, '''Thunderbird''', Pegasus, Lotus Notes, '''Seamonkey''', '''Claws Mail''', '''Mailspring''' ||
[[Kontact]],
[http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/features/evolution.html Evolution], Seamonkey,
[[Thunderbird]], Claws Mail, Mailspring, Geary [https://itsfoss.com/best-email-clients-linux/ others]
|Email clients.
|-
| '''Trillian''', '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Irssi''', ICQ ||
Trillian, Hexchat, [[PidgIn]], [[Irssi]], [[Kopete]]
| [[Instant messaging]] [[software]].
|-
| Microsoft HyperTerminal ||
[[minicom]]
|-
| FileZilla FTP Client, WS FTP, Bullet Proof FTP, CuteFTP ||
[http://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client FileZilla FTP Client],
[http://www.kftp.org/misc/description KFTP (KFTPGrabber)],
[[Kasablanca]],
[[FireFTP]],
[[Konqueror]],
[[KBear]],
[[gFTP]],
[http://www.crossftp.com/ CrossFTP],
[[Nautilus]]
|FTP clients. Please note GNOME, KDE (and other) programs can directly open and edit files on FTP, SFTP and WebDAV shares, often using [[KIO]], [[GIO]] or [GVfs]].
|-
| mIRC, '''Trillian''', '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Quassel''', '''KVIrc''', '''Irssi''' ||
Trillian, HexChat, [[PidgIn]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quassel_IRC Quassel], [[KVIrc]], Irssi, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konversation Konversation], [[BitchX]]
| [[IRC Clients]]
|-
|[http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/ UltraVNC], TightVNC, RealVNC, Remote Desktop ||
[http://www.tightvnc.com/ TightVNC],
[http://www.realvnc.com/ RealVNC], [http://www.rdesktop.org/ rdesktop],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/freenx/ FreeNX],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/x11vnc/ x11vnc],
[http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ Synergy],
XDMCP, [[SSH]] with X11 forwarding (-X or -Y option)
| [[Desktop Sharing]]
|-
| MailWasher, SpamAssassin for Windows ||
SpamAssassin
| Spam filter
|-
|Forte Free Agent, [[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]] ||
[[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]], [http://www.newsreaders.com/unix/clients.html See More Clients Here]
|News Reader (Usenet [[newsgroup]]s)
|-
| eMule, '''aMule''' || aMule
|ED2K P2P network clients
|-
| [http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php '''Vuze (formerly Azureus)'''], [http://utorrent.com/ utorrent], '''Transmission''', '''Deluge''', '''qBittorrent''', '''Tixati''', '''Frostwire''', '''Tribler''' ||
[http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php Vuze (formerly Azureus)], Tranmission, Deluge, qBittorrent, Tixati, Frostwire, Tribler, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qtorrent Qtorrent], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bittornado bittornado], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ktorrent Ktorrent],
|BitTorrent P2P network clients
|-
| '''Skype''', Voipbuster, '''Yate''', '''Linphone''', '''Jitsi''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype Skype], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linphone Linphone], Asterisk, Empathy, Yate, Jitsi
|VoIP software
|-
| Bitvise Tunnelier ||
[http://sourceforge.net/projects/gstm/ gSTM]
|gSTM is a front-end for managing SSH-tunneled port redirects.
|}

== Server ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| IIS, [[Apache]] ||
[[Apache]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nginx Engine-X], [http://www.lighttpd.net/ lighttpd]
|[[Web Servers]]
|-
| Folder sharing, printer sharing ||
[[Samba]]
|Share files and printers between Windows and Linux systems. Installed by default on most distributions.
|-
|IIS, [http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ FileZilla FTP Client & Server]
|[[vsftpd]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure-ftpd pure-ftpd]
|FTP servers, for hosting files.
|-
|[http://www.netlimiter.com/ NetLimiter] ||
[http://monkey.org/~marius/pages/?page=trickle Trickle], [http://l7-filter.sourceforge.net/ Level 7 Filter], [http://www.clarkconnect.com/info/index.php ClarkConnect], [http://www.bandwidtharbitrator.com/ Bandwidth Arbitrator], [http://www.mastershaper.org/index.php/Main_Page MasterShaper]
|Bandwidth shaping and management.
|-
| Exchange ||
[[Citadel]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbra zimbra], [[Open-Xchange]]
|Groupware (sharing of appointments, contacts, e-mail, documents, etc. between members of a group)
|-
| Sharepoint ||
[http://www.knowledgetree.com/opensource KnowledgeTree]
|Manage and secure documents, collaborate around document creation and editing, full document contents indexing
|-
| Norton/McAfee Antivirus, [http://clamwin.com/ ClamWin], AVG, AntiVir, Avast, ClamAV ||
[[ClamAV]], [https://support.avast.com/en-eu/article/131/ Avast Security for Linux]
| Antivirus software.
|-
| ZoneAlarm , Sygate SPF||
[[Guarddog]], [[Firestarter]], [[GUFW]], [[iptables]]
| Firewall software
|}

= Multimedia =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
|[http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/ Adobe Photoshop], [http://www.corel.com/ Corel Photo-Paint], '''GIMP''', '''Glimpse''', '''GIMPShop''', '''ImageMagick''', '''Xnview''', '''[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)]''', '''[https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable]''', '''Pinta''', '''MyPaint''', '''Krita''', '''Filmulator''', '''Photivo''', '''RawTherapee''', '''digiKam''', '''nomacs''' ||
[http://www.gimp.org/ GIMP], Glimpse,
[[GIMPShop]], ImageMagick, Pinta, MyPaint,
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krita Krita], Xnview,
[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)], [https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable], Filmulator, Photivo, RawTherapee, digiKam, nomacs
|Raster graphics editors
|-
|[http://www.corel.com/ Corel Draw], [http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator/ Adobe Illustrator], '''Inkscape''', '''Vectr''', '''Gravit''', '''LibreOffice Draw''', '''sK1''', '''SVG-edit''' ||
[http://www.inkscape.org/ Inkscape], Vectr, Gravit, LibreOffice Draw, Karbon, sK1, SVG-edit. [https://itsfoss.com/vector-graphics-editors-linux/ Ref.]
|Vector graphics editors
|-
|Adobe Animate, '''Synfig''', '''Pencil2D''', '''Tupi (Tupitube Desk)''', '''OpenToonz''', '''Blender''', '''Toon Boom Harmony''', '''Krita''', '''Aseprite''', '''TVPaint''', '''Animaker''', '''Ajax Animator''', '''Glaxnimate''', '''Tahoma2D''', '''Enve''' ||
Synfig, Pencil2D, Tupi (Tupitube Desk), OpenToonz, Blender, Toon Boom Harmony, Krita, Aseprite, TVPaint, Animaker, Ajax Animator, Glaxnimate, Tahoma2D , Enve
| 2D Animations
|-
| Irfanview, ACDSee, '''digiKam''', '''Xnview''', '''nomacs''' ||
[[XnView]], [http://mirageiv.berlios.de/ Mirage], [[GThumb]], Shotwell, KPhotoAlbum, Geeqie, digiKam, Gwenview, Ristretto, Viewnior, nomacs
|Image viewers
|-
| 3D Studio MAX, '''Blender''', [http://www.autodesk.com '''Maya'''] ||
[[Blender]],
[http://www.autodesk.com Maya],
[[K-3D]]
|3D modeling software
|-
| Autodesk Inventor, Solidworks, CATIA || [http://www.freecadweb.org FreeCAD], [http://www.salome-platform.org/ SALOME platform]
| Professional 3D CAD software
|-
| Windows Media Player, PowerDVD, SMPlayer, MPV, [[VLC]] ||
SMPlayer,
MPV,
[[VLC]],
[[Xine]],
[[Totem]],
[[Kaffeine]],
Parole,
Celluloid,
[[MPlayer]]
| [[Video Players]]
|-
| SIA Smaart Live || [http://sf.net/projects/brp-pacu/ BRP-PACU] || [[Sound]] analysis
|-
| Winamp, Sonique, iTunes, [http://www.atunes.org/ aTunes], '''Clementine''', '''VLC''', '''SMplayer''', '''Deadbeef''', '''Strawberry''', '''Audacious''' ||
[[Amarok]],
Clementine,
[[RhythmBox]],
[http://banshee-project.org/index.php/Main_Page Banshee],
[[Xine]],
VLC,
SMplayer,
Elisa,
Deadbeef,
Audacious, Strawberry. See also Video Players section
|[[Music Players]]
|-
| [http://www.otsav.com/ OTSAV, OTS Turntables], [http://serato.com/ Serato], [http://www.native-instruments.com/en/traktor/ Traktor], [http://www.virtualdj.com/ Virtual DJ], [http://www.pcdj.com/ PC DJ], [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
| [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
|Audio & video play out (DJ/presenter)
|-
| Windows Movie Maker, Adobe Premiere Elements, [http://www.goldwave.com/mqrelease.php Multiquence], '''Avidemux''', '''OpenShot''', '''VidCutter''', [https://shotcut.org/ '''Shotcut'''], '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron]''', [https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php '''Olive'''], '''Lightworks''' ||
[[Cinelerra]] (difficult but very professional),
[[KDenlive]] (easy and powerful),
[[LiVES]],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avidemux AviDemux],
OpenShot,
VidCutter,
Flowblade,
Pitivi,
DaVinci Resolve,
[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron],
[https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php Olive],
Lightworks (thanks to Linux Format magazine),
[https://shotcut.org/ Shotcut](thanks to Linux Format magazine)
|[[Video Editors]]
|-
| '''Audacity''', Cubase, '''Ardour''', Adobe Audition (formerly Cool Edit Pro), [http://www.goldwave.com/ GoldWave], Cakewalk/Sonar, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''LMMS''', '''Traverso-DAW''', '''[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]''' ||
[[Audacity]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden],
[[Beast]],
[[Ardour]],
Harrison Mixbus,
[http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/index.php Radium],
DaVinci Resolve,
Bitwig Studio,
Qtractor,
[https://traverso-daw.org/ Traverso-DAW],
LMMS,
[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]
|Digital audio workstation software
|-
| Audio Catalyst, '''Ocenaudio''', dbpoweramp, CDex, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''Audacity''' ||
[[Audacity]],
Ocenaudio,
DaVinci Resolve,
[[Grip]]
| [[Audio Editors]]
|-
| '''Wavesurfer''', '''Audacity''', '''Sox'''||[https://itsfoss.com/record-streaming-audio/ Audio Recorder], Ecasound, Audacity, Sox, Wavesurfer
|Audio recorders
|-
| Cakewalk/Sonar ||
[[kmid]],
[[kmidi]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden]
| [[MIDI]]
|-
|[http://www.noteworthysoftware.com/ NoteWorthy Composer], '''MuseScore''', '''LilyPond'''||
[http://www.musescore.org/ MuseScore], [http://lilypond.org/web/ LilyPond]
|Musical score typesetting
|-
|[http://www.guitar-pro.com/ GuitarPro], TuxGuitar ||
[http://www.tuxguitar.com.ar/ TuxGuitar]
|Guitar tablature editors
|-
| Microsoft Paint, Kid Pix, '''Tux Paint''', '''Pencil 2D''', '''Krita''', '''Pinta''', '''Mypaint''', '''Mtpaint''' ||
[http://www.tuxpaint.org/ Tuxpaint], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KolourPaint KolourPaint], Pencil 2D, Krita, [https://launchpad.net/dibuja Dibuja], Pinta, Mypaint, Mtpaint
|Basic raster painting programs
|-
| Videora, [https://handbrake.fr/ '''Handbrake'''], '''WinFF''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || [https://handbrake.fr/ Handbrake], WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, Transmageddon, VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Video converter
|-
| '''WinFF''', '''Handbrake''', '''fre:ac - free audio converter (freac)''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || Handbrake, WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, fre:ac - free audio converter (freac), VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Audio converter
|-
|TMPGEnc DVD Author, Roxio DVDit, '''Open DVD Producer''', '''DVDStyler''' ||
DVDStyler, [http://opendvdproducer.jonata.org/ Open DVD Producer], [http://www.rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html DeVeDe]
|DVD authoring software
|-
|'''uTox''', '''qTox''', '''Jitsi''', '''OpenMeetings''', '''Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone)''', '''Microsoft Teams''', '''Zoom''' || uTox, qTox, OpenMettings, Jitsi, Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone), Empathy, Microsoft Teams, Zoom
| Video Conferencing
|}

= Education =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| '''Klavaro''', '''Tipp10''' || Klavaro, Tipp10, [[KTouch]], Tux Typing, GNU Typist || Touch typing tutors
|-
| '''Maple''', '''Mathematica''' || Maple, Mathematica, [http://maxima.sourceforge.net/ Maxima]
| Computer algebra systems
|-
| '''Matlab''', '''Octave''', '''Scilab''' ||
Matlab, [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ Octave],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SciLab SciLab], Sage, KAlgebra
| High level numeric computation environments
|-
| '''SPSS''', '''Stata''', EViews, '''PSPP''', '''[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project]''', '''[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]''' ||
[http://www.stata.com/products/unix.html Stata], SPSS,
[http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/pspp.html PSPP],
[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Plus S-Plus],
[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]
| Statistical analysis
|-
| Verilog ||
[http://www.icarus.com/eda/verilog/ iverilog]
| Verilog Simulator
|-
| '''Google Earth''', NASA World Wind, '''Celestia''', '''Stellarium''', '''Skychart''', '''Aladin Sky Atlas''', Microsoft Flight Simulator, '''FlightGear''' ||
[http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html Google Earth], [https://celestia.space/index.html Celestia], [http://www.stellarium.org/ Stellarium], [https://marble.kde.org/ Marble], [http://www.geody.com/ Geody], Kstars, Skychart, Aladin Sky Atlas, [http://www.flightgear.org/ FlightGear]
| Geography, astronomy and simulation
|}

''Please add new applications to this list. A good resource is the [http://www.nawaz.org/wiki/index.php?title=Table_of_Equivalents BeetleSpace Windows/Linux Software Table of Equivalents], which is GNU FDL licensed.''

= See also =

* [[running windows software]]
* [http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux.]
* [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareEquivalents Ubuntu software equivalents's page]
* [http://www.linuxeq.com/ The Linux Equivalent Project]
* [https://www.turkishcypriotheritage.org/ turkishcypriotheritage.org]

[[Category:FAQ]]

Linux software equivalent to Windows software

2024-02-12T18:34:51Z

Kareempharmacist: /* Desktop Publishing */

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.

= Office and Productivity =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Office, '''OpenOffice''', '''Libre Office''', '''WPS Office''', '''Softmaker Office''', '''Onlyoffice Desktop'''
| [[Libre Office]], [https://www.wps.com/linux WPS Office](WPS-Community), [[OpenOffice]], [https://www.calligra.org/ Calligra], Softmaker FreeOffice, OnlyOffice Desktop
| Office package
|-
| Microsoft Word, OOwriter, LibreOffice Writer, WPS Writer, Softmaker TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[OOWriter]], [http://www.abiword.org AbiWord], WPS Writer, LibreOffice Writer, Calligra Words, FreeOffice TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop, Lyx, [[LaTeX]]
| [[Word Processing]]
|-
| Notepad, Wordpad, TheGun, EditPlus, SciTE, Notepad++ ||
[[Vim]], [[KWrite]],
[[Kate]], [http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/ BlueFish], [[Gedit]], [[Joe]], Sublime Text, [[Leafpad]], [[Nano]]
| [[Text Editors]]
|-
| Access, dBase, Foxpro, Paradox, '''OOBase''', '''LibreOffice Base'''
| [http://userbase.kde.org/Kexi Kexi], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Base OOBase], LibreOffice Base
| [[Database]]
|-
| Excel, Corel WordPrefect, '''LibreOffice Calc''', '''Softmaker Office PlanMaker''', '''WPS Spreedsheets''', '''OOCalc''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Calc, Calligra Sheets, Softmaker Office PlanMaker, WPS Spreedsheets, [[OOCalc]], [http://www.gnumeric.org gnumeric], OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Spreadsheet]]
|-
| Visio, [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html '''yED'''], '''LibreOffice Draw'''
| [https://www.calligra.org/flow/ Calligra Flow], [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html yED], LibreOffice Draw
| Diagramming
|-
| PowerPoint, '''LibreOffice Impress''', '''OOImpress''', '''WPS Presentation''', '''Softmaker Office Presentations''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Impress, [[OOImpress]], Calligra Stage, WPS Presentation, Softmaker Office Presentations, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Presentation software]]
|-
| Final Draft, Script Studio, '''Fade In''', '''KIT Scenarist''', '''Story Architect''', '''Trelby''', '''Scrite'''
| Fade In, KIT Scenarist, Story Architect, Trelby, Scrite
| Screenwriting software
|-
| Microsoft Project Manager
| [[MOOS Project Viewer]], Calligra Plan
| Project management
|-
| '''Wondershare EdrawMax''', XMind
| Wondershare EdrawMax, Minder, XMind
| Mind maps
|-
| Outlook, '''Thunderbird + Lightning'''
| [[Kontact]], [https://pawsa.fedorapeople.org/balsa/ BALSA], [[Thunderbird]] + [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/ Lightning]
| Personal information managers
|-
| Alcohol 120%, Discjuggler, Easy CD Creator, Nero Burning ROM ||
[[K3b]], [[XCDRoast]], Brasero, Xfburn, [[CD/DVD_Burning|''more'']]
|DVD/CD burning
|-
|Alcohol 120%, Nero Burning ROM, '''MakeMKV''', ImgBurn, Infrarecorder || MakeMKV, Thoggen, Dvdbackup, HandBrake, DVD::RIP, AcidRIP
| DVD ripping software
|-
| Quicken, Microsoft Money, TurboTax
| [http://gnucash.org/ GnucAsh], [http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/index-home.html KMyMoney], [[CrossOver]] Office with Quicken, [http://www.lazy8.nu/ lazy8ledger]
| Accounting
|-
| ActiveSync ||
[[SynCE]]
|Synchronization with Windows Mobile devices
|-
| WinEdt, TeXnicCenter
| [[Kile]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texmaker Texmaker], [[LyX]]
| LaTeX IDEs
|-
| Veritas Backup Exec, [http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm Cobian Backup], '''Duplicati''' ||
LuckyBackup, Déjà Dup, Grsync, Duplicati [[list of backUp applications|''more'']]
| [[Backup]]
|-
| Google Desktop ||
[[Recoll]]
| Desktop Search
|-
| Norton Ghost ||
[[Partition Image]], [[g4u]], [http://www.mondorescue.org/ Mondo Rescue], [[dd]], gDiskDump (a dd frontend), Clonezilla, Trinity Rescue Kit
|Disk imaging
|-
| Norton Partition Magic ||
[[GParted]], Clonezilla (a live cd), KDE Partition Manager, GNOME Disks
|Disk partitioning
|-
|[http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/Disk_Size_Explorer.asp Disk Size Explorer]
|[https://utils.kde.org/projects/filelight/ File Light], [[Konqueror]], Baobab, xdiskusage, duc [https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-analyze-your-disk-usage-pattern-in-linux/ ref.]
| Disk usage analyzers
|-
|[http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html Filemon], [http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Regmon.html Regmon]
| [http://syscalltrack.sourceforge.net/ syscalltrack]
| system call tracking (file monitor & others)
|-
| WinMerge, SyncToy ||
[http://meld.sourceforge.net/ Meld], [[Unison]], [http://synkron.sourceforge.net/ Synkron], [[rSync]]
| File synchronization
|-
| Google Drive, Dropbox, etc ||
[https://rclone.org Rclone]
| Cloud hosted file synchronization (Amazon S3, Dropbox, Google Cloud Storage, Google Drive, FTP, Microsoft OneDrive, sFTP, etc)
|-
| Windows Update, Add/Remove programs||
[[apt-get]], [http://aptitude.sourceforge.net/ Aptitude], [http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Portage portage], [[Rpm|rpm]], [[urpmi]], [[yast]], [[yum]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptic_Package_Manager Synaptic], [https://snapcraft.io Snapcraft (Snap)]
|Every Linux distribution has an infrastructure to manage installed software which is quite different from Windows. For instance, all updates are handled by a single program. See [[package management]].
|-
| WinRunner || [http://hoopajoo.net/projects/xautomation.html xautomation] || automating interactive applications
|-
| 7-Zip, Winzip, Winrar, Peazip ||
[[Karchiver]],
[[File Roller]],
Xarchiver,
[[ark]],
[[hjsplit]]; [[packing and unpacking files|''command line tools'']]
|Archivers
|-
| chkdsk || [[fsck]], [https://www.tecmint.com/linux-disk-scanning-tools/ other tools] || check your file system (and the [[hard disk]] beneath it) for errors
|-
| Daemon Tools ||
[[mount]], Disk Image Mounter in Gnome/KDE, Furius ISO mount, AcetoneISO
|ISO mounting
|-
| Disclib || [http://www.gwhere.org/home.php3 gWhere]
| Disk cataloging programs
|-
| Evernote, OneNote || NixNote, Tusk, Whatever, GeekNote, ForeverNote, [https://joplinapp.org/ Joplin], Xournal, XFCE4 Notes, Xpad, Hnb, Gnote, Feathernotes, Cherrytree, Bijiben, Basket, Noblenote, Nvpy. Thanks to [https://itsfoss.com/evernote-on-linux/]
|Note Taking App
|}

== Desktop Publishing ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Dreamweaver, '''Google Web Designer''', '''Bluefish Editor''', '''Aptana Studio''', '''SeaMonkey''', '''CodeLobster''' ||
[http://www.google.com/webdesigner/ Google Web Designer] (WYSIWYG), Bluefish Editor, Aptana Studio, SeaMonkey, CodeLobster
[[html editors|more]]
|[[Web Design]]
|-
| Quark, Quark Express, Microsoft Publisher, '''Scribus''', '''Karbon''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribus Scribus], Laidout, VivaDesigner, QuickSilver, Xara Xtreme, Karbon
|DTP software
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader, Xpdf Reader, Foxit reader, Sumatra pdf ||

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evince Evince],
Zathura,
Okular,
Bookworm,
Qpdfview,
Foxit reader,
PDF Studio Viewer,
[[Xpdf]],
MuPDF,
Atril,
[[Ghostview]], [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF readers
|-
| Adobe Acrobat Distiller, PDFCreator ||
[http://www.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~vrbehr/cups-pdf/ CUPS-PDF], Libre Office, [[OpenOffice.org]], PDF Studio, [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter] -- can convert to pdf. [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF authoring
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF editor, [http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio '''PDF Studio Pro'''], '''Master PDF Editor''', '''Libreoffice Draw''', '''Scribus''', '''Inkscape''' ||
[http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio PDF Studio Pro], Master PDF Editor, [http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfedit Pdfedit], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam Pdfjam], [http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk Pdftk], Scribus, Inkscape, Karbon, Okular, Libreoffice Draw. Thanks to [https://www.ubuntupit.com/linux-pdf-editor-top-15-reviewed-and-compared/ this] [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF editing tools
|-
| SilverFast ||
[[xSane]], [http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html VueScan], Simple Scan, Skanlite, Gscan2pdf, GIMP with Quitelnsane
| [[scanning]]
|-
| FinePrint ||
[http://www.boomaga.org boomaga], [http://wfr.tcl.tk/279 page-crunch], [http://freshmeat.net/projects/mpage/ mpage], [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter], [http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~ajcd/psutils/index.html psnup/PSutils], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam pdfnup/PDFjam]
| Document printing/reformatting tools
|}

= Networking =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Internet Explorer, '''Microsoft Edge''', '''Firefox''', '''Opera''', '''Chrome''', '''Pale Moon''', '''Brave''', '''Vivaldi''', '''Otter Browser''', '''Falkon''', '''Dooble''', '''Slimjet''' ||
[[Firefox]],
[[Konqueror]],
Epiphany (Gnome Web), Falkon, Microsoft Edge, Slimjet, Midori,
[http://www.google.com/chrome Chrome], Chromium,
[[Opera]],
Otter Browser,
Brave,
Vivaldi, Falkon,
Pale Moon, Dillo, Dooble
[[Browsers|''more'']]
| [[Web Browsers]]
|-
| Microsoft Outlook, '''Thunderbird''', Pegasus, Lotus Notes, '''Seamonkey''', '''Claws Mail''', '''Mailspring''' ||
[[Kontact]],
[http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/features/evolution.html Evolution], Seamonkey,
[[Thunderbird]], Claws Mail, Mailspring, Geary [https://itsfoss.com/best-email-clients-linux/ others]
|Email clients.
|-
| '''Trillian''', '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Irssi''', ICQ ||
Trillian, Hexchat, [[PidgIn]], [[Irssi]], [[Kopete]]
| [[Instant messaging]] [[software]].
|-
| Microsoft HyperTerminal ||
[[minicom]]
|-
| FileZilla FTP Client, WS FTP, Bullet Proof FTP, CuteFTP ||
[http://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client FileZilla FTP Client],
[http://www.kftp.org/misc/description KFTP (KFTPGrabber)],
[[Kasablanca]],
[[FireFTP]],
[[Konqueror]],
[[KBear]],
[[gFTP]],
[http://www.crossftp.com/ CrossFTP],
[[Nautilus]]
|FTP clients. Please note GNOME, KDE (and other) programs can directly open and edit files on FTP, SFTP and WebDAV shares, often using [[KIO]], [[GIO]] or [GVfs]].
|-
| mIRC, '''Trillian''', '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Quassel''', '''KVIrc''', '''Irssi''' ||
Trillian, HexChat, [[PidgIn]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quassel_IRC Quassel], [[KVIrc]], Irssi, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konversation Konversation], [[BitchX]]
| [[IRC Clients]]
|-
|[http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/ UltraVNC], TightVNC, RealVNC, Remote Desktop ||
[http://www.tightvnc.com/ TightVNC],
[http://www.realvnc.com/ RealVNC], [http://www.rdesktop.org/ rdesktop],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/freenx/ FreeNX],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/x11vnc/ x11vnc],
[http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ Synergy],
XDMCP, [[SSH]] with X11 forwarding (-X or -Y option)
| [[Desktop Sharing]]
|-
| MailWasher, SpamAssassin for Windows ||
SpamAssassin
| Spam filter
|-
|Forte Free Agent, [[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]] ||
[[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]], [http://www.newsreaders.com/unix/clients.html See More Clients Here]
|News Reader (Usenet [[newsgroup]]s)
|-
| eMule, '''aMule''' || aMule
|ED2K P2P network clients
|-
| [http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php '''Vuze (formerly Azureus)'''], [http://utorrent.com/ utorrent], '''Transmission''', '''Deluge''', '''qBittorrent''', '''Tixati''', '''Frostwire''', '''Tribler''' ||
[http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php Vuze (formerly Azureus)], Tranmission, Deluge, qBittorrent, Tixati, Frostwire, Tribler, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qtorrent Qtorrent], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bittornado bittornado], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ktorrent Ktorrent],
|BitTorrent P2P network clients
|-
| '''Skype''', Voipbuster, '''Yate''', '''Linphone''', '''Jitsi''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype Skype], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linphone Linphone], Asterisk, Empathy, Yate, Jitsi
|VoIP software
|-
| Bitvise Tunnelier ||
[http://sourceforge.net/projects/gstm/ gSTM]
|gSTM is a front-end for managing SSH-tunneled port redirects.
|}

== Server ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| IIS, [[Apache]] ||
[[Apache]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nginx Engine-X], [http://www.lighttpd.net/ lighttpd]
|[[Web Servers]]
|-
| Folder sharing, printer sharing ||
[[Samba]]
|Share files and printers between Windows and Linux systems. Installed by default on most distributions.
|-
|IIS, [http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ FileZilla FTP Client & Server]
|[[vsftpd]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure-ftpd pure-ftpd]
|FTP servers, for hosting files.
|-
|[http://www.netlimiter.com/ NetLimiter] ||
[http://monkey.org/~marius/pages/?page=trickle Trickle], [http://l7-filter.sourceforge.net/ Level 7 Filter], [http://www.clarkconnect.com/info/index.php ClarkConnect], [http://www.bandwidtharbitrator.com/ Bandwidth Arbitrator], [http://www.mastershaper.org/index.php/Main_Page MasterShaper]
|Bandwidth shaping and management.
|-
| Exchange ||
[[Citadel]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbra zimbra], [[Open-Xchange]]
|Groupware (sharing of appointments, contacts, e-mail, documents, etc. between members of a group)
|-
| Sharepoint ||
[http://www.knowledgetree.com/opensource KnowledgeTree]
|Manage and secure documents, collaborate around document creation and editing, full document contents indexing
|-
| Norton/McAfee Antivirus, [http://clamwin.com/ ClamWin], AVG, AntiVir, Avast, ClamAV ||
[[ClamAV]], [https://support.avast.com/en-eu/article/131/ Avast Security for Linux]
| Antivirus software.
|-
| ZoneAlarm , Sygate SPF||
[[Guarddog]], [[Firestarter]], [[GUFW]], [[iptables]]
| Firewall software
|}

= Multimedia =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
|[http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/ Adobe Photoshop], [http://www.corel.com/ Corel Photo-Paint], '''GIMP''', '''Glimpse''', '''GIMPShop''', '''ImageMagick''', '''Xnview''', '''[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)]''', '''[https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable]''', '''Pinta''', '''MyPaint''', '''Krita''', '''Filmulator''', '''Photivo''', '''RawTherapee''', '''digiKam''', '''nomacs''' ||
[http://www.gimp.org/ GIMP], Glimpse,
[[GIMPShop]], ImageMagick, Pinta, MyPaint,
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krita Krita], Xnview,
[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)], [https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable], Filmulator, Photivo, RawTherapee, digiKam, nomacs
|Raster graphics editors
|-
|[http://www.corel.com/ Corel Draw], [http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator/ Adobe Illustrator], '''Inkscape''', '''Vectr''', '''Gravit''', '''LibreOffice Draw''', '''sK1''', '''SVG-edit''' ||
[http://www.inkscape.org/ Inkscape], Vectr, Gravit, LibreOffice Draw, Karbon, sK1, SVG-edit. [https://itsfoss.com/vector-graphics-editors-linux/ Ref.]
|Vector graphics editors
|-
|Adobe Animate, '''Synfig''', '''Pencil2D''', '''Tupi (Tupitube Desk)''', '''OpenToonz''', '''Blender''', '''Toon Boom Harmony''', '''Krita''', '''Aseprite''', '''TVPaint''', '''Animaker''', '''Ajax Animator''', '''Glaxnimate''', '''Tahoma2D''', '''Enve''' ||
Synfig, Pencil2D, Tupi (Tupitube Desk), OpenToonz, Blender, Toon Boom Harmony, Krita, Aseprite, TVPaint, Animaker, Ajax Animator, Glaxnimate, Tahoma2D , Enve
| 2D Animations
|-
| Irfanview, ACDSee, '''digiKam''', '''Xnview''', '''nomacs''' ||
[[XnView]], [http://mirageiv.berlios.de/ Mirage], [[GThumb]], Shotwell, KPhotoAlbum, Geeqie, digiKam, Gwenview, Ristretto, Viewnior, nomacs
|Image viewers
|-
| 3D Studio MAX, '''Blender''', [http://www.autodesk.com '''Maya'''] ||
[[Blender]],
[http://www.autodesk.com Maya],
[[K-3D]]
|3D modeling software
|-
| Autodesk Inventor, Solidworks, CATIA || [http://www.freecadweb.org FreeCAD], [http://www.salome-platform.org/ SALOME platform]
| Professional 3D CAD software
|-
| Windows Media Player, PowerDVD, SMPlayer, MPV, [[VLC]] ||
SMPlayer,
MPV,
[[VLC]],
[[Xine]],
[[Totem]],
[[Kaffeine]],
Parole,
Celluloid,
[[MPlayer]]
| [[Video Players]]
|-
| SIA Smaart Live || [http://sf.net/projects/brp-pacu/ BRP-PACU] || [[Sound]] analysis
|-
| Winamp, Sonique, iTunes, [http://www.atunes.org/ aTunes], '''Clementine''', '''VLC''', '''SMplayer''', '''Deadbeef''', '''Strawberry''', '''Audacious''' ||
[[Amarok]],
Clementine,
[[RhythmBox]],
[http://banshee-project.org/index.php/Main_Page Banshee],
[[Xine]],
VLC,
SMplayer,
Elisa,
Deadbeef,
Audacious, Strawberry. See also Video Players section
|[[Music Players]]
|-
| [http://www.otsav.com/ OTSAV, OTS Turntables], [http://serato.com/ Serato], [http://www.native-instruments.com/en/traktor/ Traktor], [http://www.virtualdj.com/ Virtual DJ], [http://www.pcdj.com/ PC DJ], [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
| [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
|Audio & video play out (DJ/presenter)
|-
| Windows Movie Maker, Adobe Premiere Elements, [http://www.goldwave.com/mqrelease.php Multiquence], '''Avidemux''', '''OpenShot''', '''VidCutter''', [https://shotcut.org/ '''Shotcut'''], '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron]''', [https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php '''Olive'''], '''Lightworks''' ||
[[Cinelerra]] (difficult but very professional),
[[KDenlive]] (easy and powerful),
[[LiVES]],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avidemux AviDemux],
OpenShot,
VidCutter,
Flowblade,
Pitivi,
DaVinci Resolve,
[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron],
[https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php Olive],
Lightworks (thanks to Linux Format magazine),
[https://shotcut.org/ Shotcut](thanks to Linux Format magazine)
|[[Video Editors]]
|-
| '''Audacity''', Cubase, '''Ardour''', Adobe Audition (formerly Cool Edit Pro), [http://www.goldwave.com/ GoldWave], Cakewalk/Sonar, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''LMMS''', '''Traverso-DAW''', '''[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]''' ||
[[Audacity]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden],
[[Beast]],
[[Ardour]],
Harrison Mixbus,
[http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/index.php Radium],
DaVinci Resolve,
Bitwig Studio,
Qtractor,
[https://traverso-daw.org/ Traverso-DAW],
LMMS,
[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]
|Digital audio workstation software
|-
| Audio Catalyst, '''Ocenaudio''', dbpoweramp, CDex, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''Audacity''' ||
[[Audacity]],
Ocenaudio,
DaVinci Resolve,
[[Grip]]
| [[Audio Editors]]
|-
| '''Wavesurfer''', '''Audacity''', '''Sox'''||[https://itsfoss.com/record-streaming-audio/ Audio Recorder], Ecasound, Audacity, Sox, Wavesurfer
|Audio recorders
|-
| Cakewalk/Sonar ||
[[kmid]],
[[kmidi]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden]
| [[MIDI]]
|-
|[http://www.noteworthysoftware.com/ NoteWorthy Composer], '''MuseScore''', '''LilyPond'''||
[http://www.musescore.org/ MuseScore], [http://lilypond.org/web/ LilyPond]
|Musical score typesetting
|-
|[http://www.guitar-pro.com/ GuitarPro], TuxGuitar ||
[http://www.tuxguitar.com.ar/ TuxGuitar]
|Guitar tablature editors
|-
| Microsoft Paint, Kid Pix, '''Tux Paint''', '''Pencil 2D''', '''Krita''', '''Pinta''', '''Mypaint''', '''Mtpaint''' ||
[http://www.tuxpaint.org/ Tuxpaint], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KolourPaint KolourPaint], Pencil 2D, Krita, [https://launchpad.net/dibuja Dibuja], Pinta, Mypaint, Mtpaint
|Basic raster painting programs
|-
| Videora, [https://handbrake.fr/ '''Handbrake'''], '''WinFF''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || [https://handbrake.fr/ Handbrake], WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, Transmageddon, VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Video converter
|-
| '''WinFF''', '''Handbrake''', '''fre:ac - free audio converter (freac)''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || Handbrake, WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, fre:ac - free audio converter (freac), VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Audio converter
|-
|TMPGEnc DVD Author, Roxio DVDit, '''Open DVD Producer''', '''DVDStyler''' ||
DVDStyler, [http://opendvdproducer.jonata.org/ Open DVD Producer], [http://www.rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html DeVeDe]
|DVD authoring software
|-
|'''uTox''', '''qTox''', '''Jitsi''', '''OpenMeetings''', '''Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone)''', '''Microsoft Teams''', '''Zoom''' || uTox, qTox, OpenMettings, Jitsi, Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone), Empathy, Microsoft Teams, Zoom
| Video Conferencing
|}

= Education =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| '''Klavaro''', '''Tipp10''' || Klavaro, Tipp10, [[KTouch]], Tux Typing, GNU Typist || Touch typing tutors
|-
| '''Maple''', '''Mathematica''' || Maple, Mathematica, [http://maxima.sourceforge.net/ Maxima]
| Computer algebra systems
|-
| '''Matlab''', '''Octave''', '''Scilab''' ||
Matlab, [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ Octave],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SciLab SciLab], Sage, KAlgebra
| High level numeric computation environments
|-
| '''SPSS''', '''Stata''', EViews, '''PSPP''', '''[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project]''', '''[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]''' ||
[http://www.stata.com/products/unix.html Stata], SPSS,
[http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/pspp.html PSPP],
[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Plus S-Plus],
[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]
| Statistical analysis
|-
| Verilog ||
[http://www.icarus.com/eda/verilog/ iverilog]
| Verilog Simulator
|-
| '''Google Earth''', NASA World Wind, '''Celestia''', '''Stellarium''', '''Skychart''', '''Aladin Sky Atlas''', Microsoft Flight Simulator, '''FlightGear''' ||
[http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html Google Earth], [https://celestia.space/index.html Celestia], [http://www.stellarium.org/ Stellarium], [https://marble.kde.org/ Marble], [http://www.geody.com/ Geody], Kstars, Skychart, Aladin Sky Atlas, [http://www.flightgear.org/ FlightGear]
| Geography, astronomy and simulation
|}

''Please add new applications to this list. A good resource is the [http://www.nawaz.org/wiki/index.php?title=Table_of_Equivalents BeetleSpace Windows/Linux Software Table of Equivalents], which is GNU FDL licensed.''

= See also =

* [[running windows software]]
* [http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux.]
* [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareEquivalents Ubuntu software equivalents's page]
* [http://www.linuxeq.com/ The Linux Equivalent Project]
* [https://www.turkishcypriotheritage.org/ turkishcypriotheritage.org]

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Linux software equivalent to Windows software

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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.

Here is how to install software in Linux: [[Installing software]]

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

= Office and Productivity =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Office, '''OpenOffice''', '''Libre Office''', '''WPS Office''', '''Softmaker Office''', '''Onlyoffice Desktop'''
| [[Libre Office]], [https://www.wps.com/linux WPS Office](WPS-Community), [[OpenOffice]], [https://www.calligra.org/ Calligra], Softmaker FreeOffice, OnlyOffice Desktop
| Office package
|-
| Microsoft Word, OOwriter, LibreOffice Writer, WPS Writer, Softmaker TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[OOWriter]], [http://www.abiword.org AbiWord], WPS Writer, LibreOffice Writer, Calligra Words, FreeOffice TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop, Lyx, [[LaTeX]]
| [[Word Processing]]
|-
| Notepad, Wordpad, TheGun, EditPlus, SciTE, Notepad++ ||
[[Vim]], [[KWrite]],
[[Kate]], [http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/ BlueFish], [[Gedit]], [[Joe]], Sublime Text, [[Leafpad]], [[Nano]]
| [[Text Editors]]
|-
| Access, dBase, Foxpro, Paradox, '''OOBase''', '''LibreOffice Base'''
| [http://userbase.kde.org/Kexi Kexi], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Base OOBase], LibreOffice Base
| [[Database]]
|-
| Excel, Corel WordPrefect, '''LibreOffice Calc''', '''Softmaker Office PlanMaker''', '''WPS Spreedsheets''', '''OOCalc''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Calc, Calligra Sheets, Softmaker Office PlanMaker, WPS Spreedsheets, [[OOCalc]], [http://www.gnumeric.org gnumeric], OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Spreadsheet]]
|-
| Visio, [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html '''yED'''], '''LibreOffice Draw'''
| [https://www.calligra.org/flow/ Calligra Flow], [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html yED], LibreOffice Draw
| Diagramming
|-
| PowerPoint, '''LibreOffice Impress''', '''OOImpress''', '''WPS Presentation''', '''Softmaker Office Presentations''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Impress, [[OOImpress]], Calligra Stage, WPS Presentation, Softmaker Office Presentations, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Presentation software]]
|-
| Final Draft, Script Studio, '''Fade In''', '''KIT Scenarist''', '''Story Architect''', '''Trelby''', '''Scrite'''
| Fade In, KIT Scenarist, Story Architect, Trelby, Scrite
| Screenwriting software
|-
| Microsoft Project Manager
| [[MOOS Project Viewer]], Calligra Plan
| Project management
|-
| '''Wondershare EdrawMax''', XMind
| Wondershare EdrawMax, Minder, XMind
| Mind maps
|-
| Outlook, '''Thunderbird + Lightning'''
| [[Kontact]], [https://pawsa.fedorapeople.org/balsa/ BALSA], [[Thunderbird]] + [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/ Lightning]
| Personal information managers
|-
| Alcohol 120%, Discjuggler, Easy CD Creator, Nero Burning ROM ||
[[K3b]], [[XCDRoast]], Brasero, Xfburn, [[CD/DVD_Burning|''more'']]
|DVD/CD burning
|-
|Alcohol 120%, Nero Burning ROM, '''MakeMKV''', ImgBurn, Infrarecorder || MakeMKV, Thoggen, Dvdbackup, HandBrake, DVD::RIP, AcidRIP
| DVD ripping software
|-
| Quicken, Microsoft Money, TurboTax
| [http://gnucash.org/ GnucAsh], [http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/index-home.html KMyMoney], [[CrossOver]] Office with Quicken, [http://www.lazy8.nu/ lazy8ledger]
| Accounting
|-
| ActiveSync ||
[[SynCE]]
|Synchronization with Windows Mobile devices
|-
| WinEdt, TeXnicCenter
| [[Kile]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texmaker Texmaker], [[LyX]]
| LaTeX IDEs
|-
| Veritas Backup Exec, [http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm Cobian Backup], '''Duplicati''' ||
LuckyBackup, Déjà Dup, Grsync, Duplicati [[list of backUp applications|''more'']]
| [[Backup]]
|-
| Google Desktop ||
[[Recoll]]
| Desktop Search
|-
| Norton Ghost ||
[[Partition Image]], [[g4u]], [http://www.mondorescue.org/ Mondo Rescue], [[dd]], gDiskDump (a dd frontend), Clonezilla, Trinity Rescue Kit
|Disk imaging
|-
| Norton Partition Magic ||
[[GParted]], Clonezilla (a live cd), KDE Partition Manager, GNOME Disks
|Disk partitioning
|-
|[http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/Disk_Size_Explorer.asp Disk Size Explorer]
|[https://utils.kde.org/projects/filelight/ File Light], [[Konqueror]], Baobab, xdiskusage, duc [https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-analyze-your-disk-usage-pattern-in-linux/ ref.]
| Disk usage analyzers
|-
|[http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html Filemon], [http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Regmon.html Regmon]
| [http://syscalltrack.sourceforge.net/ syscalltrack]
| system call tracking (file monitor & others)
|-
| WinMerge, SyncToy ||
[http://meld.sourceforge.net/ Meld], [[Unison]], [http://synkron.sourceforge.net/ Synkron], [[rSync]]
| File synchronization
|-
| Google Drive, Dropbox, etc ||
[https://rclone.org Rclone]
| Cloud hosted file synchronization (Amazon S3, Dropbox, Google Cloud Storage, Google Drive, FTP, Microsoft OneDrive, sFTP, etc)
|-
| Windows Update, Add/Remove programs||
[[apt-get]], [http://aptitude.sourceforge.net/ Aptitude], [http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Portage portage], [[Rpm|rpm]], [[urpmi]], [[yast]], [[yum]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptic_Package_Manager Synaptic], [https://snapcraft.io Snapcraft (Snap)]
|Every Linux distribution has an infrastructure to manage installed software which is quite different from Windows. For instance, all updates are handled by a single program. See [[package management]].
|-
| WinRunner || [http://hoopajoo.net/projects/xautomation.html xautomation] || automating interactive applications
|-
| 7-Zip, Winzip, Winrar, Peazip ||
[[Karchiver]],
[[File Roller]],
Xarchiver,
[[ark]],
[[hjsplit]]; [[packing and unpacking files|''command line tools'']]
|Archivers
|-
| chkdsk || [[fsck]], [https://www.tecmint.com/linux-disk-scanning-tools/ other tools] || check your file system (and the [[hard disk]] beneath it) for errors
|-
| Daemon Tools ||
[[mount]], Disk Image Mounter in Gnome/KDE, Furius ISO mount, AcetoneISO
|ISO mounting
|-
| Disclib || [http://www.gwhere.org/home.php3 gWhere]
| Disk cataloging programs
|-
| Evernote, OneNote || NixNote, Tusk, Whatever, GeekNote, ForeverNote, [https://joplinapp.org/ Joplin], Xournal, XFCE4 Notes, Xpad, Hnb, Gnote, Feathernotes, Cherrytree, Bijiben, Basket, Noblenote, Nvpy. Thanks to [https://itsfoss.com/evernote-on-linux/]
|Note Taking App
|}

== Desktop Publishing ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Dreamweaver, '''Google Web Designer''', '''Bluefish Editor''', '''Aptana Studio''', '''SeaMonkey''' ||
[http://www.google.com/webdesigner/ Google Web Designer] (WYSIWYG), Bluefish Editor, Aptana Studio, SeaMonkey
[[html editors|more]]
|[[Web Design]]
|-
| Quark, Quark Express, Microsoft Publisher, '''Scribus''', '''Karbon''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribus Scribus], Laidout, VivaDesigner, QuickSilver, Xara Xtreme, Karbon
|DTP software
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader, Xpdf Reader, Foxit reader, Sumatra pdf ||

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evince Evince],
Zathura,
Okular,
Bookworm,
Qpdfview,
Foxit reader,
PDF Studio Viewer,
[[Xpdf]],
MuPDF,
Atril,
[[Ghostview]], [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF readers
|-
| Adobe Acrobat Distiller, PDFCreator ||
[http://www.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~vrbehr/cups-pdf/ CUPS-PDF], Libre Office, [[OpenOffice.org]], PDF Studio, [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter] -- can convert to pdf. [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF authoring
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF editor, [http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio '''PDF Studio Pro'''], '''Master PDF Editor''', '''Libreoffice Draw''', '''Scribus''', '''Inkscape''' ||
[http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio PDF Studio Pro], Master PDF Editor, [http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfedit Pdfedit], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam Pdfjam], [http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk Pdftk], Scribus, Inkscape, Karbon, Okular, Libreoffice Draw. Thanks to [https://www.ubuntupit.com/linux-pdf-editor-top-15-reviewed-and-compared/ this] [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF editing tools
|-
| SilverFast ||
[[xSane]], [http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html VueScan], Simple Scan, Skanlite, Gscan2pdf, GIMP with Quitelnsane
| [[scanning]]
|-
| FinePrint ||
[http://www.boomaga.org boomaga], [http://wfr.tcl.tk/279 page-crunch], [http://freshmeat.net/projects/mpage/ mpage], [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter], [http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~ajcd/psutils/index.html psnup/PSutils], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam pdfnup/PDFjam]
| Document printing/reformatting tools
|}

= Networking =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Internet Explorer, '''Microsoft Edge''', '''Firefox''', '''Opera''', '''Chrome''', '''Pale Moon''', '''Brave''', '''Vivaldi''', '''Otter Browser''', '''Falkon''', '''Dooble''', '''Slimjet''' ||
[[Firefox]],
[[Konqueror]],
Epiphany (Gnome Web), Falkon, Microsoft Edge, Slimjet, Midori,
[http://www.google.com/chrome Chrome], Chromium,
[[Opera]],
Otter Browser,
Brave,
Vivaldi, Falkon,
Pale Moon, Dillo, Dooble
[[Browsers|''more'']]
| [[Web Browsers]]
|-
| Microsoft Outlook, '''Thunderbird''', Pegasus, Lotus Notes, '''Seamonkey''', '''Claws Mail''', '''Mailspring''' ||
[[Kontact]],
[http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/features/evolution.html Evolution], Seamonkey,
[[Thunderbird]], Claws Mail, Mailspring, Geary [https://itsfoss.com/best-email-clients-linux/ others]
|Email clients.
|-
| '''Trillian''', '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Irssi''', ICQ ||
Trillian, Hexchat, [[PidgIn]], [[Irssi]], [[Kopete]]
| [[Instant messaging]] [[software]].
|-
| Microsoft HyperTerminal ||
[[minicom]]
|-
| FileZilla FTP Client, WS FTP, Bullet Proof FTP, CuteFTP ||
[http://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client FileZilla FTP Client],
[http://www.kftp.org/misc/description KFTP (KFTPGrabber)],
[[Kasablanca]],
[[FireFTP]],
[[Konqueror]],
[[KBear]],
[[gFTP]],
[http://www.crossftp.com/ CrossFTP],
[[Nautilus]]
|FTP clients. Please note GNOME, KDE (and other) programs can directly open and edit files on FTP, SFTP and WebDAV shares, often using [[KIO]], [[GIO]] or [GVfs]].
|-
| mIRC, '''Trillian''', '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Quassel''', '''KVIrc''', '''Irssi''' ||
Trillian, HexChat, [[PidgIn]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quassel_IRC Quassel], [[KVIrc]], Irssi, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konversation Konversation], [[BitchX]]
| [[IRC Clients]]
|-
|[http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/ UltraVNC], TightVNC, RealVNC, Remote Desktop ||
[http://www.tightvnc.com/ TightVNC],
[http://www.realvnc.com/ RealVNC], [http://www.rdesktop.org/ rdesktop],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/freenx/ FreeNX],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/x11vnc/ x11vnc],
[http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ Synergy],
XDMCP, [[SSH]] with X11 forwarding (-X or -Y option)
| [[Desktop Sharing]]
|-
| MailWasher, SpamAssassin for Windows ||
SpamAssassin
| Spam filter
|-
|Forte Free Agent, [[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]] ||
[[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]], [http://www.newsreaders.com/unix/clients.html See More Clients Here]
|News Reader (Usenet [[newsgroup]]s)
|-
| eMule, '''aMule''' || aMule
|ED2K P2P network clients
|-
| [http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php '''Vuze (formerly Azureus)'''], [http://utorrent.com/ utorrent], '''Transmission''', '''Deluge''', '''qBittorrent''', '''Tixati''', '''Frostwire''', '''Tribler''' ||
[http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php Vuze (formerly Azureus)], Tranmission, Deluge, qBittorrent, Tixati, Frostwire, Tribler, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qtorrent Qtorrent], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bittornado bittornado], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ktorrent Ktorrent],
|BitTorrent P2P network clients
|-
| '''Skype''', Voipbuster, '''Yate''', '''Linphone''', '''Jitsi''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype Skype], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linphone Linphone], Asterisk, Empathy, Yate, Jitsi
|VoIP software
|-
| Bitvise Tunnelier ||
[http://sourceforge.net/projects/gstm/ gSTM]
|gSTM is a front-end for managing SSH-tunneled port redirects.
|}

== Server ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| IIS, [[Apache]] ||
[[Apache]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nginx Engine-X], [http://www.lighttpd.net/ lighttpd]
|[[Web Servers]]
|-
| Folder sharing, printer sharing ||
[[Samba]]
|Share files and printers between Windows and Linux systems. Installed by default on most distributions.
|-
|IIS, [http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ FileZilla FTP Client & Server]
|[[vsftpd]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure-ftpd pure-ftpd]
|FTP servers, for hosting files.
|-
|[http://www.netlimiter.com/ NetLimiter] ||
[http://monkey.org/~marius/pages/?page=trickle Trickle], [http://l7-filter.sourceforge.net/ Level 7 Filter], [http://www.clarkconnect.com/info/index.php ClarkConnect], [http://www.bandwidtharbitrator.com/ Bandwidth Arbitrator], [http://www.mastershaper.org/index.php/Main_Page MasterShaper]
|Bandwidth shaping and management.
|-
| Exchange ||
[[Citadel]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbra zimbra], [[Open-Xchange]]
|Groupware (sharing of appointments, contacts, e-mail, documents, etc. between members of a group)
|-
| Sharepoint ||
[http://www.knowledgetree.com/opensource KnowledgeTree]
|Manage and secure documents, collaborate around document creation and editing, full document contents indexing
|-
| Norton/McAfee Antivirus, [http://clamwin.com/ ClamWin], AVG, AntiVir, Avast, ClamAV ||
[[ClamAV]], [https://support.avast.com/en-eu/article/131/ Avast Security for Linux]
| Antivirus software.
|-
| ZoneAlarm , Sygate SPF||
[[Guarddog]], [[Firestarter]], [[GUFW]], [[iptables]]
| Firewall software
|}

= Multimedia =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
|[http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/ Adobe Photoshop], [http://www.corel.com/ Corel Photo-Paint], '''GIMP''', '''Glimpse''', '''GIMPShop''', '''ImageMagick''', '''Xnview''', '''[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)]''', '''[https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable]''', '''Pinta''', '''MyPaint''', '''Krita''', '''Filmulator''', '''Photivo''', '''RawTherapee''', '''digiKam''', '''nomacs''' ||
[http://www.gimp.org/ GIMP], Glimpse,
[[GIMPShop]], ImageMagick, Pinta, MyPaint,
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krita Krita], Xnview,
[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)], [https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable], Filmulator, Photivo, RawTherapee, digiKam, nomacs
|Raster graphics editors
|-
|[http://www.corel.com/ Corel Draw], [http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator/ Adobe Illustrator], '''Inkscape''', '''Vectr''', '''Gravit''', '''LibreOffice Draw''', '''sK1''', '''SVG-edit''' ||
[http://www.inkscape.org/ Inkscape], Vectr, Gravit, LibreOffice Draw, Karbon, sK1, SVG-edit. [https://itsfoss.com/vector-graphics-editors-linux/ Ref.]
|Vector graphics editors
|-
|Adobe Animate, '''Synfig''', '''Pencil2D''', '''Tupi (Tupitube Desk)''', '''OpenToonz''', '''Blender''', '''Toon Boom Harmony''', '''Krita''', '''Aseprite''', '''TVPaint''', '''Animaker''', '''Ajax Animator''', '''Glaxnimate''', '''Tahoma2D''', '''Enve''' ||
Synfig, Pencil2D, Tupi (Tupitube Desk), OpenToonz, Blender, Toon Boom Harmony, Krita, Aseprite, TVPaint, Animaker, Ajax Animator, Glaxnimate, Tahoma2D , Enve
| 2D Animations
|-
| Irfanview, ACDSee, '''digiKam''', '''Xnview''', '''nomacs''' ||
[[XnView]], [http://mirageiv.berlios.de/ Mirage], [[GThumb]], Shotwell, KPhotoAlbum, Geeqie, digiKam, Gwenview, Ristretto, Viewnior, nomacs
|Image viewers
|-
| 3D Studio MAX, '''Blender''', [http://www.autodesk.com '''Maya'''] ||
[[Blender]],
[http://www.autodesk.com Maya],
[[K-3D]]
|3D modeling software
|-
| Autodesk Inventor, Solidworks, CATIA || [http://www.freecadweb.org FreeCAD], [http://www.salome-platform.org/ SALOME platform]
| Professional 3D CAD software
|-
| Windows Media Player, PowerDVD, SMPlayer, MPV, [[VLC]] ||
SMPlayer,
MPV,
[[VLC]],
[[Xine]],
[[Totem]],
[[Kaffeine]],
Parole,
Celluloid,
[[MPlayer]]
| [[Video Players]]
|-
| SIA Smaart Live || [http://sf.net/projects/brp-pacu/ BRP-PACU] || [[Sound]] analysis
|-
| Winamp, Sonique, iTunes, [http://www.atunes.org/ aTunes], '''Clementine''', '''VLC''', '''SMplayer''', '''Deadbeef''', '''Strawberry''', '''Audacious''' ||
[[Amarok]],
Clementine,
[[RhythmBox]],
[http://banshee-project.org/index.php/Main_Page Banshee],
[[Xine]],
VLC,
SMplayer,
Elisa,
Deadbeef,
Audacious, Strawberry. See also Video Players section
|[[Music Players]]
|-
| [http://www.otsav.com/ OTSAV, OTS Turntables], [http://serato.com/ Serato], [http://www.native-instruments.com/en/traktor/ Traktor], [http://www.virtualdj.com/ Virtual DJ], [http://www.pcdj.com/ PC DJ], [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
| [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
|Audio & video play out (DJ/presenter)
|-
| Windows Movie Maker, Adobe Premiere Elements, [http://www.goldwave.com/mqrelease.php Multiquence], '''Avidemux''', '''OpenShot''', '''VidCutter''', [https://shotcut.org/ '''Shotcut'''], '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron]''', [https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php '''Olive'''], '''Lightworks''' ||
[[Cinelerra]] (difficult but very professional),
[[KDenlive]] (easy and powerful),
[[LiVES]],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avidemux AviDemux],
OpenShot,
VidCutter,
Flowblade,
Pitivi,
DaVinci Resolve,
[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron],
[https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php Olive],
Lightworks (thanks to Linux Format magazine),
[https://shotcut.org/ Shotcut](thanks to Linux Format magazine)
|[[Video Editors]]
|-
| '''Audacity''', Cubase, '''Ardour''', Adobe Audition (formerly Cool Edit Pro), [http://www.goldwave.com/ GoldWave], Cakewalk/Sonar, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''LMMS''', '''Traverso-DAW''', '''[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]''' ||
[[Audacity]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden],
[[Beast]],
[[Ardour]],
Harrison Mixbus,
[http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/index.php Radium],
DaVinci Resolve,
Bitwig Studio,
Qtractor,
[https://traverso-daw.org/ Traverso-DAW],
LMMS,
[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]
|Digital audio workstation software
|-
| Audio Catalyst, '''Ocenaudio''', dbpoweramp, CDex, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''Audacity''' ||
[[Audacity]],
Ocenaudio,
DaVinci Resolve,
[[Grip]]
| [[Audio Editors]]
|-
| '''Wavesurfer''', '''Audacity''', '''Sox'''||[https://itsfoss.com/record-streaming-audio/ Audio Recorder], Ecasound, Audacity, Sox, Wavesurfer
|Audio recorders
|-
| Cakewalk/Sonar ||
[[kmid]],
[[kmidi]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden]
| [[MIDI]]
|-
|[http://www.noteworthysoftware.com/ NoteWorthy Composer], '''MuseScore''', '''LilyPond'''||
[http://www.musescore.org/ MuseScore], [http://lilypond.org/web/ LilyPond]
|Musical score typesetting
|-
|[http://www.guitar-pro.com/ GuitarPro], TuxGuitar ||
[http://www.tuxguitar.com.ar/ TuxGuitar]
|Guitar tablature editors
|-
| Microsoft Paint, Kid Pix, '''Tux Paint''', '''Pencil 2D''', '''Krita''', '''Pinta''', '''Mypaint''', '''Mtpaint''' ||
[http://www.tuxpaint.org/ Tuxpaint], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KolourPaint KolourPaint], Pencil 2D, Krita, [https://launchpad.net/dibuja Dibuja], Pinta, Mypaint, Mtpaint
|Basic raster painting programs
|-
| Videora, [https://handbrake.fr/ '''Handbrake'''], '''WinFF''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || [https://handbrake.fr/ Handbrake], WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, Transmageddon, VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Video converter
|-
| '''WinFF''', '''Handbrake''', '''fre:ac - free audio converter (freac)''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || Handbrake, WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, fre:ac - free audio converter (freac), VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Audio converter
|-
|TMPGEnc DVD Author, Roxio DVDit, '''Open DVD Producer''', '''DVDStyler''' ||
DVDStyler, [http://opendvdproducer.jonata.org/ Open DVD Producer], [http://www.rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html DeVeDe]
|DVD authoring software
|-
|'''uTox''', '''qTox''', '''Jitsi''', '''OpenMeetings''', '''Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone)''', '''Microsoft Teams''', '''Zoom''' || uTox, qTox, OpenMettings, Jitsi, Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone), Empathy, Microsoft Teams, Zoom
| Video Conferencing
|}

= Education =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| '''Klavaro''', '''Tipp10''' || Klavaro, Tipp10, [[KTouch]], Tux Typing, GNU Typist || Touch typing tutors
|-
| '''Maple''', '''Mathematica''' || Maple, Mathematica, [http://maxima.sourceforge.net/ Maxima]
| Computer algebra systems
|-
| '''Matlab''', '''Octave''', '''Scilab''' ||
Matlab, [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ Octave],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SciLab SciLab], Sage, KAlgebra
| High level numeric computation environments
|-
| '''SPSS''', '''Stata''', EViews, '''PSPP''', '''[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project]''', '''[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]''' ||
[http://www.stata.com/products/unix.html Stata], SPSS,
[http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/pspp.html PSPP],
[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Plus S-Plus],
[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]
| Statistical analysis
|-
| Verilog ||
[http://www.icarus.com/eda/verilog/ iverilog]
| Verilog Simulator
|-
| '''Google Earth''', NASA World Wind, '''Celestia''', '''Stellarium''', '''Skychart''', '''Aladin Sky Atlas''', Microsoft Flight Simulator, '''FlightGear''' ||
[http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html Google Earth], [https://celestia.space/index.html Celestia], [http://www.stellarium.org/ Stellarium], [https://marble.kde.org/ Marble], [http://www.geody.com/ Geody], Kstars, Skychart, Aladin Sky Atlas, [http://www.flightgear.org/ FlightGear]
| Geography, astronomy and simulation
|}

''Please add new applications to this list. A good resource is the [http://www.nawaz.org/wiki/index.php?title=Table_of_Equivalents BeetleSpace Windows/Linux Software Table of Equivalents], which is GNU FDL licensed.''

= See also =

* [[running windows software]]
* [http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux.]
* [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareEquivalents Ubuntu software equivalents's page]
* [http://www.linuxeq.com/ The Linux Equivalent Project]
* [https://www.turkishcypriotheritage.org/ turkishcypriotheritage.org]

[[Category:FAQ]]

Linux software equivalent to Windows software

2024-02-12T18:23:01Z

Kareempharmacist: /* Desktop Publishing */

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.

= Office and Productivity =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Office, '''OpenOffice''', '''Libre Office''', '''WPS Office''', '''Softmaker Office''', '''Onlyoffice Desktop'''
| [[Libre Office]], [https://www.wps.com/linux WPS Office](WPS-Community), [[OpenOffice]], [https://www.calligra.org/ Calligra], Softmaker FreeOffice, OnlyOffice Desktop
| Office package
|-
| Microsoft Word, OOwriter, LibreOffice Writer, WPS Writer, Softmaker TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[OOWriter]], [http://www.abiword.org AbiWord], WPS Writer, LibreOffice Writer, Calligra Words, FreeOffice TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop, Lyx, [[LaTeX]]
| [[Word Processing]]
|-
| Notepad, Wordpad, TheGun, EditPlus, SciTE, Notepad++ ||
[[Vim]], [[KWrite]],
[[Kate]], [http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/ BlueFish], [[Gedit]], [[Joe]], Sublime Text, [[Leafpad]], [[Nano]]
| [[Text Editors]]
|-
| Access, dBase, Foxpro, Paradox, '''OOBase''', '''LibreOffice Base'''
| [http://userbase.kde.org/Kexi Kexi], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Base OOBase], LibreOffice Base
| [[Database]]
|-
| Excel, Corel WordPrefect, '''LibreOffice Calc''', '''Softmaker Office PlanMaker''', '''WPS Spreedsheets''', '''OOCalc''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Calc, Calligra Sheets, Softmaker Office PlanMaker, WPS Spreedsheets, [[OOCalc]], [http://www.gnumeric.org gnumeric], OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Spreadsheet]]
|-
| Visio, [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html '''yED'''], '''LibreOffice Draw'''
| [https://www.calligra.org/flow/ Calligra Flow], [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html yED], LibreOffice Draw
| Diagramming
|-
| PowerPoint, '''LibreOffice Impress''', '''OOImpress''', '''WPS Presentation''', '''Softmaker Office Presentations''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Impress, [[OOImpress]], Calligra Stage, WPS Presentation, Softmaker Office Presentations, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Presentation software]]
|-
| Final Draft, Script Studio, '''Fade In''', '''KIT Scenarist''', '''Story Architect''', '''Trelby''', '''Scrite'''
| Fade In, KIT Scenarist, Story Architect, Trelby, Scrite
| Screenwriting software
|-
| Microsoft Project Manager
| [[MOOS Project Viewer]], Calligra Plan
| Project management
|-
| '''Wondershare EdrawMax''', XMind
| Wondershare EdrawMax, Minder, XMind
| Mind maps
|-
| Outlook, '''Thunderbird + Lightning'''
| [[Kontact]], [https://pawsa.fedorapeople.org/balsa/ BALSA], [[Thunderbird]] + [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/ Lightning]
| Personal information managers
|-
| Alcohol 120%, Discjuggler, Easy CD Creator, Nero Burning ROM ||
[[K3b]], [[XCDRoast]], Brasero, Xfburn, [[CD/DVD_Burning|''more'']]
|DVD/CD burning
|-
|Alcohol 120%, Nero Burning ROM, '''MakeMKV''', ImgBurn, Infrarecorder || MakeMKV, Thoggen, Dvdbackup, HandBrake, DVD::RIP, AcidRIP
| DVD ripping software
|-
| Quicken, Microsoft Money, TurboTax
| [http://gnucash.org/ GnucAsh], [http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/index-home.html KMyMoney], [[CrossOver]] Office with Quicken, [http://www.lazy8.nu/ lazy8ledger]
| Accounting
|-
| ActiveSync ||
[[SynCE]]
|Synchronization with Windows Mobile devices
|-
| WinEdt, TeXnicCenter
| [[Kile]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texmaker Texmaker], [[LyX]]
| LaTeX IDEs
|-
| Veritas Backup Exec, [http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm Cobian Backup], '''Duplicati''' ||
LuckyBackup, Déjà Dup, Grsync, Duplicati [[list of backUp applications|''more'']]
| [[Backup]]
|-
| Google Desktop ||
[[Recoll]]
| Desktop Search
|-
| Norton Ghost ||
[[Partition Image]], [[g4u]], [http://www.mondorescue.org/ Mondo Rescue], [[dd]], gDiskDump (a dd frontend), Clonezilla, Trinity Rescue Kit
|Disk imaging
|-
| Norton Partition Magic ||
[[GParted]], Clonezilla (a live cd), KDE Partition Manager, GNOME Disks
|Disk partitioning
|-
|[http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/Disk_Size_Explorer.asp Disk Size Explorer]
|[https://utils.kde.org/projects/filelight/ File Light], [[Konqueror]], Baobab, xdiskusage, duc [https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-analyze-your-disk-usage-pattern-in-linux/ ref.]
| Disk usage analyzers
|-
|[http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html Filemon], [http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Regmon.html Regmon]
| [http://syscalltrack.sourceforge.net/ syscalltrack]
| system call tracking (file monitor & others)
|-
| WinMerge, SyncToy ||
[http://meld.sourceforge.net/ Meld], [[Unison]], [http://synkron.sourceforge.net/ Synkron], [[rSync]]
| File synchronization
|-
| Google Drive, Dropbox, etc ||
[https://rclone.org Rclone]
| Cloud hosted file synchronization (Amazon S3, Dropbox, Google Cloud Storage, Google Drive, FTP, Microsoft OneDrive, sFTP, etc)
|-
| Windows Update, Add/Remove programs||
[[apt-get]], [http://aptitude.sourceforge.net/ Aptitude], [http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Portage portage], [[Rpm|rpm]], [[urpmi]], [[yast]], [[yum]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptic_Package_Manager Synaptic], [https://snapcraft.io Snapcraft (Snap)]
|Every Linux distribution has an infrastructure to manage installed software which is quite different from Windows. For instance, all updates are handled by a single program. See [[package management]].
|-
| WinRunner || [http://hoopajoo.net/projects/xautomation.html xautomation] || automating interactive applications
|-
| 7-Zip, Winzip, Winrar, Peazip ||
[[Karchiver]],
[[File Roller]],
Xarchiver,
[[ark]],
[[hjsplit]]; [[packing and unpacking files|''command line tools'']]
|Archivers
|-
| chkdsk || [[fsck]], [https://www.tecmint.com/linux-disk-scanning-tools/ other tools] || check your file system (and the [[hard disk]] beneath it) for errors
|-
| Daemon Tools ||
[[mount]], Disk Image Mounter in Gnome/KDE, Furius ISO mount, AcetoneISO
|ISO mounting
|-
| Disclib || [http://www.gwhere.org/home.php3 gWhere]
| Disk cataloging programs
|-
| Evernote, OneNote || NixNote, Tusk, Whatever, GeekNote, ForeverNote, [https://joplinapp.org/ Joplin], Xournal, XFCE4 Notes, Xpad, Hnb, Gnote, Feathernotes, Cherrytree, Bijiben, Basket, Noblenote, Nvpy. Thanks to [https://itsfoss.com/evernote-on-linux/]
|Note Taking App
|}

== Desktop Publishing ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Dreamweaver, '''Google Web Designer''', '''KompoZer''', '''Bluefish Editor''', '''Aptana Studio''', '''SeaMonkey''' ||
[http://www.google.com/webdesigner/ Google Web Designer], KompoZer (WYSIWYG), Bluefish Editor, Aptana Studio, SeaMonkey
[[html editors|more]]
|[[Web Design]]
|-
| Quark, Quark Express, Microsoft Publisher, '''Scribus''', '''Karbon''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribus Scribus], Laidout, VivaDesigner, QuickSilver, Xara Xtreme, Karbon
|DTP software
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader, Xpdf Reader, Foxit reader, Sumatra pdf ||

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evince Evince],
Zathura,
Okular,
Bookworm,
Qpdfview,
Foxit reader,
PDF Studio Viewer,
[[Xpdf]],
MuPDF,
Atril,
[[Ghostview]], [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF readers
|-
| Adobe Acrobat Distiller, PDFCreator ||
[http://www.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~vrbehr/cups-pdf/ CUPS-PDF], Libre Office, [[OpenOffice.org]], PDF Studio, [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter] -- can convert to pdf. [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF authoring
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF editor, [http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio '''PDF Studio Pro'''], '''Master PDF Editor''', '''Libreoffice Draw''', '''Scribus''', '''Inkscape''' ||
[http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio PDF Studio Pro], Master PDF Editor, [http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfedit Pdfedit], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam Pdfjam], [http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk Pdftk], Scribus, Inkscape, Karbon, Okular, Libreoffice Draw. Thanks to [https://www.ubuntupit.com/linux-pdf-editor-top-15-reviewed-and-compared/ this] [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF editing tools
|-
| SilverFast ||
[[xSane]], [http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html VueScan], Simple Scan, Skanlite, Gscan2pdf, GIMP with Quitelnsane
| [[scanning]]
|-
| FinePrint ||
[http://www.boomaga.org boomaga], [http://wfr.tcl.tk/279 page-crunch], [http://freshmeat.net/projects/mpage/ mpage], [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter], [http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~ajcd/psutils/index.html psnup/PSutils], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam pdfnup/PDFjam]
| Document printing/reformatting tools
|}

= Networking =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Internet Explorer, '''Microsoft Edge''', '''Firefox''', '''Opera''', '''Chrome''', '''Pale Moon''', '''Brave''', '''Vivaldi''', '''Otter Browser''', '''Falkon''', '''Dooble''', '''Slimjet''' ||
[[Firefox]],
[[Konqueror]],
Epiphany (Gnome Web), Falkon, Microsoft Edge, Slimjet, Midori,
[http://www.google.com/chrome Chrome], Chromium,
[[Opera]],
Otter Browser,
Brave,
Vivaldi, Falkon,
Pale Moon, Dillo, Dooble
[[Browsers|''more'']]
| [[Web Browsers]]
|-
| Microsoft Outlook, '''Thunderbird''', Pegasus, Lotus Notes, '''Seamonkey''', '''Claws Mail''', '''Mailspring''' ||
[[Kontact]],
[http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/features/evolution.html Evolution], Seamonkey,
[[Thunderbird]], Claws Mail, Mailspring, Geary [https://itsfoss.com/best-email-clients-linux/ others]
|Email clients.
|-
| '''Trillian''', '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Irssi''', ICQ ||
Trillian, Hexchat, [[PidgIn]], [[Irssi]], [[Kopete]]
| [[Instant messaging]] [[software]].
|-
| Microsoft HyperTerminal ||
[[minicom]]
|-
| FileZilla FTP Client, WS FTP, Bullet Proof FTP, CuteFTP ||
[http://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client FileZilla FTP Client],
[http://www.kftp.org/misc/description KFTP (KFTPGrabber)],
[[Kasablanca]],
[[FireFTP]],
[[Konqueror]],
[[KBear]],
[[gFTP]],
[http://www.crossftp.com/ CrossFTP],
[[Nautilus]]
|FTP clients. Please note GNOME, KDE (and other) programs can directly open and edit files on FTP, SFTP and WebDAV shares, often using [[KIO]], [[GIO]] or [GVfs]].
|-
| mIRC, '''Trillian''', '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Quassel''', '''KVIrc''', '''Irssi''' ||
Trillian, HexChat, [[PidgIn]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quassel_IRC Quassel], [[KVIrc]], Irssi, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konversation Konversation], [[BitchX]]
| [[IRC Clients]]
|-
|[http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/ UltraVNC], TightVNC, RealVNC, Remote Desktop ||
[http://www.tightvnc.com/ TightVNC],
[http://www.realvnc.com/ RealVNC], [http://www.rdesktop.org/ rdesktop],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/freenx/ FreeNX],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/x11vnc/ x11vnc],
[http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ Synergy],
XDMCP, [[SSH]] with X11 forwarding (-X or -Y option)
| [[Desktop Sharing]]
|-
| MailWasher, SpamAssassin for Windows ||
SpamAssassin
| Spam filter
|-
|Forte Free Agent, [[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]] ||
[[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]], [http://www.newsreaders.com/unix/clients.html See More Clients Here]
|News Reader (Usenet [[newsgroup]]s)
|-
| eMule, '''aMule''' || aMule
|ED2K P2P network clients
|-
| [http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php '''Vuze (formerly Azureus)'''], [http://utorrent.com/ utorrent], '''Transmission''', '''Deluge''', '''qBittorrent''', '''Tixati''', '''Frostwire''', '''Tribler''' ||
[http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php Vuze (formerly Azureus)], Tranmission, Deluge, qBittorrent, Tixati, Frostwire, Tribler, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qtorrent Qtorrent], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bittornado bittornado], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ktorrent Ktorrent],
|BitTorrent P2P network clients
|-
| '''Skype''', Voipbuster, '''Yate''', '''Linphone''', '''Jitsi''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype Skype], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linphone Linphone], Asterisk, Empathy, Yate, Jitsi
|VoIP software
|-
| Bitvise Tunnelier ||
[http://sourceforge.net/projects/gstm/ gSTM]
|gSTM is a front-end for managing SSH-tunneled port redirects.
|}

== Server ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| IIS, [[Apache]] ||
[[Apache]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nginx Engine-X], [http://www.lighttpd.net/ lighttpd]
|[[Web Servers]]
|-
| Folder sharing, printer sharing ||
[[Samba]]
|Share files and printers between Windows and Linux systems. Installed by default on most distributions.
|-
|IIS, [http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ FileZilla FTP Client & Server]
|[[vsftpd]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure-ftpd pure-ftpd]
|FTP servers, for hosting files.
|-
|[http://www.netlimiter.com/ NetLimiter] ||
[http://monkey.org/~marius/pages/?page=trickle Trickle], [http://l7-filter.sourceforge.net/ Level 7 Filter], [http://www.clarkconnect.com/info/index.php ClarkConnect], [http://www.bandwidtharbitrator.com/ Bandwidth Arbitrator], [http://www.mastershaper.org/index.php/Main_Page MasterShaper]
|Bandwidth shaping and management.
|-
| Exchange ||
[[Citadel]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbra zimbra], [[Open-Xchange]]
|Groupware (sharing of appointments, contacts, e-mail, documents, etc. between members of a group)
|-
| Sharepoint ||
[http://www.knowledgetree.com/opensource KnowledgeTree]
|Manage and secure documents, collaborate around document creation and editing, full document contents indexing
|-
| Norton/McAfee Antivirus, [http://clamwin.com/ ClamWin], AVG, AntiVir, Avast, ClamAV ||
[[ClamAV]], [https://support.avast.com/en-eu/article/131/ Avast Security for Linux]
| Antivirus software.
|-
| ZoneAlarm , Sygate SPF||
[[Guarddog]], [[Firestarter]], [[GUFW]], [[iptables]]
| Firewall software
|}

= Multimedia =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
|[http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/ Adobe Photoshop], [http://www.corel.com/ Corel Photo-Paint], '''GIMP''', '''Glimpse''', '''GIMPShop''', '''ImageMagick''', '''Xnview''', '''[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)]''', '''[https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable]''', '''Pinta''', '''MyPaint''', '''Krita''', '''Filmulator''', '''Photivo''', '''RawTherapee''', '''digiKam''', '''nomacs''' ||
[http://www.gimp.org/ GIMP], Glimpse,
[[GIMPShop]], ImageMagick, Pinta, MyPaint,
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krita Krita], Xnview,
[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)], [https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable], Filmulator, Photivo, RawTherapee, digiKam, nomacs
|Raster graphics editors
|-
|[http://www.corel.com/ Corel Draw], [http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator/ Adobe Illustrator], '''Inkscape''', '''Vectr''', '''Gravit''', '''LibreOffice Draw''', '''sK1''', '''SVG-edit''' ||
[http://www.inkscape.org/ Inkscape], Vectr, Gravit, LibreOffice Draw, Karbon, sK1, SVG-edit. [https://itsfoss.com/vector-graphics-editors-linux/ Ref.]
|Vector graphics editors
|-
|Adobe Animate, '''Synfig''', '''Pencil2D''', '''Tupi (Tupitube Desk)''', '''OpenToonz''', '''Blender''', '''Toon Boom Harmony''', '''Krita''', '''Aseprite''', '''TVPaint''', '''Animaker''', '''Ajax Animator''', '''Glaxnimate''', '''Tahoma2D''', '''Enve''' ||
Synfig, Pencil2D, Tupi (Tupitube Desk), OpenToonz, Blender, Toon Boom Harmony, Krita, Aseprite, TVPaint, Animaker, Ajax Animator, Glaxnimate, Tahoma2D , Enve
| 2D Animations
|-
| Irfanview, ACDSee, '''digiKam''', '''Xnview''', '''nomacs''' ||
[[XnView]], [http://mirageiv.berlios.de/ Mirage], [[GThumb]], Shotwell, KPhotoAlbum, Geeqie, digiKam, Gwenview, Ristretto, Viewnior, nomacs
|Image viewers
|-
| 3D Studio MAX, '''Blender''', [http://www.autodesk.com '''Maya'''] ||
[[Blender]],
[http://www.autodesk.com Maya],
[[K-3D]]
|3D modeling software
|-
| Autodesk Inventor, Solidworks, CATIA || [http://www.freecadweb.org FreeCAD], [http://www.salome-platform.org/ SALOME platform]
| Professional 3D CAD software
|-
| Windows Media Player, PowerDVD, SMPlayer, MPV, [[VLC]] ||
SMPlayer,
MPV,
[[VLC]],
[[Xine]],
[[Totem]],
[[Kaffeine]],
Parole,
Celluloid,
[[MPlayer]]
| [[Video Players]]
|-
| SIA Smaart Live || [http://sf.net/projects/brp-pacu/ BRP-PACU] || [[Sound]] analysis
|-
| Winamp, Sonique, iTunes, [http://www.atunes.org/ aTunes], '''Clementine''', '''VLC''', '''SMplayer''', '''Deadbeef''', '''Strawberry''', '''Audacious''' ||
[[Amarok]],
Clementine,
[[RhythmBox]],
[http://banshee-project.org/index.php/Main_Page Banshee],
[[Xine]],
VLC,
SMplayer,
Elisa,
Deadbeef,
Audacious, Strawberry. See also Video Players section
|[[Music Players]]
|-
| [http://www.otsav.com/ OTSAV, OTS Turntables], [http://serato.com/ Serato], [http://www.native-instruments.com/en/traktor/ Traktor], [http://www.virtualdj.com/ Virtual DJ], [http://www.pcdj.com/ PC DJ], [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
| [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
|Audio & video play out (DJ/presenter)
|-
| Windows Movie Maker, Adobe Premiere Elements, [http://www.goldwave.com/mqrelease.php Multiquence], '''Avidemux''', '''OpenShot''', '''VidCutter''', [https://shotcut.org/ '''Shotcut'''], '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron]''', [https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php '''Olive'''], '''Lightworks''' ||
[[Cinelerra]] (difficult but very professional),
[[KDenlive]] (easy and powerful),
[[LiVES]],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avidemux AviDemux],
OpenShot,
VidCutter,
Flowblade,
Pitivi,
DaVinci Resolve,
[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron],
[https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php Olive],
Lightworks (thanks to Linux Format magazine),
[https://shotcut.org/ Shotcut](thanks to Linux Format magazine)
|[[Video Editors]]
|-
| '''Audacity''', Cubase, '''Ardour''', Adobe Audition (formerly Cool Edit Pro), [http://www.goldwave.com/ GoldWave], Cakewalk/Sonar, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''LMMS''', '''Traverso-DAW''', '''[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]''' ||
[[Audacity]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden],
[[Beast]],
[[Ardour]],
Harrison Mixbus,
[http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/index.php Radium],
DaVinci Resolve,
Bitwig Studio,
Qtractor,
[https://traverso-daw.org/ Traverso-DAW],
LMMS,
[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]
|Digital audio workstation software
|-
| Audio Catalyst, '''Ocenaudio''', dbpoweramp, CDex, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''Audacity''' ||
[[Audacity]],
Ocenaudio,
DaVinci Resolve,
[[Grip]]
| [[Audio Editors]]
|-
| '''Wavesurfer''', '''Audacity''', '''Sox'''||[https://itsfoss.com/record-streaming-audio/ Audio Recorder], Ecasound, Audacity, Sox, Wavesurfer
|Audio recorders
|-
| Cakewalk/Sonar ||
[[kmid]],
[[kmidi]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden]
| [[MIDI]]
|-
|[http://www.noteworthysoftware.com/ NoteWorthy Composer], '''MuseScore''', '''LilyPond'''||
[http://www.musescore.org/ MuseScore], [http://lilypond.org/web/ LilyPond]
|Musical score typesetting
|-
|[http://www.guitar-pro.com/ GuitarPro], TuxGuitar ||
[http://www.tuxguitar.com.ar/ TuxGuitar]
|Guitar tablature editors
|-
| Microsoft Paint, Kid Pix, '''Tux Paint''', '''Pencil 2D''', '''Krita''', '''Pinta''', '''Mypaint''', '''Mtpaint''' ||
[http://www.tuxpaint.org/ Tuxpaint], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KolourPaint KolourPaint], Pencil 2D, Krita, [https://launchpad.net/dibuja Dibuja], Pinta, Mypaint, Mtpaint
|Basic raster painting programs
|-
| Videora, [https://handbrake.fr/ '''Handbrake'''], '''WinFF''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || [https://handbrake.fr/ Handbrake], WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, Transmageddon, VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Video converter
|-
| '''WinFF''', '''Handbrake''', '''fre:ac - free audio converter (freac)''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || Handbrake, WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, fre:ac - free audio converter (freac), VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Audio converter
|-
|TMPGEnc DVD Author, Roxio DVDit, '''Open DVD Producer''', '''DVDStyler''' ||
DVDStyler, [http://opendvdproducer.jonata.org/ Open DVD Producer], [http://www.rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html DeVeDe]
|DVD authoring software
|-
|'''uTox''', '''qTox''', '''Jitsi''', '''OpenMeetings''', '''Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone)''', '''Microsoft Teams''', '''Zoom''' || uTox, qTox, OpenMettings, Jitsi, Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone), Empathy, Microsoft Teams, Zoom
| Video Conferencing
|}

= Education =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| '''Klavaro''', '''Tipp10''' || Klavaro, Tipp10, [[KTouch]], Tux Typing, GNU Typist || Touch typing tutors
|-
| '''Maple''', '''Mathematica''' || Maple, Mathematica, [http://maxima.sourceforge.net/ Maxima]
| Computer algebra systems
|-
| '''Matlab''', '''Octave''', '''Scilab''' ||
Matlab, [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ Octave],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SciLab SciLab], Sage, KAlgebra
| High level numeric computation environments
|-
| '''SPSS''', '''Stata''', EViews, '''PSPP''', '''[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project]''', '''[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]''' ||
[http://www.stata.com/products/unix.html Stata], SPSS,
[http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/pspp.html PSPP],
[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Plus S-Plus],
[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]
| Statistical analysis
|-
| Verilog ||
[http://www.icarus.com/eda/verilog/ iverilog]
| Verilog Simulator
|-
| '''Google Earth''', NASA World Wind, '''Celestia''', '''Stellarium''', '''Skychart''', '''Aladin Sky Atlas''', Microsoft Flight Simulator, '''FlightGear''' ||
[http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html Google Earth], [https://celestia.space/index.html Celestia], [http://www.stellarium.org/ Stellarium], [https://marble.kde.org/ Marble], [http://www.geody.com/ Geody], Kstars, Skychart, Aladin Sky Atlas, [http://www.flightgear.org/ FlightGear]
| Geography, astronomy and simulation
|}

''Please add new applications to this list. A good resource is the [http://www.nawaz.org/wiki/index.php?title=Table_of_Equivalents BeetleSpace Windows/Linux Software Table of Equivalents], which is GNU FDL licensed.''

= See also =

* [[running windows software]]
* [http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux.]
* [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareEquivalents Ubuntu software equivalents's page]
* [http://www.linuxeq.com/ The Linux Equivalent Project]
* [https://www.turkishcypriotheritage.org/ turkishcypriotheritage.org]

[[Category:FAQ]]

Linux software equivalent to Windows software

2024-02-12T18:22:23Z

Kareempharmacist: /* Desktop Publishing */

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.

= Office and Productivity =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Office, '''OpenOffice''', '''Libre Office''', '''WPS Office''', '''Softmaker Office''', '''Onlyoffice Desktop'''
| [[Libre Office]], [https://www.wps.com/linux WPS Office](WPS-Community), [[OpenOffice]], [https://www.calligra.org/ Calligra], Softmaker FreeOffice, OnlyOffice Desktop
| Office package
|-
| Microsoft Word, OOwriter, LibreOffice Writer, WPS Writer, Softmaker TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[OOWriter]], [http://www.abiword.org AbiWord], WPS Writer, LibreOffice Writer, Calligra Words, FreeOffice TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop, Lyx, [[LaTeX]]
| [[Word Processing]]
|-
| Notepad, Wordpad, TheGun, EditPlus, SciTE, Notepad++ ||
[[Vim]], [[KWrite]],
[[Kate]], [http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/ BlueFish], [[Gedit]], [[Joe]], Sublime Text, [[Leafpad]], [[Nano]]
| [[Text Editors]]
|-
| Access, dBase, Foxpro, Paradox, '''OOBase''', '''LibreOffice Base'''
| [http://userbase.kde.org/Kexi Kexi], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Base OOBase], LibreOffice Base
| [[Database]]
|-
| Excel, Corel WordPrefect, '''LibreOffice Calc''', '''Softmaker Office PlanMaker''', '''WPS Spreedsheets''', '''OOCalc''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Calc, Calligra Sheets, Softmaker Office PlanMaker, WPS Spreedsheets, [[OOCalc]], [http://www.gnumeric.org gnumeric], OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Spreadsheet]]
|-
| Visio, [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html '''yED'''], '''LibreOffice Draw'''
| [https://www.calligra.org/flow/ Calligra Flow], [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html yED], LibreOffice Draw
| Diagramming
|-
| PowerPoint, '''LibreOffice Impress''', '''OOImpress''', '''WPS Presentation''', '''Softmaker Office Presentations''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Impress, [[OOImpress]], Calligra Stage, WPS Presentation, Softmaker Office Presentations, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Presentation software]]
|-
| Final Draft, Script Studio, '''Fade In''', '''KIT Scenarist''', '''Story Architect''', '''Trelby''', '''Scrite'''
| Fade In, KIT Scenarist, Story Architect, Trelby, Scrite
| Screenwriting software
|-
| Microsoft Project Manager
| [[MOOS Project Viewer]], Calligra Plan
| Project management
|-
| '''Wondershare EdrawMax''', XMind
| Wondershare EdrawMax, Minder, XMind
| Mind maps
|-
| Outlook, '''Thunderbird + Lightning'''
| [[Kontact]], [https://pawsa.fedorapeople.org/balsa/ BALSA], [[Thunderbird]] + [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/ Lightning]
| Personal information managers
|-
| Alcohol 120%, Discjuggler, Easy CD Creator, Nero Burning ROM ||
[[K3b]], [[XCDRoast]], Brasero, Xfburn, [[CD/DVD_Burning|''more'']]
|DVD/CD burning
|-
|Alcohol 120%, Nero Burning ROM, '''MakeMKV''', ImgBurn, Infrarecorder || MakeMKV, Thoggen, Dvdbackup, HandBrake, DVD::RIP, AcidRIP
| DVD ripping software
|-
| Quicken, Microsoft Money, TurboTax
| [http://gnucash.org/ GnucAsh], [http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/index-home.html KMyMoney], [[CrossOver]] Office with Quicken, [http://www.lazy8.nu/ lazy8ledger]
| Accounting
|-
| ActiveSync ||
[[SynCE]]
|Synchronization with Windows Mobile devices
|-
| WinEdt, TeXnicCenter
| [[Kile]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texmaker Texmaker], [[LyX]]
| LaTeX IDEs
|-
| Veritas Backup Exec, [http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm Cobian Backup], '''Duplicati''' ||
LuckyBackup, Déjà Dup, Grsync, Duplicati [[list of backUp applications|''more'']]
| [[Backup]]
|-
| Google Desktop ||
[[Recoll]]
| Desktop Search
|-
| Norton Ghost ||
[[Partition Image]], [[g4u]], [http://www.mondorescue.org/ Mondo Rescue], [[dd]], gDiskDump (a dd frontend), Clonezilla, Trinity Rescue Kit
|Disk imaging
|-
| Norton Partition Magic ||
[[GParted]], Clonezilla (a live cd), KDE Partition Manager, GNOME Disks
|Disk partitioning
|-
|[http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/Disk_Size_Explorer.asp Disk Size Explorer]
|[https://utils.kde.org/projects/filelight/ File Light], [[Konqueror]], Baobab, xdiskusage, duc [https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-analyze-your-disk-usage-pattern-in-linux/ ref.]
| Disk usage analyzers
|-
|[http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html Filemon], [http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Regmon.html Regmon]
| [http://syscalltrack.sourceforge.net/ syscalltrack]
| system call tracking (file monitor & others)
|-
| WinMerge, SyncToy ||
[http://meld.sourceforge.net/ Meld], [[Unison]], [http://synkron.sourceforge.net/ Synkron], [[rSync]]
| File synchronization
|-
| Google Drive, Dropbox, etc ||
[https://rclone.org Rclone]
| Cloud hosted file synchronization (Amazon S3, Dropbox, Google Cloud Storage, Google Drive, FTP, Microsoft OneDrive, sFTP, etc)
|-
| Windows Update, Add/Remove programs||
[[apt-get]], [http://aptitude.sourceforge.net/ Aptitude], [http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Portage portage], [[Rpm|rpm]], [[urpmi]], [[yast]], [[yum]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptic_Package_Manager Synaptic], [https://snapcraft.io Snapcraft (Snap)]
|Every Linux distribution has an infrastructure to manage installed software which is quite different from Windows. For instance, all updates are handled by a single program. See [[package management]].
|-
| WinRunner || [http://hoopajoo.net/projects/xautomation.html xautomation] || automating interactive applications
|-
| 7-Zip, Winzip, Winrar, Peazip ||
[[Karchiver]],
[[File Roller]],
Xarchiver,
[[ark]],
[[hjsplit]]; [[packing and unpacking files|''command line tools'']]
|Archivers
|-
| chkdsk || [[fsck]], [https://www.tecmint.com/linux-disk-scanning-tools/ other tools] || check your file system (and the [[hard disk]] beneath it) for errors
|-
| Daemon Tools ||
[[mount]], Disk Image Mounter in Gnome/KDE, Furius ISO mount, AcetoneISO
|ISO mounting
|-
| Disclib || [http://www.gwhere.org/home.php3 gWhere]
| Disk cataloging programs
|-
| Evernote, OneNote || NixNote, Tusk, Whatever, GeekNote, ForeverNote, [https://joplinapp.org/ Joplin], Xournal, XFCE4 Notes, Xpad, Hnb, Gnote, Feathernotes, Cherrytree, Bijiben, Basket, Noblenote, Nvpy. Thanks to [https://itsfoss.com/evernote-on-linux/]
|Note Taking App
|}

== Desktop Publishing ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Dreamweaver, '''Google Web Designer''', '''KompoZer''', '''Bluefish''', '''Aptana Studio''', '''SeaMonkey''' ||
[http://www.google.com/webdesigner/ Google Web Designer], KompoZer (WYSIWYG), Bluefish Editor, Aptana Studio, SeaMonkey
[[html editors|more]]
|[[Web Design]]
|-
| Quark, Quark Express, Microsoft Publisher, '''Scribus''', '''Karbon''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribus Scribus], Laidout, VivaDesigner, QuickSilver, Xara Xtreme, Karbon
|DTP software
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader, Xpdf Reader, Foxit reader, Sumatra pdf ||

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evince Evince],
Zathura,
Okular,
Bookworm,
Qpdfview,
Foxit reader,
PDF Studio Viewer,
[[Xpdf]],
MuPDF,
Atril,
[[Ghostview]], [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF readers
|-
| Adobe Acrobat Distiller, PDFCreator ||
[http://www.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~vrbehr/cups-pdf/ CUPS-PDF], Libre Office, [[OpenOffice.org]], PDF Studio, [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter] -- can convert to pdf. [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF authoring
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF editor, [http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio '''PDF Studio Pro'''], '''Master PDF Editor''', '''Libreoffice Draw''', '''Scribus''', '''Inkscape''' ||
[http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio PDF Studio Pro], Master PDF Editor, [http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfedit Pdfedit], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam Pdfjam], [http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk Pdftk], Scribus, Inkscape, Karbon, Okular, Libreoffice Draw. Thanks to [https://www.ubuntupit.com/linux-pdf-editor-top-15-reviewed-and-compared/ this] [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF editing tools
|-
| SilverFast ||
[[xSane]], [http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html VueScan], Simple Scan, Skanlite, Gscan2pdf, GIMP with Quitelnsane
| [[scanning]]
|-
| FinePrint ||
[http://www.boomaga.org boomaga], [http://wfr.tcl.tk/279 page-crunch], [http://freshmeat.net/projects/mpage/ mpage], [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter], [http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~ajcd/psutils/index.html psnup/PSutils], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam pdfnup/PDFjam]
| Document printing/reformatting tools
|}

= Networking =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Internet Explorer, '''Microsoft Edge''', '''Firefox''', '''Opera''', '''Chrome''', '''Pale Moon''', '''Brave''', '''Vivaldi''', '''Otter Browser''', '''Falkon''', '''Dooble''', '''Slimjet''' ||
[[Firefox]],
[[Konqueror]],
Epiphany (Gnome Web), Falkon, Microsoft Edge, Slimjet, Midori,
[http://www.google.com/chrome Chrome], Chromium,
[[Opera]],
Otter Browser,
Brave,
Vivaldi, Falkon,
Pale Moon, Dillo, Dooble
[[Browsers|''more'']]
| [[Web Browsers]]
|-
| Microsoft Outlook, '''Thunderbird''', Pegasus, Lotus Notes, '''Seamonkey''', '''Claws Mail''', '''Mailspring''' ||
[[Kontact]],
[http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/features/evolution.html Evolution], Seamonkey,
[[Thunderbird]], Claws Mail, Mailspring, Geary [https://itsfoss.com/best-email-clients-linux/ others]
|Email clients.
|-
| '''Trillian''', '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Irssi''', ICQ ||
Trillian, Hexchat, [[PidgIn]], [[Irssi]], [[Kopete]]
| [[Instant messaging]] [[software]].
|-
| Microsoft HyperTerminal ||
[[minicom]]
|-
| FileZilla FTP Client, WS FTP, Bullet Proof FTP, CuteFTP ||
[http://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client FileZilla FTP Client],
[http://www.kftp.org/misc/description KFTP (KFTPGrabber)],
[[Kasablanca]],
[[FireFTP]],
[[Konqueror]],
[[KBear]],
[[gFTP]],
[http://www.crossftp.com/ CrossFTP],
[[Nautilus]]
|FTP clients. Please note GNOME, KDE (and other) programs can directly open and edit files on FTP, SFTP and WebDAV shares, often using [[KIO]], [[GIO]] or [GVfs]].
|-
| mIRC, '''Trillian''', '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Quassel''', '''KVIrc''', '''Irssi''' ||
Trillian, HexChat, [[PidgIn]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quassel_IRC Quassel], [[KVIrc]], Irssi, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konversation Konversation], [[BitchX]]
| [[IRC Clients]]
|-
|[http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/ UltraVNC], TightVNC, RealVNC, Remote Desktop ||
[http://www.tightvnc.com/ TightVNC],
[http://www.realvnc.com/ RealVNC], [http://www.rdesktop.org/ rdesktop],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/freenx/ FreeNX],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/x11vnc/ x11vnc],
[http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ Synergy],
XDMCP, [[SSH]] with X11 forwarding (-X or -Y option)
| [[Desktop Sharing]]
|-
| MailWasher, SpamAssassin for Windows ||
SpamAssassin
| Spam filter
|-
|Forte Free Agent, [[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]] ||
[[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]], [http://www.newsreaders.com/unix/clients.html See More Clients Here]
|News Reader (Usenet [[newsgroup]]s)
|-
| eMule, '''aMule''' || aMule
|ED2K P2P network clients
|-
| [http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php '''Vuze (formerly Azureus)'''], [http://utorrent.com/ utorrent], '''Transmission''', '''Deluge''', '''qBittorrent''', '''Tixati''', '''Frostwire''', '''Tribler''' ||
[http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php Vuze (formerly Azureus)], Tranmission, Deluge, qBittorrent, Tixati, Frostwire, Tribler, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qtorrent Qtorrent], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bittornado bittornado], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ktorrent Ktorrent],
|BitTorrent P2P network clients
|-
| '''Skype''', Voipbuster, '''Yate''', '''Linphone''', '''Jitsi''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype Skype], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linphone Linphone], Asterisk, Empathy, Yate, Jitsi
|VoIP software
|-
| Bitvise Tunnelier ||
[http://sourceforge.net/projects/gstm/ gSTM]
|gSTM is a front-end for managing SSH-tunneled port redirects.
|}

== Server ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| IIS, [[Apache]] ||
[[Apache]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nginx Engine-X], [http://www.lighttpd.net/ lighttpd]
|[[Web Servers]]
|-
| Folder sharing, printer sharing ||
[[Samba]]
|Share files and printers between Windows and Linux systems. Installed by default on most distributions.
|-
|IIS, [http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ FileZilla FTP Client & Server]
|[[vsftpd]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure-ftpd pure-ftpd]
|FTP servers, for hosting files.
|-
|[http://www.netlimiter.com/ NetLimiter] ||
[http://monkey.org/~marius/pages/?page=trickle Trickle], [http://l7-filter.sourceforge.net/ Level 7 Filter], [http://www.clarkconnect.com/info/index.php ClarkConnect], [http://www.bandwidtharbitrator.com/ Bandwidth Arbitrator], [http://www.mastershaper.org/index.php/Main_Page MasterShaper]
|Bandwidth shaping and management.
|-
| Exchange ||
[[Citadel]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbra zimbra], [[Open-Xchange]]
|Groupware (sharing of appointments, contacts, e-mail, documents, etc. between members of a group)
|-
| Sharepoint ||
[http://www.knowledgetree.com/opensource KnowledgeTree]
|Manage and secure documents, collaborate around document creation and editing, full document contents indexing
|-
| Norton/McAfee Antivirus, [http://clamwin.com/ ClamWin], AVG, AntiVir, Avast, ClamAV ||
[[ClamAV]], [https://support.avast.com/en-eu/article/131/ Avast Security for Linux]
| Antivirus software.
|-
| ZoneAlarm , Sygate SPF||
[[Guarddog]], [[Firestarter]], [[GUFW]], [[iptables]]
| Firewall software
|}

= Multimedia =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
|[http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/ Adobe Photoshop], [http://www.corel.com/ Corel Photo-Paint], '''GIMP''', '''Glimpse''', '''GIMPShop''', '''ImageMagick''', '''Xnview''', '''[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)]''', '''[https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable]''', '''Pinta''', '''MyPaint''', '''Krita''', '''Filmulator''', '''Photivo''', '''RawTherapee''', '''digiKam''', '''nomacs''' ||
[http://www.gimp.org/ GIMP], Glimpse,
[[GIMPShop]], ImageMagick, Pinta, MyPaint,
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krita Krita], Xnview,
[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)], [https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable], Filmulator, Photivo, RawTherapee, digiKam, nomacs
|Raster graphics editors
|-
|[http://www.corel.com/ Corel Draw], [http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator/ Adobe Illustrator], '''Inkscape''', '''Vectr''', '''Gravit''', '''LibreOffice Draw''', '''sK1''', '''SVG-edit''' ||
[http://www.inkscape.org/ Inkscape], Vectr, Gravit, LibreOffice Draw, Karbon, sK1, SVG-edit. [https://itsfoss.com/vector-graphics-editors-linux/ Ref.]
|Vector graphics editors
|-
|Adobe Animate, '''Synfig''', '''Pencil2D''', '''Tupi (Tupitube Desk)''', '''OpenToonz''', '''Blender''', '''Toon Boom Harmony''', '''Krita''', '''Aseprite''', '''TVPaint''', '''Animaker''', '''Ajax Animator''', '''Glaxnimate''', '''Tahoma2D''', '''Enve''' ||
Synfig, Pencil2D, Tupi (Tupitube Desk), OpenToonz, Blender, Toon Boom Harmony, Krita, Aseprite, TVPaint, Animaker, Ajax Animator, Glaxnimate, Tahoma2D , Enve
| 2D Animations
|-
| Irfanview, ACDSee, '''digiKam''', '''Xnview''', '''nomacs''' ||
[[XnView]], [http://mirageiv.berlios.de/ Mirage], [[GThumb]], Shotwell, KPhotoAlbum, Geeqie, digiKam, Gwenview, Ristretto, Viewnior, nomacs
|Image viewers
|-
| 3D Studio MAX, '''Blender''', [http://www.autodesk.com '''Maya'''] ||
[[Blender]],
[http://www.autodesk.com Maya],
[[K-3D]]
|3D modeling software
|-
| Autodesk Inventor, Solidworks, CATIA || [http://www.freecadweb.org FreeCAD], [http://www.salome-platform.org/ SALOME platform]
| Professional 3D CAD software
|-
| Windows Media Player, PowerDVD, SMPlayer, MPV, [[VLC]] ||
SMPlayer,
MPV,
[[VLC]],
[[Xine]],
[[Totem]],
[[Kaffeine]],
Parole,
Celluloid,
[[MPlayer]]
| [[Video Players]]
|-
| SIA Smaart Live || [http://sf.net/projects/brp-pacu/ BRP-PACU] || [[Sound]] analysis
|-
| Winamp, Sonique, iTunes, [http://www.atunes.org/ aTunes], '''Clementine''', '''VLC''', '''SMplayer''', '''Deadbeef''', '''Strawberry''', '''Audacious''' ||
[[Amarok]],
Clementine,
[[RhythmBox]],
[http://banshee-project.org/index.php/Main_Page Banshee],
[[Xine]],
VLC,
SMplayer,
Elisa,
Deadbeef,
Audacious, Strawberry. See also Video Players section
|[[Music Players]]
|-
| [http://www.otsav.com/ OTSAV, OTS Turntables], [http://serato.com/ Serato], [http://www.native-instruments.com/en/traktor/ Traktor], [http://www.virtualdj.com/ Virtual DJ], [http://www.pcdj.com/ PC DJ], [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
| [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
|Audio & video play out (DJ/presenter)
|-
| Windows Movie Maker, Adobe Premiere Elements, [http://www.goldwave.com/mqrelease.php Multiquence], '''Avidemux''', '''OpenShot''', '''VidCutter''', [https://shotcut.org/ '''Shotcut'''], '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron]''', [https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php '''Olive'''], '''Lightworks''' ||
[[Cinelerra]] (difficult but very professional),
[[KDenlive]] (easy and powerful),
[[LiVES]],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avidemux AviDemux],
OpenShot,
VidCutter,
Flowblade,
Pitivi,
DaVinci Resolve,
[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron],
[https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php Olive],
Lightworks (thanks to Linux Format magazine),
[https://shotcut.org/ Shotcut](thanks to Linux Format magazine)
|[[Video Editors]]
|-
| '''Audacity''', Cubase, '''Ardour''', Adobe Audition (formerly Cool Edit Pro), [http://www.goldwave.com/ GoldWave], Cakewalk/Sonar, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''LMMS''', '''Traverso-DAW''', '''[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]''' ||
[[Audacity]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden],
[[Beast]],
[[Ardour]],
Harrison Mixbus,
[http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/index.php Radium],
DaVinci Resolve,
Bitwig Studio,
Qtractor,
[https://traverso-daw.org/ Traverso-DAW],
LMMS,
[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]
|Digital audio workstation software
|-
| Audio Catalyst, '''Ocenaudio''', dbpoweramp, CDex, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''Audacity''' ||
[[Audacity]],
Ocenaudio,
DaVinci Resolve,
[[Grip]]
| [[Audio Editors]]
|-
| '''Wavesurfer''', '''Audacity''', '''Sox'''||[https://itsfoss.com/record-streaming-audio/ Audio Recorder], Ecasound, Audacity, Sox, Wavesurfer
|Audio recorders
|-
| Cakewalk/Sonar ||
[[kmid]],
[[kmidi]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden]
| [[MIDI]]
|-
|[http://www.noteworthysoftware.com/ NoteWorthy Composer], '''MuseScore''', '''LilyPond'''||
[http://www.musescore.org/ MuseScore], [http://lilypond.org/web/ LilyPond]
|Musical score typesetting
|-
|[http://www.guitar-pro.com/ GuitarPro], TuxGuitar ||
[http://www.tuxguitar.com.ar/ TuxGuitar]
|Guitar tablature editors
|-
| Microsoft Paint, Kid Pix, '''Tux Paint''', '''Pencil 2D''', '''Krita''', '''Pinta''', '''Mypaint''', '''Mtpaint''' ||
[http://www.tuxpaint.org/ Tuxpaint], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KolourPaint KolourPaint], Pencil 2D, Krita, [https://launchpad.net/dibuja Dibuja], Pinta, Mypaint, Mtpaint
|Basic raster painting programs
|-
| Videora, [https://handbrake.fr/ '''Handbrake'''], '''WinFF''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || [https://handbrake.fr/ Handbrake], WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, Transmageddon, VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Video converter
|-
| '''WinFF''', '''Handbrake''', '''fre:ac - free audio converter (freac)''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || Handbrake, WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, fre:ac - free audio converter (freac), VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Audio converter
|-
|TMPGEnc DVD Author, Roxio DVDit, '''Open DVD Producer''', '''DVDStyler''' ||
DVDStyler, [http://opendvdproducer.jonata.org/ Open DVD Producer], [http://www.rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html DeVeDe]
|DVD authoring software
|-
|'''uTox''', '''qTox''', '''Jitsi''', '''OpenMeetings''', '''Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone)''', '''Microsoft Teams''', '''Zoom''' || uTox, qTox, OpenMettings, Jitsi, Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone), Empathy, Microsoft Teams, Zoom
| Video Conferencing
|}

= Education =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| '''Klavaro''', '''Tipp10''' || Klavaro, Tipp10, [[KTouch]], Tux Typing, GNU Typist || Touch typing tutors
|-
| '''Maple''', '''Mathematica''' || Maple, Mathematica, [http://maxima.sourceforge.net/ Maxima]
| Computer algebra systems
|-
| '''Matlab''', '''Octave''', '''Scilab''' ||
Matlab, [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ Octave],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SciLab SciLab], Sage, KAlgebra
| High level numeric computation environments
|-
| '''SPSS''', '''Stata''', EViews, '''PSPP''', '''[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project]''', '''[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]''' ||
[http://www.stata.com/products/unix.html Stata], SPSS,
[http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/pspp.html PSPP],
[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Plus S-Plus],
[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]
| Statistical analysis
|-
| Verilog ||
[http://www.icarus.com/eda/verilog/ iverilog]
| Verilog Simulator
|-
| '''Google Earth''', NASA World Wind, '''Celestia''', '''Stellarium''', '''Skychart''', '''Aladin Sky Atlas''', Microsoft Flight Simulator, '''FlightGear''' ||
[http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html Google Earth], [https://celestia.space/index.html Celestia], [http://www.stellarium.org/ Stellarium], [https://marble.kde.org/ Marble], [http://www.geody.com/ Geody], Kstars, Skychart, Aladin Sky Atlas, [http://www.flightgear.org/ FlightGear]
| Geography, astronomy and simulation
|}

''Please add new applications to this list. A good resource is the [http://www.nawaz.org/wiki/index.php?title=Table_of_Equivalents BeetleSpace Windows/Linux Software Table of Equivalents], which is GNU FDL licensed.''

= See also =

* [[running windows software]]
* [http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux.]
* [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareEquivalents Ubuntu software equivalents's page]
* [http://www.linuxeq.com/ The Linux Equivalent Project]
* [https://www.turkishcypriotheritage.org/ turkishcypriotheritage.org]

[[Category:FAQ]]

Linux software equivalent to Windows software

2024-02-12T18:20:34Z

Kareempharmacist: /* Desktop Publishing */

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.

= Office and Productivity =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Office, '''OpenOffice''', '''Libre Office''', '''WPS Office''', '''Softmaker Office''', '''Onlyoffice Desktop'''
| [[Libre Office]], [https://www.wps.com/linux WPS Office](WPS-Community), [[OpenOffice]], [https://www.calligra.org/ Calligra], Softmaker FreeOffice, OnlyOffice Desktop
| Office package
|-
| Microsoft Word, OOwriter, LibreOffice Writer, WPS Writer, Softmaker TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[OOWriter]], [http://www.abiword.org AbiWord], WPS Writer, LibreOffice Writer, Calligra Words, FreeOffice TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop, Lyx, [[LaTeX]]
| [[Word Processing]]
|-
| Notepad, Wordpad, TheGun, EditPlus, SciTE, Notepad++ ||
[[Vim]], [[KWrite]],
[[Kate]], [http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/ BlueFish], [[Gedit]], [[Joe]], Sublime Text, [[Leafpad]], [[Nano]]
| [[Text Editors]]
|-
| Access, dBase, Foxpro, Paradox, '''OOBase''', '''LibreOffice Base'''
| [http://userbase.kde.org/Kexi Kexi], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Base OOBase], LibreOffice Base
| [[Database]]
|-
| Excel, Corel WordPrefect, '''LibreOffice Calc''', '''Softmaker Office PlanMaker''', '''WPS Spreedsheets''', '''OOCalc''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Calc, Calligra Sheets, Softmaker Office PlanMaker, WPS Spreedsheets, [[OOCalc]], [http://www.gnumeric.org gnumeric], OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Spreadsheet]]
|-
| Visio, [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html '''yED'''], '''LibreOffice Draw'''
| [https://www.calligra.org/flow/ Calligra Flow], [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html yED], LibreOffice Draw
| Diagramming
|-
| PowerPoint, '''LibreOffice Impress''', '''OOImpress''', '''WPS Presentation''', '''Softmaker Office Presentations''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Impress, [[OOImpress]], Calligra Stage, WPS Presentation, Softmaker Office Presentations, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Presentation software]]
|-
| Final Draft, Script Studio, '''Fade In''', '''KIT Scenarist''', '''Story Architect''', '''Trelby''', '''Scrite'''
| Fade In, KIT Scenarist, Story Architect, Trelby, Scrite
| Screenwriting software
|-
| Microsoft Project Manager
| [[MOOS Project Viewer]], Calligra Plan
| Project management
|-
| '''Wondershare EdrawMax''', XMind
| Wondershare EdrawMax, Minder, XMind
| Mind maps
|-
| Outlook, '''Thunderbird + Lightning'''
| [[Kontact]], [https://pawsa.fedorapeople.org/balsa/ BALSA], [[Thunderbird]] + [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/ Lightning]
| Personal information managers
|-
| Alcohol 120%, Discjuggler, Easy CD Creator, Nero Burning ROM ||
[[K3b]], [[XCDRoast]], Brasero, Xfburn, [[CD/DVD_Burning|''more'']]
|DVD/CD burning
|-
|Alcohol 120%, Nero Burning ROM, '''MakeMKV''', ImgBurn, Infrarecorder || MakeMKV, Thoggen, Dvdbackup, HandBrake, DVD::RIP, AcidRIP
| DVD ripping software
|-
| Quicken, Microsoft Money, TurboTax
| [http://gnucash.org/ GnucAsh], [http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/index-home.html KMyMoney], [[CrossOver]] Office with Quicken, [http://www.lazy8.nu/ lazy8ledger]
| Accounting
|-
| ActiveSync ||
[[SynCE]]
|Synchronization with Windows Mobile devices
|-
| WinEdt, TeXnicCenter
| [[Kile]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texmaker Texmaker], [[LyX]]
| LaTeX IDEs
|-
| Veritas Backup Exec, [http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm Cobian Backup], '''Duplicati''' ||
LuckyBackup, Déjà Dup, Grsync, Duplicati [[list of backUp applications|''more'']]
| [[Backup]]
|-
| Google Desktop ||
[[Recoll]]
| Desktop Search
|-
| Norton Ghost ||
[[Partition Image]], [[g4u]], [http://www.mondorescue.org/ Mondo Rescue], [[dd]], gDiskDump (a dd frontend), Clonezilla, Trinity Rescue Kit
|Disk imaging
|-
| Norton Partition Magic ||
[[GParted]], Clonezilla (a live cd), KDE Partition Manager, GNOME Disks
|Disk partitioning
|-
|[http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/Disk_Size_Explorer.asp Disk Size Explorer]
|[https://utils.kde.org/projects/filelight/ File Light], [[Konqueror]], Baobab, xdiskusage, duc [https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-analyze-your-disk-usage-pattern-in-linux/ ref.]
| Disk usage analyzers
|-
|[http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html Filemon], [http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Regmon.html Regmon]
| [http://syscalltrack.sourceforge.net/ syscalltrack]
| system call tracking (file monitor & others)
|-
| WinMerge, SyncToy ||
[http://meld.sourceforge.net/ Meld], [[Unison]], [http://synkron.sourceforge.net/ Synkron], [[rSync]]
| File synchronization
|-
| Google Drive, Dropbox, etc ||
[https://rclone.org Rclone]
| Cloud hosted file synchronization (Amazon S3, Dropbox, Google Cloud Storage, Google Drive, FTP, Microsoft OneDrive, sFTP, etc)
|-
| Windows Update, Add/Remove programs||
[[apt-get]], [http://aptitude.sourceforge.net/ Aptitude], [http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Portage portage], [[Rpm|rpm]], [[urpmi]], [[yast]], [[yum]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptic_Package_Manager Synaptic], [https://snapcraft.io Snapcraft (Snap)]
|Every Linux distribution has an infrastructure to manage installed software which is quite different from Windows. For instance, all updates are handled by a single program. See [[package management]].
|-
| WinRunner || [http://hoopajoo.net/projects/xautomation.html xautomation] || automating interactive applications
|-
| 7-Zip, Winzip, Winrar, Peazip ||
[[Karchiver]],
[[File Roller]],
Xarchiver,
[[ark]],
[[hjsplit]]; [[packing and unpacking files|''command line tools'']]
|Archivers
|-
| chkdsk || [[fsck]], [https://www.tecmint.com/linux-disk-scanning-tools/ other tools] || check your file system (and the [[hard disk]] beneath it) for errors
|-
| Daemon Tools ||
[[mount]], Disk Image Mounter in Gnome/KDE, Furius ISO mount, AcetoneISO
|ISO mounting
|-
| Disclib || [http://www.gwhere.org/home.php3 gWhere]
| Disk cataloging programs
|-
| Evernote, OneNote || NixNote, Tusk, Whatever, GeekNote, ForeverNote, [https://joplinapp.org/ Joplin], Xournal, XFCE4 Notes, Xpad, Hnb, Gnote, Feathernotes, Cherrytree, Bijiben, Basket, Noblenote, Nvpy. Thanks to [https://itsfoss.com/evernote-on-linux/]
|Note Taking App
|}

== Desktop Publishing ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Dreamweaver, '''KompoZer''', '''Google Web Designer''', Bluefish, Aptana Studio ||
[http://www.google.com/webdesigner/ Google Web Designer], KompoZer (WYSIWYG), Bluefish Editor, Aptana Studio, SeaMonkey
[[html editors|more]]
|[[Web Design]]
|-
| Quark, Quark Express, Microsoft Publisher, '''Scribus''', '''Karbon''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribus Scribus], Laidout, VivaDesigner, QuickSilver, Xara Xtreme, Karbon
|DTP software
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader, Xpdf Reader, Foxit reader, Sumatra pdf ||

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evince Evince],
Zathura,
Okular,
Bookworm,
Qpdfview,
Foxit reader,
PDF Studio Viewer,
[[Xpdf]],
MuPDF,
Atril,
[[Ghostview]], [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF readers
|-
| Adobe Acrobat Distiller, PDFCreator ||
[http://www.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~vrbehr/cups-pdf/ CUPS-PDF], Libre Office, [[OpenOffice.org]], PDF Studio, [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter] -- can convert to pdf. [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF authoring
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF editor, [http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio '''PDF Studio Pro'''], '''Master PDF Editor''', '''Libreoffice Draw''', '''Scribus''', '''Inkscape''' ||
[http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio PDF Studio Pro], Master PDF Editor, [http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfedit Pdfedit], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam Pdfjam], [http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk Pdftk], Scribus, Inkscape, Karbon, Okular, Libreoffice Draw. Thanks to [https://www.ubuntupit.com/linux-pdf-editor-top-15-reviewed-and-compared/ this] [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF editing tools
|-
| SilverFast ||
[[xSane]], [http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html VueScan], Simple Scan, Skanlite, Gscan2pdf, GIMP with Quitelnsane
| [[scanning]]
|-
| FinePrint ||
[http://www.boomaga.org boomaga], [http://wfr.tcl.tk/279 page-crunch], [http://freshmeat.net/projects/mpage/ mpage], [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter], [http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~ajcd/psutils/index.html psnup/PSutils], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam pdfnup/PDFjam]
| Document printing/reformatting tools
|}

= Networking =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Internet Explorer, '''Microsoft Edge''', '''Firefox''', '''Opera''', '''Chrome''', '''Pale Moon''', '''Brave''', '''Vivaldi''', '''Otter Browser''', '''Falkon''', '''Dooble''', '''Slimjet''' ||
[[Firefox]],
[[Konqueror]],
Epiphany (Gnome Web), Falkon, Microsoft Edge, Slimjet, Midori,
[http://www.google.com/chrome Chrome], Chromium,
[[Opera]],
Otter Browser,
Brave,
Vivaldi, Falkon,
Pale Moon, Dillo, Dooble
[[Browsers|''more'']]
| [[Web Browsers]]
|-
| Microsoft Outlook, '''Thunderbird''', Pegasus, Lotus Notes, '''Seamonkey''', '''Claws Mail''', '''Mailspring''' ||
[[Kontact]],
[http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/features/evolution.html Evolution], Seamonkey,
[[Thunderbird]], Claws Mail, Mailspring, Geary [https://itsfoss.com/best-email-clients-linux/ others]
|Email clients.
|-
| '''Trillian''', '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Irssi''', ICQ ||
Trillian, Hexchat, [[PidgIn]], [[Irssi]], [[Kopete]]
| [[Instant messaging]] [[software]].
|-
| Microsoft HyperTerminal ||
[[minicom]]
|-
| FileZilla FTP Client, WS FTP, Bullet Proof FTP, CuteFTP ||
[http://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client FileZilla FTP Client],
[http://www.kftp.org/misc/description KFTP (KFTPGrabber)],
[[Kasablanca]],
[[FireFTP]],
[[Konqueror]],
[[KBear]],
[[gFTP]],
[http://www.crossftp.com/ CrossFTP],
[[Nautilus]]
|FTP clients. Please note GNOME, KDE (and other) programs can directly open and edit files on FTP, SFTP and WebDAV shares, often using [[KIO]], [[GIO]] or [GVfs]].
|-
| mIRC, '''Trillian''', '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Quassel''', '''KVIrc''', '''Irssi''' ||
Trillian, HexChat, [[PidgIn]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quassel_IRC Quassel], [[KVIrc]], Irssi, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konversation Konversation], [[BitchX]]
| [[IRC Clients]]
|-
|[http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/ UltraVNC], TightVNC, RealVNC, Remote Desktop ||
[http://www.tightvnc.com/ TightVNC],
[http://www.realvnc.com/ RealVNC], [http://www.rdesktop.org/ rdesktop],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/freenx/ FreeNX],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/x11vnc/ x11vnc],
[http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ Synergy],
XDMCP, [[SSH]] with X11 forwarding (-X or -Y option)
| [[Desktop Sharing]]
|-
| MailWasher, SpamAssassin for Windows ||
SpamAssassin
| Spam filter
|-
|Forte Free Agent, [[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]] ||
[[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]], [http://www.newsreaders.com/unix/clients.html See More Clients Here]
|News Reader (Usenet [[newsgroup]]s)
|-
| eMule, '''aMule''' || aMule
|ED2K P2P network clients
|-
| [http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php '''Vuze (formerly Azureus)'''], [http://utorrent.com/ utorrent], '''Transmission''', '''Deluge''', '''qBittorrent''', '''Tixati''', '''Frostwire''', '''Tribler''' ||
[http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php Vuze (formerly Azureus)], Tranmission, Deluge, qBittorrent, Tixati, Frostwire, Tribler, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qtorrent Qtorrent], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bittornado bittornado], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ktorrent Ktorrent],
|BitTorrent P2P network clients
|-
| '''Skype''', Voipbuster, '''Yate''', '''Linphone''', '''Jitsi''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype Skype], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linphone Linphone], Asterisk, Empathy, Yate, Jitsi
|VoIP software
|-
| Bitvise Tunnelier ||
[http://sourceforge.net/projects/gstm/ gSTM]
|gSTM is a front-end for managing SSH-tunneled port redirects.
|}

== Server ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| IIS, [[Apache]] ||
[[Apache]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nginx Engine-X], [http://www.lighttpd.net/ lighttpd]
|[[Web Servers]]
|-
| Folder sharing, printer sharing ||
[[Samba]]
|Share files and printers between Windows and Linux systems. Installed by default on most distributions.
|-
|IIS, [http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ FileZilla FTP Client & Server]
|[[vsftpd]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure-ftpd pure-ftpd]
|FTP servers, for hosting files.
|-
|[http://www.netlimiter.com/ NetLimiter] ||
[http://monkey.org/~marius/pages/?page=trickle Trickle], [http://l7-filter.sourceforge.net/ Level 7 Filter], [http://www.clarkconnect.com/info/index.php ClarkConnect], [http://www.bandwidtharbitrator.com/ Bandwidth Arbitrator], [http://www.mastershaper.org/index.php/Main_Page MasterShaper]
|Bandwidth shaping and management.
|-
| Exchange ||
[[Citadel]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbra zimbra], [[Open-Xchange]]
|Groupware (sharing of appointments, contacts, e-mail, documents, etc. between members of a group)
|-
| Sharepoint ||
[http://www.knowledgetree.com/opensource KnowledgeTree]
|Manage and secure documents, collaborate around document creation and editing, full document contents indexing
|-
| Norton/McAfee Antivirus, [http://clamwin.com/ ClamWin], AVG, AntiVir, Avast, ClamAV ||
[[ClamAV]], [https://support.avast.com/en-eu/article/131/ Avast Security for Linux]
| Antivirus software.
|-
| ZoneAlarm , Sygate SPF||
[[Guarddog]], [[Firestarter]], [[GUFW]], [[iptables]]
| Firewall software
|}

= Multimedia =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
|[http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/ Adobe Photoshop], [http://www.corel.com/ Corel Photo-Paint], '''GIMP''', '''Glimpse''', '''GIMPShop''', '''ImageMagick''', '''Xnview''', '''[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)]''', '''[https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable]''', '''Pinta''', '''MyPaint''', '''Krita''', '''Filmulator''', '''Photivo''', '''RawTherapee''', '''digiKam''', '''nomacs''' ||
[http://www.gimp.org/ GIMP], Glimpse,
[[GIMPShop]], ImageMagick, Pinta, MyPaint,
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krita Krita], Xnview,
[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)], [https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable], Filmulator, Photivo, RawTherapee, digiKam, nomacs
|Raster graphics editors
|-
|[http://www.corel.com/ Corel Draw], [http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator/ Adobe Illustrator], '''Inkscape''', '''Vectr''', '''Gravit''', '''LibreOffice Draw''', '''sK1''', '''SVG-edit''' ||
[http://www.inkscape.org/ Inkscape], Vectr, Gravit, LibreOffice Draw, Karbon, sK1, SVG-edit. [https://itsfoss.com/vector-graphics-editors-linux/ Ref.]
|Vector graphics editors
|-
|Adobe Animate, '''Synfig''', '''Pencil2D''', '''Tupi (Tupitube Desk)''', '''OpenToonz''', '''Blender''', '''Toon Boom Harmony''', '''Krita''', '''Aseprite''', '''TVPaint''', '''Animaker''', '''Ajax Animator''', '''Glaxnimate''', '''Tahoma2D''', '''Enve''' ||
Synfig, Pencil2D, Tupi (Tupitube Desk), OpenToonz, Blender, Toon Boom Harmony, Krita, Aseprite, TVPaint, Animaker, Ajax Animator, Glaxnimate, Tahoma2D , Enve
| 2D Animations
|-
| Irfanview, ACDSee, '''digiKam''', '''Xnview''', '''nomacs''' ||
[[XnView]], [http://mirageiv.berlios.de/ Mirage], [[GThumb]], Shotwell, KPhotoAlbum, Geeqie, digiKam, Gwenview, Ristretto, Viewnior, nomacs
|Image viewers
|-
| 3D Studio MAX, '''Blender''', [http://www.autodesk.com '''Maya'''] ||
[[Blender]],
[http://www.autodesk.com Maya],
[[K-3D]]
|3D modeling software
|-
| Autodesk Inventor, Solidworks, CATIA || [http://www.freecadweb.org FreeCAD], [http://www.salome-platform.org/ SALOME platform]
| Professional 3D CAD software
|-
| Windows Media Player, PowerDVD, SMPlayer, MPV, [[VLC]] ||
SMPlayer,
MPV,
[[VLC]],
[[Xine]],
[[Totem]],
[[Kaffeine]],
Parole,
Celluloid,
[[MPlayer]]
| [[Video Players]]
|-
| SIA Smaart Live || [http://sf.net/projects/brp-pacu/ BRP-PACU] || [[Sound]] analysis
|-
| Winamp, Sonique, iTunes, [http://www.atunes.org/ aTunes], '''Clementine''', '''VLC''', '''SMplayer''', '''Deadbeef''', '''Strawberry''', '''Audacious''' ||
[[Amarok]],
Clementine,
[[RhythmBox]],
[http://banshee-project.org/index.php/Main_Page Banshee],
[[Xine]],
VLC,
SMplayer,
Elisa,
Deadbeef,
Audacious, Strawberry. See also Video Players section
|[[Music Players]]
|-
| [http://www.otsav.com/ OTSAV, OTS Turntables], [http://serato.com/ Serato], [http://www.native-instruments.com/en/traktor/ Traktor], [http://www.virtualdj.com/ Virtual DJ], [http://www.pcdj.com/ PC DJ], [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
| [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
|Audio & video play out (DJ/presenter)
|-
| Windows Movie Maker, Adobe Premiere Elements, [http://www.goldwave.com/mqrelease.php Multiquence], '''Avidemux''', '''OpenShot''', '''VidCutter''', [https://shotcut.org/ '''Shotcut'''], '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron]''', [https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php '''Olive'''], '''Lightworks''' ||
[[Cinelerra]] (difficult but very professional),
[[KDenlive]] (easy and powerful),
[[LiVES]],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avidemux AviDemux],
OpenShot,
VidCutter,
Flowblade,
Pitivi,
DaVinci Resolve,
[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron],
[https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php Olive],
Lightworks (thanks to Linux Format magazine),
[https://shotcut.org/ Shotcut](thanks to Linux Format magazine)
|[[Video Editors]]
|-
| '''Audacity''', Cubase, '''Ardour''', Adobe Audition (formerly Cool Edit Pro), [http://www.goldwave.com/ GoldWave], Cakewalk/Sonar, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''LMMS''', '''Traverso-DAW''', '''[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]''' ||
[[Audacity]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden],
[[Beast]],
[[Ardour]],
Harrison Mixbus,
[http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/index.php Radium],
DaVinci Resolve,
Bitwig Studio,
Qtractor,
[https://traverso-daw.org/ Traverso-DAW],
LMMS,
[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]
|Digital audio workstation software
|-
| Audio Catalyst, '''Ocenaudio''', dbpoweramp, CDex, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''Audacity''' ||
[[Audacity]],
Ocenaudio,
DaVinci Resolve,
[[Grip]]
| [[Audio Editors]]
|-
| '''Wavesurfer''', '''Audacity''', '''Sox'''||[https://itsfoss.com/record-streaming-audio/ Audio Recorder], Ecasound, Audacity, Sox, Wavesurfer
|Audio recorders
|-
| Cakewalk/Sonar ||
[[kmid]],
[[kmidi]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden]
| [[MIDI]]
|-
|[http://www.noteworthysoftware.com/ NoteWorthy Composer], '''MuseScore''', '''LilyPond'''||
[http://www.musescore.org/ MuseScore], [http://lilypond.org/web/ LilyPond]
|Musical score typesetting
|-
|[http://www.guitar-pro.com/ GuitarPro], TuxGuitar ||
[http://www.tuxguitar.com.ar/ TuxGuitar]
|Guitar tablature editors
|-
| Microsoft Paint, Kid Pix, '''Tux Paint''', '''Pencil 2D''', '''Krita''', '''Pinta''', '''Mypaint''', '''Mtpaint''' ||
[http://www.tuxpaint.org/ Tuxpaint], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KolourPaint KolourPaint], Pencil 2D, Krita, [https://launchpad.net/dibuja Dibuja], Pinta, Mypaint, Mtpaint
|Basic raster painting programs
|-
| Videora, [https://handbrake.fr/ '''Handbrake'''], '''WinFF''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || [https://handbrake.fr/ Handbrake], WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, Transmageddon, VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Video converter
|-
| '''WinFF''', '''Handbrake''', '''fre:ac - free audio converter (freac)''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || Handbrake, WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, fre:ac - free audio converter (freac), VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Audio converter
|-
|TMPGEnc DVD Author, Roxio DVDit, '''Open DVD Producer''', '''DVDStyler''' ||
DVDStyler, [http://opendvdproducer.jonata.org/ Open DVD Producer], [http://www.rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html DeVeDe]
|DVD authoring software
|-
|'''uTox''', '''qTox''', '''Jitsi''', '''OpenMeetings''', '''Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone)''', '''Microsoft Teams''', '''Zoom''' || uTox, qTox, OpenMettings, Jitsi, Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone), Empathy, Microsoft Teams, Zoom
| Video Conferencing
|}

= Education =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| '''Klavaro''', '''Tipp10''' || Klavaro, Tipp10, [[KTouch]], Tux Typing, GNU Typist || Touch typing tutors
|-
| '''Maple''', '''Mathematica''' || Maple, Mathematica, [http://maxima.sourceforge.net/ Maxima]
| Computer algebra systems
|-
| '''Matlab''', '''Octave''', '''Scilab''' ||
Matlab, [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ Octave],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SciLab SciLab], Sage, KAlgebra
| High level numeric computation environments
|-
| '''SPSS''', '''Stata''', EViews, '''PSPP''', '''[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project]''', '''[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]''' ||
[http://www.stata.com/products/unix.html Stata], SPSS,
[http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/pspp.html PSPP],
[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Plus S-Plus],
[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]
| Statistical analysis
|-
| Verilog ||
[http://www.icarus.com/eda/verilog/ iverilog]
| Verilog Simulator
|-
| '''Google Earth''', NASA World Wind, '''Celestia''', '''Stellarium''', '''Skychart''', '''Aladin Sky Atlas''', Microsoft Flight Simulator, '''FlightGear''' ||
[http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html Google Earth], [https://celestia.space/index.html Celestia], [http://www.stellarium.org/ Stellarium], [https://marble.kde.org/ Marble], [http://www.geody.com/ Geody], Kstars, Skychart, Aladin Sky Atlas, [http://www.flightgear.org/ FlightGear]
| Geography, astronomy and simulation
|}

''Please add new applications to this list. A good resource is the [http://www.nawaz.org/wiki/index.php?title=Table_of_Equivalents BeetleSpace Windows/Linux Software Table of Equivalents], which is GNU FDL licensed.''

= See also =

* [[running windows software]]
* [http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux.]
* [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareEquivalents Ubuntu software equivalents's page]
* [http://www.linuxeq.com/ The Linux Equivalent Project]
* [https://www.turkishcypriotheritage.org/ turkishcypriotheritage.org]

[[Category:FAQ]]

Linux software equivalent to Windows software

2024-02-12T18:13:57Z

Kareempharmacist: /* Desktop Publishing */

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.

= Office and Productivity =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Office, '''OpenOffice''', '''Libre Office''', '''WPS Office''', '''Softmaker Office''', '''Onlyoffice Desktop'''
| [[Libre Office]], [https://www.wps.com/linux WPS Office](WPS-Community), [[OpenOffice]], [https://www.calligra.org/ Calligra], Softmaker FreeOffice, OnlyOffice Desktop
| Office package
|-
| Microsoft Word, OOwriter, LibreOffice Writer, WPS Writer, Softmaker TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[OOWriter]], [http://www.abiword.org AbiWord], WPS Writer, LibreOffice Writer, Calligra Words, FreeOffice TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop, Lyx, [[LaTeX]]
| [[Word Processing]]
|-
| Notepad, Wordpad, TheGun, EditPlus, SciTE, Notepad++ ||
[[Vim]], [[KWrite]],
[[Kate]], [http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/ BlueFish], [[Gedit]], [[Joe]], Sublime Text, [[Leafpad]], [[Nano]]
| [[Text Editors]]
|-
| Access, dBase, Foxpro, Paradox, '''OOBase''', '''LibreOffice Base'''
| [http://userbase.kde.org/Kexi Kexi], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Base OOBase], LibreOffice Base
| [[Database]]
|-
| Excel, Corel WordPrefect, '''LibreOffice Calc''', '''Softmaker Office PlanMaker''', '''WPS Spreedsheets''', '''OOCalc''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Calc, Calligra Sheets, Softmaker Office PlanMaker, WPS Spreedsheets, [[OOCalc]], [http://www.gnumeric.org gnumeric], OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Spreadsheet]]
|-
| Visio, [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html '''yED'''], '''LibreOffice Draw'''
| [https://www.calligra.org/flow/ Calligra Flow], [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html yED], LibreOffice Draw
| Diagramming
|-
| PowerPoint, '''LibreOffice Impress''', '''OOImpress''', '''WPS Presentation''', '''Softmaker Office Presentations''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Impress, [[OOImpress]], Calligra Stage, WPS Presentation, Softmaker Office Presentations, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Presentation software]]
|-
| Final Draft, Script Studio, '''Fade In''', '''KIT Scenarist''', '''Story Architect''', '''Trelby''', '''Scrite'''
| Fade In, KIT Scenarist, Story Architect, Trelby, Scrite
| Screenwriting software
|-
| Microsoft Project Manager
| [[MOOS Project Viewer]], Calligra Plan
| Project management
|-
| '''Wondershare EdrawMax''', XMind
| Wondershare EdrawMax, Minder, XMind
| Mind maps
|-
| Outlook, '''Thunderbird + Lightning'''
| [[Kontact]], [https://pawsa.fedorapeople.org/balsa/ BALSA], [[Thunderbird]] + [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/ Lightning]
| Personal information managers
|-
| Alcohol 120%, Discjuggler, Easy CD Creator, Nero Burning ROM ||
[[K3b]], [[XCDRoast]], Brasero, Xfburn, [[CD/DVD_Burning|''more'']]
|DVD/CD burning
|-
|Alcohol 120%, Nero Burning ROM, '''MakeMKV''', ImgBurn, Infrarecorder || MakeMKV, Thoggen, Dvdbackup, HandBrake, DVD::RIP, AcidRIP
| DVD ripping software
|-
| Quicken, Microsoft Money, TurboTax
| [http://gnucash.org/ GnucAsh], [http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/index-home.html KMyMoney], [[CrossOver]] Office with Quicken, [http://www.lazy8.nu/ lazy8ledger]
| Accounting
|-
| ActiveSync ||
[[SynCE]]
|Synchronization with Windows Mobile devices
|-
| WinEdt, TeXnicCenter
| [[Kile]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texmaker Texmaker], [[LyX]]
| LaTeX IDEs
|-
| Veritas Backup Exec, [http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm Cobian Backup], '''Duplicati''' ||
LuckyBackup, Déjà Dup, Grsync, Duplicati [[list of backUp applications|''more'']]
| [[Backup]]
|-
| Google Desktop ||
[[Recoll]]
| Desktop Search
|-
| Norton Ghost ||
[[Partition Image]], [[g4u]], [http://www.mondorescue.org/ Mondo Rescue], [[dd]], gDiskDump (a dd frontend), Clonezilla, Trinity Rescue Kit
|Disk imaging
|-
| Norton Partition Magic ||
[[GParted]], Clonezilla (a live cd), KDE Partition Manager, GNOME Disks
|Disk partitioning
|-
|[http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/Disk_Size_Explorer.asp Disk Size Explorer]
|[https://utils.kde.org/projects/filelight/ File Light], [[Konqueror]], Baobab, xdiskusage, duc [https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-analyze-your-disk-usage-pattern-in-linux/ ref.]
| Disk usage analyzers
|-
|[http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html Filemon], [http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Regmon.html Regmon]
| [http://syscalltrack.sourceforge.net/ syscalltrack]
| system call tracking (file monitor & others)
|-
| WinMerge, SyncToy ||
[http://meld.sourceforge.net/ Meld], [[Unison]], [http://synkron.sourceforge.net/ Synkron], [[rSync]]
| File synchronization
|-
| Google Drive, Dropbox, etc ||
[https://rclone.org Rclone]
| Cloud hosted file synchronization (Amazon S3, Dropbox, Google Cloud Storage, Google Drive, FTP, Microsoft OneDrive, sFTP, etc)
|-
| Windows Update, Add/Remove programs||
[[apt-get]], [http://aptitude.sourceforge.net/ Aptitude], [http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Portage portage], [[Rpm|rpm]], [[urpmi]], [[yast]], [[yum]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptic_Package_Manager Synaptic], [https://snapcraft.io Snapcraft (Snap)]
|Every Linux distribution has an infrastructure to manage installed software which is quite different from Windows. For instance, all updates are handled by a single program. See [[package management]].
|-
| WinRunner || [http://hoopajoo.net/projects/xautomation.html xautomation] || automating interactive applications
|-
| 7-Zip, Winzip, Winrar, Peazip ||
[[Karchiver]],
[[File Roller]],
Xarchiver,
[[ark]],
[[hjsplit]]; [[packing and unpacking files|''command line tools'']]
|Archivers
|-
| chkdsk || [[fsck]], [https://www.tecmint.com/linux-disk-scanning-tools/ other tools] || check your file system (and the [[hard disk]] beneath it) for errors
|-
| Daemon Tools ||
[[mount]], Disk Image Mounter in Gnome/KDE, Furius ISO mount, AcetoneISO
|ISO mounting
|-
| Disclib || [http://www.gwhere.org/home.php3 gWhere]
| Disk cataloging programs
|-
| Evernote, OneNote || NixNote, Tusk, Whatever, GeekNote, ForeverNote, [https://joplinapp.org/ Joplin], Xournal, XFCE4 Notes, Xpad, Hnb, Gnote, Feathernotes, Cherrytree, Bijiben, Basket, Noblenote, Nvpy. Thanks to [https://itsfoss.com/evernote-on-linux/]
|Note Taking App
|}

== Desktop Publishing ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Dreamweaver, '''KompoZer''', '''Google Web Designer''' ||
[http://www.google.com/webdesigner/ Google Web Designer], KompoZer (WYSIWYG)
[[html editors|more]]
|[[Web Design]]
|-
| Quark, Quark Express, Microsoft Publisher, '''Scribus''', '''Karbon''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribus Scribus], Laidout, VivaDesigner, QuickSilver, Xara Xtreme, Karbon
|DTP software
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader, Xpdf Reader, Foxit reader, Sumatra pdf ||

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evince Evince],
Zathura,
Okular,
Bookworm,
Qpdfview,
Foxit reader,
PDF Studio Viewer,
[[Xpdf]],
MuPDF,
Atril,
[[Ghostview]], [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF readers
|-
| Adobe Acrobat Distiller, PDFCreator ||
[http://www.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~vrbehr/cups-pdf/ CUPS-PDF], Libre Office, [[OpenOffice.org]], PDF Studio, [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter] -- can convert to pdf. [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF authoring
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF editor, [http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio '''PDF Studio Pro'''], '''Master PDF Editor''', '''Libreoffice Draw''', '''Scribus''', '''Inkscape''' ||
[http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio PDF Studio Pro], Master PDF Editor, [http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfedit Pdfedit], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam Pdfjam], [http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk Pdftk], Scribus, Inkscape, Karbon, Okular, Libreoffice Draw. Thanks to [https://www.ubuntupit.com/linux-pdf-editor-top-15-reviewed-and-compared/ this] [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF editing tools
|-
| SilverFast ||
[[xSane]], [http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html VueScan], Simple Scan, Skanlite, Gscan2pdf, GIMP with Quitelnsane
| [[scanning]]
|-
| FinePrint ||
[http://www.boomaga.org boomaga], [http://wfr.tcl.tk/279 page-crunch], [http://freshmeat.net/projects/mpage/ mpage], [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter], [http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~ajcd/psutils/index.html psnup/PSutils], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam pdfnup/PDFjam]
| Document printing/reformatting tools
|}

= Networking =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Internet Explorer, '''Microsoft Edge''', '''Firefox''', '''Opera''', '''Chrome''', '''Pale Moon''', '''Brave''', '''Vivaldi''', '''Otter Browser''', '''Falkon''', '''Dooble''', '''Slimjet''' ||
[[Firefox]],
[[Konqueror]],
Epiphany (Gnome Web), Falkon, Microsoft Edge, Slimjet, Midori,
[http://www.google.com/chrome Chrome], Chromium,
[[Opera]],
Otter Browser,
Brave,
Vivaldi, Falkon,
Pale Moon, Dillo, Dooble
[[Browsers|''more'']]
| [[Web Browsers]]
|-
| Microsoft Outlook, '''Thunderbird''', Pegasus, Lotus Notes, '''Seamonkey''', '''Claws Mail''', '''Mailspring''' ||
[[Kontact]],
[http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/features/evolution.html Evolution], Seamonkey,
[[Thunderbird]], Claws Mail, Mailspring, Geary [https://itsfoss.com/best-email-clients-linux/ others]
|Email clients.
|-
| '''Trillian''', '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Irssi''', ICQ ||
Trillian, Hexchat, [[PidgIn]], [[Irssi]], [[Kopete]]
| [[Instant messaging]] [[software]].
|-
| Microsoft HyperTerminal ||
[[minicom]]
|-
| FileZilla FTP Client, WS FTP, Bullet Proof FTP, CuteFTP ||
[http://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client FileZilla FTP Client],
[http://www.kftp.org/misc/description KFTP (KFTPGrabber)],
[[Kasablanca]],
[[FireFTP]],
[[Konqueror]],
[[KBear]],
[[gFTP]],
[http://www.crossftp.com/ CrossFTP],
[[Nautilus]]
|FTP clients. Please note GNOME, KDE (and other) programs can directly open and edit files on FTP, SFTP and WebDAV shares, often using [[KIO]], [[GIO]] or [GVfs]].
|-
| mIRC, '''Trillian''', '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Quassel''', '''KVIrc''', '''Irssi''' ||
Trillian, HexChat, [[PidgIn]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quassel_IRC Quassel], [[KVIrc]], Irssi, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konversation Konversation], [[BitchX]]
| [[IRC Clients]]
|-
|[http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/ UltraVNC], TightVNC, RealVNC, Remote Desktop ||
[http://www.tightvnc.com/ TightVNC],
[http://www.realvnc.com/ RealVNC], [http://www.rdesktop.org/ rdesktop],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/freenx/ FreeNX],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/x11vnc/ x11vnc],
[http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ Synergy],
XDMCP, [[SSH]] with X11 forwarding (-X or -Y option)
| [[Desktop Sharing]]
|-
| MailWasher, SpamAssassin for Windows ||
SpamAssassin
| Spam filter
|-
|Forte Free Agent, [[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]] ||
[[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]], [http://www.newsreaders.com/unix/clients.html See More Clients Here]
|News Reader (Usenet [[newsgroup]]s)
|-
| eMule, '''aMule''' || aMule
|ED2K P2P network clients
|-
| [http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php '''Vuze (formerly Azureus)'''], [http://utorrent.com/ utorrent], '''Transmission''', '''Deluge''', '''qBittorrent''', '''Tixati''', '''Frostwire''', '''Tribler''' ||
[http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php Vuze (formerly Azureus)], Tranmission, Deluge, qBittorrent, Tixati, Frostwire, Tribler, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qtorrent Qtorrent], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bittornado bittornado], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ktorrent Ktorrent],
|BitTorrent P2P network clients
|-
| '''Skype''', Voipbuster, '''Yate''', '''Linphone''', '''Jitsi''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype Skype], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linphone Linphone], Asterisk, Empathy, Yate, Jitsi
|VoIP software
|-
| Bitvise Tunnelier ||
[http://sourceforge.net/projects/gstm/ gSTM]
|gSTM is a front-end for managing SSH-tunneled port redirects.
|}

== Server ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| IIS, [[Apache]] ||
[[Apache]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nginx Engine-X], [http://www.lighttpd.net/ lighttpd]
|[[Web Servers]]
|-
| Folder sharing, printer sharing ||
[[Samba]]
|Share files and printers between Windows and Linux systems. Installed by default on most distributions.
|-
|IIS, [http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ FileZilla FTP Client & Server]
|[[vsftpd]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure-ftpd pure-ftpd]
|FTP servers, for hosting files.
|-
|[http://www.netlimiter.com/ NetLimiter] ||
[http://monkey.org/~marius/pages/?page=trickle Trickle], [http://l7-filter.sourceforge.net/ Level 7 Filter], [http://www.clarkconnect.com/info/index.php ClarkConnect], [http://www.bandwidtharbitrator.com/ Bandwidth Arbitrator], [http://www.mastershaper.org/index.php/Main_Page MasterShaper]
|Bandwidth shaping and management.
|-
| Exchange ||
[[Citadel]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbra zimbra], [[Open-Xchange]]
|Groupware (sharing of appointments, contacts, e-mail, documents, etc. between members of a group)
|-
| Sharepoint ||
[http://www.knowledgetree.com/opensource KnowledgeTree]
|Manage and secure documents, collaborate around document creation and editing, full document contents indexing
|-
| Norton/McAfee Antivirus, [http://clamwin.com/ ClamWin], AVG, AntiVir, Avast, ClamAV ||
[[ClamAV]], [https://support.avast.com/en-eu/article/131/ Avast Security for Linux]
| Antivirus software.
|-
| ZoneAlarm , Sygate SPF||
[[Guarddog]], [[Firestarter]], [[GUFW]], [[iptables]]
| Firewall software
|}

= Multimedia =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
|[http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/ Adobe Photoshop], [http://www.corel.com/ Corel Photo-Paint], '''GIMP''', '''Glimpse''', '''GIMPShop''', '''ImageMagick''', '''Xnview''', '''[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)]''', '''[https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable]''', '''Pinta''', '''MyPaint''', '''Krita''', '''Filmulator''', '''Photivo''', '''RawTherapee''', '''digiKam''', '''nomacs''' ||
[http://www.gimp.org/ GIMP], Glimpse,
[[GIMPShop]], ImageMagick, Pinta, MyPaint,
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krita Krita], Xnview,
[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)], [https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable], Filmulator, Photivo, RawTherapee, digiKam, nomacs
|Raster graphics editors
|-
|[http://www.corel.com/ Corel Draw], [http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator/ Adobe Illustrator], '''Inkscape''', '''Vectr''', '''Gravit''', '''LibreOffice Draw''', '''sK1''', '''SVG-edit''' ||
[http://www.inkscape.org/ Inkscape], Vectr, Gravit, LibreOffice Draw, Karbon, sK1, SVG-edit. [https://itsfoss.com/vector-graphics-editors-linux/ Ref.]
|Vector graphics editors
|-
|Adobe Animate, '''Synfig''', '''Pencil2D''', '''Tupi (Tupitube Desk)''', '''OpenToonz''', '''Blender''', '''Toon Boom Harmony''', '''Krita''', '''Aseprite''', '''TVPaint''', '''Animaker''', '''Ajax Animator''', '''Glaxnimate''', '''Tahoma2D''', '''Enve''' ||
Synfig, Pencil2D, Tupi (Tupitube Desk), OpenToonz, Blender, Toon Boom Harmony, Krita, Aseprite, TVPaint, Animaker, Ajax Animator, Glaxnimate, Tahoma2D , Enve
| 2D Animations
|-
| Irfanview, ACDSee, '''digiKam''', '''Xnview''', '''nomacs''' ||
[[XnView]], [http://mirageiv.berlios.de/ Mirage], [[GThumb]], Shotwell, KPhotoAlbum, Geeqie, digiKam, Gwenview, Ristretto, Viewnior, nomacs
|Image viewers
|-
| 3D Studio MAX, '''Blender''', [http://www.autodesk.com '''Maya'''] ||
[[Blender]],
[http://www.autodesk.com Maya],
[[K-3D]]
|3D modeling software
|-
| Autodesk Inventor, Solidworks, CATIA || [http://www.freecadweb.org FreeCAD], [http://www.salome-platform.org/ SALOME platform]
| Professional 3D CAD software
|-
| Windows Media Player, PowerDVD, SMPlayer, MPV, [[VLC]] ||
SMPlayer,
MPV,
[[VLC]],
[[Xine]],
[[Totem]],
[[Kaffeine]],
Parole,
Celluloid,
[[MPlayer]]
| [[Video Players]]
|-
| SIA Smaart Live || [http://sf.net/projects/brp-pacu/ BRP-PACU] || [[Sound]] analysis
|-
| Winamp, Sonique, iTunes, [http://www.atunes.org/ aTunes], '''Clementine''', '''VLC''', '''SMplayer''', '''Deadbeef''', '''Strawberry''', '''Audacious''' ||
[[Amarok]],
Clementine,
[[RhythmBox]],
[http://banshee-project.org/index.php/Main_Page Banshee],
[[Xine]],
VLC,
SMplayer,
Elisa,
Deadbeef,
Audacious, Strawberry. See also Video Players section
|[[Music Players]]
|-
| [http://www.otsav.com/ OTSAV, OTS Turntables], [http://serato.com/ Serato], [http://www.native-instruments.com/en/traktor/ Traktor], [http://www.virtualdj.com/ Virtual DJ], [http://www.pcdj.com/ PC DJ], [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
| [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
|Audio & video play out (DJ/presenter)
|-
| Windows Movie Maker, Adobe Premiere Elements, [http://www.goldwave.com/mqrelease.php Multiquence], '''Avidemux''', '''OpenShot''', '''VidCutter''', [https://shotcut.org/ '''Shotcut'''], '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron]''', [https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php '''Olive'''], '''Lightworks''' ||
[[Cinelerra]] (difficult but very professional),
[[KDenlive]] (easy and powerful),
[[LiVES]],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avidemux AviDemux],
OpenShot,
VidCutter,
Flowblade,
Pitivi,
DaVinci Resolve,
[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron],
[https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php Olive],
Lightworks (thanks to Linux Format magazine),
[https://shotcut.org/ Shotcut](thanks to Linux Format magazine)
|[[Video Editors]]
|-
| '''Audacity''', Cubase, '''Ardour''', Adobe Audition (formerly Cool Edit Pro), [http://www.goldwave.com/ GoldWave], Cakewalk/Sonar, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''LMMS''', '''Traverso-DAW''', '''[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]''' ||
[[Audacity]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden],
[[Beast]],
[[Ardour]],
Harrison Mixbus,
[http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/index.php Radium],
DaVinci Resolve,
Bitwig Studio,
Qtractor,
[https://traverso-daw.org/ Traverso-DAW],
LMMS,
[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]
|Digital audio workstation software
|-
| Audio Catalyst, '''Ocenaudio''', dbpoweramp, CDex, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''Audacity''' ||
[[Audacity]],
Ocenaudio,
DaVinci Resolve,
[[Grip]]
| [[Audio Editors]]
|-
| '''Wavesurfer''', '''Audacity''', '''Sox'''||[https://itsfoss.com/record-streaming-audio/ Audio Recorder], Ecasound, Audacity, Sox, Wavesurfer
|Audio recorders
|-
| Cakewalk/Sonar ||
[[kmid]],
[[kmidi]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden]
| [[MIDI]]
|-
|[http://www.noteworthysoftware.com/ NoteWorthy Composer], '''MuseScore''', '''LilyPond'''||
[http://www.musescore.org/ MuseScore], [http://lilypond.org/web/ LilyPond]
|Musical score typesetting
|-
|[http://www.guitar-pro.com/ GuitarPro], TuxGuitar ||
[http://www.tuxguitar.com.ar/ TuxGuitar]
|Guitar tablature editors
|-
| Microsoft Paint, Kid Pix, '''Tux Paint''', '''Pencil 2D''', '''Krita''', '''Pinta''', '''Mypaint''', '''Mtpaint''' ||
[http://www.tuxpaint.org/ Tuxpaint], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KolourPaint KolourPaint], Pencil 2D, Krita, [https://launchpad.net/dibuja Dibuja], Pinta, Mypaint, Mtpaint
|Basic raster painting programs
|-
| Videora, [https://handbrake.fr/ '''Handbrake'''], '''WinFF''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || [https://handbrake.fr/ Handbrake], WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, Transmageddon, VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Video converter
|-
| '''WinFF''', '''Handbrake''', '''fre:ac - free audio converter (freac)''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || Handbrake, WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, fre:ac - free audio converter (freac), VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Audio converter
|-
|TMPGEnc DVD Author, Roxio DVDit, '''Open DVD Producer''', '''DVDStyler''' ||
DVDStyler, [http://opendvdproducer.jonata.org/ Open DVD Producer], [http://www.rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html DeVeDe]
|DVD authoring software
|-
|'''uTox''', '''qTox''', '''Jitsi''', '''OpenMeetings''', '''Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone)''', '''Microsoft Teams''', '''Zoom''' || uTox, qTox, OpenMettings, Jitsi, Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone), Empathy, Microsoft Teams, Zoom
| Video Conferencing
|}

= Education =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| '''Klavaro''', '''Tipp10''' || Klavaro, Tipp10, [[KTouch]], Tux Typing, GNU Typist || Touch typing tutors
|-
| '''Maple''', '''Mathematica''' || Maple, Mathematica, [http://maxima.sourceforge.net/ Maxima]
| Computer algebra systems
|-
| '''Matlab''', '''Octave''', '''Scilab''' ||
Matlab, [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ Octave],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SciLab SciLab], Sage, KAlgebra
| High level numeric computation environments
|-
| '''SPSS''', '''Stata''', EViews, '''PSPP''', '''[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project]''', '''[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]''' ||
[http://www.stata.com/products/unix.html Stata], SPSS,
[http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/pspp.html PSPP],
[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Plus S-Plus],
[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]
| Statistical analysis
|-
| Verilog ||
[http://www.icarus.com/eda/verilog/ iverilog]
| Verilog Simulator
|-
| '''Google Earth''', NASA World Wind, '''Celestia''', '''Stellarium''', '''Skychart''', '''Aladin Sky Atlas''', Microsoft Flight Simulator, '''FlightGear''' ||
[http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html Google Earth], [https://celestia.space/index.html Celestia], [http://www.stellarium.org/ Stellarium], [https://marble.kde.org/ Marble], [http://www.geody.com/ Geody], Kstars, Skychart, Aladin Sky Atlas, [http://www.flightgear.org/ FlightGear]
| Geography, astronomy and simulation
|}

''Please add new applications to this list. A good resource is the [http://www.nawaz.org/wiki/index.php?title=Table_of_Equivalents BeetleSpace Windows/Linux Software Table of Equivalents], which is GNU FDL licensed.''

= See also =

* [[running windows software]]
* [http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux.]
* [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareEquivalents Ubuntu software equivalents's page]
* [http://www.linuxeq.com/ The Linux Equivalent Project]
* [https://www.turkishcypriotheritage.org/ turkishcypriotheritage.org]

[[Category:FAQ]]

Linux software equivalent to Windows software

2024-02-12T18:09:31Z

Kareempharmacist: /* Desktop Publishing */

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.

= Office and Productivity =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Office, '''OpenOffice''', '''Libre Office''', '''WPS Office''', '''Softmaker Office''', '''Onlyoffice Desktop'''
| [[Libre Office]], [https://www.wps.com/linux WPS Office](WPS-Community), [[OpenOffice]], [https://www.calligra.org/ Calligra], Softmaker FreeOffice, OnlyOffice Desktop
| Office package
|-
| Microsoft Word, OOwriter, LibreOffice Writer, WPS Writer, Softmaker TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[OOWriter]], [http://www.abiword.org AbiWord], WPS Writer, LibreOffice Writer, Calligra Words, FreeOffice TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop, Lyx, [[LaTeX]]
| [[Word Processing]]
|-
| Notepad, Wordpad, TheGun, EditPlus, SciTE, Notepad++ ||
[[Vim]], [[KWrite]],
[[Kate]], [http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/ BlueFish], [[Gedit]], [[Joe]], Sublime Text, [[Leafpad]], [[Nano]]
| [[Text Editors]]
|-
| Access, dBase, Foxpro, Paradox, '''OOBase''', '''LibreOffice Base'''
| [http://userbase.kde.org/Kexi Kexi], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Base OOBase], LibreOffice Base
| [[Database]]
|-
| Excel, Corel WordPrefect, '''LibreOffice Calc''', '''Softmaker Office PlanMaker''', '''WPS Spreedsheets''', '''OOCalc''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Calc, Calligra Sheets, Softmaker Office PlanMaker, WPS Spreedsheets, [[OOCalc]], [http://www.gnumeric.org gnumeric], OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Spreadsheet]]
|-
| Visio, [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html '''yED'''], '''LibreOffice Draw'''
| [https://www.calligra.org/flow/ Calligra Flow], [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html yED], LibreOffice Draw
| Diagramming
|-
| PowerPoint, '''LibreOffice Impress''', '''OOImpress''', '''WPS Presentation''', '''Softmaker Office Presentations''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Impress, [[OOImpress]], Calligra Stage, WPS Presentation, Softmaker Office Presentations, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Presentation software]]
|-
| Final Draft, Script Studio, '''Fade In''', '''KIT Scenarist''', '''Story Architect''', '''Trelby''', '''Scrite'''
| Fade In, KIT Scenarist, Story Architect, Trelby, Scrite
| Screenwriting software
|-
| Microsoft Project Manager
| [[MOOS Project Viewer]], Calligra Plan
| Project management
|-
| '''Wondershare EdrawMax''', XMind
| Wondershare EdrawMax, Minder, XMind
| Mind maps
|-
| Outlook, '''Thunderbird + Lightning'''
| [[Kontact]], [https://pawsa.fedorapeople.org/balsa/ BALSA], [[Thunderbird]] + [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/ Lightning]
| Personal information managers
|-
| Alcohol 120%, Discjuggler, Easy CD Creator, Nero Burning ROM ||
[[K3b]], [[XCDRoast]], Brasero, Xfburn, [[CD/DVD_Burning|''more'']]
|DVD/CD burning
|-
|Alcohol 120%, Nero Burning ROM, '''MakeMKV''', ImgBurn, Infrarecorder || MakeMKV, Thoggen, Dvdbackup, HandBrake, DVD::RIP, AcidRIP
| DVD ripping software
|-
| Quicken, Microsoft Money, TurboTax
| [http://gnucash.org/ GnucAsh], [http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/index-home.html KMyMoney], [[CrossOver]] Office with Quicken, [http://www.lazy8.nu/ lazy8ledger]
| Accounting
|-
| ActiveSync ||
[[SynCE]]
|Synchronization with Windows Mobile devices
|-
| WinEdt, TeXnicCenter
| [[Kile]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texmaker Texmaker], [[LyX]]
| LaTeX IDEs
|-
| Veritas Backup Exec, [http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm Cobian Backup], '''Duplicati''' ||
LuckyBackup, Déjà Dup, Grsync, Duplicati [[list of backUp applications|''more'']]
| [[Backup]]
|-
| Google Desktop ||
[[Recoll]]
| Desktop Search
|-
| Norton Ghost ||
[[Partition Image]], [[g4u]], [http://www.mondorescue.org/ Mondo Rescue], [[dd]], gDiskDump (a dd frontend), Clonezilla, Trinity Rescue Kit
|Disk imaging
|-
| Norton Partition Magic ||
[[GParted]], Clonezilla (a live cd), KDE Partition Manager, GNOME Disks
|Disk partitioning
|-
|[http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/Disk_Size_Explorer.asp Disk Size Explorer]
|[https://utils.kde.org/projects/filelight/ File Light], [[Konqueror]], Baobab, xdiskusage, duc [https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-analyze-your-disk-usage-pattern-in-linux/ ref.]
| Disk usage analyzers
|-
|[http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html Filemon], [http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Regmon.html Regmon]
| [http://syscalltrack.sourceforge.net/ syscalltrack]
| system call tracking (file monitor & others)
|-
| WinMerge, SyncToy ||
[http://meld.sourceforge.net/ Meld], [[Unison]], [http://synkron.sourceforge.net/ Synkron], [[rSync]]
| File synchronization
|-
| Google Drive, Dropbox, etc ||
[https://rclone.org Rclone]
| Cloud hosted file synchronization (Amazon S3, Dropbox, Google Cloud Storage, Google Drive, FTP, Microsoft OneDrive, sFTP, etc)
|-
| Windows Update, Add/Remove programs||
[[apt-get]], [http://aptitude.sourceforge.net/ Aptitude], [http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Portage portage], [[Rpm|rpm]], [[urpmi]], [[yast]], [[yum]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptic_Package_Manager Synaptic], [https://snapcraft.io Snapcraft (Snap)]
|Every Linux distribution has an infrastructure to manage installed software which is quite different from Windows. For instance, all updates are handled by a single program. See [[package management]].
|-
| WinRunner || [http://hoopajoo.net/projects/xautomation.html xautomation] || automating interactive applications
|-
| 7-Zip, Winzip, Winrar, Peazip ||
[[Karchiver]],
[[File Roller]],
Xarchiver,
[[ark]],
[[hjsplit]]; [[packing and unpacking files|''command line tools'']]
|Archivers
|-
| chkdsk || [[fsck]], [https://www.tecmint.com/linux-disk-scanning-tools/ other tools] || check your file system (and the [[hard disk]] beneath it) for errors
|-
| Daemon Tools ||
[[mount]], Disk Image Mounter in Gnome/KDE, Furius ISO mount, AcetoneISO
|ISO mounting
|-
| Disclib || [http://www.gwhere.org/home.php3 gWhere]
| Disk cataloging programs
|-
| Evernote, OneNote || NixNote, Tusk, Whatever, GeekNote, ForeverNote, [https://joplinapp.org/ Joplin], Xournal, XFCE4 Notes, Xpad, Hnb, Gnote, Feathernotes, Cherrytree, Bijiben, Basket, Noblenote, Nvpy. Thanks to [https://itsfoss.com/evernote-on-linux/]
|Note Taking App
|}

== Desktop Publishing ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Dreamweaver, NVU, KompoZer, '''Google Web Designer''' ||
[http://www.google.com/webdesigner/ Google Web Designer] (WYSIWYG)
[[html editors|more]]
|[[Web Design]]
|-
| Quark, Quark Express, Microsoft Publisher, '''Scribus''', '''Karbon''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribus Scribus], Laidout, VivaDesigner, QuickSilver, Xara Xtreme, Karbon
|DTP software
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader, Xpdf Reader, Foxit reader, Sumatra pdf ||

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evince Evince],
Zathura,
Okular,
Bookworm,
Qpdfview,
Foxit reader,
PDF Studio Viewer,
[[Xpdf]],
MuPDF,
Atril,
[[Ghostview]], [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF readers
|-
| Adobe Acrobat Distiller, PDFCreator ||
[http://www.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~vrbehr/cups-pdf/ CUPS-PDF], Libre Office, [[OpenOffice.org]], PDF Studio, [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter] -- can convert to pdf. [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF authoring
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF editor, [http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio '''PDF Studio Pro'''], '''Master PDF Editor''', '''Libreoffice Draw''', '''Scribus''', '''Inkscape''' ||
[http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio PDF Studio Pro], Master PDF Editor, [http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfedit Pdfedit], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam Pdfjam], [http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk Pdftk], Scribus, Inkscape, Karbon, Okular, Libreoffice Draw. Thanks to [https://www.ubuntupit.com/linux-pdf-editor-top-15-reviewed-and-compared/ this] [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF editing tools
|-
| SilverFast ||
[[xSane]], [http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html VueScan], Simple Scan, Skanlite, Gscan2pdf, GIMP with Quitelnsane
| [[scanning]]
|-
| FinePrint ||
[http://www.boomaga.org boomaga], [http://wfr.tcl.tk/279 page-crunch], [http://freshmeat.net/projects/mpage/ mpage], [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter], [http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~ajcd/psutils/index.html psnup/PSutils], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam pdfnup/PDFjam]
| Document printing/reformatting tools
|}

= Networking =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Internet Explorer, '''Microsoft Edge''', '''Firefox''', '''Opera''', '''Chrome''', '''Pale Moon''', '''Brave''', '''Vivaldi''', '''Otter Browser''', '''Falkon''', '''Dooble''', '''Slimjet''' ||
[[Firefox]],
[[Konqueror]],
Epiphany (Gnome Web), Falkon, Microsoft Edge, Slimjet, Midori,
[http://www.google.com/chrome Chrome], Chromium,
[[Opera]],
Otter Browser,
Brave,
Vivaldi, Falkon,
Pale Moon, Dillo, Dooble
[[Browsers|''more'']]
| [[Web Browsers]]
|-
| Microsoft Outlook, '''Thunderbird''', Pegasus, Lotus Notes, '''Seamonkey''', '''Claws Mail''', '''Mailspring''' ||
[[Kontact]],
[http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/features/evolution.html Evolution], Seamonkey,
[[Thunderbird]], Claws Mail, Mailspring, Geary [https://itsfoss.com/best-email-clients-linux/ others]
|Email clients.
|-
| '''Trillian''', '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Irssi''', ICQ ||
Trillian, Hexchat, [[PidgIn]], [[Irssi]], [[Kopete]]
| [[Instant messaging]] [[software]].
|-
| Microsoft HyperTerminal ||
[[minicom]]
|-
| FileZilla FTP Client, WS FTP, Bullet Proof FTP, CuteFTP ||
[http://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client FileZilla FTP Client],
[http://www.kftp.org/misc/description KFTP (KFTPGrabber)],
[[Kasablanca]],
[[FireFTP]],
[[Konqueror]],
[[KBear]],
[[gFTP]],
[http://www.crossftp.com/ CrossFTP],
[[Nautilus]]
|FTP clients. Please note GNOME, KDE (and other) programs can directly open and edit files on FTP, SFTP and WebDAV shares, often using [[KIO]], [[GIO]] or [GVfs]].
|-
| mIRC, '''Trillian''', '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Quassel''', '''KVIrc''', '''Irssi''' ||
Trillian, HexChat, [[PidgIn]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quassel_IRC Quassel], [[KVIrc]], Irssi, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konversation Konversation], [[BitchX]]
| [[IRC Clients]]
|-
|[http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/ UltraVNC], TightVNC, RealVNC, Remote Desktop ||
[http://www.tightvnc.com/ TightVNC],
[http://www.realvnc.com/ RealVNC], [http://www.rdesktop.org/ rdesktop],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/freenx/ FreeNX],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/x11vnc/ x11vnc],
[http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ Synergy],
XDMCP, [[SSH]] with X11 forwarding (-X or -Y option)
| [[Desktop Sharing]]
|-
| MailWasher, SpamAssassin for Windows ||
SpamAssassin
| Spam filter
|-
|Forte Free Agent, [[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]] ||
[[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]], [http://www.newsreaders.com/unix/clients.html See More Clients Here]
|News Reader (Usenet [[newsgroup]]s)
|-
| eMule, '''aMule''' || aMule
|ED2K P2P network clients
|-
| [http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php '''Vuze (formerly Azureus)'''], [http://utorrent.com/ utorrent], '''Transmission''', '''Deluge''', '''qBittorrent''', '''Tixati''', '''Frostwire''', '''Tribler''' ||
[http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php Vuze (formerly Azureus)], Tranmission, Deluge, qBittorrent, Tixati, Frostwire, Tribler, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qtorrent Qtorrent], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bittornado bittornado], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ktorrent Ktorrent],
|BitTorrent P2P network clients
|-
| '''Skype''', Voipbuster, '''Yate''', '''Linphone''', '''Jitsi''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype Skype], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linphone Linphone], Asterisk, Empathy, Yate, Jitsi
|VoIP software
|-
| Bitvise Tunnelier ||
[http://sourceforge.net/projects/gstm/ gSTM]
|gSTM is a front-end for managing SSH-tunneled port redirects.
|}

== Server ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| IIS, [[Apache]] ||
[[Apache]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nginx Engine-X], [http://www.lighttpd.net/ lighttpd]
|[[Web Servers]]
|-
| Folder sharing, printer sharing ||
[[Samba]]
|Share files and printers between Windows and Linux systems. Installed by default on most distributions.
|-
|IIS, [http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ FileZilla FTP Client & Server]
|[[vsftpd]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure-ftpd pure-ftpd]
|FTP servers, for hosting files.
|-
|[http://www.netlimiter.com/ NetLimiter] ||
[http://monkey.org/~marius/pages/?page=trickle Trickle], [http://l7-filter.sourceforge.net/ Level 7 Filter], [http://www.clarkconnect.com/info/index.php ClarkConnect], [http://www.bandwidtharbitrator.com/ Bandwidth Arbitrator], [http://www.mastershaper.org/index.php/Main_Page MasterShaper]
|Bandwidth shaping and management.
|-
| Exchange ||
[[Citadel]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbra zimbra], [[Open-Xchange]]
|Groupware (sharing of appointments, contacts, e-mail, documents, etc. between members of a group)
|-
| Sharepoint ||
[http://www.knowledgetree.com/opensource KnowledgeTree]
|Manage and secure documents, collaborate around document creation and editing, full document contents indexing
|-
| Norton/McAfee Antivirus, [http://clamwin.com/ ClamWin], AVG, AntiVir, Avast, ClamAV ||
[[ClamAV]], [https://support.avast.com/en-eu/article/131/ Avast Security for Linux]
| Antivirus software.
|-
| ZoneAlarm , Sygate SPF||
[[Guarddog]], [[Firestarter]], [[GUFW]], [[iptables]]
| Firewall software
|}

= Multimedia =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
|[http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/ Adobe Photoshop], [http://www.corel.com/ Corel Photo-Paint], '''GIMP''', '''Glimpse''', '''GIMPShop''', '''ImageMagick''', '''Xnview''', '''[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)]''', '''[https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable]''', '''Pinta''', '''MyPaint''', '''Krita''', '''Filmulator''', '''Photivo''', '''RawTherapee''', '''digiKam''', '''nomacs''' ||
[http://www.gimp.org/ GIMP], Glimpse,
[[GIMPShop]], ImageMagick, Pinta, MyPaint,
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krita Krita], Xnview,
[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)], [https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable], Filmulator, Photivo, RawTherapee, digiKam, nomacs
|Raster graphics editors
|-
|[http://www.corel.com/ Corel Draw], [http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator/ Adobe Illustrator], '''Inkscape''', '''Vectr''', '''Gravit''', '''LibreOffice Draw''', '''sK1''', '''SVG-edit''' ||
[http://www.inkscape.org/ Inkscape], Vectr, Gravit, LibreOffice Draw, Karbon, sK1, SVG-edit. [https://itsfoss.com/vector-graphics-editors-linux/ Ref.]
|Vector graphics editors
|-
|Adobe Animate, '''Synfig''', '''Pencil2D''', '''Tupi (Tupitube Desk)''', '''OpenToonz''', '''Blender''', '''Toon Boom Harmony''', '''Krita''', '''Aseprite''', '''TVPaint''', '''Animaker''', '''Ajax Animator''', '''Glaxnimate''', '''Tahoma2D''', '''Enve''' ||
Synfig, Pencil2D, Tupi (Tupitube Desk), OpenToonz, Blender, Toon Boom Harmony, Krita, Aseprite, TVPaint, Animaker, Ajax Animator, Glaxnimate, Tahoma2D , Enve
| 2D Animations
|-
| Irfanview, ACDSee, '''digiKam''', '''Xnview''', '''nomacs''' ||
[[XnView]], [http://mirageiv.berlios.de/ Mirage], [[GThumb]], Shotwell, KPhotoAlbum, Geeqie, digiKam, Gwenview, Ristretto, Viewnior, nomacs
|Image viewers
|-
| 3D Studio MAX, '''Blender''', [http://www.autodesk.com '''Maya'''] ||
[[Blender]],
[http://www.autodesk.com Maya],
[[K-3D]]
|3D modeling software
|-
| Autodesk Inventor, Solidworks, CATIA || [http://www.freecadweb.org FreeCAD], [http://www.salome-platform.org/ SALOME platform]
| Professional 3D CAD software
|-
| Windows Media Player, PowerDVD, SMPlayer, MPV, [[VLC]] ||
SMPlayer,
MPV,
[[VLC]],
[[Xine]],
[[Totem]],
[[Kaffeine]],
Parole,
Celluloid,
[[MPlayer]]
| [[Video Players]]
|-
| SIA Smaart Live || [http://sf.net/projects/brp-pacu/ BRP-PACU] || [[Sound]] analysis
|-
| Winamp, Sonique, iTunes, [http://www.atunes.org/ aTunes], '''Clementine''', '''VLC''', '''SMplayer''', '''Deadbeef''', '''Strawberry''', '''Audacious''' ||
[[Amarok]],
Clementine,
[[RhythmBox]],
[http://banshee-project.org/index.php/Main_Page Banshee],
[[Xine]],
VLC,
SMplayer,
Elisa,
Deadbeef,
Audacious, Strawberry. See also Video Players section
|[[Music Players]]
|-
| [http://www.otsav.com/ OTSAV, OTS Turntables], [http://serato.com/ Serato], [http://www.native-instruments.com/en/traktor/ Traktor], [http://www.virtualdj.com/ Virtual DJ], [http://www.pcdj.com/ PC DJ], [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
| [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
|Audio & video play out (DJ/presenter)
|-
| Windows Movie Maker, Adobe Premiere Elements, [http://www.goldwave.com/mqrelease.php Multiquence], '''Avidemux''', '''OpenShot''', '''VidCutter''', [https://shotcut.org/ '''Shotcut'''], '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron]''', [https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php '''Olive'''], '''Lightworks''' ||
[[Cinelerra]] (difficult but very professional),
[[KDenlive]] (easy and powerful),
[[LiVES]],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avidemux AviDemux],
OpenShot,
VidCutter,
Flowblade,
Pitivi,
DaVinci Resolve,
[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron],
[https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php Olive],
Lightworks (thanks to Linux Format magazine),
[https://shotcut.org/ Shotcut](thanks to Linux Format magazine)
|[[Video Editors]]
|-
| '''Audacity''', Cubase, '''Ardour''', Adobe Audition (formerly Cool Edit Pro), [http://www.goldwave.com/ GoldWave], Cakewalk/Sonar, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''LMMS''', '''Traverso-DAW''', '''[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]''' ||
[[Audacity]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden],
[[Beast]],
[[Ardour]],
Harrison Mixbus,
[http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/index.php Radium],
DaVinci Resolve,
Bitwig Studio,
Qtractor,
[https://traverso-daw.org/ Traverso-DAW],
LMMS,
[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]
|Digital audio workstation software
|-
| Audio Catalyst, '''Ocenaudio''', dbpoweramp, CDex, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''Audacity''' ||
[[Audacity]],
Ocenaudio,
DaVinci Resolve,
[[Grip]]
| [[Audio Editors]]
|-
| '''Wavesurfer''', '''Audacity''', '''Sox'''||[https://itsfoss.com/record-streaming-audio/ Audio Recorder], Ecasound, Audacity, Sox, Wavesurfer
|Audio recorders
|-
| Cakewalk/Sonar ||
[[kmid]],
[[kmidi]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden]
| [[MIDI]]
|-
|[http://www.noteworthysoftware.com/ NoteWorthy Composer], '''MuseScore''', '''LilyPond'''||
[http://www.musescore.org/ MuseScore], [http://lilypond.org/web/ LilyPond]
|Musical score typesetting
|-
|[http://www.guitar-pro.com/ GuitarPro], TuxGuitar ||
[http://www.tuxguitar.com.ar/ TuxGuitar]
|Guitar tablature editors
|-
| Microsoft Paint, Kid Pix, '''Tux Paint''', '''Pencil 2D''', '''Krita''', '''Pinta''', '''Mypaint''', '''Mtpaint''' ||
[http://www.tuxpaint.org/ Tuxpaint], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KolourPaint KolourPaint], Pencil 2D, Krita, [https://launchpad.net/dibuja Dibuja], Pinta, Mypaint, Mtpaint
|Basic raster painting programs
|-
| Videora, [https://handbrake.fr/ '''Handbrake'''], '''WinFF''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || [https://handbrake.fr/ Handbrake], WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, Transmageddon, VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Video converter
|-
| '''WinFF''', '''Handbrake''', '''fre:ac - free audio converter (freac)''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || Handbrake, WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, fre:ac - free audio converter (freac), VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Audio converter
|-
|TMPGEnc DVD Author, Roxio DVDit, '''Open DVD Producer''', '''DVDStyler''' ||
DVDStyler, [http://opendvdproducer.jonata.org/ Open DVD Producer], [http://www.rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html DeVeDe]
|DVD authoring software
|-
|'''uTox''', '''qTox''', '''Jitsi''', '''OpenMeetings''', '''Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone)''', '''Microsoft Teams''', '''Zoom''' || uTox, qTox, OpenMettings, Jitsi, Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone), Empathy, Microsoft Teams, Zoom
| Video Conferencing
|}

= Education =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| '''Klavaro''', '''Tipp10''' || Klavaro, Tipp10, [[KTouch]], Tux Typing, GNU Typist || Touch typing tutors
|-
| '''Maple''', '''Mathematica''' || Maple, Mathematica, [http://maxima.sourceforge.net/ Maxima]
| Computer algebra systems
|-
| '''Matlab''', '''Octave''', '''Scilab''' ||
Matlab, [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ Octave],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SciLab SciLab], Sage, KAlgebra
| High level numeric computation environments
|-
| '''SPSS''', '''Stata''', EViews, '''PSPP''', '''[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project]''', '''[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]''' ||
[http://www.stata.com/products/unix.html Stata], SPSS,
[http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/pspp.html PSPP],
[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Plus S-Plus],
[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]
| Statistical analysis
|-
| Verilog ||
[http://www.icarus.com/eda/verilog/ iverilog]
| Verilog Simulator
|-
| '''Google Earth''', NASA World Wind, '''Celestia''', '''Stellarium''', '''Skychart''', '''Aladin Sky Atlas''', Microsoft Flight Simulator, '''FlightGear''' ||
[http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html Google Earth], [https://celestia.space/index.html Celestia], [http://www.stellarium.org/ Stellarium], [https://marble.kde.org/ Marble], [http://www.geody.com/ Geody], Kstars, Skychart, Aladin Sky Atlas, [http://www.flightgear.org/ FlightGear]
| Geography, astronomy and simulation
|}

''Please add new applications to this list. A good resource is the [http://www.nawaz.org/wiki/index.php?title=Table_of_Equivalents BeetleSpace Windows/Linux Software Table of Equivalents], which is GNU FDL licensed.''

= See also =

* [[running windows software]]
* [http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux.]
* [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareEquivalents Ubuntu software equivalents's page]
* [http://www.linuxeq.com/ The Linux Equivalent Project]
* [https://www.turkishcypriotheritage.org/ turkishcypriotheritage.org]

[[Category:FAQ]]

Linux software equivalent to Windows software

2022-04-03T22:54:43Z

Kareempharmacist: /* Networking */

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.

= Office and Productivity =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Office, '''OpenOffice''', '''Libre Office''', '''WPS Office''', '''Softmaker Office''', '''Onlyoffice Desktop'''
| [[Libre Office]], [https://www.wps.com/linux WPS Office](WPS-Community), [[OpenOffice]], [https://www.calligra.org/ Calligra], Softmaker FreeOffice, OnlyOffice Desktop
| Office package
|-
| Microsoft Word, OOwriter, LibreOffice Writer, WPS Writer, Softmaker TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[OOWriter]], [http://www.abiword.org AbiWord], WPS Writer, LibreOffice Writer, Calligra Words, FreeOffice TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop, Lyx, [[LaTeX]]
| [[Word Processing]]
|-
| Notepad, Wordpad, TheGun, EditPlus, SciTE, Notepad++ ||
[[Vim]], [[KWrite]],
[[Kate]], [http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/ BlueFish], [[Gedit]], [[Joe]], Sublime Text, [[Leafpad]], [[Nano]]
| [[Text Editors]]
|-
| Access, dBase, Foxpro, Paradox, '''OOBase''', '''LibreOffice Base'''
| [http://userbase.kde.org/Kexi Kexi], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Base OOBase], LibreOffice Base
| [[Database]]
|-
| Excel, Corel WordPrefect, '''LibreOffice Calc''', '''Softmaker Office PlanMaker''', '''WPS Spreedsheets''', '''OOCalc''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Calc, Calligra Sheets, Softmaker Office PlanMaker, WPS Spreedsheets, [[OOCalc]], [http://www.gnumeric.org gnumeric], OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Spreadsheet]]
|-
| Visio, [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html '''yED'''], '''LibreOffice Draw'''
| [https://www.calligra.org/flow/ Calligra Flow], [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html yED], LibreOffice Draw
| Diagramming
|-
| PowerPoint, '''LibreOffice Impress''', '''OOImpress''', '''WPS Presentation''', '''Softmaker Office Presentations''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Impress, [[OOImpress]], Calligra Stage, WPS Presentation, Softmaker Office Presentations, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Presentation software]]
|-
| Final Draft, Script Studio, '''Fade In''', '''KIT Scenarist''', '''Story Architect''', '''Trelby''', '''Scrite'''
| Fade In, KIT Scenarist, Story Architect, Trelby, Scrite
| Screenwriting software
|-
| Microsoft Project Manager
| [[MOOS Project Viewer]], Calligra Plan
| Project management
|-
| '''Wondershare EdrawMax''', XMind
| Wondershare EdrawMax, Minder, XMind
| Mind maps
|-
| Outlook, '''Thunderbird + Lightning'''
| [[Kontact]], [https://pawsa.fedorapeople.org/balsa/ BALSA], [[Thunderbird]] + [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/ Lightning]
| Personal information managers
|-
| Alcohol 120%, Discjuggler, Easy CD Creator, Nero Burning ROM ||
[[K3b]], [[XCDRoast]], Brasero, Xfburn, [[CD/DVD_Burning|''more'']]
|DVD/CD burning
|-
|Alcohol 120%, Nero Burning ROM, '''MakeMKV''', ImgBurn, Infrarecorder || MakeMKV, Thoggen, Dvdbackup, HandBrake, DVD::RIP, AcidRIP
| DVD ripping software
|-
| Quicken, Microsoft Money, TurboTax
| [http://gnucash.org/ GnucAsh], [http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/index-home.html KMyMoney], [[CrossOver]] Office with Quicken, [http://www.lazy8.nu/ lazy8ledger]
| Accounting
|-
| ActiveSync ||
[[SynCE]]
|Synchronization with Windows Mobile devices
|-
| WinEdt, TeXnicCenter
| [[Kile]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texmaker Texmaker], [[LyX]]
| LaTeX IDEs
|-
| Veritas Backup Exec, [http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm Cobian Backup], '''Duplicati''' ||
LuckyBackup, Déjà Dup, Grsync, Duplicati [[list of backUp applications|''more'']]
| [[Backup]]
|-
| Google Desktop ||
[[Recoll]]
| Desktop Search
|-
| Norton Ghost ||
[[Partition Image]], [[g4u]], [http://www.mondorescue.org/ Mondo Rescue], [[dd]], gDiskDump (a dd frontend), Clonezilla, Trinity Rescue Kit
|Disk imaging
|-
| Norton Partition Magic ||
[[GParted]], Clonezilla (a live cd), KDE Partition Manager, GNOME Disks
|Disk partitioning
|-
|[http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/Disk_Size_Explorer.asp Disk Size Explorer]
|[https://utils.kde.org/projects/filelight/ File Light], [[Konqueror]], Baobab, xdiskusage, duc [https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-analyze-your-disk-usage-pattern-in-linux/ ref.]
| Disk usage analyzers
|-
|[http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html Filemon], [http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Regmon.html Regmon]
| [http://syscalltrack.sourceforge.net/ syscalltrack]
| system call tracking (file monitor & others)
|-
| WinMerge, SyncToy ||
[http://meld.sourceforge.net/ Meld], [[Unison]], [http://synkron.sourceforge.net/ Synkron], [[rSync]]
| File synchronization
|-
| Google Drive, Dropbox, etc ||
[https://rclone.org Rclone]
| Cloud hosted file synchronization (Amazon S3, Dropbox, Google Cloud Storage, Google Drive, FTP, Microsoft OneDrive, sFTP, etc)
|-
| Windows Update, Add/Remove programs||
[[apt-get]], [http://aptitude.sourceforge.net/ Aptitude], [http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Portage portage], [[Rpm|rpm]], [[urpmi]], [[yast]], [[yum]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptic_Package_Manager Synaptic], [https://snapcraft.io Snapcraft (Snap)]
|Every Linux distribution has an infrastructure to manage installed software which is quite different from Windows. For instance, all updates are handled by a single program. See [[package management]].
|-
| WinRunner || [http://hoopajoo.net/projects/xautomation.html xautomation] || automating interactive applications
|-
| 7-Zip, Winzip, Winrar, Peazip ||
[[Karchiver]],
[[File Roller]],
Xarchiver,
[[ark]],
[[hjsplit]]; [[packing and unpacking files|''command line tools'']]
|Archivers
|-
| chkdsk || [[fsck]], [https://www.tecmint.com/linux-disk-scanning-tools/ other tools] || check your file system (and the [[hard disk]] beneath it) for errors
|-
| Daemon Tools ||
[[mount]], Disk Image Mounter in Gnome/KDE, Furius ISO mount, AcetoneISO
|ISO mounting
|-
| Disclib || [http://www.gwhere.org/home.php3 gWhere]
| Disk cataloging programs
|-
| Evernote, OneNote || NixNote, Tusk, Whatever, GeekNote, ForeverNote, [https://joplinapp.org/ Joplin], Xournal, XFCE4 Notes, Xpad, Hnb, Gnote, Feathernotes, Cherrytree, Bijiben, Basket, Noblenote, Nvpy. Thanks to [https://itsfoss.com/evernote-on-linux/]
|Note Taking App
|}

== Desktop Publishing ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Dreamweaver, NVU, KompoZer, Google Web Designer ||
[http://www.google.com/webdesigner/ Google Web Designer] (WYSIWYG)
[[html editors|more]]
|[[Web Design]]
|-
| Quark, Quark Express, Microsoft Publisher, '''Scribus''', '''Karbon''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribus Scribus], Laidout, VivaDesigner, QuickSilver, Xara Xtreme, Karbon
|DTP software
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader, Xpdf Reader, Foxit reader, Sumatra pdf ||

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evince Evince],
Zathura,
Okular,
Bookworm,
Qpdfview,
Foxit reader,
PDF Studio Viewer,
[[Xpdf]],
MuPDF,
Atril,
[[Ghostview]], [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF readers
|-
| Adobe Acrobat Distiller, PDFCreator ||
[http://www.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~vrbehr/cups-pdf/ CUPS-PDF], Libre Office, [[OpenOffice.org]], PDF Studio, [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter] -- can convert to pdf. [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF authoring
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF editor, [http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio '''PDF Studio Pro'''], '''Master PDF Editor''', '''Libreoffice Draw''', '''Scribus''', '''Inkscape''' ||
[http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio PDF Studio Pro], Master PDF Editor, [http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfedit Pdfedit], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam Pdfjam], [http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk Pdftk], Scribus, Inkscape, Karbon, Okular, Libreoffice Draw. Thanks to [https://www.ubuntupit.com/linux-pdf-editor-top-15-reviewed-and-compared/ this] [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF editing tools
|-
| SilverFast ||
[[xSane]], [http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html VueScan], Simple Scan, Skanlite, Gscan2pdf, GIMP with Quitelnsane
| [[scanning]]
|-
| FinePrint ||
[http://www.boomaga.org boomaga], [http://wfr.tcl.tk/279 page-crunch], [http://freshmeat.net/projects/mpage/ mpage], [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter], [http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~ajcd/psutils/index.html psnup/PSutils], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam pdfnup/PDFjam]
| Document printing/reformatting tools
|}

= Networking =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Internet Explorer, '''Microsoft Edge''', '''Firefox''', '''Opera''', '''Chrome''', '''Pale Moon''', '''Brave''', '''Vivaldi''', '''Otter Browser''', '''Falkon''', '''Dooble''', '''Slimjet''' ||
[[Firefox]],
[[Konqueror]],
Epiphany (Gnome Web), Falkon, Microsoft Edge, Slimjet, Midori,
[http://www.google.com/chrome Chrome], Chromium,
[[Opera]],
Otter Browser,
Brave,
Vivaldi, Falkon,
Pale Moon, Dillo, Dooble
[[Browsers|''more'']]
| [[Web Browsers]]
|-
| Microsoft Outlook, '''Thunderbird''', Pegasus, Lotus Notes, '''Seamonkey''', '''Claws Mail''', '''Mailspring''' ||
[[Kontact]],
[http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/features/evolution.html Evolution], Seamonkey,
[[Thunderbird]], Claws Mail, Mailspring, Geary [https://itsfoss.com/best-email-clients-linux/ others]
|Email clients.
|-
| '''Trillian''', '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Irssi''', ICQ ||
Trillian, Hexchat, [[PidgIn]], [[Irssi]], [[Kopete]]
| [[Instant messaging]] [[software]].
|-
| Microsoft HyperTerminal ||
[[minicom]]
|-
| FileZilla FTP Client, WS FTP, Bullet Proof FTP, CuteFTP ||
[http://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client FileZilla FTP Client],
[http://www.kftp.org/misc/description KFTP (KFTPGrabber)],
[[Kasablanca]],
[[FireFTP]],
[[Konqueror]],
[[KBear]],
[[gFTP]],
[http://www.crossftp.com/ CrossFTP],
[[Nautilus]]
|FTP clients. Please note GNOME, KDE (and other) programs can directly open and edit files on FTP, SFTP and WebDAV shares, often using [[KIO]], [[GIO]] or [GVfs]].
|-
| mIRC, '''Trillian''', '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Quassel''', '''KVIrc''', '''Irssi''' ||
Trillian, HexChat, [[PidgIn]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quassel_IRC Quassel], [[KVIrc]], Irssi, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konversation Konversation], [[BitchX]]
| [[IRC Clients]]
|-
|[http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/ UltraVNC], TightVNC, RealVNC, Remote Desktop ||
[http://www.tightvnc.com/ TightVNC],
[http://www.realvnc.com/ RealVNC], [http://www.rdesktop.org/ rdesktop],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/freenx/ FreeNX],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/x11vnc/ x11vnc],
[http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ Synergy],
XDMCP, [[SSH]] with X11 forwarding (-X or -Y option)
| [[Desktop Sharing]]
|-
| MailWasher, SpamAssassin for Windows ||
SpamAssassin
| Spam filter
|-
|Forte Free Agent, [[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]] ||
[[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]], [http://www.newsreaders.com/unix/clients.html See More Clients Here]
|News Reader (Usenet [[newsgroup]]s)
|-
| eMule, '''aMule''' || aMule
|ED2K P2P network clients
|-
| [http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php '''Vuze (formerly Azureus)'''], [http://utorrent.com/ utorrent], '''Transmission''', '''Deluge''', '''qBittorrent''', '''Tixati''', '''Frostwire''', '''Tribler''' ||
[http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php Vuze (formerly Azureus)], Tranmission, Deluge, qBittorrent, Tixati, Frostwire, Tribler, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qtorrent Qtorrent], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bittornado bittornado], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ktorrent Ktorrent],
|BitTorrent P2P network clients
|-
| '''Skype''', Voipbuster, '''Yate''', '''Linphone''', '''Jitsi''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype Skype], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linphone Linphone], Asterisk, Empathy, Yate, Jitsi
|VoIP software
|-
| Bitvise Tunnelier ||
[http://sourceforge.net/projects/gstm/ gSTM]
|gSTM is a front-end for managing SSH-tunneled port redirects.
|}

== Server ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| IIS, [[Apache]] ||
[[Apache]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nginx Engine-X], [http://www.lighttpd.net/ lighttpd]
|[[Web Servers]]
|-
| Folder sharing, printer sharing ||
[[Samba]]
|Share files and printers between Windows and Linux systems. Installed by default on most distributions.
|-
|IIS, [http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ FileZilla FTP Client & Server]
|[[vsftpd]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure-ftpd pure-ftpd]
|FTP servers, for hosting files.
|-
|[http://www.netlimiter.com/ NetLimiter] ||
[http://monkey.org/~marius/pages/?page=trickle Trickle], [http://l7-filter.sourceforge.net/ Level 7 Filter], [http://www.clarkconnect.com/info/index.php ClarkConnect], [http://www.bandwidtharbitrator.com/ Bandwidth Arbitrator], [http://www.mastershaper.org/index.php/Main_Page MasterShaper]
|Bandwidth shaping and management.
|-
| Exchange ||
[[Citadel]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbra zimbra], [[Open-Xchange]]
|Groupware (sharing of appointments, contacts, e-mail, documents, etc. between members of a group)
|-
| Sharepoint ||
[http://www.knowledgetree.com/opensource KnowledgeTree]
|Manage and secure documents, collaborate around document creation and editing, full document contents indexing
|-
| Norton/McAfee Antivirus, [http://clamwin.com/ ClamWin], AVG, AntiVir, Avast, ClamAV ||
[[ClamAV]], [https://support.avast.com/en-eu/article/131/ Avast Security for Linux]
| Antivirus software.
|-
| ZoneAlarm , Sygate SPF||
[[Guarddog]], [[Firestarter]], [[GUFW]], [[iptables]]
| Firewall software
|}

= Multimedia =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
|[http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/ Adobe Photoshop], [http://www.corel.com/ Corel Photo-Paint], '''GIMP''', '''Glimpse''', '''GIMPShop''', '''ImageMagick''', '''Xnview''', '''[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)]''', '''[https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable]''', '''Pinta''', '''MyPaint''', '''Krita''', '''Filmulator''', '''Photivo''', '''RawTherapee''', '''digiKam''', '''nomacs''' ||
[http://www.gimp.org/ GIMP], Glimpse,
[[GIMPShop]], ImageMagick, Pinta, MyPaint,
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krita Krita], Xnview,
[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)], [https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable], Filmulator, Photivo, RawTherapee, digiKam, nomacs
|Raster graphics editors
|-
|[http://www.corel.com/ Corel Draw], [http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator/ Adobe Illustrator], '''Inkscape''', '''Vectr''', '''Gravit''', '''LibreOffice Draw''', '''sK1''', '''SVG-edit''' ||
[http://www.inkscape.org/ Inkscape], Vectr, Gravit, LibreOffice Draw, Karbon, sK1, SVG-edit. [https://itsfoss.com/vector-graphics-editors-linux/ Ref.]
|Vector graphics editors
|-
|Adobe Animate, '''Synfig''', '''Pencil2D''', '''Tupi (Tupitube Desk)''', '''OpenToonz''', '''Blender''', '''Toon Boom Harmony''', '''Krita''', '''Aseprite''', '''TVPaint''', '''Animaker''', '''Ajax Animator''', '''Glaxnimate''', '''Tahoma2D''', '''Enve''' ||
Synfig, Pencil2D, Tupi (Tupitube Desk), OpenToonz, Blender, Toon Boom Harmony, Krita, Aseprite, TVPaint, Animaker, Ajax Animator, Glaxnimate, Tahoma2D , Enve
| 2D Animations
|-
| Irfanview, ACDSee, '''digiKam''', '''Xnview''', '''nomacs''' ||
[[XnView]], [http://mirageiv.berlios.de/ Mirage], [[GThumb]], Shotwell, KPhotoAlbum, Geeqie, digiKam, Gwenview, Ristretto, Viewnior, nomacs
|Image viewers
|-
| 3D Studio MAX, '''Blender''', [http://www.autodesk.com '''Maya'''] ||
[[Blender]],
[http://www.autodesk.com Maya],
[[K-3D]]
|3D modeling software
|-
| Autodesk Inventor, Solidworks, CATIA || [http://www.freecadweb.org FreeCAD], [http://www.salome-platform.org/ SALOME platform]
| Professional 3D CAD software
|-
| Windows Media Player, PowerDVD, SMPlayer, MPV, [[VLC]] ||
SMPlayer,
MPV,
[[VLC]],
[[Xine]],
[[Totem]],
[[Kaffeine]],
Parole,
Celluloid,
[[MPlayer]]
| [[Video Players]]
|-
| SIA Smaart Live || [http://sf.net/projects/brp-pacu/ BRP-PACU] || [[Sound]] analysis
|-
| Winamp, Sonique, iTunes, [http://www.atunes.org/ aTunes], '''Clementine''', '''VLC''', '''SMplayer''', '''Deadbeef''', '''Strawberry''', '''Audacious''' ||
[[Amarok]],
Clementine,
[[RhythmBox]],
[http://banshee-project.org/index.php/Main_Page Banshee],
[[Xine]],
VLC,
SMplayer,
Elisa,
Deadbeef,
Audacious, Strawberry. See also Video Players section
|[[Music Players]]
|-
| [http://www.otsav.com/ OTSAV, OTS Turntables], [http://serato.com/ Serato], [http://www.native-instruments.com/en/traktor/ Traktor], [http://www.virtualdj.com/ Virtual DJ], [http://www.pcdj.com/ PC DJ], [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
| [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
|Audio & video play out (DJ/presenter)
|-
| Windows Movie Maker, Adobe Premiere Elements, [http://www.goldwave.com/mqrelease.php Multiquence], '''Avidemux''', '''OpenShot''', '''VidCutter''', [https://shotcut.org/ '''Shotcut'''], '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron]''', [https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php '''Olive'''], '''Lightworks''' ||
[[Cinelerra]] (difficult but very professional),
[[KDenlive]] (easy and powerful),
[[LiVES]],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avidemux AviDemux],
OpenShot,
VidCutter,
Flowblade,
Pitivi,
DaVinci Resolve,
[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron],
[https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php Olive],
Lightworks (thanks to Linux Format magazine),
[https://shotcut.org/ Shotcut](thanks to Linux Format magazine)
|[[Video Editors]]
|-
| '''Audacity''', Cubase, '''Ardour''', Adobe Audition (formerly Cool Edit Pro), [http://www.goldwave.com/ GoldWave], Cakewalk/Sonar, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''LMMS''', '''Traverso-DAW''', '''[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]''' ||
[[Audacity]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden],
[[Beast]],
[[Ardour]],
Harrison Mixbus,
[http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/index.php Radium],
DaVinci Resolve,
Bitwig Studio,
Qtractor,
[https://traverso-daw.org/ Traverso-DAW],
LMMS,
[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]
|Digital audio workstation software
|-
| Audio Catalyst, '''Ocenaudio''', dbpoweramp, CDex, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''Audacity''' ||
[[Audacity]],
Ocenaudio,
DaVinci Resolve,
[[Grip]]
| [[Audio Editors]]
|-
| '''Wavesurfer''', '''Audacity''', '''Sox'''||[https://itsfoss.com/record-streaming-audio/ Audio Recorder], Ecasound, Audacity, Sox, Wavesurfer
|Audio recorders
|-
| Cakewalk/Sonar ||
[[kmid]],
[[kmidi]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden]
| [[MIDI]]
|-
|[http://www.noteworthysoftware.com/ NoteWorthy Composer], '''MuseScore''', '''LilyPond'''||
[http://www.musescore.org/ MuseScore], [http://lilypond.org/web/ LilyPond]
|Musical score typesetting
|-
|[http://www.guitar-pro.com/ GuitarPro], TuxGuitar ||
[http://www.tuxguitar.com.ar/ TuxGuitar]
|Guitar tablature editors
|-
| Microsoft Paint, Kid Pix, '''Tux Paint''', '''Pencil 2D''', '''Krita''', '''Pinta''', '''Mypaint''', '''Mtpaint''' ||
[http://www.tuxpaint.org/ Tuxpaint], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KolourPaint KolourPaint], Pencil 2D, Krita, [https://launchpad.net/dibuja Dibuja], Pinta, Mypaint, Mtpaint
|Basic raster painting programs
|-
| Videora, [https://handbrake.fr/ '''Handbrake'''], '''WinFF''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || [https://handbrake.fr/ Handbrake], WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, Transmageddon, VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Video converter
|-
| '''WinFF''', '''Handbrake''', '''fre:ac - free audio converter (freac)''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || Handbrake, WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, fre:ac - free audio converter (freac), VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Audio converter
|-
|TMPGEnc DVD Author, Roxio DVDit, '''Open DVD Producer''', '''DVDStyler''' ||
DVDStyler, [http://opendvdproducer.jonata.org/ Open DVD Producer], [http://www.rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html DeVeDe]
|DVD authoring software
|-
|'''uTox''', '''qTox''', '''Jitsi''', '''OpenMeetings''', '''Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone)''', '''Microsoft Teams''', '''Zoom''' || uTox, qTox, OpenMettings, Jitsi, Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone), Empathy, Microsoft Teams, Zoom
| Video Conferencing
|}

= Education =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| '''Klavaro''', '''Tipp10''' || Klavaro, Tipp10, [[KTouch]], Tux Typing, GNU Typist || Touch typing tutors
|-
| '''Maple''', '''Mathematica''' || Maple, Mathematica, [http://maxima.sourceforge.net/ Maxima]
| Computer algebra systems
|-
| '''Matlab''', '''Octave''', '''Scilab''' ||
Matlab, [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ Octave],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SciLab SciLab], Sage, KAlgebra
| High level numeric computation environments
|-
| '''SPSS''', '''Stata''', EViews, '''PSPP''', '''[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project]''', '''[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]''' ||
[http://www.stata.com/products/unix.html Stata], SPSS,
[http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/pspp.html PSPP],
[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Plus S-Plus],
[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]
| Statistical analysis
|-
| Verilog ||
[http://www.icarus.com/eda/verilog/ iverilog]
| Verilog Simulator
|-
| '''Google Earth''', NASA World Wind, '''Celestia''', '''Stellarium''', '''Skychart''', '''Aladin Sky Atlas''', Microsoft Flight Simulator, '''FlightGear''' ||
[http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html Google Earth], [https://celestia.space/index.html Celestia], [http://www.stellarium.org/ Stellarium], [https://marble.kde.org/ Marble], [http://www.geody.com/ Geody], Kstars, Skychart, Aladin Sky Atlas, [http://www.flightgear.org/ FlightGear]
| Geography, astronomy and simulation
|}

''Please add new applications to this list. A good resource is the [http://www.nawaz.org/wiki/index.php?title=Table_of_Equivalents BeetleSpace Windows/Linux Software Table of Equivalents], which is GNU FDL licensed.''

= See also =

* [[running windows software]]
* [http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux.]
* [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareEquivalents Ubuntu software equivalents's page]
* [http://www.linuxeq.com/ The Linux Equivalent Project]

[[Category:FAQ]]

Linux software equivalent to Windows software

2022-04-03T22:52:35Z

Kareempharmacist: /* Networking */

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.

= Office and Productivity =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Office, '''OpenOffice''', '''Libre Office''', '''WPS Office''', '''Softmaker Office''', '''Onlyoffice Desktop'''
| [[Libre Office]], [https://www.wps.com/linux WPS Office](WPS-Community), [[OpenOffice]], [https://www.calligra.org/ Calligra], Softmaker FreeOffice, OnlyOffice Desktop
| Office package
|-
| Microsoft Word, OOwriter, LibreOffice Writer, WPS Writer, Softmaker TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[OOWriter]], [http://www.abiword.org AbiWord], WPS Writer, LibreOffice Writer, Calligra Words, FreeOffice TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop, Lyx, [[LaTeX]]
| [[Word Processing]]
|-
| Notepad, Wordpad, TheGun, EditPlus, SciTE, Notepad++ ||
[[Vim]], [[KWrite]],
[[Kate]], [http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/ BlueFish], [[Gedit]], [[Joe]], Sublime Text, [[Leafpad]], [[Nano]]
| [[Text Editors]]
|-
| Access, dBase, Foxpro, Paradox, '''OOBase''', '''LibreOffice Base'''
| [http://userbase.kde.org/Kexi Kexi], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Base OOBase], LibreOffice Base
| [[Database]]
|-
| Excel, Corel WordPrefect, '''LibreOffice Calc''', '''Softmaker Office PlanMaker''', '''WPS Spreedsheets''', '''OOCalc''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Calc, Calligra Sheets, Softmaker Office PlanMaker, WPS Spreedsheets, [[OOCalc]], [http://www.gnumeric.org gnumeric], OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Spreadsheet]]
|-
| Visio, [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html '''yED'''], '''LibreOffice Draw'''
| [https://www.calligra.org/flow/ Calligra Flow], [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html yED], LibreOffice Draw
| Diagramming
|-
| PowerPoint, '''LibreOffice Impress''', '''OOImpress''', '''WPS Presentation''', '''Softmaker Office Presentations''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Impress, [[OOImpress]], Calligra Stage, WPS Presentation, Softmaker Office Presentations, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Presentation software]]
|-
| Final Draft, Script Studio, '''Fade In''', '''KIT Scenarist''', '''Story Architect''', '''Trelby''', '''Scrite'''
| Fade In, KIT Scenarist, Story Architect, Trelby, Scrite
| Screenwriting software
|-
| Microsoft Project Manager
| [[MOOS Project Viewer]], Calligra Plan
| Project management
|-
| '''Wondershare EdrawMax''', XMind
| Wondershare EdrawMax, Minder, XMind
| Mind maps
|-
| Outlook, '''Thunderbird + Lightning'''
| [[Kontact]], [https://pawsa.fedorapeople.org/balsa/ BALSA], [[Thunderbird]] + [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/ Lightning]
| Personal information managers
|-
| Alcohol 120%, Discjuggler, Easy CD Creator, Nero Burning ROM ||
[[K3b]], [[XCDRoast]], Brasero, Xfburn, [[CD/DVD_Burning|''more'']]
|DVD/CD burning
|-
|Alcohol 120%, Nero Burning ROM, '''MakeMKV''', ImgBurn, Infrarecorder || MakeMKV, Thoggen, Dvdbackup, HandBrake, DVD::RIP, AcidRIP
| DVD ripping software
|-
| Quicken, Microsoft Money, TurboTax
| [http://gnucash.org/ GnucAsh], [http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/index-home.html KMyMoney], [[CrossOver]] Office with Quicken, [http://www.lazy8.nu/ lazy8ledger]
| Accounting
|-
| ActiveSync ||
[[SynCE]]
|Synchronization with Windows Mobile devices
|-
| WinEdt, TeXnicCenter
| [[Kile]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texmaker Texmaker], [[LyX]]
| LaTeX IDEs
|-
| Veritas Backup Exec, [http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm Cobian Backup], '''Duplicati''' ||
LuckyBackup, Déjà Dup, Grsync, Duplicati [[list of backUp applications|''more'']]
| [[Backup]]
|-
| Google Desktop ||
[[Recoll]]
| Desktop Search
|-
| Norton Ghost ||
[[Partition Image]], [[g4u]], [http://www.mondorescue.org/ Mondo Rescue], [[dd]], gDiskDump (a dd frontend), Clonezilla, Trinity Rescue Kit
|Disk imaging
|-
| Norton Partition Magic ||
[[GParted]], Clonezilla (a live cd), KDE Partition Manager, GNOME Disks
|Disk partitioning
|-
|[http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/Disk_Size_Explorer.asp Disk Size Explorer]
|[https://utils.kde.org/projects/filelight/ File Light], [[Konqueror]], Baobab, xdiskusage, duc [https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-analyze-your-disk-usage-pattern-in-linux/ ref.]
| Disk usage analyzers
|-
|[http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html Filemon], [http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Regmon.html Regmon]
| [http://syscalltrack.sourceforge.net/ syscalltrack]
| system call tracking (file monitor & others)
|-
| WinMerge, SyncToy ||
[http://meld.sourceforge.net/ Meld], [[Unison]], [http://synkron.sourceforge.net/ Synkron], [[rSync]]
| File synchronization
|-
| Google Drive, Dropbox, etc ||
[https://rclone.org Rclone]
| Cloud hosted file synchronization (Amazon S3, Dropbox, Google Cloud Storage, Google Drive, FTP, Microsoft OneDrive, sFTP, etc)
|-
| Windows Update, Add/Remove programs||
[[apt-get]], [http://aptitude.sourceforge.net/ Aptitude], [http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Portage portage], [[Rpm|rpm]], [[urpmi]], [[yast]], [[yum]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptic_Package_Manager Synaptic], [https://snapcraft.io Snapcraft (Snap)]
|Every Linux distribution has an infrastructure to manage installed software which is quite different from Windows. For instance, all updates are handled by a single program. See [[package management]].
|-
| WinRunner || [http://hoopajoo.net/projects/xautomation.html xautomation] || automating interactive applications
|-
| 7-Zip, Winzip, Winrar, Peazip ||
[[Karchiver]],
[[File Roller]],
Xarchiver,
[[ark]],
[[hjsplit]]; [[packing and unpacking files|''command line tools'']]
|Archivers
|-
| chkdsk || [[fsck]], [https://www.tecmint.com/linux-disk-scanning-tools/ other tools] || check your file system (and the [[hard disk]] beneath it) for errors
|-
| Daemon Tools ||
[[mount]], Disk Image Mounter in Gnome/KDE, Furius ISO mount, AcetoneISO
|ISO mounting
|-
| Disclib || [http://www.gwhere.org/home.php3 gWhere]
| Disk cataloging programs
|-
| Evernote, OneNote || NixNote, Tusk, Whatever, GeekNote, ForeverNote, [https://joplinapp.org/ Joplin], Xournal, XFCE4 Notes, Xpad, Hnb, Gnote, Feathernotes, Cherrytree, Bijiben, Basket, Noblenote, Nvpy. Thanks to [https://itsfoss.com/evernote-on-linux/]
|Note Taking App
|}

== Desktop Publishing ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Dreamweaver, NVU, KompoZer, Google Web Designer ||
[http://www.google.com/webdesigner/ Google Web Designer] (WYSIWYG)
[[html editors|more]]
|[[Web Design]]
|-
| Quark, Quark Express, Microsoft Publisher, '''Scribus''', '''Karbon''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribus Scribus], Laidout, VivaDesigner, QuickSilver, Xara Xtreme, Karbon
|DTP software
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader, Xpdf Reader, Foxit reader, Sumatra pdf ||

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evince Evince],
Zathura,
Okular,
Bookworm,
Qpdfview,
Foxit reader,
PDF Studio Viewer,
[[Xpdf]],
MuPDF,
Atril,
[[Ghostview]], [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF readers
|-
| Adobe Acrobat Distiller, PDFCreator ||
[http://www.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~vrbehr/cups-pdf/ CUPS-PDF], Libre Office, [[OpenOffice.org]], PDF Studio, [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter] -- can convert to pdf. [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF authoring
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF editor, [http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio '''PDF Studio Pro'''], '''Master PDF Editor''', '''Libreoffice Draw''', '''Scribus''', '''Inkscape''' ||
[http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio PDF Studio Pro], Master PDF Editor, [http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfedit Pdfedit], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam Pdfjam], [http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk Pdftk], Scribus, Inkscape, Karbon, Okular, Libreoffice Draw. Thanks to [https://www.ubuntupit.com/linux-pdf-editor-top-15-reviewed-and-compared/ this] [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF editing tools
|-
| SilverFast ||
[[xSane]], [http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html VueScan], Simple Scan, Skanlite, Gscan2pdf, GIMP with Quitelnsane
| [[scanning]]
|-
| FinePrint ||
[http://www.boomaga.org boomaga], [http://wfr.tcl.tk/279 page-crunch], [http://freshmeat.net/projects/mpage/ mpage], [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter], [http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~ajcd/psutils/index.html psnup/PSutils], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam pdfnup/PDFjam]
| Document printing/reformatting tools
|}

= Networking =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Internet Explorer, '''Microsoft Edge''', '''Firefox''', '''Opera''', '''Chrome''', '''Pale Moon''', '''Brave''', '''Vivaldi''', '''Otter Browser''', '''Falkon''', '''Dooble''', '''Slimjet''' ||
[[Firefox]],
[[Konqueror]],
Epiphany (Gnome Web), Falkon, Microsoft Edge, Slimjet, Midori,
[http://www.google.com/chrome Chrome], Chromium,
[[Opera]],
Otter Browser,
Brave,
Vivaldi, Falkon,
Pale Moon, Dillo, Dooble
[[Browsers|''more'']]
| [[Web Browsers]]
|-
| Microsoft Outlook, '''Thunderbird''', Pegasus, Lotus Notes, '''Seamonkey''', '''Claws Mail''', '''Mailspring''' ||
[[Kontact]],
[http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/features/evolution.html Evolution], Seamonkey,
[[Thunderbird]], Claws Mail, Mailspring, Geary [https://itsfoss.com/best-email-clients-linux/ others]
|Email clients.
|-
| '''Trillian''', '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Irssi''', ICQ ||
Trillian, Hexchat, [[PidgIn]], [[Irssi]], [[Kopete]]
| [[Instant messaging]] [[software]].
|-
| Microsoft HyperTerminal ||
[[minicom]]
|-
| FileZilla FTP Client, WS FTP, Bullet Proof FTP, CuteFTP ||
[http://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client FileZilla FTP Client],
[http://www.kftp.org/misc/description KFTP (KFTPGrabber)],
[[Kasablanca]],
[[FireFTP]],
[[Konqueror]],
[[KBear]],
[[gFTP]],
[http://www.crossftp.com/ CrossFTP],
[[Nautilus]]
|FTP clients. Please note GNOME, KDE (and other) programs can directly open and edit files on FTP, SFTP and WebDAV shares, often using [[KIO]], [[GIO]] or [GVfs]].
|-
| mIRC, '''Trillian''', '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Quassel''', '''KVIrc''', '''Irssi''' ||
HexChat, [[PidgIn]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quassel_IRC Quassel], [[KVIrc]], Irssi, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konversation Konversation], [[BitchX]], Trillian
| [[IRC Clients]]
|-
|[http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/ UltraVNC], TightVNC, RealVNC, Remote Desktop ||
[http://www.tightvnc.com/ TightVNC],
[http://www.realvnc.com/ RealVNC], [http://www.rdesktop.org/ rdesktop],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/freenx/ FreeNX],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/x11vnc/ x11vnc],
[http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ Synergy],
XDMCP, [[SSH]] with X11 forwarding (-X or -Y option)
| [[Desktop Sharing]]
|-
| MailWasher, SpamAssassin for Windows ||
SpamAssassin
| Spam filter
|-
|Forte Free Agent, [[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]] ||
[[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]], [http://www.newsreaders.com/unix/clients.html See More Clients Here]
|News Reader (Usenet [[newsgroup]]s)
|-
| eMule, '''aMule''' || aMule
|ED2K P2P network clients
|-
| [http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php '''Vuze (formerly Azureus)'''], [http://utorrent.com/ utorrent], '''Transmission''', '''Deluge''', '''qBittorrent''', '''Tixati''', '''Frostwire''', '''Tribler''' ||
[http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php Vuze (formerly Azureus)], Tranmission, Deluge, qBittorrent, Tixati, Frostwire, Tribler, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qtorrent Qtorrent], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bittornado bittornado], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ktorrent Ktorrent],
|BitTorrent P2P network clients
|-
| '''Skype''', Voipbuster, '''Yate''', '''Linphone''', '''Jitsi''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype Skype], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linphone Linphone], Asterisk, Empathy, Yate, Jitsi
|VoIP software
|-
| Bitvise Tunnelier ||
[http://sourceforge.net/projects/gstm/ gSTM]
|gSTM is a front-end for managing SSH-tunneled port redirects.
|}

== Server ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| IIS, [[Apache]] ||
[[Apache]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nginx Engine-X], [http://www.lighttpd.net/ lighttpd]
|[[Web Servers]]
|-
| Folder sharing, printer sharing ||
[[Samba]]
|Share files and printers between Windows and Linux systems. Installed by default on most distributions.
|-
|IIS, [http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ FileZilla FTP Client & Server]
|[[vsftpd]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure-ftpd pure-ftpd]
|FTP servers, for hosting files.
|-
|[http://www.netlimiter.com/ NetLimiter] ||
[http://monkey.org/~marius/pages/?page=trickle Trickle], [http://l7-filter.sourceforge.net/ Level 7 Filter], [http://www.clarkconnect.com/info/index.php ClarkConnect], [http://www.bandwidtharbitrator.com/ Bandwidth Arbitrator], [http://www.mastershaper.org/index.php/Main_Page MasterShaper]
|Bandwidth shaping and management.
|-
| Exchange ||
[[Citadel]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbra zimbra], [[Open-Xchange]]
|Groupware (sharing of appointments, contacts, e-mail, documents, etc. between members of a group)
|-
| Sharepoint ||
[http://www.knowledgetree.com/opensource KnowledgeTree]
|Manage and secure documents, collaborate around document creation and editing, full document contents indexing
|-
| Norton/McAfee Antivirus, [http://clamwin.com/ ClamWin], AVG, AntiVir, Avast, ClamAV ||
[[ClamAV]], [https://support.avast.com/en-eu/article/131/ Avast Security for Linux]
| Antivirus software.
|-
| ZoneAlarm , Sygate SPF||
[[Guarddog]], [[Firestarter]], [[GUFW]], [[iptables]]
| Firewall software
|}

= Multimedia =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
|[http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/ Adobe Photoshop], [http://www.corel.com/ Corel Photo-Paint], '''GIMP''', '''Glimpse''', '''GIMPShop''', '''ImageMagick''', '''Xnview''', '''[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)]''', '''[https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable]''', '''Pinta''', '''MyPaint''', '''Krita''', '''Filmulator''', '''Photivo''', '''RawTherapee''', '''digiKam''', '''nomacs''' ||
[http://www.gimp.org/ GIMP], Glimpse,
[[GIMPShop]], ImageMagick, Pinta, MyPaint,
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krita Krita], Xnview,
[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)], [https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable], Filmulator, Photivo, RawTherapee, digiKam, nomacs
|Raster graphics editors
|-
|[http://www.corel.com/ Corel Draw], [http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator/ Adobe Illustrator], '''Inkscape''', '''Vectr''', '''Gravit''', '''LibreOffice Draw''', '''sK1''', '''SVG-edit''' ||
[http://www.inkscape.org/ Inkscape], Vectr, Gravit, LibreOffice Draw, Karbon, sK1, SVG-edit. [https://itsfoss.com/vector-graphics-editors-linux/ Ref.]
|Vector graphics editors
|-
|Adobe Animate, '''Synfig''', '''Pencil2D''', '''Tupi (Tupitube Desk)''', '''OpenToonz''', '''Blender''', '''Toon Boom Harmony''', '''Krita''', '''Aseprite''', '''TVPaint''', '''Animaker''', '''Ajax Animator''', '''Glaxnimate''', '''Tahoma2D''', '''Enve''' ||
Synfig, Pencil2D, Tupi (Tupitube Desk), OpenToonz, Blender, Toon Boom Harmony, Krita, Aseprite, TVPaint, Animaker, Ajax Animator, Glaxnimate, Tahoma2D , Enve
| 2D Animations
|-
| Irfanview, ACDSee, '''digiKam''', '''Xnview''', '''nomacs''' ||
[[XnView]], [http://mirageiv.berlios.de/ Mirage], [[GThumb]], Shotwell, KPhotoAlbum, Geeqie, digiKam, Gwenview, Ristretto, Viewnior, nomacs
|Image viewers
|-
| 3D Studio MAX, '''Blender''', [http://www.autodesk.com '''Maya'''] ||
[[Blender]],
[http://www.autodesk.com Maya],
[[K-3D]]
|3D modeling software
|-
| Autodesk Inventor, Solidworks, CATIA || [http://www.freecadweb.org FreeCAD], [http://www.salome-platform.org/ SALOME platform]
| Professional 3D CAD software
|-
| Windows Media Player, PowerDVD, SMPlayer, MPV, [[VLC]] ||
SMPlayer,
MPV,
[[VLC]],
[[Xine]],
[[Totem]],
[[Kaffeine]],
Parole,
Celluloid,
[[MPlayer]]
| [[Video Players]]
|-
| SIA Smaart Live || [http://sf.net/projects/brp-pacu/ BRP-PACU] || [[Sound]] analysis
|-
| Winamp, Sonique, iTunes, [http://www.atunes.org/ aTunes], '''Clementine''', '''VLC''', '''SMplayer''', '''Deadbeef''', '''Strawberry''', '''Audacious''' ||
[[Amarok]],
Clementine,
[[RhythmBox]],
[http://banshee-project.org/index.php/Main_Page Banshee],
[[Xine]],
VLC,
SMplayer,
Elisa,
Deadbeef,
Audacious, Strawberry. See also Video Players section
|[[Music Players]]
|-
| [http://www.otsav.com/ OTSAV, OTS Turntables], [http://serato.com/ Serato], [http://www.native-instruments.com/en/traktor/ Traktor], [http://www.virtualdj.com/ Virtual DJ], [http://www.pcdj.com/ PC DJ], [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
| [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
|Audio & video play out (DJ/presenter)
|-
| Windows Movie Maker, Adobe Premiere Elements, [http://www.goldwave.com/mqrelease.php Multiquence], '''Avidemux''', '''OpenShot''', '''VidCutter''', [https://shotcut.org/ '''Shotcut'''], '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron]''', [https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php '''Olive'''], '''Lightworks''' ||
[[Cinelerra]] (difficult but very professional),
[[KDenlive]] (easy and powerful),
[[LiVES]],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avidemux AviDemux],
OpenShot,
VidCutter,
Flowblade,
Pitivi,
DaVinci Resolve,
[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron],
[https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php Olive],
Lightworks (thanks to Linux Format magazine),
[https://shotcut.org/ Shotcut](thanks to Linux Format magazine)
|[[Video Editors]]
|-
| '''Audacity''', Cubase, '''Ardour''', Adobe Audition (formerly Cool Edit Pro), [http://www.goldwave.com/ GoldWave], Cakewalk/Sonar, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''LMMS''', '''Traverso-DAW''', '''[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]''' ||
[[Audacity]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden],
[[Beast]],
[[Ardour]],
Harrison Mixbus,
[http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/index.php Radium],
DaVinci Resolve,
Bitwig Studio,
Qtractor,
[https://traverso-daw.org/ Traverso-DAW],
LMMS,
[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]
|Digital audio workstation software
|-
| Audio Catalyst, '''Ocenaudio''', dbpoweramp, CDex, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''Audacity''' ||
[[Audacity]],
Ocenaudio,
DaVinci Resolve,
[[Grip]]
| [[Audio Editors]]
|-
| '''Wavesurfer''', '''Audacity''', '''Sox'''||[https://itsfoss.com/record-streaming-audio/ Audio Recorder], Ecasound, Audacity, Sox, Wavesurfer
|Audio recorders
|-
| Cakewalk/Sonar ||
[[kmid]],
[[kmidi]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden]
| [[MIDI]]
|-
|[http://www.noteworthysoftware.com/ NoteWorthy Composer], '''MuseScore''', '''LilyPond'''||
[http://www.musescore.org/ MuseScore], [http://lilypond.org/web/ LilyPond]
|Musical score typesetting
|-
|[http://www.guitar-pro.com/ GuitarPro], TuxGuitar ||
[http://www.tuxguitar.com.ar/ TuxGuitar]
|Guitar tablature editors
|-
| Microsoft Paint, Kid Pix, '''Tux Paint''', '''Pencil 2D''', '''Krita''', '''Pinta''', '''Mypaint''', '''Mtpaint''' ||
[http://www.tuxpaint.org/ Tuxpaint], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KolourPaint KolourPaint], Pencil 2D, Krita, [https://launchpad.net/dibuja Dibuja], Pinta, Mypaint, Mtpaint
|Basic raster painting programs
|-
| Videora, [https://handbrake.fr/ '''Handbrake'''], '''WinFF''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || [https://handbrake.fr/ Handbrake], WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, Transmageddon, VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Video converter
|-
| '''WinFF''', '''Handbrake''', '''fre:ac - free audio converter (freac)''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || Handbrake, WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, fre:ac - free audio converter (freac), VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Audio converter
|-
|TMPGEnc DVD Author, Roxio DVDit, '''Open DVD Producer''', '''DVDStyler''' ||
DVDStyler, [http://opendvdproducer.jonata.org/ Open DVD Producer], [http://www.rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html DeVeDe]
|DVD authoring software
|-
|'''uTox''', '''qTox''', '''Jitsi''', '''OpenMeetings''', '''Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone)''', '''Microsoft Teams''', '''Zoom''' || uTox, qTox, OpenMettings, Jitsi, Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone), Empathy, Microsoft Teams, Zoom
| Video Conferencing
|}

= Education =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| '''Klavaro''', '''Tipp10''' || Klavaro, Tipp10, [[KTouch]], Tux Typing, GNU Typist || Touch typing tutors
|-
| '''Maple''', '''Mathematica''' || Maple, Mathematica, [http://maxima.sourceforge.net/ Maxima]
| Computer algebra systems
|-
| '''Matlab''', '''Octave''', '''Scilab''' ||
Matlab, [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ Octave],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SciLab SciLab], Sage, KAlgebra
| High level numeric computation environments
|-
| '''SPSS''', '''Stata''', EViews, '''PSPP''', '''[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project]''', '''[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]''' ||
[http://www.stata.com/products/unix.html Stata], SPSS,
[http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/pspp.html PSPP],
[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Plus S-Plus],
[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]
| Statistical analysis
|-
| Verilog ||
[http://www.icarus.com/eda/verilog/ iverilog]
| Verilog Simulator
|-
| '''Google Earth''', NASA World Wind, '''Celestia''', '''Stellarium''', '''Skychart''', '''Aladin Sky Atlas''', Microsoft Flight Simulator, '''FlightGear''' ||
[http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html Google Earth], [https://celestia.space/index.html Celestia], [http://www.stellarium.org/ Stellarium], [https://marble.kde.org/ Marble], [http://www.geody.com/ Geody], Kstars, Skychart, Aladin Sky Atlas, [http://www.flightgear.org/ FlightGear]
| Geography, astronomy and simulation
|}

''Please add new applications to this list. A good resource is the [http://www.nawaz.org/wiki/index.php?title=Table_of_Equivalents BeetleSpace Windows/Linux Software Table of Equivalents], which is GNU FDL licensed.''

= See also =

* [[running windows software]]
* [http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux.]
* [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareEquivalents Ubuntu software equivalents's page]
* [http://www.linuxeq.com/ The Linux Equivalent Project]

[[Category:FAQ]]

Linux software equivalent to Windows software

2022-04-03T22:39:36Z

Kareempharmacist: /* Networking */

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.

= Office and Productivity =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Office, '''OpenOffice''', '''Libre Office''', '''WPS Office''', '''Softmaker Office''', '''Onlyoffice Desktop'''
| [[Libre Office]], [https://www.wps.com/linux WPS Office](WPS-Community), [[OpenOffice]], [https://www.calligra.org/ Calligra], Softmaker FreeOffice, OnlyOffice Desktop
| Office package
|-
| Microsoft Word, OOwriter, LibreOffice Writer, WPS Writer, Softmaker TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[OOWriter]], [http://www.abiword.org AbiWord], WPS Writer, LibreOffice Writer, Calligra Words, FreeOffice TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop, Lyx, [[LaTeX]]
| [[Word Processing]]
|-
| Notepad, Wordpad, TheGun, EditPlus, SciTE, Notepad++ ||
[[Vim]], [[KWrite]],
[[Kate]], [http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/ BlueFish], [[Gedit]], [[Joe]], Sublime Text, [[Leafpad]], [[Nano]]
| [[Text Editors]]
|-
| Access, dBase, Foxpro, Paradox, '''OOBase''', '''LibreOffice Base'''
| [http://userbase.kde.org/Kexi Kexi], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Base OOBase], LibreOffice Base
| [[Database]]
|-
| Excel, Corel WordPrefect, '''LibreOffice Calc''', '''Softmaker Office PlanMaker''', '''WPS Spreedsheets''', '''OOCalc''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Calc, Calligra Sheets, Softmaker Office PlanMaker, WPS Spreedsheets, [[OOCalc]], [http://www.gnumeric.org gnumeric], OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Spreadsheet]]
|-
| Visio, [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html '''yED'''], '''LibreOffice Draw'''
| [https://www.calligra.org/flow/ Calligra Flow], [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html yED], LibreOffice Draw
| Diagramming
|-
| PowerPoint, '''LibreOffice Impress''', '''OOImpress''', '''WPS Presentation''', '''Softmaker Office Presentations''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Impress, [[OOImpress]], Calligra Stage, WPS Presentation, Softmaker Office Presentations, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Presentation software]]
|-
| Final Draft, Script Studio, '''Fade In''', '''KIT Scenarist''', '''Story Architect''', '''Trelby''', '''Scrite'''
| Fade In, KIT Scenarist, Story Architect, Trelby, Scrite
| Screenwriting software
|-
| Microsoft Project Manager
| [[MOOS Project Viewer]], Calligra Plan
| Project management
|-
| '''Wondershare EdrawMax''', XMind
| Wondershare EdrawMax, Minder, XMind
| Mind maps
|-
| Outlook, '''Thunderbird + Lightning'''
| [[Kontact]], [https://pawsa.fedorapeople.org/balsa/ BALSA], [[Thunderbird]] + [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/ Lightning]
| Personal information managers
|-
| Alcohol 120%, Discjuggler, Easy CD Creator, Nero Burning ROM ||
[[K3b]], [[XCDRoast]], Brasero, Xfburn, [[CD/DVD_Burning|''more'']]
|DVD/CD burning
|-
|Alcohol 120%, Nero Burning ROM, '''MakeMKV''', ImgBurn, Infrarecorder || MakeMKV, Thoggen, Dvdbackup, HandBrake, DVD::RIP, AcidRIP
| DVD ripping software
|-
| Quicken, Microsoft Money, TurboTax
| [http://gnucash.org/ GnucAsh], [http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/index-home.html KMyMoney], [[CrossOver]] Office with Quicken, [http://www.lazy8.nu/ lazy8ledger]
| Accounting
|-
| ActiveSync ||
[[SynCE]]
|Synchronization with Windows Mobile devices
|-
| WinEdt, TeXnicCenter
| [[Kile]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texmaker Texmaker], [[LyX]]
| LaTeX IDEs
|-
| Veritas Backup Exec, [http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm Cobian Backup], '''Duplicati''' ||
LuckyBackup, Déjà Dup, Grsync, Duplicati [[list of backUp applications|''more'']]
| [[Backup]]
|-
| Google Desktop ||
[[Recoll]]
| Desktop Search
|-
| Norton Ghost ||
[[Partition Image]], [[g4u]], [http://www.mondorescue.org/ Mondo Rescue], [[dd]], gDiskDump (a dd frontend), Clonezilla, Trinity Rescue Kit
|Disk imaging
|-
| Norton Partition Magic ||
[[GParted]], Clonezilla (a live cd), KDE Partition Manager, GNOME Disks
|Disk partitioning
|-
|[http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/Disk_Size_Explorer.asp Disk Size Explorer]
|[https://utils.kde.org/projects/filelight/ File Light], [[Konqueror]], Baobab, xdiskusage, duc [https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-analyze-your-disk-usage-pattern-in-linux/ ref.]
| Disk usage analyzers
|-
|[http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html Filemon], [http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Regmon.html Regmon]
| [http://syscalltrack.sourceforge.net/ syscalltrack]
| system call tracking (file monitor & others)
|-
| WinMerge, SyncToy ||
[http://meld.sourceforge.net/ Meld], [[Unison]], [http://synkron.sourceforge.net/ Synkron], [[rSync]]
| File synchronization
|-
| Google Drive, Dropbox, etc ||
[https://rclone.org Rclone]
| Cloud hosted file synchronization (Amazon S3, Dropbox, Google Cloud Storage, Google Drive, FTP, Microsoft OneDrive, sFTP, etc)
|-
| Windows Update, Add/Remove programs||
[[apt-get]], [http://aptitude.sourceforge.net/ Aptitude], [http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Portage portage], [[Rpm|rpm]], [[urpmi]], [[yast]], [[yum]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptic_Package_Manager Synaptic], [https://snapcraft.io Snapcraft (Snap)]
|Every Linux distribution has an infrastructure to manage installed software which is quite different from Windows. For instance, all updates are handled by a single program. See [[package management]].
|-
| WinRunner || [http://hoopajoo.net/projects/xautomation.html xautomation] || automating interactive applications
|-
| 7-Zip, Winzip, Winrar, Peazip ||
[[Karchiver]],
[[File Roller]],
Xarchiver,
[[ark]],
[[hjsplit]]; [[packing and unpacking files|''command line tools'']]
|Archivers
|-
| chkdsk || [[fsck]], [https://www.tecmint.com/linux-disk-scanning-tools/ other tools] || check your file system (and the [[hard disk]] beneath it) for errors
|-
| Daemon Tools ||
[[mount]], Disk Image Mounter in Gnome/KDE, Furius ISO mount, AcetoneISO
|ISO mounting
|-
| Disclib || [http://www.gwhere.org/home.php3 gWhere]
| Disk cataloging programs
|-
| Evernote, OneNote || NixNote, Tusk, Whatever, GeekNote, ForeverNote, [https://joplinapp.org/ Joplin], Xournal, XFCE4 Notes, Xpad, Hnb, Gnote, Feathernotes, Cherrytree, Bijiben, Basket, Noblenote, Nvpy. Thanks to [https://itsfoss.com/evernote-on-linux/]
|Note Taking App
|}

== Desktop Publishing ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Dreamweaver, NVU, KompoZer, Google Web Designer ||
[http://www.google.com/webdesigner/ Google Web Designer] (WYSIWYG)
[[html editors|more]]
|[[Web Design]]
|-
| Quark, Quark Express, Microsoft Publisher, '''Scribus''', '''Karbon''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribus Scribus], Laidout, VivaDesigner, QuickSilver, Xara Xtreme, Karbon
|DTP software
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader, Xpdf Reader, Foxit reader, Sumatra pdf ||

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evince Evince],
Zathura,
Okular,
Bookworm,
Qpdfview,
Foxit reader,
PDF Studio Viewer,
[[Xpdf]],
MuPDF,
Atril,
[[Ghostview]], [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF readers
|-
| Adobe Acrobat Distiller, PDFCreator ||
[http://www.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~vrbehr/cups-pdf/ CUPS-PDF], Libre Office, [[OpenOffice.org]], PDF Studio, [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter] -- can convert to pdf. [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF authoring
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF editor, [http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio '''PDF Studio Pro'''], '''Master PDF Editor''', '''Libreoffice Draw''', '''Scribus''', '''Inkscape''' ||
[http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio PDF Studio Pro], Master PDF Editor, [http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfedit Pdfedit], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam Pdfjam], [http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk Pdftk], Scribus, Inkscape, Karbon, Okular, Libreoffice Draw. Thanks to [https://www.ubuntupit.com/linux-pdf-editor-top-15-reviewed-and-compared/ this] [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF editing tools
|-
| SilverFast ||
[[xSane]], [http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html VueScan], Simple Scan, Skanlite, Gscan2pdf, GIMP with Quitelnsane
| [[scanning]]
|-
| FinePrint ||
[http://www.boomaga.org boomaga], [http://wfr.tcl.tk/279 page-crunch], [http://freshmeat.net/projects/mpage/ mpage], [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter], [http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~ajcd/psutils/index.html psnup/PSutils], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam pdfnup/PDFjam]
| Document printing/reformatting tools
|}

= Networking =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Internet Explorer, '''Microsoft Edge''', '''Firefox''', '''Opera''', '''Chrome''', '''Pale Moon''', '''Brave''', '''Vivaldi''', '''Otter Browser''', '''Falkon''', '''Dooble''', '''Slimjet''' ||
[[Firefox]],
[[Konqueror]],
Epiphany (Gnome Web), Falkon, Microsoft Edge, Slimjet, Midori,
[http://www.google.com/chrome Chrome], Chromium,
[[Opera]],
Otter Browser,
Brave,
Vivaldi, Falkon,
Pale Moon, Dillo, Dooble
[[Browsers|''more'']]
| [[Web Browsers]]
|-
| Microsoft Outlook, '''Thunderbird''', Pegasus, Lotus Notes, '''Seamonkey''', '''Claws Mail''', '''Mailspring''' ||
[[Kontact]],
[http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/features/evolution.html Evolution], Seamonkey,
[[Thunderbird]], Claws Mail, Mailspring, Geary [https://itsfoss.com/best-email-clients-linux/ others]
|Email clients.
|-
| '''Trillian''', '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Irssi''', ICQ ||
Trillian, Hexchat, [[PidgIn]], [[Irssi]], [[Kopete]]
| [[Instant messaging]] [[software]].
|-
| Microsoft HyperTerminal ||
[[minicom]]
|-
| FileZilla FTP Client, WS FTP, Bullet Proof FTP, CuteFTP ||
[http://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client FileZilla FTP Client],
[http://www.kftp.org/misc/description KFTP (KFTPGrabber)],
[[Kasablanca]],
[[FireFTP]],
[[Konqueror]],
[[KBear]],
[[gFTP]],
[http://www.crossftp.com/ CrossFTP],
[[Nautilus]]
|FTP clients. Please note GNOME, KDE (and other) programs can directly open and edit files on FTP, SFTP and WebDAV shares, often using [[KIO]], [[GIO]] or [GVfs]].
|-
| mIRC, '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Quassel''', '''KVIrc''', '''Irssi''' ||
HexChat, [[PidgIn]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quassel_IRC Quassel], [[KVIrc]], Irssi, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konversation Konversation], [[BitchX]]
| [[IRC Clients]]
|-
|[http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/ UltraVNC], TightVNC, RealVNC, Remote Desktop ||
[http://www.tightvnc.com/ TightVNC],
[http://www.realvnc.com/ RealVNC], [http://www.rdesktop.org/ rdesktop],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/freenx/ FreeNX],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/x11vnc/ x11vnc],
[http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ Synergy],
XDMCP, [[SSH]] with X11 forwarding (-X or -Y option)
| [[Desktop Sharing]]
|-
| MailWasher, SpamAssassin for Windows ||
SpamAssassin
| Spam filter
|-
|Forte Free Agent, [[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]] ||
[[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]], [http://www.newsreaders.com/unix/clients.html See More Clients Here]
|News Reader (Usenet [[newsgroup]]s)
|-
| eMule, '''aMule''' || aMule
|ED2K P2P network clients
|-
| [http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php '''Vuze (formerly Azureus)'''], [http://utorrent.com/ utorrent], '''Transmission''', '''Deluge''', '''qBittorrent''', '''Tixati''', '''Frostwire''', '''Tribler''' ||
[http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php Vuze (formerly Azureus)], Tranmission, Deluge, qBittorrent, Tixati, Frostwire, Tribler, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qtorrent Qtorrent], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bittornado bittornado], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ktorrent Ktorrent],
|BitTorrent P2P network clients
|-
| '''Skype''', Voipbuster, '''Yate''', '''Linphone''', '''Jitsi''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype Skype], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linphone Linphone], Asterisk, Empathy, Yate, Jitsi
|VoIP software
|-
| Bitvise Tunnelier ||
[http://sourceforge.net/projects/gstm/ gSTM]
|gSTM is a front-end for managing SSH-tunneled port redirects.
|}

== Server ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| IIS, [[Apache]] ||
[[Apache]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nginx Engine-X], [http://www.lighttpd.net/ lighttpd]
|[[Web Servers]]
|-
| Folder sharing, printer sharing ||
[[Samba]]
|Share files and printers between Windows and Linux systems. Installed by default on most distributions.
|-
|IIS, [http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ FileZilla FTP Client & Server]
|[[vsftpd]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure-ftpd pure-ftpd]
|FTP servers, for hosting files.
|-
|[http://www.netlimiter.com/ NetLimiter] ||
[http://monkey.org/~marius/pages/?page=trickle Trickle], [http://l7-filter.sourceforge.net/ Level 7 Filter], [http://www.clarkconnect.com/info/index.php ClarkConnect], [http://www.bandwidtharbitrator.com/ Bandwidth Arbitrator], [http://www.mastershaper.org/index.php/Main_Page MasterShaper]
|Bandwidth shaping and management.
|-
| Exchange ||
[[Citadel]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbra zimbra], [[Open-Xchange]]
|Groupware (sharing of appointments, contacts, e-mail, documents, etc. between members of a group)
|-
| Sharepoint ||
[http://www.knowledgetree.com/opensource KnowledgeTree]
|Manage and secure documents, collaborate around document creation and editing, full document contents indexing
|-
| Norton/McAfee Antivirus, [http://clamwin.com/ ClamWin], AVG, AntiVir, Avast, ClamAV ||
[[ClamAV]], [https://support.avast.com/en-eu/article/131/ Avast Security for Linux]
| Antivirus software.
|-
| ZoneAlarm , Sygate SPF||
[[Guarddog]], [[Firestarter]], [[GUFW]], [[iptables]]
| Firewall software
|}

= Multimedia =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
|[http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/ Adobe Photoshop], [http://www.corel.com/ Corel Photo-Paint], '''GIMP''', '''Glimpse''', '''GIMPShop''', '''ImageMagick''', '''Xnview''', '''[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)]''', '''[https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable]''', '''Pinta''', '''MyPaint''', '''Krita''', '''Filmulator''', '''Photivo''', '''RawTherapee''', '''digiKam''', '''nomacs''' ||
[http://www.gimp.org/ GIMP], Glimpse,
[[GIMPShop]], ImageMagick, Pinta, MyPaint,
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krita Krita], Xnview,
[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)], [https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable], Filmulator, Photivo, RawTherapee, digiKam, nomacs
|Raster graphics editors
|-
|[http://www.corel.com/ Corel Draw], [http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator/ Adobe Illustrator], '''Inkscape''', '''Vectr''', '''Gravit''', '''LibreOffice Draw''', '''sK1''', '''SVG-edit''' ||
[http://www.inkscape.org/ Inkscape], Vectr, Gravit, LibreOffice Draw, Karbon, sK1, SVG-edit. [https://itsfoss.com/vector-graphics-editors-linux/ Ref.]
|Vector graphics editors
|-
|Adobe Animate, '''Synfig''', '''Pencil2D''', '''Tupi (Tupitube Desk)''', '''OpenToonz''', '''Blender''', '''Toon Boom Harmony''', '''Krita''', '''Aseprite''', '''TVPaint''', '''Animaker''', '''Ajax Animator''', '''Glaxnimate''', '''Tahoma2D''', '''Enve''' ||
Synfig, Pencil2D, Tupi (Tupitube Desk), OpenToonz, Blender, Toon Boom Harmony, Krita, Aseprite, TVPaint, Animaker, Ajax Animator, Glaxnimate, Tahoma2D , Enve
| 2D Animations
|-
| Irfanview, ACDSee, '''digiKam''', '''Xnview''', '''nomacs''' ||
[[XnView]], [http://mirageiv.berlios.de/ Mirage], [[GThumb]], Shotwell, KPhotoAlbum, Geeqie, digiKam, Gwenview, Ristretto, Viewnior, nomacs
|Image viewers
|-
| 3D Studio MAX, '''Blender''', [http://www.autodesk.com '''Maya'''] ||
[[Blender]],
[http://www.autodesk.com Maya],
[[K-3D]]
|3D modeling software
|-
| Autodesk Inventor, Solidworks, CATIA || [http://www.freecadweb.org FreeCAD], [http://www.salome-platform.org/ SALOME platform]
| Professional 3D CAD software
|-
| Windows Media Player, PowerDVD, SMPlayer, MPV, [[VLC]] ||
SMPlayer,
MPV,
[[VLC]],
[[Xine]],
[[Totem]],
[[Kaffeine]],
Parole,
Celluloid,
[[MPlayer]]
| [[Video Players]]
|-
| SIA Smaart Live || [http://sf.net/projects/brp-pacu/ BRP-PACU] || [[Sound]] analysis
|-
| Winamp, Sonique, iTunes, [http://www.atunes.org/ aTunes], '''Clementine''', '''VLC''', '''SMplayer''', '''Deadbeef''', '''Strawberry''', '''Audacious''' ||
[[Amarok]],
Clementine,
[[RhythmBox]],
[http://banshee-project.org/index.php/Main_Page Banshee],
[[Xine]],
VLC,
SMplayer,
Elisa,
Deadbeef,
Audacious, Strawberry. See also Video Players section
|[[Music Players]]
|-
| [http://www.otsav.com/ OTSAV, OTS Turntables], [http://serato.com/ Serato], [http://www.native-instruments.com/en/traktor/ Traktor], [http://www.virtualdj.com/ Virtual DJ], [http://www.pcdj.com/ PC DJ], [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
| [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
|Audio & video play out (DJ/presenter)
|-
| Windows Movie Maker, Adobe Premiere Elements, [http://www.goldwave.com/mqrelease.php Multiquence], '''Avidemux''', '''OpenShot''', '''VidCutter''', [https://shotcut.org/ '''Shotcut'''], '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron]''', [https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php '''Olive'''], '''Lightworks''' ||
[[Cinelerra]] (difficult but very professional),
[[KDenlive]] (easy and powerful),
[[LiVES]],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avidemux AviDemux],
OpenShot,
VidCutter,
Flowblade,
Pitivi,
DaVinci Resolve,
[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron],
[https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php Olive],
Lightworks (thanks to Linux Format magazine),
[https://shotcut.org/ Shotcut](thanks to Linux Format magazine)
|[[Video Editors]]
|-
| '''Audacity''', Cubase, '''Ardour''', Adobe Audition (formerly Cool Edit Pro), [http://www.goldwave.com/ GoldWave], Cakewalk/Sonar, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''LMMS''', '''Traverso-DAW''', '''[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]''' ||
[[Audacity]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden],
[[Beast]],
[[Ardour]],
Harrison Mixbus,
[http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/index.php Radium],
DaVinci Resolve,
Bitwig Studio,
Qtractor,
[https://traverso-daw.org/ Traverso-DAW],
LMMS,
[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]
|Digital audio workstation software
|-
| Audio Catalyst, '''Ocenaudio''', dbpoweramp, CDex, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''Audacity''' ||
[[Audacity]],
Ocenaudio,
DaVinci Resolve,
[[Grip]]
| [[Audio Editors]]
|-
| '''Wavesurfer''', '''Audacity''', '''Sox'''||[https://itsfoss.com/record-streaming-audio/ Audio Recorder], Ecasound, Audacity, Sox, Wavesurfer
|Audio recorders
|-
| Cakewalk/Sonar ||
[[kmid]],
[[kmidi]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden]
| [[MIDI]]
|-
|[http://www.noteworthysoftware.com/ NoteWorthy Composer], '''MuseScore''', '''LilyPond'''||
[http://www.musescore.org/ MuseScore], [http://lilypond.org/web/ LilyPond]
|Musical score typesetting
|-
|[http://www.guitar-pro.com/ GuitarPro], TuxGuitar ||
[http://www.tuxguitar.com.ar/ TuxGuitar]
|Guitar tablature editors
|-
| Microsoft Paint, Kid Pix, '''Tux Paint''', '''Pencil 2D''', '''Krita''', '''Pinta''', '''Mypaint''', '''Mtpaint''' ||
[http://www.tuxpaint.org/ Tuxpaint], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KolourPaint KolourPaint], Pencil 2D, Krita, [https://launchpad.net/dibuja Dibuja], Pinta, Mypaint, Mtpaint
|Basic raster painting programs
|-
| Videora, [https://handbrake.fr/ '''Handbrake'''], '''WinFF''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || [https://handbrake.fr/ Handbrake], WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, Transmageddon, VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Video converter
|-
| '''WinFF''', '''Handbrake''', '''fre:ac - free audio converter (freac)''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || Handbrake, WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, fre:ac - free audio converter (freac), VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Audio converter
|-
|TMPGEnc DVD Author, Roxio DVDit, '''Open DVD Producer''', '''DVDStyler''' ||
DVDStyler, [http://opendvdproducer.jonata.org/ Open DVD Producer], [http://www.rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html DeVeDe]
|DVD authoring software
|-
|'''uTox''', '''qTox''', '''Jitsi''', '''OpenMeetings''', '''Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone)''', '''Microsoft Teams''', '''Zoom''' || uTox, qTox, OpenMettings, Jitsi, Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone), Empathy, Microsoft Teams, Zoom
| Video Conferencing
|}

= Education =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| '''Klavaro''', '''Tipp10''' || Klavaro, Tipp10, [[KTouch]], Tux Typing, GNU Typist || Touch typing tutors
|-
| '''Maple''', '''Mathematica''' || Maple, Mathematica, [http://maxima.sourceforge.net/ Maxima]
| Computer algebra systems
|-
| '''Matlab''', '''Octave''', '''Scilab''' ||
Matlab, [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ Octave],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SciLab SciLab], Sage, KAlgebra
| High level numeric computation environments
|-
| '''SPSS''', '''Stata''', EViews, '''PSPP''', '''[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project]''', '''[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]''' ||
[http://www.stata.com/products/unix.html Stata], SPSS,
[http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/pspp.html PSPP],
[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Plus S-Plus],
[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]
| Statistical analysis
|-
| Verilog ||
[http://www.icarus.com/eda/verilog/ iverilog]
| Verilog Simulator
|-
| '''Google Earth''', NASA World Wind, '''Celestia''', '''Stellarium''', '''Skychart''', '''Aladin Sky Atlas''', Microsoft Flight Simulator, '''FlightGear''' ||
[http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html Google Earth], [https://celestia.space/index.html Celestia], [http://www.stellarium.org/ Stellarium], [https://marble.kde.org/ Marble], [http://www.geody.com/ Geody], Kstars, Skychart, Aladin Sky Atlas, [http://www.flightgear.org/ FlightGear]
| Geography, astronomy and simulation
|}

''Please add new applications to this list. A good resource is the [http://www.nawaz.org/wiki/index.php?title=Table_of_Equivalents BeetleSpace Windows/Linux Software Table of Equivalents], which is GNU FDL licensed.''

= See also =

* [[running windows software]]
* [http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux.]
* [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareEquivalents Ubuntu software equivalents's page]
* [http://www.linuxeq.com/ The Linux Equivalent Project]

[[Category:FAQ]]

Linux software equivalent to Windows software

2022-04-03T22:39:07Z

Kareempharmacist: /* Networking */

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.

= Office and Productivity =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Office, '''OpenOffice''', '''Libre Office''', '''WPS Office''', '''Softmaker Office''', '''Onlyoffice Desktop'''
| [[Libre Office]], [https://www.wps.com/linux WPS Office](WPS-Community), [[OpenOffice]], [https://www.calligra.org/ Calligra], Softmaker FreeOffice, OnlyOffice Desktop
| Office package
|-
| Microsoft Word, OOwriter, LibreOffice Writer, WPS Writer, Softmaker TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[OOWriter]], [http://www.abiword.org AbiWord], WPS Writer, LibreOffice Writer, Calligra Words, FreeOffice TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop, Lyx, [[LaTeX]]
| [[Word Processing]]
|-
| Notepad, Wordpad, TheGun, EditPlus, SciTE, Notepad++ ||
[[Vim]], [[KWrite]],
[[Kate]], [http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/ BlueFish], [[Gedit]], [[Joe]], Sublime Text, [[Leafpad]], [[Nano]]
| [[Text Editors]]
|-
| Access, dBase, Foxpro, Paradox, '''OOBase''', '''LibreOffice Base'''
| [http://userbase.kde.org/Kexi Kexi], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Base OOBase], LibreOffice Base
| [[Database]]
|-
| Excel, Corel WordPrefect, '''LibreOffice Calc''', '''Softmaker Office PlanMaker''', '''WPS Spreedsheets''', '''OOCalc''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Calc, Calligra Sheets, Softmaker Office PlanMaker, WPS Spreedsheets, [[OOCalc]], [http://www.gnumeric.org gnumeric], OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Spreadsheet]]
|-
| Visio, [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html '''yED'''], '''LibreOffice Draw'''
| [https://www.calligra.org/flow/ Calligra Flow], [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html yED], LibreOffice Draw
| Diagramming
|-
| PowerPoint, '''LibreOffice Impress''', '''OOImpress''', '''WPS Presentation''', '''Softmaker Office Presentations''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Impress, [[OOImpress]], Calligra Stage, WPS Presentation, Softmaker Office Presentations, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Presentation software]]
|-
| Final Draft, Script Studio, '''Fade In''', '''KIT Scenarist''', '''Story Architect''', '''Trelby''', '''Scrite'''
| Fade In, KIT Scenarist, Story Architect, Trelby, Scrite
| Screenwriting software
|-
| Microsoft Project Manager
| [[MOOS Project Viewer]], Calligra Plan
| Project management
|-
| '''Wondershare EdrawMax''', XMind
| Wondershare EdrawMax, Minder, XMind
| Mind maps
|-
| Outlook, '''Thunderbird + Lightning'''
| [[Kontact]], [https://pawsa.fedorapeople.org/balsa/ BALSA], [[Thunderbird]] + [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/ Lightning]
| Personal information managers
|-
| Alcohol 120%, Discjuggler, Easy CD Creator, Nero Burning ROM ||
[[K3b]], [[XCDRoast]], Brasero, Xfburn, [[CD/DVD_Burning|''more'']]
|DVD/CD burning
|-
|Alcohol 120%, Nero Burning ROM, '''MakeMKV''', ImgBurn, Infrarecorder || MakeMKV, Thoggen, Dvdbackup, HandBrake, DVD::RIP, AcidRIP
| DVD ripping software
|-
| Quicken, Microsoft Money, TurboTax
| [http://gnucash.org/ GnucAsh], [http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/index-home.html KMyMoney], [[CrossOver]] Office with Quicken, [http://www.lazy8.nu/ lazy8ledger]
| Accounting
|-
| ActiveSync ||
[[SynCE]]
|Synchronization with Windows Mobile devices
|-
| WinEdt, TeXnicCenter
| [[Kile]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texmaker Texmaker], [[LyX]]
| LaTeX IDEs
|-
| Veritas Backup Exec, [http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm Cobian Backup], '''Duplicati''' ||
LuckyBackup, Déjà Dup, Grsync, Duplicati [[list of backUp applications|''more'']]
| [[Backup]]
|-
| Google Desktop ||
[[Recoll]]
| Desktop Search
|-
| Norton Ghost ||
[[Partition Image]], [[g4u]], [http://www.mondorescue.org/ Mondo Rescue], [[dd]], gDiskDump (a dd frontend), Clonezilla, Trinity Rescue Kit
|Disk imaging
|-
| Norton Partition Magic ||
[[GParted]], Clonezilla (a live cd), KDE Partition Manager, GNOME Disks
|Disk partitioning
|-
|[http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/Disk_Size_Explorer.asp Disk Size Explorer]
|[https://utils.kde.org/projects/filelight/ File Light], [[Konqueror]], Baobab, xdiskusage, duc [https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-analyze-your-disk-usage-pattern-in-linux/ ref.]
| Disk usage analyzers
|-
|[http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html Filemon], [http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Regmon.html Regmon]
| [http://syscalltrack.sourceforge.net/ syscalltrack]
| system call tracking (file monitor & others)
|-
| WinMerge, SyncToy ||
[http://meld.sourceforge.net/ Meld], [[Unison]], [http://synkron.sourceforge.net/ Synkron], [[rSync]]
| File synchronization
|-
| Google Drive, Dropbox, etc ||
[https://rclone.org Rclone]
| Cloud hosted file synchronization (Amazon S3, Dropbox, Google Cloud Storage, Google Drive, FTP, Microsoft OneDrive, sFTP, etc)
|-
| Windows Update, Add/Remove programs||
[[apt-get]], [http://aptitude.sourceforge.net/ Aptitude], [http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Portage portage], [[Rpm|rpm]], [[urpmi]], [[yast]], [[yum]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptic_Package_Manager Synaptic], [https://snapcraft.io Snapcraft (Snap)]
|Every Linux distribution has an infrastructure to manage installed software which is quite different from Windows. For instance, all updates are handled by a single program. See [[package management]].
|-
| WinRunner || [http://hoopajoo.net/projects/xautomation.html xautomation] || automating interactive applications
|-
| 7-Zip, Winzip, Winrar, Peazip ||
[[Karchiver]],
[[File Roller]],
Xarchiver,
[[ark]],
[[hjsplit]]; [[packing and unpacking files|''command line tools'']]
|Archivers
|-
| chkdsk || [[fsck]], [https://www.tecmint.com/linux-disk-scanning-tools/ other tools] || check your file system (and the [[hard disk]] beneath it) for errors
|-
| Daemon Tools ||
[[mount]], Disk Image Mounter in Gnome/KDE, Furius ISO mount, AcetoneISO
|ISO mounting
|-
| Disclib || [http://www.gwhere.org/home.php3 gWhere]
| Disk cataloging programs
|-
| Evernote, OneNote || NixNote, Tusk, Whatever, GeekNote, ForeverNote, [https://joplinapp.org/ Joplin], Xournal, XFCE4 Notes, Xpad, Hnb, Gnote, Feathernotes, Cherrytree, Bijiben, Basket, Noblenote, Nvpy. Thanks to [https://itsfoss.com/evernote-on-linux/]
|Note Taking App
|}

== Desktop Publishing ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Dreamweaver, NVU, KompoZer, Google Web Designer ||
[http://www.google.com/webdesigner/ Google Web Designer] (WYSIWYG)
[[html editors|more]]
|[[Web Design]]
|-
| Quark, Quark Express, Microsoft Publisher, '''Scribus''', '''Karbon''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribus Scribus], Laidout, VivaDesigner, QuickSilver, Xara Xtreme, Karbon
|DTP software
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader, Xpdf Reader, Foxit reader, Sumatra pdf ||

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evince Evince],
Zathura,
Okular,
Bookworm,
Qpdfview,
Foxit reader,
PDF Studio Viewer,
[[Xpdf]],
MuPDF,
Atril,
[[Ghostview]], [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF readers
|-
| Adobe Acrobat Distiller, PDFCreator ||
[http://www.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~vrbehr/cups-pdf/ CUPS-PDF], Libre Office, [[OpenOffice.org]], PDF Studio, [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter] -- can convert to pdf. [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF authoring
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF editor, [http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio '''PDF Studio Pro'''], '''Master PDF Editor''', '''Libreoffice Draw''', '''Scribus''', '''Inkscape''' ||
[http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio PDF Studio Pro], Master PDF Editor, [http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfedit Pdfedit], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam Pdfjam], [http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk Pdftk], Scribus, Inkscape, Karbon, Okular, Libreoffice Draw. Thanks to [https://www.ubuntupit.com/linux-pdf-editor-top-15-reviewed-and-compared/ this] [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF editing tools
|-
| SilverFast ||
[[xSane]], [http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html VueScan], Simple Scan, Skanlite, Gscan2pdf, GIMP with Quitelnsane
| [[scanning]]
|-
| FinePrint ||
[http://www.boomaga.org boomaga], [http://wfr.tcl.tk/279 page-crunch], [http://freshmeat.net/projects/mpage/ mpage], [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter], [http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~ajcd/psutils/index.html psnup/PSutils], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam pdfnup/PDFjam]
| Document printing/reformatting tools
|}

= Networking =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Internet Explorer, '''Microsoft Edge''', '''Firefox''', '''Opera''', '''Chrome''', '''Pale Moon''', '''Brave''', '''Vivaldi''', '''Otter Browser''', '''Falkon''', '''Dooble''', '''Slimjet''' ||
[[Firefox]],
[[Konqueror]],
Epiphany (Gnome Web), Falkon, Microsoft Edge, Slimjet, Midori,
[http://www.google.com/chrome Chrome], Chromium,
[[Opera]],
Otter Browser,
Brave,
Vivaldi, Falkon,
Pale Moon, Dillo, Dooble
[[Browsers|''more'']]
| [[Web Browsers]]
|-
| Microsoft Outlook, '''Thunderbird''', Pegasus, Lotus Notes, '''Seamonkey''', '''Claws Mail''', '''Mailspring''' ||
[[Kontact]],
[http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/features/evolution.html Evolution], Seamonkey,
[[Thunderbird]], Claws Mail, Mailspring, Geary [https://itsfoss.com/best-email-clients-linux/ others]
|Email clients.
|-
| ICQ, '''Trillian''', '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Irssi''' ||
Trillian, Hexchat, [[PidgIn]], [[Irssi]], [[Kopete]]
| [[Instant messaging]] [[software]].
|-
| Microsoft HyperTerminal ||
[[minicom]]
|-
| FileZilla FTP Client, WS FTP, Bullet Proof FTP, CuteFTP ||
[http://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client FileZilla FTP Client],
[http://www.kftp.org/misc/description KFTP (KFTPGrabber)],
[[Kasablanca]],
[[FireFTP]],
[[Konqueror]],
[[KBear]],
[[gFTP]],
[http://www.crossftp.com/ CrossFTP],
[[Nautilus]]
|FTP clients. Please note GNOME, KDE (and other) programs can directly open and edit files on FTP, SFTP and WebDAV shares, often using [[KIO]], [[GIO]] or [GVfs]].
|-
| mIRC, '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Quassel''', '''KVIrc''', '''Irssi''' ||
HexChat, [[PidgIn]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quassel_IRC Quassel], [[KVIrc]], Irssi, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konversation Konversation], [[BitchX]]
| [[IRC Clients]]
|-
|[http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/ UltraVNC], TightVNC, RealVNC, Remote Desktop ||
[http://www.tightvnc.com/ TightVNC],
[http://www.realvnc.com/ RealVNC], [http://www.rdesktop.org/ rdesktop],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/freenx/ FreeNX],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/x11vnc/ x11vnc],
[http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ Synergy],
XDMCP, [[SSH]] with X11 forwarding (-X or -Y option)
| [[Desktop Sharing]]
|-
| MailWasher, SpamAssassin for Windows ||
SpamAssassin
| Spam filter
|-
|Forte Free Agent, [[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]] ||
[[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]], [http://www.newsreaders.com/unix/clients.html See More Clients Here]
|News Reader (Usenet [[newsgroup]]s)
|-
| eMule, '''aMule''' || aMule
|ED2K P2P network clients
|-
| [http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php '''Vuze (formerly Azureus)'''], [http://utorrent.com/ utorrent], '''Transmission''', '''Deluge''', '''qBittorrent''', '''Tixati''', '''Frostwire''', '''Tribler''' ||
[http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php Vuze (formerly Azureus)], Tranmission, Deluge, qBittorrent, Tixati, Frostwire, Tribler, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qtorrent Qtorrent], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bittornado bittornado], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ktorrent Ktorrent],
|BitTorrent P2P network clients
|-
| '''Skype''', Voipbuster, '''Yate''', '''Linphone''', '''Jitsi''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype Skype], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linphone Linphone], Asterisk, Empathy, Yate, Jitsi
|VoIP software
|-
| Bitvise Tunnelier ||
[http://sourceforge.net/projects/gstm/ gSTM]
|gSTM is a front-end for managing SSH-tunneled port redirects.
|}

== Server ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| IIS, [[Apache]] ||
[[Apache]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nginx Engine-X], [http://www.lighttpd.net/ lighttpd]
|[[Web Servers]]
|-
| Folder sharing, printer sharing ||
[[Samba]]
|Share files and printers between Windows and Linux systems. Installed by default on most distributions.
|-
|IIS, [http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ FileZilla FTP Client & Server]
|[[vsftpd]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure-ftpd pure-ftpd]
|FTP servers, for hosting files.
|-
|[http://www.netlimiter.com/ NetLimiter] ||
[http://monkey.org/~marius/pages/?page=trickle Trickle], [http://l7-filter.sourceforge.net/ Level 7 Filter], [http://www.clarkconnect.com/info/index.php ClarkConnect], [http://www.bandwidtharbitrator.com/ Bandwidth Arbitrator], [http://www.mastershaper.org/index.php/Main_Page MasterShaper]
|Bandwidth shaping and management.
|-
| Exchange ||
[[Citadel]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbra zimbra], [[Open-Xchange]]
|Groupware (sharing of appointments, contacts, e-mail, documents, etc. between members of a group)
|-
| Sharepoint ||
[http://www.knowledgetree.com/opensource KnowledgeTree]
|Manage and secure documents, collaborate around document creation and editing, full document contents indexing
|-
| Norton/McAfee Antivirus, [http://clamwin.com/ ClamWin], AVG, AntiVir, Avast, ClamAV ||
[[ClamAV]], [https://support.avast.com/en-eu/article/131/ Avast Security for Linux]
| Antivirus software.
|-
| ZoneAlarm , Sygate SPF||
[[Guarddog]], [[Firestarter]], [[GUFW]], [[iptables]]
| Firewall software
|}

= Multimedia =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
|[http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/ Adobe Photoshop], [http://www.corel.com/ Corel Photo-Paint], '''GIMP''', '''Glimpse''', '''GIMPShop''', '''ImageMagick''', '''Xnview''', '''[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)]''', '''[https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable]''', '''Pinta''', '''MyPaint''', '''Krita''', '''Filmulator''', '''Photivo''', '''RawTherapee''', '''digiKam''', '''nomacs''' ||
[http://www.gimp.org/ GIMP], Glimpse,
[[GIMPShop]], ImageMagick, Pinta, MyPaint,
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krita Krita], Xnview,
[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)], [https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable], Filmulator, Photivo, RawTherapee, digiKam, nomacs
|Raster graphics editors
|-
|[http://www.corel.com/ Corel Draw], [http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator/ Adobe Illustrator], '''Inkscape''', '''Vectr''', '''Gravit''', '''LibreOffice Draw''', '''sK1''', '''SVG-edit''' ||
[http://www.inkscape.org/ Inkscape], Vectr, Gravit, LibreOffice Draw, Karbon, sK1, SVG-edit. [https://itsfoss.com/vector-graphics-editors-linux/ Ref.]
|Vector graphics editors
|-
|Adobe Animate, '''Synfig''', '''Pencil2D''', '''Tupi (Tupitube Desk)''', '''OpenToonz''', '''Blender''', '''Toon Boom Harmony''', '''Krita''', '''Aseprite''', '''TVPaint''', '''Animaker''', '''Ajax Animator''', '''Glaxnimate''', '''Tahoma2D''', '''Enve''' ||
Synfig, Pencil2D, Tupi (Tupitube Desk), OpenToonz, Blender, Toon Boom Harmony, Krita, Aseprite, TVPaint, Animaker, Ajax Animator, Glaxnimate, Tahoma2D , Enve
| 2D Animations
|-
| Irfanview, ACDSee, '''digiKam''', '''Xnview''', '''nomacs''' ||
[[XnView]], [http://mirageiv.berlios.de/ Mirage], [[GThumb]], Shotwell, KPhotoAlbum, Geeqie, digiKam, Gwenview, Ristretto, Viewnior, nomacs
|Image viewers
|-
| 3D Studio MAX, '''Blender''', [http://www.autodesk.com '''Maya'''] ||
[[Blender]],
[http://www.autodesk.com Maya],
[[K-3D]]
|3D modeling software
|-
| Autodesk Inventor, Solidworks, CATIA || [http://www.freecadweb.org FreeCAD], [http://www.salome-platform.org/ SALOME platform]
| Professional 3D CAD software
|-
| Windows Media Player, PowerDVD, SMPlayer, MPV, [[VLC]] ||
SMPlayer,
MPV,
[[VLC]],
[[Xine]],
[[Totem]],
[[Kaffeine]],
Parole,
Celluloid,
[[MPlayer]]
| [[Video Players]]
|-
| SIA Smaart Live || [http://sf.net/projects/brp-pacu/ BRP-PACU] || [[Sound]] analysis
|-
| Winamp, Sonique, iTunes, [http://www.atunes.org/ aTunes], '''Clementine''', '''VLC''', '''SMplayer''', '''Deadbeef''', '''Strawberry''', '''Audacious''' ||
[[Amarok]],
Clementine,
[[RhythmBox]],
[http://banshee-project.org/index.php/Main_Page Banshee],
[[Xine]],
VLC,
SMplayer,
Elisa,
Deadbeef,
Audacious, Strawberry. See also Video Players section
|[[Music Players]]
|-
| [http://www.otsav.com/ OTSAV, OTS Turntables], [http://serato.com/ Serato], [http://www.native-instruments.com/en/traktor/ Traktor], [http://www.virtualdj.com/ Virtual DJ], [http://www.pcdj.com/ PC DJ], [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
| [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
|Audio & video play out (DJ/presenter)
|-
| Windows Movie Maker, Adobe Premiere Elements, [http://www.goldwave.com/mqrelease.php Multiquence], '''Avidemux''', '''OpenShot''', '''VidCutter''', [https://shotcut.org/ '''Shotcut'''], '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron]''', [https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php '''Olive'''], '''Lightworks''' ||
[[Cinelerra]] (difficult but very professional),
[[KDenlive]] (easy and powerful),
[[LiVES]],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avidemux AviDemux],
OpenShot,
VidCutter,
Flowblade,
Pitivi,
DaVinci Resolve,
[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron],
[https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php Olive],
Lightworks (thanks to Linux Format magazine),
[https://shotcut.org/ Shotcut](thanks to Linux Format magazine)
|[[Video Editors]]
|-
| '''Audacity''', Cubase, '''Ardour''', Adobe Audition (formerly Cool Edit Pro), [http://www.goldwave.com/ GoldWave], Cakewalk/Sonar, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''LMMS''', '''Traverso-DAW''', '''[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]''' ||
[[Audacity]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden],
[[Beast]],
[[Ardour]],
Harrison Mixbus,
[http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/index.php Radium],
DaVinci Resolve,
Bitwig Studio,
Qtractor,
[https://traverso-daw.org/ Traverso-DAW],
LMMS,
[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]
|Digital audio workstation software
|-
| Audio Catalyst, '''Ocenaudio''', dbpoweramp, CDex, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''Audacity''' ||
[[Audacity]],
Ocenaudio,
DaVinci Resolve,
[[Grip]]
| [[Audio Editors]]
|-
| '''Wavesurfer''', '''Audacity''', '''Sox'''||[https://itsfoss.com/record-streaming-audio/ Audio Recorder], Ecasound, Audacity, Sox, Wavesurfer
|Audio recorders
|-
| Cakewalk/Sonar ||
[[kmid]],
[[kmidi]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden]
| [[MIDI]]
|-
|[http://www.noteworthysoftware.com/ NoteWorthy Composer], '''MuseScore''', '''LilyPond'''||
[http://www.musescore.org/ MuseScore], [http://lilypond.org/web/ LilyPond]
|Musical score typesetting
|-
|[http://www.guitar-pro.com/ GuitarPro], TuxGuitar ||
[http://www.tuxguitar.com.ar/ TuxGuitar]
|Guitar tablature editors
|-
| Microsoft Paint, Kid Pix, '''Tux Paint''', '''Pencil 2D''', '''Krita''', '''Pinta''', '''Mypaint''', '''Mtpaint''' ||
[http://www.tuxpaint.org/ Tuxpaint], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KolourPaint KolourPaint], Pencil 2D, Krita, [https://launchpad.net/dibuja Dibuja], Pinta, Mypaint, Mtpaint
|Basic raster painting programs
|-
| Videora, [https://handbrake.fr/ '''Handbrake'''], '''WinFF''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || [https://handbrake.fr/ Handbrake], WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, Transmageddon, VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Video converter
|-
| '''WinFF''', '''Handbrake''', '''fre:ac - free audio converter (freac)''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || Handbrake, WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, fre:ac - free audio converter (freac), VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Audio converter
|-
|TMPGEnc DVD Author, Roxio DVDit, '''Open DVD Producer''', '''DVDStyler''' ||
DVDStyler, [http://opendvdproducer.jonata.org/ Open DVD Producer], [http://www.rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html DeVeDe]
|DVD authoring software
|-
|'''uTox''', '''qTox''', '''Jitsi''', '''OpenMeetings''', '''Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone)''', '''Microsoft Teams''', '''Zoom''' || uTox, qTox, OpenMettings, Jitsi, Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone), Empathy, Microsoft Teams, Zoom
| Video Conferencing
|}

= Education =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| '''Klavaro''', '''Tipp10''' || Klavaro, Tipp10, [[KTouch]], Tux Typing, GNU Typist || Touch typing tutors
|-
| '''Maple''', '''Mathematica''' || Maple, Mathematica, [http://maxima.sourceforge.net/ Maxima]
| Computer algebra systems
|-
| '''Matlab''', '''Octave''', '''Scilab''' ||
Matlab, [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ Octave],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SciLab SciLab], Sage, KAlgebra
| High level numeric computation environments
|-
| '''SPSS''', '''Stata''', EViews, '''PSPP''', '''[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project]''', '''[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]''' ||
[http://www.stata.com/products/unix.html Stata], SPSS,
[http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/pspp.html PSPP],
[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Plus S-Plus],
[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]
| Statistical analysis
|-
| Verilog ||
[http://www.icarus.com/eda/verilog/ iverilog]
| Verilog Simulator
|-
| '''Google Earth''', NASA World Wind, '''Celestia''', '''Stellarium''', '''Skychart''', '''Aladin Sky Atlas''', Microsoft Flight Simulator, '''FlightGear''' ||
[http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html Google Earth], [https://celestia.space/index.html Celestia], [http://www.stellarium.org/ Stellarium], [https://marble.kde.org/ Marble], [http://www.geody.com/ Geody], Kstars, Skychart, Aladin Sky Atlas, [http://www.flightgear.org/ FlightGear]
| Geography, astronomy and simulation
|}

''Please add new applications to this list. A good resource is the [http://www.nawaz.org/wiki/index.php?title=Table_of_Equivalents BeetleSpace Windows/Linux Software Table of Equivalents], which is GNU FDL licensed.''

= See also =

* [[running windows software]]
* [http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux.]
* [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareEquivalents Ubuntu software equivalents's page]
* [http://www.linuxeq.com/ The Linux Equivalent Project]

[[Category:FAQ]]

Linux software equivalent to Windows software

2022-04-03T22:37:15Z

Kareempharmacist: /* Networking */

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.

= Office and Productivity =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Office, '''OpenOffice''', '''Libre Office''', '''WPS Office''', '''Softmaker Office''', '''Onlyoffice Desktop'''
| [[Libre Office]], [https://www.wps.com/linux WPS Office](WPS-Community), [[OpenOffice]], [https://www.calligra.org/ Calligra], Softmaker FreeOffice, OnlyOffice Desktop
| Office package
|-
| Microsoft Word, OOwriter, LibreOffice Writer, WPS Writer, Softmaker TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[OOWriter]], [http://www.abiword.org AbiWord], WPS Writer, LibreOffice Writer, Calligra Words, FreeOffice TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop, Lyx, [[LaTeX]]
| [[Word Processing]]
|-
| Notepad, Wordpad, TheGun, EditPlus, SciTE, Notepad++ ||
[[Vim]], [[KWrite]],
[[Kate]], [http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/ BlueFish], [[Gedit]], [[Joe]], Sublime Text, [[Leafpad]], [[Nano]]
| [[Text Editors]]
|-
| Access, dBase, Foxpro, Paradox, '''OOBase''', '''LibreOffice Base'''
| [http://userbase.kde.org/Kexi Kexi], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Base OOBase], LibreOffice Base
| [[Database]]
|-
| Excel, Corel WordPrefect, '''LibreOffice Calc''', '''Softmaker Office PlanMaker''', '''WPS Spreedsheets''', '''OOCalc''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Calc, Calligra Sheets, Softmaker Office PlanMaker, WPS Spreedsheets, [[OOCalc]], [http://www.gnumeric.org gnumeric], OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Spreadsheet]]
|-
| Visio, [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html '''yED'''], '''LibreOffice Draw'''
| [https://www.calligra.org/flow/ Calligra Flow], [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html yED], LibreOffice Draw
| Diagramming
|-
| PowerPoint, '''LibreOffice Impress''', '''OOImpress''', '''WPS Presentation''', '''Softmaker Office Presentations''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Impress, [[OOImpress]], Calligra Stage, WPS Presentation, Softmaker Office Presentations, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Presentation software]]
|-
| Final Draft, Script Studio, '''Fade In''', '''KIT Scenarist''', '''Story Architect''', '''Trelby''', '''Scrite'''
| Fade In, KIT Scenarist, Story Architect, Trelby, Scrite
| Screenwriting software
|-
| Microsoft Project Manager
| [[MOOS Project Viewer]], Calligra Plan
| Project management
|-
| '''Wondershare EdrawMax''', XMind
| Wondershare EdrawMax, Minder, XMind
| Mind maps
|-
| Outlook, '''Thunderbird + Lightning'''
| [[Kontact]], [https://pawsa.fedorapeople.org/balsa/ BALSA], [[Thunderbird]] + [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/ Lightning]
| Personal information managers
|-
| Alcohol 120%, Discjuggler, Easy CD Creator, Nero Burning ROM ||
[[K3b]], [[XCDRoast]], Brasero, Xfburn, [[CD/DVD_Burning|''more'']]
|DVD/CD burning
|-
|Alcohol 120%, Nero Burning ROM, '''MakeMKV''', ImgBurn, Infrarecorder || MakeMKV, Thoggen, Dvdbackup, HandBrake, DVD::RIP, AcidRIP
| DVD ripping software
|-
| Quicken, Microsoft Money, TurboTax
| [http://gnucash.org/ GnucAsh], [http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/index-home.html KMyMoney], [[CrossOver]] Office with Quicken, [http://www.lazy8.nu/ lazy8ledger]
| Accounting
|-
| ActiveSync ||
[[SynCE]]
|Synchronization with Windows Mobile devices
|-
| WinEdt, TeXnicCenter
| [[Kile]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texmaker Texmaker], [[LyX]]
| LaTeX IDEs
|-
| Veritas Backup Exec, [http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm Cobian Backup], '''Duplicati''' ||
LuckyBackup, Déjà Dup, Grsync, Duplicati [[list of backUp applications|''more'']]
| [[Backup]]
|-
| Google Desktop ||
[[Recoll]]
| Desktop Search
|-
| Norton Ghost ||
[[Partition Image]], [[g4u]], [http://www.mondorescue.org/ Mondo Rescue], [[dd]], gDiskDump (a dd frontend), Clonezilla, Trinity Rescue Kit
|Disk imaging
|-
| Norton Partition Magic ||
[[GParted]], Clonezilla (a live cd), KDE Partition Manager, GNOME Disks
|Disk partitioning
|-
|[http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/Disk_Size_Explorer.asp Disk Size Explorer]
|[https://utils.kde.org/projects/filelight/ File Light], [[Konqueror]], Baobab, xdiskusage, duc [https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-analyze-your-disk-usage-pattern-in-linux/ ref.]
| Disk usage analyzers
|-
|[http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html Filemon], [http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Regmon.html Regmon]
| [http://syscalltrack.sourceforge.net/ syscalltrack]
| system call tracking (file monitor & others)
|-
| WinMerge, SyncToy ||
[http://meld.sourceforge.net/ Meld], [[Unison]], [http://synkron.sourceforge.net/ Synkron], [[rSync]]
| File synchronization
|-
| Google Drive, Dropbox, etc ||
[https://rclone.org Rclone]
| Cloud hosted file synchronization (Amazon S3, Dropbox, Google Cloud Storage, Google Drive, FTP, Microsoft OneDrive, sFTP, etc)
|-
| Windows Update, Add/Remove programs||
[[apt-get]], [http://aptitude.sourceforge.net/ Aptitude], [http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Portage portage], [[Rpm|rpm]], [[urpmi]], [[yast]], [[yum]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptic_Package_Manager Synaptic], [https://snapcraft.io Snapcraft (Snap)]
|Every Linux distribution has an infrastructure to manage installed software which is quite different from Windows. For instance, all updates are handled by a single program. See [[package management]].
|-
| WinRunner || [http://hoopajoo.net/projects/xautomation.html xautomation] || automating interactive applications
|-
| 7-Zip, Winzip, Winrar, Peazip ||
[[Karchiver]],
[[File Roller]],
Xarchiver,
[[ark]],
[[hjsplit]]; [[packing and unpacking files|''command line tools'']]
|Archivers
|-
| chkdsk || [[fsck]], [https://www.tecmint.com/linux-disk-scanning-tools/ other tools] || check your file system (and the [[hard disk]] beneath it) for errors
|-
| Daemon Tools ||
[[mount]], Disk Image Mounter in Gnome/KDE, Furius ISO mount, AcetoneISO
|ISO mounting
|-
| Disclib || [http://www.gwhere.org/home.php3 gWhere]
| Disk cataloging programs
|-
| Evernote, OneNote || NixNote, Tusk, Whatever, GeekNote, ForeverNote, [https://joplinapp.org/ Joplin], Xournal, XFCE4 Notes, Xpad, Hnb, Gnote, Feathernotes, Cherrytree, Bijiben, Basket, Noblenote, Nvpy. Thanks to [https://itsfoss.com/evernote-on-linux/]
|Note Taking App
|}

== Desktop Publishing ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Dreamweaver, NVU, KompoZer, Google Web Designer ||
[http://www.google.com/webdesigner/ Google Web Designer] (WYSIWYG)
[[html editors|more]]
|[[Web Design]]
|-
| Quark, Quark Express, Microsoft Publisher, '''Scribus''', '''Karbon''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribus Scribus], Laidout, VivaDesigner, QuickSilver, Xara Xtreme, Karbon
|DTP software
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader, Xpdf Reader, Foxit reader, Sumatra pdf ||

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evince Evince],
Zathura,
Okular,
Bookworm,
Qpdfview,
Foxit reader,
PDF Studio Viewer,
[[Xpdf]],
MuPDF,
Atril,
[[Ghostview]], [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF readers
|-
| Adobe Acrobat Distiller, PDFCreator ||
[http://www.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~vrbehr/cups-pdf/ CUPS-PDF], Libre Office, [[OpenOffice.org]], PDF Studio, [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter] -- can convert to pdf. [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF authoring
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF editor, [http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio '''PDF Studio Pro'''], '''Master PDF Editor''', '''Libreoffice Draw''', '''Scribus''', '''Inkscape''' ||
[http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio PDF Studio Pro], Master PDF Editor, [http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfedit Pdfedit], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam Pdfjam], [http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk Pdftk], Scribus, Inkscape, Karbon, Okular, Libreoffice Draw. Thanks to [https://www.ubuntupit.com/linux-pdf-editor-top-15-reviewed-and-compared/ this] [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF editing tools
|-
| SilverFast ||
[[xSane]], [http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html VueScan], Simple Scan, Skanlite, Gscan2pdf, GIMP with Quitelnsane
| [[scanning]]
|-
| FinePrint ||
[http://www.boomaga.org boomaga], [http://wfr.tcl.tk/279 page-crunch], [http://freshmeat.net/projects/mpage/ mpage], [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter], [http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~ajcd/psutils/index.html psnup/PSutils], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam pdfnup/PDFjam]
| Document printing/reformatting tools
|}

= Networking =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Internet Explorer, '''Microsoft Edge''', '''Firefox''', '''Opera''', '''Chrome''', '''Pale Moon''', '''Brave''', '''Vivaldi''', '''Otter Browser''', '''Falkon''', '''Dooble''', '''Slimjet''' ||
[[Firefox]],
[[Konqueror]],
Epiphany (Gnome Web), Falkon, Microsoft Edge, Slimjet, Midori,
[http://www.google.com/chrome Chrome], Chromium,
[[Opera]],
Otter Browser,
Brave,
Vivaldi, Falkon,
Pale Moon, Dillo, Dooble
[[Browsers|''more'']]
| [[Web Browsers]]
|-
| Microsoft Outlook, '''Thunderbird''', Pegasus, Lotus Notes, '''Seamonkey''', '''Claws Mail''', '''Mailspring''' ||
[[Kontact]],
[http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/features/evolution.html Evolution], Seamonkey,
[[Thunderbird]], Claws Mail, Mailspring, Geary [https://itsfoss.com/best-email-clients-linux/ others]
|Email clients.
|-
| ICQ, '''Trillian''', '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Irssi''' ||
[[Kopete]], Trillian, Hexchat, [[PidgIn]], [[Irssi]]
| [[Instant messaging]] [[software]].
|-
| Microsoft HyperTerminal ||
[[minicom]]
|-
| FileZilla FTP Client, WS FTP, Bullet Proof FTP, CuteFTP ||
[http://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client FileZilla FTP Client],
[http://www.kftp.org/misc/description KFTP (KFTPGrabber)],
[[Kasablanca]],
[[FireFTP]],
[[Konqueror]],
[[KBear]],
[[gFTP]],
[http://www.crossftp.com/ CrossFTP],
[[Nautilus]]
|FTP clients. Please note GNOME, KDE (and other) programs can directly open and edit files on FTP, SFTP and WebDAV shares, often using [[KIO]], [[GIO]] or [GVfs]].
|-
| mIRC, '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Quassel''', '''KVIrc''', '''Irssi''' ||
HexChat, [[PidgIn]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quassel_IRC Quassel], [[KVIrc]], Irssi, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konversation Konversation], [[BitchX]]
| [[IRC Clients]]
|-
|[http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/ UltraVNC], TightVNC, RealVNC, Remote Desktop ||
[http://www.tightvnc.com/ TightVNC],
[http://www.realvnc.com/ RealVNC], [http://www.rdesktop.org/ rdesktop],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/freenx/ FreeNX],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/x11vnc/ x11vnc],
[http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ Synergy],
XDMCP, [[SSH]] with X11 forwarding (-X or -Y option)
| [[Desktop Sharing]]
|-
| MailWasher, SpamAssassin for Windows ||
SpamAssassin
| Spam filter
|-
|Forte Free Agent, [[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]] ||
[[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]], [http://www.newsreaders.com/unix/clients.html See More Clients Here]
|News Reader (Usenet [[newsgroup]]s)
|-
| eMule, '''aMule''' || aMule
|ED2K P2P network clients
|-
| [http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php '''Vuze (formerly Azureus)'''], [http://utorrent.com/ utorrent], '''Transmission''', '''Deluge''', '''qBittorrent''', '''Tixati''', '''Frostwire''', '''Tribler''' ||
[http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php Vuze (formerly Azureus)], Tranmission, Deluge, qBittorrent, Tixati, Frostwire, Tribler, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qtorrent Qtorrent], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bittornado bittornado], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ktorrent Ktorrent],
|BitTorrent P2P network clients
|-
| '''Skype''', Voipbuster, '''Yate''', '''Linphone''', '''Jitsi''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype Skype], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linphone Linphone], Asterisk, Empathy, Yate, Jitsi
|VoIP software
|-
| Bitvise Tunnelier ||
[http://sourceforge.net/projects/gstm/ gSTM]
|gSTM is a front-end for managing SSH-tunneled port redirects.
|}

== Server ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| IIS, [[Apache]] ||
[[Apache]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nginx Engine-X], [http://www.lighttpd.net/ lighttpd]
|[[Web Servers]]
|-
| Folder sharing, printer sharing ||
[[Samba]]
|Share files and printers between Windows and Linux systems. Installed by default on most distributions.
|-
|IIS, [http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ FileZilla FTP Client & Server]
|[[vsftpd]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure-ftpd pure-ftpd]
|FTP servers, for hosting files.
|-
|[http://www.netlimiter.com/ NetLimiter] ||
[http://monkey.org/~marius/pages/?page=trickle Trickle], [http://l7-filter.sourceforge.net/ Level 7 Filter], [http://www.clarkconnect.com/info/index.php ClarkConnect], [http://www.bandwidtharbitrator.com/ Bandwidth Arbitrator], [http://www.mastershaper.org/index.php/Main_Page MasterShaper]
|Bandwidth shaping and management.
|-
| Exchange ||
[[Citadel]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbra zimbra], [[Open-Xchange]]
|Groupware (sharing of appointments, contacts, e-mail, documents, etc. between members of a group)
|-
| Sharepoint ||
[http://www.knowledgetree.com/opensource KnowledgeTree]
|Manage and secure documents, collaborate around document creation and editing, full document contents indexing
|-
| Norton/McAfee Antivirus, [http://clamwin.com/ ClamWin], AVG, AntiVir, Avast, ClamAV ||
[[ClamAV]], [https://support.avast.com/en-eu/article/131/ Avast Security for Linux]
| Antivirus software.
|-
| ZoneAlarm , Sygate SPF||
[[Guarddog]], [[Firestarter]], [[GUFW]], [[iptables]]
| Firewall software
|}

= Multimedia =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
|[http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/ Adobe Photoshop], [http://www.corel.com/ Corel Photo-Paint], '''GIMP''', '''Glimpse''', '''GIMPShop''', '''ImageMagick''', '''Xnview''', '''[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)]''', '''[https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable]''', '''Pinta''', '''MyPaint''', '''Krita''', '''Filmulator''', '''Photivo''', '''RawTherapee''', '''digiKam''', '''nomacs''' ||
[http://www.gimp.org/ GIMP], Glimpse,
[[GIMPShop]], ImageMagick, Pinta, MyPaint,
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krita Krita], Xnview,
[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)], [https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable], Filmulator, Photivo, RawTherapee, digiKam, nomacs
|Raster graphics editors
|-
|[http://www.corel.com/ Corel Draw], [http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator/ Adobe Illustrator], '''Inkscape''', '''Vectr''', '''Gravit''', '''LibreOffice Draw''', '''sK1''', '''SVG-edit''' ||
[http://www.inkscape.org/ Inkscape], Vectr, Gravit, LibreOffice Draw, Karbon, sK1, SVG-edit. [https://itsfoss.com/vector-graphics-editors-linux/ Ref.]
|Vector graphics editors
|-
|Adobe Animate, '''Synfig''', '''Pencil2D''', '''Tupi (Tupitube Desk)''', '''OpenToonz''', '''Blender''', '''Toon Boom Harmony''', '''Krita''', '''Aseprite''', '''TVPaint''', '''Animaker''', '''Ajax Animator''', '''Glaxnimate''', '''Tahoma2D''', '''Enve''' ||
Synfig, Pencil2D, Tupi (Tupitube Desk), OpenToonz, Blender, Toon Boom Harmony, Krita, Aseprite, TVPaint, Animaker, Ajax Animator, Glaxnimate, Tahoma2D , Enve
| 2D Animations
|-
| Irfanview, ACDSee, '''digiKam''', '''Xnview''', '''nomacs''' ||
[[XnView]], [http://mirageiv.berlios.de/ Mirage], [[GThumb]], Shotwell, KPhotoAlbum, Geeqie, digiKam, Gwenview, Ristretto, Viewnior, nomacs
|Image viewers
|-
| 3D Studio MAX, '''Blender''', [http://www.autodesk.com '''Maya'''] ||
[[Blender]],
[http://www.autodesk.com Maya],
[[K-3D]]
|3D modeling software
|-
| Autodesk Inventor, Solidworks, CATIA || [http://www.freecadweb.org FreeCAD], [http://www.salome-platform.org/ SALOME platform]
| Professional 3D CAD software
|-
| Windows Media Player, PowerDVD, SMPlayer, MPV, [[VLC]] ||
SMPlayer,
MPV,
[[VLC]],
[[Xine]],
[[Totem]],
[[Kaffeine]],
Parole,
Celluloid,
[[MPlayer]]
| [[Video Players]]
|-
| SIA Smaart Live || [http://sf.net/projects/brp-pacu/ BRP-PACU] || [[Sound]] analysis
|-
| Winamp, Sonique, iTunes, [http://www.atunes.org/ aTunes], '''Clementine''', '''VLC''', '''SMplayer''', '''Deadbeef''', '''Strawberry''', '''Audacious''' ||
[[Amarok]],
Clementine,
[[RhythmBox]],
[http://banshee-project.org/index.php/Main_Page Banshee],
[[Xine]],
VLC,
SMplayer,
Elisa,
Deadbeef,
Audacious, Strawberry. See also Video Players section
|[[Music Players]]
|-
| [http://www.otsav.com/ OTSAV, OTS Turntables], [http://serato.com/ Serato], [http://www.native-instruments.com/en/traktor/ Traktor], [http://www.virtualdj.com/ Virtual DJ], [http://www.pcdj.com/ PC DJ], [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
| [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
|Audio & video play out (DJ/presenter)
|-
| Windows Movie Maker, Adobe Premiere Elements, [http://www.goldwave.com/mqrelease.php Multiquence], '''Avidemux''', '''OpenShot''', '''VidCutter''', [https://shotcut.org/ '''Shotcut'''], '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron]''', [https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php '''Olive'''], '''Lightworks''' ||
[[Cinelerra]] (difficult but very professional),
[[KDenlive]] (easy and powerful),
[[LiVES]],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avidemux AviDemux],
OpenShot,
VidCutter,
Flowblade,
Pitivi,
DaVinci Resolve,
[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron],
[https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php Olive],
Lightworks (thanks to Linux Format magazine),
[https://shotcut.org/ Shotcut](thanks to Linux Format magazine)
|[[Video Editors]]
|-
| '''Audacity''', Cubase, '''Ardour''', Adobe Audition (formerly Cool Edit Pro), [http://www.goldwave.com/ GoldWave], Cakewalk/Sonar, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''LMMS''', '''Traverso-DAW''', '''[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]''' ||
[[Audacity]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden],
[[Beast]],
[[Ardour]],
Harrison Mixbus,
[http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/index.php Radium],
DaVinci Resolve,
Bitwig Studio,
Qtractor,
[https://traverso-daw.org/ Traverso-DAW],
LMMS,
[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]
|Digital audio workstation software
|-
| Audio Catalyst, '''Ocenaudio''', dbpoweramp, CDex, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''Audacity''' ||
[[Audacity]],
Ocenaudio,
DaVinci Resolve,
[[Grip]]
| [[Audio Editors]]
|-
| '''Wavesurfer''', '''Audacity''', '''Sox'''||[https://itsfoss.com/record-streaming-audio/ Audio Recorder], Ecasound, Audacity, Sox, Wavesurfer
|Audio recorders
|-
| Cakewalk/Sonar ||
[[kmid]],
[[kmidi]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden]
| [[MIDI]]
|-
|[http://www.noteworthysoftware.com/ NoteWorthy Composer], '''MuseScore''', '''LilyPond'''||
[http://www.musescore.org/ MuseScore], [http://lilypond.org/web/ LilyPond]
|Musical score typesetting
|-
|[http://www.guitar-pro.com/ GuitarPro], TuxGuitar ||
[http://www.tuxguitar.com.ar/ TuxGuitar]
|Guitar tablature editors
|-
| Microsoft Paint, Kid Pix, '''Tux Paint''', '''Pencil 2D''', '''Krita''', '''Pinta''', '''Mypaint''', '''Mtpaint''' ||
[http://www.tuxpaint.org/ Tuxpaint], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KolourPaint KolourPaint], Pencil 2D, Krita, [https://launchpad.net/dibuja Dibuja], Pinta, Mypaint, Mtpaint
|Basic raster painting programs
|-
| Videora, [https://handbrake.fr/ '''Handbrake'''], '''WinFF''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || [https://handbrake.fr/ Handbrake], WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, Transmageddon, VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Video converter
|-
| '''WinFF''', '''Handbrake''', '''fre:ac - free audio converter (freac)''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || Handbrake, WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, fre:ac - free audio converter (freac), VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Audio converter
|-
|TMPGEnc DVD Author, Roxio DVDit, '''Open DVD Producer''', '''DVDStyler''' ||
DVDStyler, [http://opendvdproducer.jonata.org/ Open DVD Producer], [http://www.rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html DeVeDe]
|DVD authoring software
|-
|'''uTox''', '''qTox''', '''Jitsi''', '''OpenMeetings''', '''Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone)''', '''Microsoft Teams''', '''Zoom''' || uTox, qTox, OpenMettings, Jitsi, Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone), Empathy, Microsoft Teams, Zoom
| Video Conferencing
|}

= Education =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| '''Klavaro''', '''Tipp10''' || Klavaro, Tipp10, [[KTouch]], Tux Typing, GNU Typist || Touch typing tutors
|-
| '''Maple''', '''Mathematica''' || Maple, Mathematica, [http://maxima.sourceforge.net/ Maxima]
| Computer algebra systems
|-
| '''Matlab''', '''Octave''', '''Scilab''' ||
Matlab, [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ Octave],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SciLab SciLab], Sage, KAlgebra
| High level numeric computation environments
|-
| '''SPSS''', '''Stata''', EViews, '''PSPP''', '''[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project]''', '''[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]''' ||
[http://www.stata.com/products/unix.html Stata], SPSS,
[http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/pspp.html PSPP],
[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Plus S-Plus],
[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]
| Statistical analysis
|-
| Verilog ||
[http://www.icarus.com/eda/verilog/ iverilog]
| Verilog Simulator
|-
| '''Google Earth''', NASA World Wind, '''Celestia''', '''Stellarium''', '''Skychart''', '''Aladin Sky Atlas''', Microsoft Flight Simulator, '''FlightGear''' ||
[http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html Google Earth], [https://celestia.space/index.html Celestia], [http://www.stellarium.org/ Stellarium], [https://marble.kde.org/ Marble], [http://www.geody.com/ Geody], Kstars, Skychart, Aladin Sky Atlas, [http://www.flightgear.org/ FlightGear]
| Geography, astronomy and simulation
|}

''Please add new applications to this list. A good resource is the [http://www.nawaz.org/wiki/index.php?title=Table_of_Equivalents BeetleSpace Windows/Linux Software Table of Equivalents], which is GNU FDL licensed.''

= See also =

* [[running windows software]]
* [http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux.]
* [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareEquivalents Ubuntu software equivalents's page]
* [http://www.linuxeq.com/ The Linux Equivalent Project]

[[Category:FAQ]]

Linux software equivalent to Windows software

2022-04-03T22:35:10Z

Kareempharmacist: /* Networking */

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.

= Office and Productivity =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Office, '''OpenOffice''', '''Libre Office''', '''WPS Office''', '''Softmaker Office''', '''Onlyoffice Desktop'''
| [[Libre Office]], [https://www.wps.com/linux WPS Office](WPS-Community), [[OpenOffice]], [https://www.calligra.org/ Calligra], Softmaker FreeOffice, OnlyOffice Desktop
| Office package
|-
| Microsoft Word, OOwriter, LibreOffice Writer, WPS Writer, Softmaker TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[OOWriter]], [http://www.abiword.org AbiWord], WPS Writer, LibreOffice Writer, Calligra Words, FreeOffice TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop, Lyx, [[LaTeX]]
| [[Word Processing]]
|-
| Notepad, Wordpad, TheGun, EditPlus, SciTE, Notepad++ ||
[[Vim]], [[KWrite]],
[[Kate]], [http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/ BlueFish], [[Gedit]], [[Joe]], Sublime Text, [[Leafpad]], [[Nano]]
| [[Text Editors]]
|-
| Access, dBase, Foxpro, Paradox, '''OOBase''', '''LibreOffice Base'''
| [http://userbase.kde.org/Kexi Kexi], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Base OOBase], LibreOffice Base
| [[Database]]
|-
| Excel, Corel WordPrefect, '''LibreOffice Calc''', '''Softmaker Office PlanMaker''', '''WPS Spreedsheets''', '''OOCalc''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Calc, Calligra Sheets, Softmaker Office PlanMaker, WPS Spreedsheets, [[OOCalc]], [http://www.gnumeric.org gnumeric], OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Spreadsheet]]
|-
| Visio, [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html '''yED'''], '''LibreOffice Draw'''
| [https://www.calligra.org/flow/ Calligra Flow], [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html yED], LibreOffice Draw
| Diagramming
|-
| PowerPoint, '''LibreOffice Impress''', '''OOImpress''', '''WPS Presentation''', '''Softmaker Office Presentations''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Impress, [[OOImpress]], Calligra Stage, WPS Presentation, Softmaker Office Presentations, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Presentation software]]
|-
| Final Draft, Script Studio, '''Fade In''', '''KIT Scenarist''', '''Story Architect''', '''Trelby''', '''Scrite'''
| Fade In, KIT Scenarist, Story Architect, Trelby, Scrite
| Screenwriting software
|-
| Microsoft Project Manager
| [[MOOS Project Viewer]], Calligra Plan
| Project management
|-
| '''Wondershare EdrawMax''', XMind
| Wondershare EdrawMax, Minder, XMind
| Mind maps
|-
| Outlook, '''Thunderbird + Lightning'''
| [[Kontact]], [https://pawsa.fedorapeople.org/balsa/ BALSA], [[Thunderbird]] + [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/ Lightning]
| Personal information managers
|-
| Alcohol 120%, Discjuggler, Easy CD Creator, Nero Burning ROM ||
[[K3b]], [[XCDRoast]], Brasero, Xfburn, [[CD/DVD_Burning|''more'']]
|DVD/CD burning
|-
|Alcohol 120%, Nero Burning ROM, '''MakeMKV''', ImgBurn, Infrarecorder || MakeMKV, Thoggen, Dvdbackup, HandBrake, DVD::RIP, AcidRIP
| DVD ripping software
|-
| Quicken, Microsoft Money, TurboTax
| [http://gnucash.org/ GnucAsh], [http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/index-home.html KMyMoney], [[CrossOver]] Office with Quicken, [http://www.lazy8.nu/ lazy8ledger]
| Accounting
|-
| ActiveSync ||
[[SynCE]]
|Synchronization with Windows Mobile devices
|-
| WinEdt, TeXnicCenter
| [[Kile]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texmaker Texmaker], [[LyX]]
| LaTeX IDEs
|-
| Veritas Backup Exec, [http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm Cobian Backup], '''Duplicati''' ||
LuckyBackup, Déjà Dup, Grsync, Duplicati [[list of backUp applications|''more'']]
| [[Backup]]
|-
| Google Desktop ||
[[Recoll]]
| Desktop Search
|-
| Norton Ghost ||
[[Partition Image]], [[g4u]], [http://www.mondorescue.org/ Mondo Rescue], [[dd]], gDiskDump (a dd frontend), Clonezilla, Trinity Rescue Kit
|Disk imaging
|-
| Norton Partition Magic ||
[[GParted]], Clonezilla (a live cd), KDE Partition Manager, GNOME Disks
|Disk partitioning
|-
|[http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/Disk_Size_Explorer.asp Disk Size Explorer]
|[https://utils.kde.org/projects/filelight/ File Light], [[Konqueror]], Baobab, xdiskusage, duc [https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-analyze-your-disk-usage-pattern-in-linux/ ref.]
| Disk usage analyzers
|-
|[http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html Filemon], [http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Regmon.html Regmon]
| [http://syscalltrack.sourceforge.net/ syscalltrack]
| system call tracking (file monitor & others)
|-
| WinMerge, SyncToy ||
[http://meld.sourceforge.net/ Meld], [[Unison]], [http://synkron.sourceforge.net/ Synkron], [[rSync]]
| File synchronization
|-
| Google Drive, Dropbox, etc ||
[https://rclone.org Rclone]
| Cloud hosted file synchronization (Amazon S3, Dropbox, Google Cloud Storage, Google Drive, FTP, Microsoft OneDrive, sFTP, etc)
|-
| Windows Update, Add/Remove programs||
[[apt-get]], [http://aptitude.sourceforge.net/ Aptitude], [http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Portage portage], [[Rpm|rpm]], [[urpmi]], [[yast]], [[yum]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptic_Package_Manager Synaptic], [https://snapcraft.io Snapcraft (Snap)]
|Every Linux distribution has an infrastructure to manage installed software which is quite different from Windows. For instance, all updates are handled by a single program. See [[package management]].
|-
| WinRunner || [http://hoopajoo.net/projects/xautomation.html xautomation] || automating interactive applications
|-
| 7-Zip, Winzip, Winrar, Peazip ||
[[Karchiver]],
[[File Roller]],
Xarchiver,
[[ark]],
[[hjsplit]]; [[packing and unpacking files|''command line tools'']]
|Archivers
|-
| chkdsk || [[fsck]], [https://www.tecmint.com/linux-disk-scanning-tools/ other tools] || check your file system (and the [[hard disk]] beneath it) for errors
|-
| Daemon Tools ||
[[mount]], Disk Image Mounter in Gnome/KDE, Furius ISO mount, AcetoneISO
|ISO mounting
|-
| Disclib || [http://www.gwhere.org/home.php3 gWhere]
| Disk cataloging programs
|-
| Evernote, OneNote || NixNote, Tusk, Whatever, GeekNote, ForeverNote, [https://joplinapp.org/ Joplin], Xournal, XFCE4 Notes, Xpad, Hnb, Gnote, Feathernotes, Cherrytree, Bijiben, Basket, Noblenote, Nvpy. Thanks to [https://itsfoss.com/evernote-on-linux/]
|Note Taking App
|}

== Desktop Publishing ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Dreamweaver, NVU, KompoZer, Google Web Designer ||
[http://www.google.com/webdesigner/ Google Web Designer] (WYSIWYG)
[[html editors|more]]
|[[Web Design]]
|-
| Quark, Quark Express, Microsoft Publisher, '''Scribus''', '''Karbon''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribus Scribus], Laidout, VivaDesigner, QuickSilver, Xara Xtreme, Karbon
|DTP software
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader, Xpdf Reader, Foxit reader, Sumatra pdf ||

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evince Evince],
Zathura,
Okular,
Bookworm,
Qpdfview,
Foxit reader,
PDF Studio Viewer,
[[Xpdf]],
MuPDF,
Atril,
[[Ghostview]], [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF readers
|-
| Adobe Acrobat Distiller, PDFCreator ||
[http://www.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~vrbehr/cups-pdf/ CUPS-PDF], Libre Office, [[OpenOffice.org]], PDF Studio, [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter] -- can convert to pdf. [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF authoring
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF editor, [http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio '''PDF Studio Pro'''], '''Master PDF Editor''', '''Libreoffice Draw''', '''Scribus''', '''Inkscape''' ||
[http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio PDF Studio Pro], Master PDF Editor, [http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfedit Pdfedit], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam Pdfjam], [http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk Pdftk], Scribus, Inkscape, Karbon, Okular, Libreoffice Draw. Thanks to [https://www.ubuntupit.com/linux-pdf-editor-top-15-reviewed-and-compared/ this] [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF editing tools
|-
| SilverFast ||
[[xSane]], [http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html VueScan], Simple Scan, Skanlite, Gscan2pdf, GIMP with Quitelnsane
| [[scanning]]
|-
| FinePrint ||
[http://www.boomaga.org boomaga], [http://wfr.tcl.tk/279 page-crunch], [http://freshmeat.net/projects/mpage/ mpage], [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter], [http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~ajcd/psutils/index.html psnup/PSutils], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam pdfnup/PDFjam]
| Document printing/reformatting tools
|}

= Networking =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Internet Explorer, '''Microsoft Edge''', '''Firefox''', '''Opera''', '''Chrome''', '''Pale Moon''', '''Brave''', '''Vivaldi''', '''Otter Browser''', '''Falkon''', '''Dooble''', '''Slimjet''' ||
[[Firefox]],
[[Konqueror]],
Epiphany (Gnome Web), Falkon, Microsoft Edge, Slimjet, Midori,
[http://www.google.com/chrome Chrome], Chromium,
[[Opera]],
Otter Browser,
Brave,
Vivaldi, Falkon,
Pale Moon, Dillo, Dooble
[[Browsers|''more'']]
| [[Web Browsers]]
|-
| Microsoft Outlook, '''Thunderbird''', Pegasus, Lotus Notes, '''Seamonkey''', '''Claws Mail''', '''Mailspring''' ||
[[Kontact]],
[http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/features/evolution.html Evolution], Seamonkey,
[[Thunderbird]], Claws Mail, Mailspring, Geary [https://itsfoss.com/best-email-clients-linux/ others]
|Email clients.
|-
| ICQ, Trillian, '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Irssi''' ||
[[Kopete]], Hexchat, [[PidgIn]], [[Irssi]]
| [[Instant messaging]] [[software]].
|-
| Microsoft HyperTerminal ||
[[minicom]]
|-
| FileZilla FTP Client, WS FTP, Bullet Proof FTP, CuteFTP ||
[http://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client FileZilla FTP Client],
[http://www.kftp.org/misc/description KFTP (KFTPGrabber)],
[[Kasablanca]],
[[FireFTP]],
[[Konqueror]],
[[KBear]],
[[gFTP]],
[http://www.crossftp.com/ CrossFTP],
[[Nautilus]]
|FTP clients. Please note GNOME, KDE (and other) programs can directly open and edit files on FTP, SFTP and WebDAV shares, often using [[KIO]], [[GIO]] or [GVfs]].
|-
| mIRC, '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Quassel''', '''KVIrc''', '''Irssi''' ||
HexChat, [[PidgIn]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quassel_IRC Quassel], [[KVIrc]], Irssi, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konversation Konversation], [[BitchX]]
| [[IRC Clients]]
|-
|[http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/ UltraVNC], TightVNC, RealVNC, Remote Desktop ||
[http://www.tightvnc.com/ TightVNC],
[http://www.realvnc.com/ RealVNC], [http://www.rdesktop.org/ rdesktop],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/freenx/ FreeNX],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/x11vnc/ x11vnc],
[http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ Synergy],
XDMCP, [[SSH]] with X11 forwarding (-X or -Y option)
| [[Desktop Sharing]]
|-
| MailWasher, SpamAssassin for Windows ||
SpamAssassin
| Spam filter
|-
|Forte Free Agent, [[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]] ||
[[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]], [http://www.newsreaders.com/unix/clients.html See More Clients Here]
|News Reader (Usenet [[newsgroup]]s)
|-
| eMule, '''aMule''' || aMule
|ED2K P2P network clients
|-
| [http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php '''Vuze (formerly Azureus)'''], [http://utorrent.com/ utorrent], '''Transmission''', '''Deluge''', '''qBittorrent''', '''Tixati''', '''Frostwire''', '''Tribler''' ||
[http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php Vuze (formerly Azureus)], Tranmission, Deluge, qBittorrent, Tixati, Frostwire, Tribler, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qtorrent Qtorrent], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bittornado bittornado], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ktorrent Ktorrent],
|BitTorrent P2P network clients
|-
| '''Skype''', Voipbuster, '''Yate''', '''Linphone''', '''Jitsi''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype Skype], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linphone Linphone], Asterisk, Empathy, Yate, Jitsi
|VoIP software
|-
| Bitvise Tunnelier ||
[http://sourceforge.net/projects/gstm/ gSTM]
|gSTM is a front-end for managing SSH-tunneled port redirects.
|}

== Server ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| IIS, [[Apache]] ||
[[Apache]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nginx Engine-X], [http://www.lighttpd.net/ lighttpd]
|[[Web Servers]]
|-
| Folder sharing, printer sharing ||
[[Samba]]
|Share files and printers between Windows and Linux systems. Installed by default on most distributions.
|-
|IIS, [http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ FileZilla FTP Client & Server]
|[[vsftpd]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure-ftpd pure-ftpd]
|FTP servers, for hosting files.
|-
|[http://www.netlimiter.com/ NetLimiter] ||
[http://monkey.org/~marius/pages/?page=trickle Trickle], [http://l7-filter.sourceforge.net/ Level 7 Filter], [http://www.clarkconnect.com/info/index.php ClarkConnect], [http://www.bandwidtharbitrator.com/ Bandwidth Arbitrator], [http://www.mastershaper.org/index.php/Main_Page MasterShaper]
|Bandwidth shaping and management.
|-
| Exchange ||
[[Citadel]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbra zimbra], [[Open-Xchange]]
|Groupware (sharing of appointments, contacts, e-mail, documents, etc. between members of a group)
|-
| Sharepoint ||
[http://www.knowledgetree.com/opensource KnowledgeTree]
|Manage and secure documents, collaborate around document creation and editing, full document contents indexing
|-
| Norton/McAfee Antivirus, [http://clamwin.com/ ClamWin], AVG, AntiVir, Avast, ClamAV ||
[[ClamAV]], [https://support.avast.com/en-eu/article/131/ Avast Security for Linux]
| Antivirus software.
|-
| ZoneAlarm , Sygate SPF||
[[Guarddog]], [[Firestarter]], [[GUFW]], [[iptables]]
| Firewall software
|}

= Multimedia =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
|[http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/ Adobe Photoshop], [http://www.corel.com/ Corel Photo-Paint], '''GIMP''', '''Glimpse''', '''GIMPShop''', '''ImageMagick''', '''Xnview''', '''[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)]''', '''[https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable]''', '''Pinta''', '''MyPaint''', '''Krita''', '''Filmulator''', '''Photivo''', '''RawTherapee''', '''digiKam''', '''nomacs''' ||
[http://www.gimp.org/ GIMP], Glimpse,
[[GIMPShop]], ImageMagick, Pinta, MyPaint,
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krita Krita], Xnview,
[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)], [https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable], Filmulator, Photivo, RawTherapee, digiKam, nomacs
|Raster graphics editors
|-
|[http://www.corel.com/ Corel Draw], [http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator/ Adobe Illustrator], '''Inkscape''', '''Vectr''', '''Gravit''', '''LibreOffice Draw''', '''sK1''', '''SVG-edit''' ||
[http://www.inkscape.org/ Inkscape], Vectr, Gravit, LibreOffice Draw, Karbon, sK1, SVG-edit. [https://itsfoss.com/vector-graphics-editors-linux/ Ref.]
|Vector graphics editors
|-
|Adobe Animate, '''Synfig''', '''Pencil2D''', '''Tupi (Tupitube Desk)''', '''OpenToonz''', '''Blender''', '''Toon Boom Harmony''', '''Krita''', '''Aseprite''', '''TVPaint''', '''Animaker''', '''Ajax Animator''', '''Glaxnimate''', '''Tahoma2D''', '''Enve''' ||
Synfig, Pencil2D, Tupi (Tupitube Desk), OpenToonz, Blender, Toon Boom Harmony, Krita, Aseprite, TVPaint, Animaker, Ajax Animator, Glaxnimate, Tahoma2D , Enve
| 2D Animations
|-
| Irfanview, ACDSee, '''digiKam''', '''Xnview''', '''nomacs''' ||
[[XnView]], [http://mirageiv.berlios.de/ Mirage], [[GThumb]], Shotwell, KPhotoAlbum, Geeqie, digiKam, Gwenview, Ristretto, Viewnior, nomacs
|Image viewers
|-
| 3D Studio MAX, '''Blender''', [http://www.autodesk.com '''Maya'''] ||
[[Blender]],
[http://www.autodesk.com Maya],
[[K-3D]]
|3D modeling software
|-
| Autodesk Inventor, Solidworks, CATIA || [http://www.freecadweb.org FreeCAD], [http://www.salome-platform.org/ SALOME platform]
| Professional 3D CAD software
|-
| Windows Media Player, PowerDVD, SMPlayer, MPV, [[VLC]] ||
SMPlayer,
MPV,
[[VLC]],
[[Xine]],
[[Totem]],
[[Kaffeine]],
Parole,
Celluloid,
[[MPlayer]]
| [[Video Players]]
|-
| SIA Smaart Live || [http://sf.net/projects/brp-pacu/ BRP-PACU] || [[Sound]] analysis
|-
| Winamp, Sonique, iTunes, [http://www.atunes.org/ aTunes], '''Clementine''', '''VLC''', '''SMplayer''', '''Deadbeef''', '''Strawberry''', '''Audacious''' ||
[[Amarok]],
Clementine,
[[RhythmBox]],
[http://banshee-project.org/index.php/Main_Page Banshee],
[[Xine]],
VLC,
SMplayer,
Elisa,
Deadbeef,
Audacious, Strawberry. See also Video Players section
|[[Music Players]]
|-
| [http://www.otsav.com/ OTSAV, OTS Turntables], [http://serato.com/ Serato], [http://www.native-instruments.com/en/traktor/ Traktor], [http://www.virtualdj.com/ Virtual DJ], [http://www.pcdj.com/ PC DJ], [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
| [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
|Audio & video play out (DJ/presenter)
|-
| Windows Movie Maker, Adobe Premiere Elements, [http://www.goldwave.com/mqrelease.php Multiquence], '''Avidemux''', '''OpenShot''', '''VidCutter''', [https://shotcut.org/ '''Shotcut'''], '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron]''', [https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php '''Olive'''], '''Lightworks''' ||
[[Cinelerra]] (difficult but very professional),
[[KDenlive]] (easy and powerful),
[[LiVES]],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avidemux AviDemux],
OpenShot,
VidCutter,
Flowblade,
Pitivi,
DaVinci Resolve,
[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron],
[https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php Olive],
Lightworks (thanks to Linux Format magazine),
[https://shotcut.org/ Shotcut](thanks to Linux Format magazine)
|[[Video Editors]]
|-
| '''Audacity''', Cubase, '''Ardour''', Adobe Audition (formerly Cool Edit Pro), [http://www.goldwave.com/ GoldWave], Cakewalk/Sonar, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''LMMS''', '''Traverso-DAW''', '''[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]''' ||
[[Audacity]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden],
[[Beast]],
[[Ardour]],
Harrison Mixbus,
[http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/index.php Radium],
DaVinci Resolve,
Bitwig Studio,
Qtractor,
[https://traverso-daw.org/ Traverso-DAW],
LMMS,
[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]
|Digital audio workstation software
|-
| Audio Catalyst, '''Ocenaudio''', dbpoweramp, CDex, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''Audacity''' ||
[[Audacity]],
Ocenaudio,
DaVinci Resolve,
[[Grip]]
| [[Audio Editors]]
|-
| '''Wavesurfer''', '''Audacity''', '''Sox'''||[https://itsfoss.com/record-streaming-audio/ Audio Recorder], Ecasound, Audacity, Sox, Wavesurfer
|Audio recorders
|-
| Cakewalk/Sonar ||
[[kmid]],
[[kmidi]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden]
| [[MIDI]]
|-
|[http://www.noteworthysoftware.com/ NoteWorthy Composer], '''MuseScore''', '''LilyPond'''||
[http://www.musescore.org/ MuseScore], [http://lilypond.org/web/ LilyPond]
|Musical score typesetting
|-
|[http://www.guitar-pro.com/ GuitarPro], TuxGuitar ||
[http://www.tuxguitar.com.ar/ TuxGuitar]
|Guitar tablature editors
|-
| Microsoft Paint, Kid Pix, '''Tux Paint''', '''Pencil 2D''', '''Krita''', '''Pinta''', '''Mypaint''', '''Mtpaint''' ||
[http://www.tuxpaint.org/ Tuxpaint], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KolourPaint KolourPaint], Pencil 2D, Krita, [https://launchpad.net/dibuja Dibuja], Pinta, Mypaint, Mtpaint
|Basic raster painting programs
|-
| Videora, [https://handbrake.fr/ '''Handbrake'''], '''WinFF''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || [https://handbrake.fr/ Handbrake], WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, Transmageddon, VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Video converter
|-
| '''WinFF''', '''Handbrake''', '''fre:ac - free audio converter (freac)''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || Handbrake, WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, fre:ac - free audio converter (freac), VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Audio converter
|-
|TMPGEnc DVD Author, Roxio DVDit, '''Open DVD Producer''', '''DVDStyler''' ||
DVDStyler, [http://opendvdproducer.jonata.org/ Open DVD Producer], [http://www.rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html DeVeDe]
|DVD authoring software
|-
|'''uTox''', '''qTox''', '''Jitsi''', '''OpenMeetings''', '''Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone)''', '''Microsoft Teams''', '''Zoom''' || uTox, qTox, OpenMettings, Jitsi, Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone), Empathy, Microsoft Teams, Zoom
| Video Conferencing
|}

= Education =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| '''Klavaro''', '''Tipp10''' || Klavaro, Tipp10, [[KTouch]], Tux Typing, GNU Typist || Touch typing tutors
|-
| '''Maple''', '''Mathematica''' || Maple, Mathematica, [http://maxima.sourceforge.net/ Maxima]
| Computer algebra systems
|-
| '''Matlab''', '''Octave''', '''Scilab''' ||
Matlab, [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ Octave],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SciLab SciLab], Sage, KAlgebra
| High level numeric computation environments
|-
| '''SPSS''', '''Stata''', EViews, '''PSPP''', '''[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project]''', '''[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]''' ||
[http://www.stata.com/products/unix.html Stata], SPSS,
[http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/pspp.html PSPP],
[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Plus S-Plus],
[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]
| Statistical analysis
|-
| Verilog ||
[http://www.icarus.com/eda/verilog/ iverilog]
| Verilog Simulator
|-
| '''Google Earth''', NASA World Wind, '''Celestia''', '''Stellarium''', '''Skychart''', '''Aladin Sky Atlas''', Microsoft Flight Simulator, '''FlightGear''' ||
[http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html Google Earth], [https://celestia.space/index.html Celestia], [http://www.stellarium.org/ Stellarium], [https://marble.kde.org/ Marble], [http://www.geody.com/ Geody], Kstars, Skychart, Aladin Sky Atlas, [http://www.flightgear.org/ FlightGear]
| Geography, astronomy and simulation
|}

''Please add new applications to this list. A good resource is the [http://www.nawaz.org/wiki/index.php?title=Table_of_Equivalents BeetleSpace Windows/Linux Software Table of Equivalents], which is GNU FDL licensed.''

= See also =

* [[running windows software]]
* [http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux.]
* [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareEquivalents Ubuntu software equivalents's page]
* [http://www.linuxeq.com/ The Linux Equivalent Project]

[[Category:FAQ]]

Linux software equivalent to Windows software

2022-04-03T22:33:55Z

Kareempharmacist: /* Networking */

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.

= Office and Productivity =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Office, '''OpenOffice''', '''Libre Office''', '''WPS Office''', '''Softmaker Office''', '''Onlyoffice Desktop'''
| [[Libre Office]], [https://www.wps.com/linux WPS Office](WPS-Community), [[OpenOffice]], [https://www.calligra.org/ Calligra], Softmaker FreeOffice, OnlyOffice Desktop
| Office package
|-
| Microsoft Word, OOwriter, LibreOffice Writer, WPS Writer, Softmaker TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[OOWriter]], [http://www.abiword.org AbiWord], WPS Writer, LibreOffice Writer, Calligra Words, FreeOffice TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop, Lyx, [[LaTeX]]
| [[Word Processing]]
|-
| Notepad, Wordpad, TheGun, EditPlus, SciTE, Notepad++ ||
[[Vim]], [[KWrite]],
[[Kate]], [http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/ BlueFish], [[Gedit]], [[Joe]], Sublime Text, [[Leafpad]], [[Nano]]
| [[Text Editors]]
|-
| Access, dBase, Foxpro, Paradox, '''OOBase''', '''LibreOffice Base'''
| [http://userbase.kde.org/Kexi Kexi], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Base OOBase], LibreOffice Base
| [[Database]]
|-
| Excel, Corel WordPrefect, '''LibreOffice Calc''', '''Softmaker Office PlanMaker''', '''WPS Spreedsheets''', '''OOCalc''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Calc, Calligra Sheets, Softmaker Office PlanMaker, WPS Spreedsheets, [[OOCalc]], [http://www.gnumeric.org gnumeric], OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Spreadsheet]]
|-
| Visio, [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html '''yED'''], '''LibreOffice Draw'''
| [https://www.calligra.org/flow/ Calligra Flow], [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html yED], LibreOffice Draw
| Diagramming
|-
| PowerPoint, '''LibreOffice Impress''', '''OOImpress''', '''WPS Presentation''', '''Softmaker Office Presentations''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Impress, [[OOImpress]], Calligra Stage, WPS Presentation, Softmaker Office Presentations, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Presentation software]]
|-
| Final Draft, Script Studio, '''Fade In''', '''KIT Scenarist''', '''Story Architect''', '''Trelby''', '''Scrite'''
| Fade In, KIT Scenarist, Story Architect, Trelby, Scrite
| Screenwriting software
|-
| Microsoft Project Manager
| [[MOOS Project Viewer]], Calligra Plan
| Project management
|-
| '''Wondershare EdrawMax''', XMind
| Wondershare EdrawMax, Minder, XMind
| Mind maps
|-
| Outlook, '''Thunderbird + Lightning'''
| [[Kontact]], [https://pawsa.fedorapeople.org/balsa/ BALSA], [[Thunderbird]] + [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/ Lightning]
| Personal information managers
|-
| Alcohol 120%, Discjuggler, Easy CD Creator, Nero Burning ROM ||
[[K3b]], [[XCDRoast]], Brasero, Xfburn, [[CD/DVD_Burning|''more'']]
|DVD/CD burning
|-
|Alcohol 120%, Nero Burning ROM, '''MakeMKV''', ImgBurn, Infrarecorder || MakeMKV, Thoggen, Dvdbackup, HandBrake, DVD::RIP, AcidRIP
| DVD ripping software
|-
| Quicken, Microsoft Money, TurboTax
| [http://gnucash.org/ GnucAsh], [http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/index-home.html KMyMoney], [[CrossOver]] Office with Quicken, [http://www.lazy8.nu/ lazy8ledger]
| Accounting
|-
| ActiveSync ||
[[SynCE]]
|Synchronization with Windows Mobile devices
|-
| WinEdt, TeXnicCenter
| [[Kile]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texmaker Texmaker], [[LyX]]
| LaTeX IDEs
|-
| Veritas Backup Exec, [http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm Cobian Backup], '''Duplicati''' ||
LuckyBackup, Déjà Dup, Grsync, Duplicati [[list of backUp applications|''more'']]
| [[Backup]]
|-
| Google Desktop ||
[[Recoll]]
| Desktop Search
|-
| Norton Ghost ||
[[Partition Image]], [[g4u]], [http://www.mondorescue.org/ Mondo Rescue], [[dd]], gDiskDump (a dd frontend), Clonezilla, Trinity Rescue Kit
|Disk imaging
|-
| Norton Partition Magic ||
[[GParted]], Clonezilla (a live cd), KDE Partition Manager, GNOME Disks
|Disk partitioning
|-
|[http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/Disk_Size_Explorer.asp Disk Size Explorer]
|[https://utils.kde.org/projects/filelight/ File Light], [[Konqueror]], Baobab, xdiskusage, duc [https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-analyze-your-disk-usage-pattern-in-linux/ ref.]
| Disk usage analyzers
|-
|[http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html Filemon], [http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Regmon.html Regmon]
| [http://syscalltrack.sourceforge.net/ syscalltrack]
| system call tracking (file monitor & others)
|-
| WinMerge, SyncToy ||
[http://meld.sourceforge.net/ Meld], [[Unison]], [http://synkron.sourceforge.net/ Synkron], [[rSync]]
| File synchronization
|-
| Google Drive, Dropbox, etc ||
[https://rclone.org Rclone]
| Cloud hosted file synchronization (Amazon S3, Dropbox, Google Cloud Storage, Google Drive, FTP, Microsoft OneDrive, sFTP, etc)
|-
| Windows Update, Add/Remove programs||
[[apt-get]], [http://aptitude.sourceforge.net/ Aptitude], [http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Portage portage], [[Rpm|rpm]], [[urpmi]], [[yast]], [[yum]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptic_Package_Manager Synaptic], [https://snapcraft.io Snapcraft (Snap)]
|Every Linux distribution has an infrastructure to manage installed software which is quite different from Windows. For instance, all updates are handled by a single program. See [[package management]].
|-
| WinRunner || [http://hoopajoo.net/projects/xautomation.html xautomation] || automating interactive applications
|-
| 7-Zip, Winzip, Winrar, Peazip ||
[[Karchiver]],
[[File Roller]],
Xarchiver,
[[ark]],
[[hjsplit]]; [[packing and unpacking files|''command line tools'']]
|Archivers
|-
| chkdsk || [[fsck]], [https://www.tecmint.com/linux-disk-scanning-tools/ other tools] || check your file system (and the [[hard disk]] beneath it) for errors
|-
| Daemon Tools ||
[[mount]], Disk Image Mounter in Gnome/KDE, Furius ISO mount, AcetoneISO
|ISO mounting
|-
| Disclib || [http://www.gwhere.org/home.php3 gWhere]
| Disk cataloging programs
|-
| Evernote, OneNote || NixNote, Tusk, Whatever, GeekNote, ForeverNote, [https://joplinapp.org/ Joplin], Xournal, XFCE4 Notes, Xpad, Hnb, Gnote, Feathernotes, Cherrytree, Bijiben, Basket, Noblenote, Nvpy. Thanks to [https://itsfoss.com/evernote-on-linux/]
|Note Taking App
|}

== Desktop Publishing ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Dreamweaver, NVU, KompoZer, Google Web Designer ||
[http://www.google.com/webdesigner/ Google Web Designer] (WYSIWYG)
[[html editors|more]]
|[[Web Design]]
|-
| Quark, Quark Express, Microsoft Publisher, '''Scribus''', '''Karbon''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribus Scribus], Laidout, VivaDesigner, QuickSilver, Xara Xtreme, Karbon
|DTP software
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader, Xpdf Reader, Foxit reader, Sumatra pdf ||

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evince Evince],
Zathura,
Okular,
Bookworm,
Qpdfview,
Foxit reader,
PDF Studio Viewer,
[[Xpdf]],
MuPDF,
Atril,
[[Ghostview]], [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF readers
|-
| Adobe Acrobat Distiller, PDFCreator ||
[http://www.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~vrbehr/cups-pdf/ CUPS-PDF], Libre Office, [[OpenOffice.org]], PDF Studio, [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter] -- can convert to pdf. [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF authoring
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF editor, [http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio '''PDF Studio Pro'''], '''Master PDF Editor''', '''Libreoffice Draw''', '''Scribus''', '''Inkscape''' ||
[http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio PDF Studio Pro], Master PDF Editor, [http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfedit Pdfedit], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam Pdfjam], [http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk Pdftk], Scribus, Inkscape, Karbon, Okular, Libreoffice Draw. Thanks to [https://www.ubuntupit.com/linux-pdf-editor-top-15-reviewed-and-compared/ this] [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF editing tools
|-
| SilverFast ||
[[xSane]], [http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html VueScan], Simple Scan, Skanlite, Gscan2pdf, GIMP with Quitelnsane
| [[scanning]]
|-
| FinePrint ||
[http://www.boomaga.org boomaga], [http://wfr.tcl.tk/279 page-crunch], [http://freshmeat.net/projects/mpage/ mpage], [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter], [http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~ajcd/psutils/index.html psnup/PSutils], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam pdfnup/PDFjam]
| Document printing/reformatting tools
|}

= Networking =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Internet Explorer, '''Microsoft Edge''', '''Firefox''', '''Opera''', '''Chrome''', '''Pale Moon''', '''Brave''', '''Vivaldi''', '''Otter Browser''', '''Falkon''', '''Dooble''', '''Slimjet''' ||
[[Firefox]],
[[Konqueror]],
Epiphany (Gnome Web), Falkon, Microsoft Edge, Slimjet, Midori,
[http://www.google.com/chrome Chrome], Chromium,
[[Opera]],
Otter Browser,
Brave,
Vivaldi, Falkon,
Pale Moon, Dillo, Dooble
[[Browsers|''more'']]
| [[Web Browsers]]
|-
| Microsoft Outlook, '''Thunderbird''', Pegasus, Lotus Notes, '''Seamonkey''', '''Claws Mail''', '''Mailspring''' ||
[[Kontact]],
[http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/features/evolution.html Evolution], Seamonkey,
[[Thunderbird]], Claws Mail, Mailspring, Geary [https://itsfoss.com/best-email-clients-linux/ others]
|Email clients.
|-
| ICQ, AIM (AOL Instant Messenger), Trillian, '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Irssi''' ||
[[Kopete]], Hexchat, [[PidgIn]], [[Irssi]]
| [[Instant messaging]] [[software]].
|-
| Microsoft HyperTerminal ||
[[minicom]]
|-
| FileZilla FTP Client, WS FTP, Bullet Proof FTP, CuteFTP ||
[http://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client FileZilla FTP Client],
[http://www.kftp.org/misc/description KFTP (KFTPGrabber)],
[[Kasablanca]],
[[FireFTP]],
[[Konqueror]],
[[KBear]],
[[gFTP]],
[http://www.crossftp.com/ CrossFTP],
[[Nautilus]]
|FTP clients. Please note GNOME, KDE (and other) programs can directly open and edit files on FTP, SFTP and WebDAV shares, often using [[KIO]], [[GIO]] or [GVfs]].
|-
| mIRC, '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Quassel''', '''KVIrc''', '''Irssi''' ||
HexChat, [[PidgIn]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quassel_IRC Quassel], [[KVIrc]], Irssi, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konversation Konversation], [[BitchX]]
| [[IRC Clients]]
|-
|[http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/ UltraVNC], TightVNC, RealVNC, Remote Desktop ||
[http://www.tightvnc.com/ TightVNC],
[http://www.realvnc.com/ RealVNC], [http://www.rdesktop.org/ rdesktop],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/freenx/ FreeNX],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/x11vnc/ x11vnc],
[http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ Synergy],
XDMCP, [[SSH]] with X11 forwarding (-X or -Y option)
| [[Desktop Sharing]]
|-
| MailWasher, SpamAssassin for Windows ||
SpamAssassin
| Spam filter
|-
|Forte Free Agent, [[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]] ||
[[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]], [http://www.newsreaders.com/unix/clients.html See More Clients Here]
|News Reader (Usenet [[newsgroup]]s)
|-
| eMule, '''aMule''' || aMule
|ED2K P2P network clients
|-
| [http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php '''Vuze (formerly Azureus)'''], [http://utorrent.com/ utorrent], '''Transmission''', '''Deluge''', '''qBittorrent''', '''Tixati''', '''Frostwire''', '''Tribler''' ||
[http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php Vuze (formerly Azureus)], Tranmission, Deluge, qBittorrent, Tixati, Frostwire, Tribler, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qtorrent Qtorrent], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bittornado bittornado], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ktorrent Ktorrent],
|BitTorrent P2P network clients
|-
| '''Skype''', Voipbuster, '''Yate''', '''Linphone''', '''Jitsi''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype Skype], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linphone Linphone], Asterisk, Empathy, Yate, Jitsi
|VoIP software
|-
| Bitvise Tunnelier ||
[http://sourceforge.net/projects/gstm/ gSTM]
|gSTM is a front-end for managing SSH-tunneled port redirects.
|}

== Server ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| IIS, [[Apache]] ||
[[Apache]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nginx Engine-X], [http://www.lighttpd.net/ lighttpd]
|[[Web Servers]]
|-
| Folder sharing, printer sharing ||
[[Samba]]
|Share files and printers between Windows and Linux systems. Installed by default on most distributions.
|-
|IIS, [http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ FileZilla FTP Client & Server]
|[[vsftpd]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure-ftpd pure-ftpd]
|FTP servers, for hosting files.
|-
|[http://www.netlimiter.com/ NetLimiter] ||
[http://monkey.org/~marius/pages/?page=trickle Trickle], [http://l7-filter.sourceforge.net/ Level 7 Filter], [http://www.clarkconnect.com/info/index.php ClarkConnect], [http://www.bandwidtharbitrator.com/ Bandwidth Arbitrator], [http://www.mastershaper.org/index.php/Main_Page MasterShaper]
|Bandwidth shaping and management.
|-
| Exchange ||
[[Citadel]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbra zimbra], [[Open-Xchange]]
|Groupware (sharing of appointments, contacts, e-mail, documents, etc. between members of a group)
|-
| Sharepoint ||
[http://www.knowledgetree.com/opensource KnowledgeTree]
|Manage and secure documents, collaborate around document creation and editing, full document contents indexing
|-
| Norton/McAfee Antivirus, [http://clamwin.com/ ClamWin], AVG, AntiVir, Avast, ClamAV ||
[[ClamAV]], [https://support.avast.com/en-eu/article/131/ Avast Security for Linux]
| Antivirus software.
|-
| ZoneAlarm , Sygate SPF||
[[Guarddog]], [[Firestarter]], [[GUFW]], [[iptables]]
| Firewall software
|}

= Multimedia =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
|[http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/ Adobe Photoshop], [http://www.corel.com/ Corel Photo-Paint], '''GIMP''', '''Glimpse''', '''GIMPShop''', '''ImageMagick''', '''Xnview''', '''[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)]''', '''[https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable]''', '''Pinta''', '''MyPaint''', '''Krita''', '''Filmulator''', '''Photivo''', '''RawTherapee''', '''digiKam''', '''nomacs''' ||
[http://www.gimp.org/ GIMP], Glimpse,
[[GIMPShop]], ImageMagick, Pinta, MyPaint,
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krita Krita], Xnview,
[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)], [https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable], Filmulator, Photivo, RawTherapee, digiKam, nomacs
|Raster graphics editors
|-
|[http://www.corel.com/ Corel Draw], [http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator/ Adobe Illustrator], '''Inkscape''', '''Vectr''', '''Gravit''', '''LibreOffice Draw''', '''sK1''', '''SVG-edit''' ||
[http://www.inkscape.org/ Inkscape], Vectr, Gravit, LibreOffice Draw, Karbon, sK1, SVG-edit. [https://itsfoss.com/vector-graphics-editors-linux/ Ref.]
|Vector graphics editors
|-
|Adobe Animate, '''Synfig''', '''Pencil2D''', '''Tupi (Tupitube Desk)''', '''OpenToonz''', '''Blender''', '''Toon Boom Harmony''', '''Krita''', '''Aseprite''', '''TVPaint''', '''Animaker''', '''Ajax Animator''', '''Glaxnimate''', '''Tahoma2D''', '''Enve''' ||
Synfig, Pencil2D, Tupi (Tupitube Desk), OpenToonz, Blender, Toon Boom Harmony, Krita, Aseprite, TVPaint, Animaker, Ajax Animator, Glaxnimate, Tahoma2D , Enve
| 2D Animations
|-
| Irfanview, ACDSee, '''digiKam''', '''Xnview''', '''nomacs''' ||
[[XnView]], [http://mirageiv.berlios.de/ Mirage], [[GThumb]], Shotwell, KPhotoAlbum, Geeqie, digiKam, Gwenview, Ristretto, Viewnior, nomacs
|Image viewers
|-
| 3D Studio MAX, '''Blender''', [http://www.autodesk.com '''Maya'''] ||
[[Blender]],
[http://www.autodesk.com Maya],
[[K-3D]]
|3D modeling software
|-
| Autodesk Inventor, Solidworks, CATIA || [http://www.freecadweb.org FreeCAD], [http://www.salome-platform.org/ SALOME platform]
| Professional 3D CAD software
|-
| Windows Media Player, PowerDVD, SMPlayer, MPV, [[VLC]] ||
SMPlayer,
MPV,
[[VLC]],
[[Xine]],
[[Totem]],
[[Kaffeine]],
Parole,
Celluloid,
[[MPlayer]]
| [[Video Players]]
|-
| SIA Smaart Live || [http://sf.net/projects/brp-pacu/ BRP-PACU] || [[Sound]] analysis
|-
| Winamp, Sonique, iTunes, [http://www.atunes.org/ aTunes], '''Clementine''', '''VLC''', '''SMplayer''', '''Deadbeef''', '''Strawberry''', '''Audacious''' ||
[[Amarok]],
Clementine,
[[RhythmBox]],
[http://banshee-project.org/index.php/Main_Page Banshee],
[[Xine]],
VLC,
SMplayer,
Elisa,
Deadbeef,
Audacious, Strawberry. See also Video Players section
|[[Music Players]]
|-
| [http://www.otsav.com/ OTSAV, OTS Turntables], [http://serato.com/ Serato], [http://www.native-instruments.com/en/traktor/ Traktor], [http://www.virtualdj.com/ Virtual DJ], [http://www.pcdj.com/ PC DJ], [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
| [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
|Audio & video play out (DJ/presenter)
|-
| Windows Movie Maker, Adobe Premiere Elements, [http://www.goldwave.com/mqrelease.php Multiquence], '''Avidemux''', '''OpenShot''', '''VidCutter''', [https://shotcut.org/ '''Shotcut'''], '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron]''', [https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php '''Olive'''], '''Lightworks''' ||
[[Cinelerra]] (difficult but very professional),
[[KDenlive]] (easy and powerful),
[[LiVES]],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avidemux AviDemux],
OpenShot,
VidCutter,
Flowblade,
Pitivi,
DaVinci Resolve,
[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron],
[https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php Olive],
Lightworks (thanks to Linux Format magazine),
[https://shotcut.org/ Shotcut](thanks to Linux Format magazine)
|[[Video Editors]]
|-
| '''Audacity''', Cubase, '''Ardour''', Adobe Audition (formerly Cool Edit Pro), [http://www.goldwave.com/ GoldWave], Cakewalk/Sonar, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''LMMS''', '''Traverso-DAW''', '''[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]''' ||
[[Audacity]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden],
[[Beast]],
[[Ardour]],
Harrison Mixbus,
[http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/index.php Radium],
DaVinci Resolve,
Bitwig Studio,
Qtractor,
[https://traverso-daw.org/ Traverso-DAW],
LMMS,
[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]
|Digital audio workstation software
|-
| Audio Catalyst, '''Ocenaudio''', dbpoweramp, CDex, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''Audacity''' ||
[[Audacity]],
Ocenaudio,
DaVinci Resolve,
[[Grip]]
| [[Audio Editors]]
|-
| '''Wavesurfer''', '''Audacity''', '''Sox'''||[https://itsfoss.com/record-streaming-audio/ Audio Recorder], Ecasound, Audacity, Sox, Wavesurfer
|Audio recorders
|-
| Cakewalk/Sonar ||
[[kmid]],
[[kmidi]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden]
| [[MIDI]]
|-
|[http://www.noteworthysoftware.com/ NoteWorthy Composer], '''MuseScore''', '''LilyPond'''||
[http://www.musescore.org/ MuseScore], [http://lilypond.org/web/ LilyPond]
|Musical score typesetting
|-
|[http://www.guitar-pro.com/ GuitarPro], TuxGuitar ||
[http://www.tuxguitar.com.ar/ TuxGuitar]
|Guitar tablature editors
|-
| Microsoft Paint, Kid Pix, '''Tux Paint''', '''Pencil 2D''', '''Krita''', '''Pinta''', '''Mypaint''', '''Mtpaint''' ||
[http://www.tuxpaint.org/ Tuxpaint], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KolourPaint KolourPaint], Pencil 2D, Krita, [https://launchpad.net/dibuja Dibuja], Pinta, Mypaint, Mtpaint
|Basic raster painting programs
|-
| Videora, [https://handbrake.fr/ '''Handbrake'''], '''WinFF''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || [https://handbrake.fr/ Handbrake], WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, Transmageddon, VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Video converter
|-
| '''WinFF''', '''Handbrake''', '''fre:ac - free audio converter (freac)''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || Handbrake, WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, fre:ac - free audio converter (freac), VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Audio converter
|-
|TMPGEnc DVD Author, Roxio DVDit, '''Open DVD Producer''', '''DVDStyler''' ||
DVDStyler, [http://opendvdproducer.jonata.org/ Open DVD Producer], [http://www.rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html DeVeDe]
|DVD authoring software
|-
|'''uTox''', '''qTox''', '''Jitsi''', '''OpenMeetings''', '''Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone)''', '''Microsoft Teams''', '''Zoom''' || uTox, qTox, OpenMettings, Jitsi, Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone), Empathy, Microsoft Teams, Zoom
| Video Conferencing
|}

= Education =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| '''Klavaro''', '''Tipp10''' || Klavaro, Tipp10, [[KTouch]], Tux Typing, GNU Typist || Touch typing tutors
|-
| '''Maple''', '''Mathematica''' || Maple, Mathematica, [http://maxima.sourceforge.net/ Maxima]
| Computer algebra systems
|-
| '''Matlab''', '''Octave''', '''Scilab''' ||
Matlab, [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ Octave],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SciLab SciLab], Sage, KAlgebra
| High level numeric computation environments
|-
| '''SPSS''', '''Stata''', EViews, '''PSPP''', '''[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project]''', '''[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]''' ||
[http://www.stata.com/products/unix.html Stata], SPSS,
[http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/pspp.html PSPP],
[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Plus S-Plus],
[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]
| Statistical analysis
|-
| Verilog ||
[http://www.icarus.com/eda/verilog/ iverilog]
| Verilog Simulator
|-
| '''Google Earth''', NASA World Wind, '''Celestia''', '''Stellarium''', '''Skychart''', '''Aladin Sky Atlas''', Microsoft Flight Simulator, '''FlightGear''' ||
[http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html Google Earth], [https://celestia.space/index.html Celestia], [http://www.stellarium.org/ Stellarium], [https://marble.kde.org/ Marble], [http://www.geody.com/ Geody], Kstars, Skychart, Aladin Sky Atlas, [http://www.flightgear.org/ FlightGear]
| Geography, astronomy and simulation
|}

''Please add new applications to this list. A good resource is the [http://www.nawaz.org/wiki/index.php?title=Table_of_Equivalents BeetleSpace Windows/Linux Software Table of Equivalents], which is GNU FDL licensed.''

= See also =

* [[running windows software]]
* [http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux.]
* [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareEquivalents Ubuntu software equivalents's page]
* [http://www.linuxeq.com/ The Linux Equivalent Project]

[[Category:FAQ]]

Linux software equivalent to Windows software

2022-04-03T22:32:03Z

Kareempharmacist: /* Networking */

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.

= Office and Productivity =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Office, '''OpenOffice''', '''Libre Office''', '''WPS Office''', '''Softmaker Office''', '''Onlyoffice Desktop'''
| [[Libre Office]], [https://www.wps.com/linux WPS Office](WPS-Community), [[OpenOffice]], [https://www.calligra.org/ Calligra], Softmaker FreeOffice, OnlyOffice Desktop
| Office package
|-
| Microsoft Word, OOwriter, LibreOffice Writer, WPS Writer, Softmaker TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[OOWriter]], [http://www.abiword.org AbiWord], WPS Writer, LibreOffice Writer, Calligra Words, FreeOffice TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop, Lyx, [[LaTeX]]
| [[Word Processing]]
|-
| Notepad, Wordpad, TheGun, EditPlus, SciTE, Notepad++ ||
[[Vim]], [[KWrite]],
[[Kate]], [http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/ BlueFish], [[Gedit]], [[Joe]], Sublime Text, [[Leafpad]], [[Nano]]
| [[Text Editors]]
|-
| Access, dBase, Foxpro, Paradox, '''OOBase''', '''LibreOffice Base'''
| [http://userbase.kde.org/Kexi Kexi], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Base OOBase], LibreOffice Base
| [[Database]]
|-
| Excel, Corel WordPrefect, '''LibreOffice Calc''', '''Softmaker Office PlanMaker''', '''WPS Spreedsheets''', '''OOCalc''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Calc, Calligra Sheets, Softmaker Office PlanMaker, WPS Spreedsheets, [[OOCalc]], [http://www.gnumeric.org gnumeric], OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Spreadsheet]]
|-
| Visio, [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html '''yED'''], '''LibreOffice Draw'''
| [https://www.calligra.org/flow/ Calligra Flow], [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html yED], LibreOffice Draw
| Diagramming
|-
| PowerPoint, '''LibreOffice Impress''', '''OOImpress''', '''WPS Presentation''', '''Softmaker Office Presentations''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Impress, [[OOImpress]], Calligra Stage, WPS Presentation, Softmaker Office Presentations, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Presentation software]]
|-
| Final Draft, Script Studio, '''Fade In''', '''KIT Scenarist''', '''Story Architect''', '''Trelby''', '''Scrite'''
| Fade In, KIT Scenarist, Story Architect, Trelby, Scrite
| Screenwriting software
|-
| Microsoft Project Manager
| [[MOOS Project Viewer]], Calligra Plan
| Project management
|-
| '''Wondershare EdrawMax''', XMind
| Wondershare EdrawMax, Minder, XMind
| Mind maps
|-
| Outlook, '''Thunderbird + Lightning'''
| [[Kontact]], [https://pawsa.fedorapeople.org/balsa/ BALSA], [[Thunderbird]] + [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/ Lightning]
| Personal information managers
|-
| Alcohol 120%, Discjuggler, Easy CD Creator, Nero Burning ROM ||
[[K3b]], [[XCDRoast]], Brasero, Xfburn, [[CD/DVD_Burning|''more'']]
|DVD/CD burning
|-
|Alcohol 120%, Nero Burning ROM, '''MakeMKV''', ImgBurn, Infrarecorder || MakeMKV, Thoggen, Dvdbackup, HandBrake, DVD::RIP, AcidRIP
| DVD ripping software
|-
| Quicken, Microsoft Money, TurboTax
| [http://gnucash.org/ GnucAsh], [http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/index-home.html KMyMoney], [[CrossOver]] Office with Quicken, [http://www.lazy8.nu/ lazy8ledger]
| Accounting
|-
| ActiveSync ||
[[SynCE]]
|Synchronization with Windows Mobile devices
|-
| WinEdt, TeXnicCenter
| [[Kile]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texmaker Texmaker], [[LyX]]
| LaTeX IDEs
|-
| Veritas Backup Exec, [http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm Cobian Backup], '''Duplicati''' ||
LuckyBackup, Déjà Dup, Grsync, Duplicati [[list of backUp applications|''more'']]
| [[Backup]]
|-
| Google Desktop ||
[[Recoll]]
| Desktop Search
|-
| Norton Ghost ||
[[Partition Image]], [[g4u]], [http://www.mondorescue.org/ Mondo Rescue], [[dd]], gDiskDump (a dd frontend), Clonezilla, Trinity Rescue Kit
|Disk imaging
|-
| Norton Partition Magic ||
[[GParted]], Clonezilla (a live cd), KDE Partition Manager, GNOME Disks
|Disk partitioning
|-
|[http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/Disk_Size_Explorer.asp Disk Size Explorer]
|[https://utils.kde.org/projects/filelight/ File Light], [[Konqueror]], Baobab, xdiskusage, duc [https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-analyze-your-disk-usage-pattern-in-linux/ ref.]
| Disk usage analyzers
|-
|[http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html Filemon], [http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Regmon.html Regmon]
| [http://syscalltrack.sourceforge.net/ syscalltrack]
| system call tracking (file monitor & others)
|-
| WinMerge, SyncToy ||
[http://meld.sourceforge.net/ Meld], [[Unison]], [http://synkron.sourceforge.net/ Synkron], [[rSync]]
| File synchronization
|-
| Google Drive, Dropbox, etc ||
[https://rclone.org Rclone]
| Cloud hosted file synchronization (Amazon S3, Dropbox, Google Cloud Storage, Google Drive, FTP, Microsoft OneDrive, sFTP, etc)
|-
| Windows Update, Add/Remove programs||
[[apt-get]], [http://aptitude.sourceforge.net/ Aptitude], [http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Portage portage], [[Rpm|rpm]], [[urpmi]], [[yast]], [[yum]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptic_Package_Manager Synaptic], [https://snapcraft.io Snapcraft (Snap)]
|Every Linux distribution has an infrastructure to manage installed software which is quite different from Windows. For instance, all updates are handled by a single program. See [[package management]].
|-
| WinRunner || [http://hoopajoo.net/projects/xautomation.html xautomation] || automating interactive applications
|-
| 7-Zip, Winzip, Winrar, Peazip ||
[[Karchiver]],
[[File Roller]],
Xarchiver,
[[ark]],
[[hjsplit]]; [[packing and unpacking files|''command line tools'']]
|Archivers
|-
| chkdsk || [[fsck]], [https://www.tecmint.com/linux-disk-scanning-tools/ other tools] || check your file system (and the [[hard disk]] beneath it) for errors
|-
| Daemon Tools ||
[[mount]], Disk Image Mounter in Gnome/KDE, Furius ISO mount, AcetoneISO
|ISO mounting
|-
| Disclib || [http://www.gwhere.org/home.php3 gWhere]
| Disk cataloging programs
|-
| Evernote, OneNote || NixNote, Tusk, Whatever, GeekNote, ForeverNote, [https://joplinapp.org/ Joplin], Xournal, XFCE4 Notes, Xpad, Hnb, Gnote, Feathernotes, Cherrytree, Bijiben, Basket, Noblenote, Nvpy. Thanks to [https://itsfoss.com/evernote-on-linux/]
|Note Taking App
|}

== Desktop Publishing ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Dreamweaver, NVU, KompoZer, Google Web Designer ||
[http://www.google.com/webdesigner/ Google Web Designer] (WYSIWYG)
[[html editors|more]]
|[[Web Design]]
|-
| Quark, Quark Express, Microsoft Publisher, '''Scribus''', '''Karbon''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribus Scribus], Laidout, VivaDesigner, QuickSilver, Xara Xtreme, Karbon
|DTP software
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader, Xpdf Reader, Foxit reader, Sumatra pdf ||

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evince Evince],
Zathura,
Okular,
Bookworm,
Qpdfview,
Foxit reader,
PDF Studio Viewer,
[[Xpdf]],
MuPDF,
Atril,
[[Ghostview]], [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF readers
|-
| Adobe Acrobat Distiller, PDFCreator ||
[http://www.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~vrbehr/cups-pdf/ CUPS-PDF], Libre Office, [[OpenOffice.org]], PDF Studio, [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter] -- can convert to pdf. [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF authoring
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF editor, [http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio '''PDF Studio Pro'''], '''Master PDF Editor''', '''Libreoffice Draw''', '''Scribus''', '''Inkscape''' ||
[http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio PDF Studio Pro], Master PDF Editor, [http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfedit Pdfedit], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam Pdfjam], [http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk Pdftk], Scribus, Inkscape, Karbon, Okular, Libreoffice Draw. Thanks to [https://www.ubuntupit.com/linux-pdf-editor-top-15-reviewed-and-compared/ this] [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF editing tools
|-
| SilverFast ||
[[xSane]], [http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html VueScan], Simple Scan, Skanlite, Gscan2pdf, GIMP with Quitelnsane
| [[scanning]]
|-
| FinePrint ||
[http://www.boomaga.org boomaga], [http://wfr.tcl.tk/279 page-crunch], [http://freshmeat.net/projects/mpage/ mpage], [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter], [http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~ajcd/psutils/index.html psnup/PSutils], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam pdfnup/PDFjam]
| Document printing/reformatting tools
|}

= Networking =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Internet Explorer, '''Microsoft Edge''', '''Firefox''', '''Opera''', '''Chrome''', '''Pale Moon''', '''Brave''', '''Vivaldi''', '''Otter Browser''', '''Falkon''', '''Dooble''', '''Slimjet''' ||
[[Firefox]],
[[Konqueror]],
Epiphany (Gnome Web), Falkon, Microsoft Edge, Slimjet, Midori,
[http://www.google.com/chrome Chrome], Chromium,
[[Opera]],
Otter Browser,
Brave,
Vivaldi, Falkon,
Pale Moon, Dillo, Dooble
[[Browsers|''more'']]
| [[Web Browsers]]
|-
| Microsoft Outlook, '''Thunderbird''', Pegasus, Lotus Notes, '''Seamonkey''', '''Claws Mail''', '''Mailspring''' ||
[[Kontact]],
[http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/features/evolution.html Evolution], Seamonkey,
[[Thunderbird]], Claws Mail, Mailspring, Geary [https://itsfoss.com/best-email-clients-linux/ others]
|Email clients.
|-
| ICQ, MSN Messenger, AIM (AOL Instant Messenger), Trillian, '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Irssi''' ||
[[Kopete]], Hexchat, [[PidgIn]], [[Irssi]], [[aMSN]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emesene Emesene (MSN)]
| [[Instant messaging]] [[software]].
|-
| Microsoft HyperTerminal ||
[[minicom]]
|-
| FileZilla FTP Client, WS FTP, Bullet Proof FTP, CuteFTP ||
[http://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client FileZilla FTP Client],
[http://www.kftp.org/misc/description KFTP (KFTPGrabber)],
[[Kasablanca]],
[[FireFTP]],
[[Konqueror]],
[[KBear]],
[[gFTP]],
[http://www.crossftp.com/ CrossFTP],
[[Nautilus]]
|FTP clients. Please note GNOME, KDE (and other) programs can directly open and edit files on FTP, SFTP and WebDAV shares, often using [[KIO]], [[GIO]] or [GVfs]].
|-
| mIRC, '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Quassel''', '''KVIrc''', '''Irssi''' ||
HexChat, [[PidgIn]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quassel_IRC Quassel], [[KVIrc]], Irssi, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konversation Konversation], [[BitchX]]
| [[IRC Clients]]
|-
|[http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/ UltraVNC], TightVNC, RealVNC, Remote Desktop ||
[http://www.tightvnc.com/ TightVNC],
[http://www.realvnc.com/ RealVNC], [http://www.rdesktop.org/ rdesktop],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/freenx/ FreeNX],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/x11vnc/ x11vnc],
[http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ Synergy],
XDMCP, [[SSH]] with X11 forwarding (-X or -Y option)
| [[Desktop Sharing]]
|-
| MailWasher, SpamAssassin for Windows ||
SpamAssassin
| Spam filter
|-
|Forte Free Agent, [[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]] ||
[[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]], [http://www.newsreaders.com/unix/clients.html See More Clients Here]
|News Reader (Usenet [[newsgroup]]s)
|-
| eMule, '''aMule''' || aMule
|ED2K P2P network clients
|-
| [http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php '''Vuze (formerly Azureus)'''], [http://utorrent.com/ utorrent], '''Transmission''', '''Deluge''', '''qBittorrent''', '''Tixati''', '''Frostwire''', '''Tribler''' ||
[http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php Vuze (formerly Azureus)], Tranmission, Deluge, qBittorrent, Tixati, Frostwire, Tribler, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qtorrent Qtorrent], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bittornado bittornado], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ktorrent Ktorrent],
|BitTorrent P2P network clients
|-
| '''Skype''', Voipbuster, '''Yate''', '''Linphone''', '''Jitsi''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype Skype], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linphone Linphone], Asterisk, Empathy, Yate, Jitsi
|VoIP software
|-
| Bitvise Tunnelier ||
[http://sourceforge.net/projects/gstm/ gSTM]
|gSTM is a front-end for managing SSH-tunneled port redirects.
|}

== Server ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| IIS, [[Apache]] ||
[[Apache]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nginx Engine-X], [http://www.lighttpd.net/ lighttpd]
|[[Web Servers]]
|-
| Folder sharing, printer sharing ||
[[Samba]]
|Share files and printers between Windows and Linux systems. Installed by default on most distributions.
|-
|IIS, [http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ FileZilla FTP Client & Server]
|[[vsftpd]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure-ftpd pure-ftpd]
|FTP servers, for hosting files.
|-
|[http://www.netlimiter.com/ NetLimiter] ||
[http://monkey.org/~marius/pages/?page=trickle Trickle], [http://l7-filter.sourceforge.net/ Level 7 Filter], [http://www.clarkconnect.com/info/index.php ClarkConnect], [http://www.bandwidtharbitrator.com/ Bandwidth Arbitrator], [http://www.mastershaper.org/index.php/Main_Page MasterShaper]
|Bandwidth shaping and management.
|-
| Exchange ||
[[Citadel]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbra zimbra], [[Open-Xchange]]
|Groupware (sharing of appointments, contacts, e-mail, documents, etc. between members of a group)
|-
| Sharepoint ||
[http://www.knowledgetree.com/opensource KnowledgeTree]
|Manage and secure documents, collaborate around document creation and editing, full document contents indexing
|-
| Norton/McAfee Antivirus, [http://clamwin.com/ ClamWin], AVG, AntiVir, Avast, ClamAV ||
[[ClamAV]], [https://support.avast.com/en-eu/article/131/ Avast Security for Linux]
| Antivirus software.
|-
| ZoneAlarm , Sygate SPF||
[[Guarddog]], [[Firestarter]], [[GUFW]], [[iptables]]
| Firewall software
|}

= Multimedia =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
|[http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/ Adobe Photoshop], [http://www.corel.com/ Corel Photo-Paint], '''GIMP''', '''Glimpse''', '''GIMPShop''', '''ImageMagick''', '''Xnview''', '''[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)]''', '''[https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable]''', '''Pinta''', '''MyPaint''', '''Krita''', '''Filmulator''', '''Photivo''', '''RawTherapee''', '''digiKam''', '''nomacs''' ||
[http://www.gimp.org/ GIMP], Glimpse,
[[GIMPShop]], ImageMagick, Pinta, MyPaint,
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krita Krita], Xnview,
[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)], [https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable], Filmulator, Photivo, RawTherapee, digiKam, nomacs
|Raster graphics editors
|-
|[http://www.corel.com/ Corel Draw], [http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator/ Adobe Illustrator], '''Inkscape''', '''Vectr''', '''Gravit''', '''LibreOffice Draw''', '''sK1''', '''SVG-edit''' ||
[http://www.inkscape.org/ Inkscape], Vectr, Gravit, LibreOffice Draw, Karbon, sK1, SVG-edit. [https://itsfoss.com/vector-graphics-editors-linux/ Ref.]
|Vector graphics editors
|-
|Adobe Animate, '''Synfig''', '''Pencil2D''', '''Tupi (Tupitube Desk)''', '''OpenToonz''', '''Blender''', '''Toon Boom Harmony''', '''Krita''', '''Aseprite''', '''TVPaint''', '''Animaker''', '''Ajax Animator''', '''Glaxnimate''', '''Tahoma2D''', '''Enve''' ||
Synfig, Pencil2D, Tupi (Tupitube Desk), OpenToonz, Blender, Toon Boom Harmony, Krita, Aseprite, TVPaint, Animaker, Ajax Animator, Glaxnimate, Tahoma2D , Enve
| 2D Animations
|-
| Irfanview, ACDSee, '''digiKam''', '''Xnview''', '''nomacs''' ||
[[XnView]], [http://mirageiv.berlios.de/ Mirage], [[GThumb]], Shotwell, KPhotoAlbum, Geeqie, digiKam, Gwenview, Ristretto, Viewnior, nomacs
|Image viewers
|-
| 3D Studio MAX, '''Blender''', [http://www.autodesk.com '''Maya'''] ||
[[Blender]],
[http://www.autodesk.com Maya],
[[K-3D]]
|3D modeling software
|-
| Autodesk Inventor, Solidworks, CATIA || [http://www.freecadweb.org FreeCAD], [http://www.salome-platform.org/ SALOME platform]
| Professional 3D CAD software
|-
| Windows Media Player, PowerDVD, SMPlayer, MPV, [[VLC]] ||
SMPlayer,
MPV,
[[VLC]],
[[Xine]],
[[Totem]],
[[Kaffeine]],
Parole,
Celluloid,
[[MPlayer]]
| [[Video Players]]
|-
| SIA Smaart Live || [http://sf.net/projects/brp-pacu/ BRP-PACU] || [[Sound]] analysis
|-
| Winamp, Sonique, iTunes, [http://www.atunes.org/ aTunes], '''Clementine''', '''VLC''', '''SMplayer''', '''Deadbeef''', '''Strawberry''', '''Audacious''' ||
[[Amarok]],
Clementine,
[[RhythmBox]],
[http://banshee-project.org/index.php/Main_Page Banshee],
[[Xine]],
VLC,
SMplayer,
Elisa,
Deadbeef,
Audacious, Strawberry. See also Video Players section
|[[Music Players]]
|-
| [http://www.otsav.com/ OTSAV, OTS Turntables], [http://serato.com/ Serato], [http://www.native-instruments.com/en/traktor/ Traktor], [http://www.virtualdj.com/ Virtual DJ], [http://www.pcdj.com/ PC DJ], [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
| [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
|Audio & video play out (DJ/presenter)
|-
| Windows Movie Maker, Adobe Premiere Elements, [http://www.goldwave.com/mqrelease.php Multiquence], '''Avidemux''', '''OpenShot''', '''VidCutter''', [https://shotcut.org/ '''Shotcut'''], '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron]''', [https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php '''Olive'''], '''Lightworks''' ||
[[Cinelerra]] (difficult but very professional),
[[KDenlive]] (easy and powerful),
[[LiVES]],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avidemux AviDemux],
OpenShot,
VidCutter,
Flowblade,
Pitivi,
DaVinci Resolve,
[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron],
[https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php Olive],
Lightworks (thanks to Linux Format magazine),
[https://shotcut.org/ Shotcut](thanks to Linux Format magazine)
|[[Video Editors]]
|-
| '''Audacity''', Cubase, '''Ardour''', Adobe Audition (formerly Cool Edit Pro), [http://www.goldwave.com/ GoldWave], Cakewalk/Sonar, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''LMMS''', '''Traverso-DAW''', '''[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]''' ||
[[Audacity]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden],
[[Beast]],
[[Ardour]],
Harrison Mixbus,
[http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/index.php Radium],
DaVinci Resolve,
Bitwig Studio,
Qtractor,
[https://traverso-daw.org/ Traverso-DAW],
LMMS,
[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]
|Digital audio workstation software
|-
| Audio Catalyst, '''Ocenaudio''', dbpoweramp, CDex, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''Audacity''' ||
[[Audacity]],
Ocenaudio,
DaVinci Resolve,
[[Grip]]
| [[Audio Editors]]
|-
| '''Wavesurfer''', '''Audacity''', '''Sox'''||[https://itsfoss.com/record-streaming-audio/ Audio Recorder], Ecasound, Audacity, Sox, Wavesurfer
|Audio recorders
|-
| Cakewalk/Sonar ||
[[kmid]],
[[kmidi]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden]
| [[MIDI]]
|-
|[http://www.noteworthysoftware.com/ NoteWorthy Composer], '''MuseScore''', '''LilyPond'''||
[http://www.musescore.org/ MuseScore], [http://lilypond.org/web/ LilyPond]
|Musical score typesetting
|-
|[http://www.guitar-pro.com/ GuitarPro], TuxGuitar ||
[http://www.tuxguitar.com.ar/ TuxGuitar]
|Guitar tablature editors
|-
| Microsoft Paint, Kid Pix, '''Tux Paint''', '''Pencil 2D''', '''Krita''', '''Pinta''', '''Mypaint''', '''Mtpaint''' ||
[http://www.tuxpaint.org/ Tuxpaint], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KolourPaint KolourPaint], Pencil 2D, Krita, [https://launchpad.net/dibuja Dibuja], Pinta, Mypaint, Mtpaint
|Basic raster painting programs
|-
| Videora, [https://handbrake.fr/ '''Handbrake'''], '''WinFF''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || [https://handbrake.fr/ Handbrake], WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, Transmageddon, VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Video converter
|-
| '''WinFF''', '''Handbrake''', '''fre:ac - free audio converter (freac)''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || Handbrake, WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, fre:ac - free audio converter (freac), VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Audio converter
|-
|TMPGEnc DVD Author, Roxio DVDit, '''Open DVD Producer''', '''DVDStyler''' ||
DVDStyler, [http://opendvdproducer.jonata.org/ Open DVD Producer], [http://www.rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html DeVeDe]
|DVD authoring software
|-
|'''uTox''', '''qTox''', '''Jitsi''', '''OpenMeetings''', '''Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone)''', '''Microsoft Teams''', '''Zoom''' || uTox, qTox, OpenMettings, Jitsi, Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone), Empathy, Microsoft Teams, Zoom
| Video Conferencing
|}

= Education =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| '''Klavaro''', '''Tipp10''' || Klavaro, Tipp10, [[KTouch]], Tux Typing, GNU Typist || Touch typing tutors
|-
| '''Maple''', '''Mathematica''' || Maple, Mathematica, [http://maxima.sourceforge.net/ Maxima]
| Computer algebra systems
|-
| '''Matlab''', '''Octave''', '''Scilab''' ||
Matlab, [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ Octave],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SciLab SciLab], Sage, KAlgebra
| High level numeric computation environments
|-
| '''SPSS''', '''Stata''', EViews, '''PSPP''', '''[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project]''', '''[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]''' ||
[http://www.stata.com/products/unix.html Stata], SPSS,
[http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/pspp.html PSPP],
[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Plus S-Plus],
[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]
| Statistical analysis
|-
| Verilog ||
[http://www.icarus.com/eda/verilog/ iverilog]
| Verilog Simulator
|-
| '''Google Earth''', NASA World Wind, '''Celestia''', '''Stellarium''', '''Skychart''', '''Aladin Sky Atlas''', Microsoft Flight Simulator, '''FlightGear''' ||
[http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html Google Earth], [https://celestia.space/index.html Celestia], [http://www.stellarium.org/ Stellarium], [https://marble.kde.org/ Marble], [http://www.geody.com/ Geody], Kstars, Skychart, Aladin Sky Atlas, [http://www.flightgear.org/ FlightGear]
| Geography, astronomy and simulation
|}

''Please add new applications to this list. A good resource is the [http://www.nawaz.org/wiki/index.php?title=Table_of_Equivalents BeetleSpace Windows/Linux Software Table of Equivalents], which is GNU FDL licensed.''

= See also =

* [[running windows software]]
* [http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux.]
* [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareEquivalents Ubuntu software equivalents's page]
* [http://www.linuxeq.com/ The Linux Equivalent Project]

[[Category:FAQ]]

Linux software equivalent to Windows software

2022-04-03T22:30:51Z

Kareempharmacist: /* Networking */

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.

= Office and Productivity =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Office, '''OpenOffice''', '''Libre Office''', '''WPS Office''', '''Softmaker Office''', '''Onlyoffice Desktop'''
| [[Libre Office]], [https://www.wps.com/linux WPS Office](WPS-Community), [[OpenOffice]], [https://www.calligra.org/ Calligra], Softmaker FreeOffice, OnlyOffice Desktop
| Office package
|-
| Microsoft Word, OOwriter, LibreOffice Writer, WPS Writer, Softmaker TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[OOWriter]], [http://www.abiword.org AbiWord], WPS Writer, LibreOffice Writer, Calligra Words, FreeOffice TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop, Lyx, [[LaTeX]]
| [[Word Processing]]
|-
| Notepad, Wordpad, TheGun, EditPlus, SciTE, Notepad++ ||
[[Vim]], [[KWrite]],
[[Kate]], [http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/ BlueFish], [[Gedit]], [[Joe]], Sublime Text, [[Leafpad]], [[Nano]]
| [[Text Editors]]
|-
| Access, dBase, Foxpro, Paradox, '''OOBase''', '''LibreOffice Base'''
| [http://userbase.kde.org/Kexi Kexi], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Base OOBase], LibreOffice Base
| [[Database]]
|-
| Excel, Corel WordPrefect, '''LibreOffice Calc''', '''Softmaker Office PlanMaker''', '''WPS Spreedsheets''', '''OOCalc''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Calc, Calligra Sheets, Softmaker Office PlanMaker, WPS Spreedsheets, [[OOCalc]], [http://www.gnumeric.org gnumeric], OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Spreadsheet]]
|-
| Visio, [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html '''yED'''], '''LibreOffice Draw'''
| [https://www.calligra.org/flow/ Calligra Flow], [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html yED], LibreOffice Draw
| Diagramming
|-
| PowerPoint, '''LibreOffice Impress''', '''OOImpress''', '''WPS Presentation''', '''Softmaker Office Presentations''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Impress, [[OOImpress]], Calligra Stage, WPS Presentation, Softmaker Office Presentations, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Presentation software]]
|-
| Final Draft, Script Studio, '''Fade In''', '''KIT Scenarist''', '''Story Architect''', '''Trelby''', '''Scrite'''
| Fade In, KIT Scenarist, Story Architect, Trelby, Scrite
| Screenwriting software
|-
| Microsoft Project Manager
| [[MOOS Project Viewer]], Calligra Plan
| Project management
|-
| '''Wondershare EdrawMax''', XMind
| Wondershare EdrawMax, Minder, XMind
| Mind maps
|-
| Outlook, '''Thunderbird + Lightning'''
| [[Kontact]], [https://pawsa.fedorapeople.org/balsa/ BALSA], [[Thunderbird]] + [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/ Lightning]
| Personal information managers
|-
| Alcohol 120%, Discjuggler, Easy CD Creator, Nero Burning ROM ||
[[K3b]], [[XCDRoast]], Brasero, Xfburn, [[CD/DVD_Burning|''more'']]
|DVD/CD burning
|-
|Alcohol 120%, Nero Burning ROM, '''MakeMKV''', ImgBurn, Infrarecorder || MakeMKV, Thoggen, Dvdbackup, HandBrake, DVD::RIP, AcidRIP
| DVD ripping software
|-
| Quicken, Microsoft Money, TurboTax
| [http://gnucash.org/ GnucAsh], [http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/index-home.html KMyMoney], [[CrossOver]] Office with Quicken, [http://www.lazy8.nu/ lazy8ledger]
| Accounting
|-
| ActiveSync ||
[[SynCE]]
|Synchronization with Windows Mobile devices
|-
| WinEdt, TeXnicCenter
| [[Kile]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texmaker Texmaker], [[LyX]]
| LaTeX IDEs
|-
| Veritas Backup Exec, [http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm Cobian Backup], '''Duplicati''' ||
LuckyBackup, Déjà Dup, Grsync, Duplicati [[list of backUp applications|''more'']]
| [[Backup]]
|-
| Google Desktop ||
[[Recoll]]
| Desktop Search
|-
| Norton Ghost ||
[[Partition Image]], [[g4u]], [http://www.mondorescue.org/ Mondo Rescue], [[dd]], gDiskDump (a dd frontend), Clonezilla, Trinity Rescue Kit
|Disk imaging
|-
| Norton Partition Magic ||
[[GParted]], Clonezilla (a live cd), KDE Partition Manager, GNOME Disks
|Disk partitioning
|-
|[http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/Disk_Size_Explorer.asp Disk Size Explorer]
|[https://utils.kde.org/projects/filelight/ File Light], [[Konqueror]], Baobab, xdiskusage, duc [https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-analyze-your-disk-usage-pattern-in-linux/ ref.]
| Disk usage analyzers
|-
|[http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html Filemon], [http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Regmon.html Regmon]
| [http://syscalltrack.sourceforge.net/ syscalltrack]
| system call tracking (file monitor & others)
|-
| WinMerge, SyncToy ||
[http://meld.sourceforge.net/ Meld], [[Unison]], [http://synkron.sourceforge.net/ Synkron], [[rSync]]
| File synchronization
|-
| Google Drive, Dropbox, etc ||
[https://rclone.org Rclone]
| Cloud hosted file synchronization (Amazon S3, Dropbox, Google Cloud Storage, Google Drive, FTP, Microsoft OneDrive, sFTP, etc)
|-
| Windows Update, Add/Remove programs||
[[apt-get]], [http://aptitude.sourceforge.net/ Aptitude], [http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Portage portage], [[Rpm|rpm]], [[urpmi]], [[yast]], [[yum]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptic_Package_Manager Synaptic], [https://snapcraft.io Snapcraft (Snap)]
|Every Linux distribution has an infrastructure to manage installed software which is quite different from Windows. For instance, all updates are handled by a single program. See [[package management]].
|-
| WinRunner || [http://hoopajoo.net/projects/xautomation.html xautomation] || automating interactive applications
|-
| 7-Zip, Winzip, Winrar, Peazip ||
[[Karchiver]],
[[File Roller]],
Xarchiver,
[[ark]],
[[hjsplit]]; [[packing and unpacking files|''command line tools'']]
|Archivers
|-
| chkdsk || [[fsck]], [https://www.tecmint.com/linux-disk-scanning-tools/ other tools] || check your file system (and the [[hard disk]] beneath it) for errors
|-
| Daemon Tools ||
[[mount]], Disk Image Mounter in Gnome/KDE, Furius ISO mount, AcetoneISO
|ISO mounting
|-
| Disclib || [http://www.gwhere.org/home.php3 gWhere]
| Disk cataloging programs
|-
| Evernote, OneNote || NixNote, Tusk, Whatever, GeekNote, ForeverNote, [https://joplinapp.org/ Joplin], Xournal, XFCE4 Notes, Xpad, Hnb, Gnote, Feathernotes, Cherrytree, Bijiben, Basket, Noblenote, Nvpy. Thanks to [https://itsfoss.com/evernote-on-linux/]
|Note Taking App
|}

== Desktop Publishing ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Dreamweaver, NVU, KompoZer, Google Web Designer ||
[http://www.google.com/webdesigner/ Google Web Designer] (WYSIWYG)
[[html editors|more]]
|[[Web Design]]
|-
| Quark, Quark Express, Microsoft Publisher, '''Scribus''', '''Karbon''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribus Scribus], Laidout, VivaDesigner, QuickSilver, Xara Xtreme, Karbon
|DTP software
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader, Xpdf Reader, Foxit reader, Sumatra pdf ||

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evince Evince],
Zathura,
Okular,
Bookworm,
Qpdfview,
Foxit reader,
PDF Studio Viewer,
[[Xpdf]],
MuPDF,
Atril,
[[Ghostview]], [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF readers
|-
| Adobe Acrobat Distiller, PDFCreator ||
[http://www.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~vrbehr/cups-pdf/ CUPS-PDF], Libre Office, [[OpenOffice.org]], PDF Studio, [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter] -- can convert to pdf. [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF authoring
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF editor, [http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio '''PDF Studio Pro'''], '''Master PDF Editor''', '''Libreoffice Draw''', '''Scribus''', '''Inkscape''' ||
[http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio PDF Studio Pro], Master PDF Editor, [http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfedit Pdfedit], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam Pdfjam], [http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk Pdftk], Scribus, Inkscape, Karbon, Okular, Libreoffice Draw. Thanks to [https://www.ubuntupit.com/linux-pdf-editor-top-15-reviewed-and-compared/ this] [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF editing tools
|-
| SilverFast ||
[[xSane]], [http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html VueScan], Simple Scan, Skanlite, Gscan2pdf, GIMP with Quitelnsane
| [[scanning]]
|-
| FinePrint ||
[http://www.boomaga.org boomaga], [http://wfr.tcl.tk/279 page-crunch], [http://freshmeat.net/projects/mpage/ mpage], [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter], [http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~ajcd/psutils/index.html psnup/PSutils], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam pdfnup/PDFjam]
| Document printing/reformatting tools
|}

= Networking =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Internet Explorer, '''Microsoft Edge''', '''Firefox''', '''Opera''', '''Chrome''', '''Pale Moon''', '''Brave''', '''Vivaldi''', '''Otter Browser''', '''Falkon''', '''Dooble''', '''Slimjet''' ||
[[Firefox]],
[[Konqueror]],
Epiphany (Gnome Web), Falkon, Microsoft Edge, Slimjet, Midori,
[http://www.google.com/chrome Chrome], Chromium,
[[Opera]],
Otter Browser,
Brave,
Vivaldi, Falkon,
Pale Moon, Dillo, Dooble
[[Browsers|''more'']]
| [[Web Browsers]]
|-
| Microsoft Outlook, '''Thunderbird''', Pegasus, Lotus Notes, '''Seamonkey''', '''Claws Mail''', '''Mailspring''' ||
[[Kontact]],
[http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/features/evolution.html Evolution], Seamonkey,
[[Thunderbird]], Claws Mail, Mailspring, Geary [https://itsfoss.com/best-email-clients-linux/ others]
|Email clients.
|-
| ICQ, MSN Messenger, AIM (AOL Instant Messenger), Trillian, '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Irssi''' ||
[[Kopete]], Hexchat, [[PidgIn]], [[Irssi]], [[aMSN]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emesene Emesene (MSN)], [[Centericq]]
| [[Instant messaging]] [[software]].
|-
| Microsoft HyperTerminal ||
[[minicom]]
|-
| FileZilla FTP Client, WS FTP, Bullet Proof FTP, CuteFTP ||
[http://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client FileZilla FTP Client],
[http://www.kftp.org/misc/description KFTP (KFTPGrabber)],
[[Kasablanca]],
[[FireFTP]],
[[Konqueror]],
[[KBear]],
[[gFTP]],
[http://www.crossftp.com/ CrossFTP],
[[Nautilus]]
|FTP clients. Please note GNOME, KDE (and other) programs can directly open and edit files on FTP, SFTP and WebDAV shares, often using [[KIO]], [[GIO]] or [GVfs]].
|-
| mIRC, '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Quassel''', '''KVIrc''', '''Irssi''' ||
HexChat, [[PidgIn]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quassel_IRC Quassel], [[KVIrc]], Irssi, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konversation Konversation], [[BitchX]]
| [[IRC Clients]]
|-
|[http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/ UltraVNC], TightVNC, RealVNC, Remote Desktop ||
[http://www.tightvnc.com/ TightVNC],
[http://www.realvnc.com/ RealVNC], [http://www.rdesktop.org/ rdesktop],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/freenx/ FreeNX],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/x11vnc/ x11vnc],
[http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ Synergy],
XDMCP, [[SSH]] with X11 forwarding (-X or -Y option)
| [[Desktop Sharing]]
|-
| MailWasher, SpamAssassin for Windows ||
SpamAssassin
| Spam filter
|-
|Forte Free Agent, [[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]] ||
[[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]], [http://www.newsreaders.com/unix/clients.html See More Clients Here]
|News Reader (Usenet [[newsgroup]]s)
|-
| eMule, '''aMule''' || aMule
|ED2K P2P network clients
|-
| [http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php '''Vuze (formerly Azureus)'''], [http://utorrent.com/ utorrent], '''Transmission''', '''Deluge''', '''qBittorrent''', '''Tixati''', '''Frostwire''', '''Tribler''' ||
[http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php Vuze (formerly Azureus)], Tranmission, Deluge, qBittorrent, Tixati, Frostwire, Tribler, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qtorrent Qtorrent], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bittornado bittornado], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ktorrent Ktorrent],
|BitTorrent P2P network clients
|-
| '''Skype''', Voipbuster, '''Yate''', '''Linphone''', '''Jitsi''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype Skype], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linphone Linphone], Asterisk, Empathy, Yate, Jitsi
|VoIP software
|-
| Bitvise Tunnelier ||
[http://sourceforge.net/projects/gstm/ gSTM]
|gSTM is a front-end for managing SSH-tunneled port redirects.
|}

== Server ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| IIS, [[Apache]] ||
[[Apache]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nginx Engine-X], [http://www.lighttpd.net/ lighttpd]
|[[Web Servers]]
|-
| Folder sharing, printer sharing ||
[[Samba]]
|Share files and printers between Windows and Linux systems. Installed by default on most distributions.
|-
|IIS, [http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ FileZilla FTP Client & Server]
|[[vsftpd]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure-ftpd pure-ftpd]
|FTP servers, for hosting files.
|-
|[http://www.netlimiter.com/ NetLimiter] ||
[http://monkey.org/~marius/pages/?page=trickle Trickle], [http://l7-filter.sourceforge.net/ Level 7 Filter], [http://www.clarkconnect.com/info/index.php ClarkConnect], [http://www.bandwidtharbitrator.com/ Bandwidth Arbitrator], [http://www.mastershaper.org/index.php/Main_Page MasterShaper]
|Bandwidth shaping and management.
|-
| Exchange ||
[[Citadel]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbra zimbra], [[Open-Xchange]]
|Groupware (sharing of appointments, contacts, e-mail, documents, etc. between members of a group)
|-
| Sharepoint ||
[http://www.knowledgetree.com/opensource KnowledgeTree]
|Manage and secure documents, collaborate around document creation and editing, full document contents indexing
|-
| Norton/McAfee Antivirus, [http://clamwin.com/ ClamWin], AVG, AntiVir, Avast, ClamAV ||
[[ClamAV]], [https://support.avast.com/en-eu/article/131/ Avast Security for Linux]
| Antivirus software.
|-
| ZoneAlarm , Sygate SPF||
[[Guarddog]], [[Firestarter]], [[GUFW]], [[iptables]]
| Firewall software
|}

= Multimedia =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
|[http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/ Adobe Photoshop], [http://www.corel.com/ Corel Photo-Paint], '''GIMP''', '''Glimpse''', '''GIMPShop''', '''ImageMagick''', '''Xnview''', '''[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)]''', '''[https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable]''', '''Pinta''', '''MyPaint''', '''Krita''', '''Filmulator''', '''Photivo''', '''RawTherapee''', '''digiKam''', '''nomacs''' ||
[http://www.gimp.org/ GIMP], Glimpse,
[[GIMPShop]], ImageMagick, Pinta, MyPaint,
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krita Krita], Xnview,
[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)], [https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable], Filmulator, Photivo, RawTherapee, digiKam, nomacs
|Raster graphics editors
|-
|[http://www.corel.com/ Corel Draw], [http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator/ Adobe Illustrator], '''Inkscape''', '''Vectr''', '''Gravit''', '''LibreOffice Draw''', '''sK1''', '''SVG-edit''' ||
[http://www.inkscape.org/ Inkscape], Vectr, Gravit, LibreOffice Draw, Karbon, sK1, SVG-edit. [https://itsfoss.com/vector-graphics-editors-linux/ Ref.]
|Vector graphics editors
|-
|Adobe Animate, '''Synfig''', '''Pencil2D''', '''Tupi (Tupitube Desk)''', '''OpenToonz''', '''Blender''', '''Toon Boom Harmony''', '''Krita''', '''Aseprite''', '''TVPaint''', '''Animaker''', '''Ajax Animator''', '''Glaxnimate''', '''Tahoma2D''', '''Enve''' ||
Synfig, Pencil2D, Tupi (Tupitube Desk), OpenToonz, Blender, Toon Boom Harmony, Krita, Aseprite, TVPaint, Animaker, Ajax Animator, Glaxnimate, Tahoma2D , Enve
| 2D Animations
|-
| Irfanview, ACDSee, '''digiKam''', '''Xnview''', '''nomacs''' ||
[[XnView]], [http://mirageiv.berlios.de/ Mirage], [[GThumb]], Shotwell, KPhotoAlbum, Geeqie, digiKam, Gwenview, Ristretto, Viewnior, nomacs
|Image viewers
|-
| 3D Studio MAX, '''Blender''', [http://www.autodesk.com '''Maya'''] ||
[[Blender]],
[http://www.autodesk.com Maya],
[[K-3D]]
|3D modeling software
|-
| Autodesk Inventor, Solidworks, CATIA || [http://www.freecadweb.org FreeCAD], [http://www.salome-platform.org/ SALOME platform]
| Professional 3D CAD software
|-
| Windows Media Player, PowerDVD, SMPlayer, MPV, [[VLC]] ||
SMPlayer,
MPV,
[[VLC]],
[[Xine]],
[[Totem]],
[[Kaffeine]],
Parole,
Celluloid,
[[MPlayer]]
| [[Video Players]]
|-
| SIA Smaart Live || [http://sf.net/projects/brp-pacu/ BRP-PACU] || [[Sound]] analysis
|-
| Winamp, Sonique, iTunes, [http://www.atunes.org/ aTunes], '''Clementine''', '''VLC''', '''SMplayer''', '''Deadbeef''', '''Strawberry''', '''Audacious''' ||
[[Amarok]],
Clementine,
[[RhythmBox]],
[http://banshee-project.org/index.php/Main_Page Banshee],
[[Xine]],
VLC,
SMplayer,
Elisa,
Deadbeef,
Audacious, Strawberry. See also Video Players section
|[[Music Players]]
|-
| [http://www.otsav.com/ OTSAV, OTS Turntables], [http://serato.com/ Serato], [http://www.native-instruments.com/en/traktor/ Traktor], [http://www.virtualdj.com/ Virtual DJ], [http://www.pcdj.com/ PC DJ], [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
| [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
|Audio & video play out (DJ/presenter)
|-
| Windows Movie Maker, Adobe Premiere Elements, [http://www.goldwave.com/mqrelease.php Multiquence], '''Avidemux''', '''OpenShot''', '''VidCutter''', [https://shotcut.org/ '''Shotcut'''], '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron]''', [https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php '''Olive'''], '''Lightworks''' ||
[[Cinelerra]] (difficult but very professional),
[[KDenlive]] (easy and powerful),
[[LiVES]],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avidemux AviDemux],
OpenShot,
VidCutter,
Flowblade,
Pitivi,
DaVinci Resolve,
[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron],
[https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php Olive],
Lightworks (thanks to Linux Format magazine),
[https://shotcut.org/ Shotcut](thanks to Linux Format magazine)
|[[Video Editors]]
|-
| '''Audacity''', Cubase, '''Ardour''', Adobe Audition (formerly Cool Edit Pro), [http://www.goldwave.com/ GoldWave], Cakewalk/Sonar, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''LMMS''', '''Traverso-DAW''', '''[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]''' ||
[[Audacity]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden],
[[Beast]],
[[Ardour]],
Harrison Mixbus,
[http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/index.php Radium],
DaVinci Resolve,
Bitwig Studio,
Qtractor,
[https://traverso-daw.org/ Traverso-DAW],
LMMS,
[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]
|Digital audio workstation software
|-
| Audio Catalyst, '''Ocenaudio''', dbpoweramp, CDex, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''Audacity''' ||
[[Audacity]],
Ocenaudio,
DaVinci Resolve,
[[Grip]]
| [[Audio Editors]]
|-
| '''Wavesurfer''', '''Audacity''', '''Sox'''||[https://itsfoss.com/record-streaming-audio/ Audio Recorder], Ecasound, Audacity, Sox, Wavesurfer
|Audio recorders
|-
| Cakewalk/Sonar ||
[[kmid]],
[[kmidi]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden]
| [[MIDI]]
|-
|[http://www.noteworthysoftware.com/ NoteWorthy Composer], '''MuseScore''', '''LilyPond'''||
[http://www.musescore.org/ MuseScore], [http://lilypond.org/web/ LilyPond]
|Musical score typesetting
|-
|[http://www.guitar-pro.com/ GuitarPro], TuxGuitar ||
[http://www.tuxguitar.com.ar/ TuxGuitar]
|Guitar tablature editors
|-
| Microsoft Paint, Kid Pix, '''Tux Paint''', '''Pencil 2D''', '''Krita''', '''Pinta''', '''Mypaint''', '''Mtpaint''' ||
[http://www.tuxpaint.org/ Tuxpaint], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KolourPaint KolourPaint], Pencil 2D, Krita, [https://launchpad.net/dibuja Dibuja], Pinta, Mypaint, Mtpaint
|Basic raster painting programs
|-
| Videora, [https://handbrake.fr/ '''Handbrake'''], '''WinFF''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || [https://handbrake.fr/ Handbrake], WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, Transmageddon, VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Video converter
|-
| '''WinFF''', '''Handbrake''', '''fre:ac - free audio converter (freac)''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || Handbrake, WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, fre:ac - free audio converter (freac), VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Audio converter
|-
|TMPGEnc DVD Author, Roxio DVDit, '''Open DVD Producer''', '''DVDStyler''' ||
DVDStyler, [http://opendvdproducer.jonata.org/ Open DVD Producer], [http://www.rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html DeVeDe]
|DVD authoring software
|-
|'''uTox''', '''qTox''', '''Jitsi''', '''OpenMeetings''', '''Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone)''', '''Microsoft Teams''', '''Zoom''' || uTox, qTox, OpenMettings, Jitsi, Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone), Empathy, Microsoft Teams, Zoom
| Video Conferencing
|}

= Education =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| '''Klavaro''', '''Tipp10''' || Klavaro, Tipp10, [[KTouch]], Tux Typing, GNU Typist || Touch typing tutors
|-
| '''Maple''', '''Mathematica''' || Maple, Mathematica, [http://maxima.sourceforge.net/ Maxima]
| Computer algebra systems
|-
| '''Matlab''', '''Octave''', '''Scilab''' ||
Matlab, [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ Octave],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SciLab SciLab], Sage, KAlgebra
| High level numeric computation environments
|-
| '''SPSS''', '''Stata''', EViews, '''PSPP''', '''[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project]''', '''[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]''' ||
[http://www.stata.com/products/unix.html Stata], SPSS,
[http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/pspp.html PSPP],
[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Plus S-Plus],
[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]
| Statistical analysis
|-
| Verilog ||
[http://www.icarus.com/eda/verilog/ iverilog]
| Verilog Simulator
|-
| '''Google Earth''', NASA World Wind, '''Celestia''', '''Stellarium''', '''Skychart''', '''Aladin Sky Atlas''', Microsoft Flight Simulator, '''FlightGear''' ||
[http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html Google Earth], [https://celestia.space/index.html Celestia], [http://www.stellarium.org/ Stellarium], [https://marble.kde.org/ Marble], [http://www.geody.com/ Geody], Kstars, Skychart, Aladin Sky Atlas, [http://www.flightgear.org/ FlightGear]
| Geography, astronomy and simulation
|}

''Please add new applications to this list. A good resource is the [http://www.nawaz.org/wiki/index.php?title=Table_of_Equivalents BeetleSpace Windows/Linux Software Table of Equivalents], which is GNU FDL licensed.''

= See also =

* [[running windows software]]
* [http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux.]
* [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareEquivalents Ubuntu software equivalents's page]
* [http://www.linuxeq.com/ The Linux Equivalent Project]

[[Category:FAQ]]

Linux software equivalent to Windows software

2022-04-03T22:30:41Z

Kareempharmacist: /* Networking */

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.

= Office and Productivity =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Office, '''OpenOffice''', '''Libre Office''', '''WPS Office''', '''Softmaker Office''', '''Onlyoffice Desktop'''
| [[Libre Office]], [https://www.wps.com/linux WPS Office](WPS-Community), [[OpenOffice]], [https://www.calligra.org/ Calligra], Softmaker FreeOffice, OnlyOffice Desktop
| Office package
|-
| Microsoft Word, OOwriter, LibreOffice Writer, WPS Writer, Softmaker TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[OOWriter]], [http://www.abiword.org AbiWord], WPS Writer, LibreOffice Writer, Calligra Words, FreeOffice TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop, Lyx, [[LaTeX]]
| [[Word Processing]]
|-
| Notepad, Wordpad, TheGun, EditPlus, SciTE, Notepad++ ||
[[Vim]], [[KWrite]],
[[Kate]], [http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/ BlueFish], [[Gedit]], [[Joe]], Sublime Text, [[Leafpad]], [[Nano]]
| [[Text Editors]]
|-
| Access, dBase, Foxpro, Paradox, '''OOBase''', '''LibreOffice Base'''
| [http://userbase.kde.org/Kexi Kexi], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Base OOBase], LibreOffice Base
| [[Database]]
|-
| Excel, Corel WordPrefect, '''LibreOffice Calc''', '''Softmaker Office PlanMaker''', '''WPS Spreedsheets''', '''OOCalc''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Calc, Calligra Sheets, Softmaker Office PlanMaker, WPS Spreedsheets, [[OOCalc]], [http://www.gnumeric.org gnumeric], OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Spreadsheet]]
|-
| Visio, [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html '''yED'''], '''LibreOffice Draw'''
| [https://www.calligra.org/flow/ Calligra Flow], [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html yED], LibreOffice Draw
| Diagramming
|-
| PowerPoint, '''LibreOffice Impress''', '''OOImpress''', '''WPS Presentation''', '''Softmaker Office Presentations''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Impress, [[OOImpress]], Calligra Stage, WPS Presentation, Softmaker Office Presentations, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Presentation software]]
|-
| Final Draft, Script Studio, '''Fade In''', '''KIT Scenarist''', '''Story Architect''', '''Trelby''', '''Scrite'''
| Fade In, KIT Scenarist, Story Architect, Trelby, Scrite
| Screenwriting software
|-
| Microsoft Project Manager
| [[MOOS Project Viewer]], Calligra Plan
| Project management
|-
| '''Wondershare EdrawMax''', XMind
| Wondershare EdrawMax, Minder, XMind
| Mind maps
|-
| Outlook, '''Thunderbird + Lightning'''
| [[Kontact]], [https://pawsa.fedorapeople.org/balsa/ BALSA], [[Thunderbird]] + [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/ Lightning]
| Personal information managers
|-
| Alcohol 120%, Discjuggler, Easy CD Creator, Nero Burning ROM ||
[[K3b]], [[XCDRoast]], Brasero, Xfburn, [[CD/DVD_Burning|''more'']]
|DVD/CD burning
|-
|Alcohol 120%, Nero Burning ROM, '''MakeMKV''', ImgBurn, Infrarecorder || MakeMKV, Thoggen, Dvdbackup, HandBrake, DVD::RIP, AcidRIP
| DVD ripping software
|-
| Quicken, Microsoft Money, TurboTax
| [http://gnucash.org/ GnucAsh], [http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/index-home.html KMyMoney], [[CrossOver]] Office with Quicken, [http://www.lazy8.nu/ lazy8ledger]
| Accounting
|-
| ActiveSync ||
[[SynCE]]
|Synchronization with Windows Mobile devices
|-
| WinEdt, TeXnicCenter
| [[Kile]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texmaker Texmaker], [[LyX]]
| LaTeX IDEs
|-
| Veritas Backup Exec, [http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm Cobian Backup], '''Duplicati''' ||
LuckyBackup, Déjà Dup, Grsync, Duplicati [[list of backUp applications|''more'']]
| [[Backup]]
|-
| Google Desktop ||
[[Recoll]]
| Desktop Search
|-
| Norton Ghost ||
[[Partition Image]], [[g4u]], [http://www.mondorescue.org/ Mondo Rescue], [[dd]], gDiskDump (a dd frontend), Clonezilla, Trinity Rescue Kit
|Disk imaging
|-
| Norton Partition Magic ||
[[GParted]], Clonezilla (a live cd), KDE Partition Manager, GNOME Disks
|Disk partitioning
|-
|[http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/Disk_Size_Explorer.asp Disk Size Explorer]
|[https://utils.kde.org/projects/filelight/ File Light], [[Konqueror]], Baobab, xdiskusage, duc [https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-analyze-your-disk-usage-pattern-in-linux/ ref.]
| Disk usage analyzers
|-
|[http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html Filemon], [http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Regmon.html Regmon]
| [http://syscalltrack.sourceforge.net/ syscalltrack]
| system call tracking (file monitor & others)
|-
| WinMerge, SyncToy ||
[http://meld.sourceforge.net/ Meld], [[Unison]], [http://synkron.sourceforge.net/ Synkron], [[rSync]]
| File synchronization
|-
| Google Drive, Dropbox, etc ||
[https://rclone.org Rclone]
| Cloud hosted file synchronization (Amazon S3, Dropbox, Google Cloud Storage, Google Drive, FTP, Microsoft OneDrive, sFTP, etc)
|-
| Windows Update, Add/Remove programs||
[[apt-get]], [http://aptitude.sourceforge.net/ Aptitude], [http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Portage portage], [[Rpm|rpm]], [[urpmi]], [[yast]], [[yum]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptic_Package_Manager Synaptic], [https://snapcraft.io Snapcraft (Snap)]
|Every Linux distribution has an infrastructure to manage installed software which is quite different from Windows. For instance, all updates are handled by a single program. See [[package management]].
|-
| WinRunner || [http://hoopajoo.net/projects/xautomation.html xautomation] || automating interactive applications
|-
| 7-Zip, Winzip, Winrar, Peazip ||
[[Karchiver]],
[[File Roller]],
Xarchiver,
[[ark]],
[[hjsplit]]; [[packing and unpacking files|''command line tools'']]
|Archivers
|-
| chkdsk || [[fsck]], [https://www.tecmint.com/linux-disk-scanning-tools/ other tools] || check your file system (and the [[hard disk]] beneath it) for errors
|-
| Daemon Tools ||
[[mount]], Disk Image Mounter in Gnome/KDE, Furius ISO mount, AcetoneISO
|ISO mounting
|-
| Disclib || [http://www.gwhere.org/home.php3 gWhere]
| Disk cataloging programs
|-
| Evernote, OneNote || NixNote, Tusk, Whatever, GeekNote, ForeverNote, [https://joplinapp.org/ Joplin], Xournal, XFCE4 Notes, Xpad, Hnb, Gnote, Feathernotes, Cherrytree, Bijiben, Basket, Noblenote, Nvpy. Thanks to [https://itsfoss.com/evernote-on-linux/]
|Note Taking App
|}

== Desktop Publishing ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Dreamweaver, NVU, KompoZer, Google Web Designer ||
[http://www.google.com/webdesigner/ Google Web Designer] (WYSIWYG)
[[html editors|more]]
|[[Web Design]]
|-
| Quark, Quark Express, Microsoft Publisher, '''Scribus''', '''Karbon''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribus Scribus], Laidout, VivaDesigner, QuickSilver, Xara Xtreme, Karbon
|DTP software
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader, Xpdf Reader, Foxit reader, Sumatra pdf ||

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evince Evince],
Zathura,
Okular,
Bookworm,
Qpdfview,
Foxit reader,
PDF Studio Viewer,
[[Xpdf]],
MuPDF,
Atril,
[[Ghostview]], [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF readers
|-
| Adobe Acrobat Distiller, PDFCreator ||
[http://www.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~vrbehr/cups-pdf/ CUPS-PDF], Libre Office, [[OpenOffice.org]], PDF Studio, [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter] -- can convert to pdf. [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF authoring
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF editor, [http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio '''PDF Studio Pro'''], '''Master PDF Editor''', '''Libreoffice Draw''', '''Scribus''', '''Inkscape''' ||
[http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio PDF Studio Pro], Master PDF Editor, [http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfedit Pdfedit], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam Pdfjam], [http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk Pdftk], Scribus, Inkscape, Karbon, Okular, Libreoffice Draw. Thanks to [https://www.ubuntupit.com/linux-pdf-editor-top-15-reviewed-and-compared/ this] [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF editing tools
|-
| SilverFast ||
[[xSane]], [http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html VueScan], Simple Scan, Skanlite, Gscan2pdf, GIMP with Quitelnsane
| [[scanning]]
|-
| FinePrint ||
[http://www.boomaga.org boomaga], [http://wfr.tcl.tk/279 page-crunch], [http://freshmeat.net/projects/mpage/ mpage], [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter], [http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~ajcd/psutils/index.html psnup/PSutils], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam pdfnup/PDFjam]
| Document printing/reformatting tools
|}

= Networking =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Internet Explorer, '''Microsoft Edge''', '''Firefox''', '''Opera''', '''Chrome''', '''Pale Moon''', '''Brave''', '''Vivaldi''', '''Otter Browser''', '''Falkon''', '''Dooble''', '''Slimjet''' ||
[[Firefox]],
[[Konqueror]],
Epiphany (Gnome Web), Falkon, Microsoft Edge, Slimjet, Midori,
[http://www.google.com/chrome Chrome], Chromium,
[[Opera]],
Otter Browser,
Brave,
Vivaldi, Falkon,
Pale Moon, Dillo, Dooble
[[Browsers|''more'']]
| [[Web Browsers]]
|-
| Microsoft Outlook, '''Thunderbird''', Pegasus, Lotus Notes, '''Seamonkey''', '''Claws Mail''', '''Mailspring''' ||
[[Kontact]],
[http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/features/evolution.html Evolution], Seamonkey,
[[Thunderbird]], Claws Mail, Mailspring, Geary [https://itsfoss.com/best-email-clients-linux/ others]
|Email clients.
|-
| ICQ, MSN Messenger, AIM (AOL Instant Messenger), Trillian, '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Irssi''' ||
[[Kopete]], Hexchat, [[PidgIn]], [[Irssi]], [[aMSN]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emesene Emesene (MSN)], [[Centericq]]
| [[Instant messaging]] [[software]].
|-
| Microsoft HyperTerminal ||
[[minicom]]
|-
| FileZilla FTP Client, WS FTP, Bullet Proof FTP, CuteFTP ||
[http://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client FileZilla FTP Client],
[http://www.kftp.org/misc/description KFTP (KFTPGrabber)],
[[Kasablanca]],
[[FireFTP]],
[[Konqueror]],
[[KBear]],
[[gFTP]],
[http://www.crossftp.com/ CrossFTP],
[[Nautilus]]
|FTP clients. Please note GNOME, KDE (and other) programs can directly open and edit files on FTP, SFTP and WebDAV shares, often using [[KIO]], [[GIO]] or [GVfs]].
|-
| mIRC, '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Quassel''', '''KVIrc''', '''Irssi''' ||
HexChat, [[PidgIn]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quassel_IRC Quassel], [[KVIrc]], Irssi, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konversation Konversation], [[BitchX]]
| [[IRC Clients]]
|-
|[http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/ UltraVNC], TightVNC, RealVNC, Remote Desktop ||
[http://www.tightvnc.com/ TightVNC],
[http://www.realvnc.com/ RealVNC], [http://www.rdesktop.org/ rdesktop],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/freenx/ FreeNX],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/x11vnc/ x11vnc],
[http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ Synergy],
XDMCP, [[SSH]] with X11 forwarding (-X or -Y option)
| [[Desktop Sharing]]
|-
| MailWasher, SpamAssassin for Windows ||
SpamAssassin
| Spam filter
|-
|Forte Free Agent, [[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]] ||
[[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]], [http://www.newsreaders.com/unix/clients.html See More Clients Here]
|News Reader (Usenet [[newsgroup]]s)
|-
| eMule, '''aMule''' || aMule
|ED2K P2P network clients
|-
| [http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php '''Vuze (formerly Azureus)'''], [http://utorrent.com/ utorrent], '''Transmission''', '''Deluge''', '''qBittorrent''', '''Tixati''', '''Frostwire''', '''Tribler''' ||
[http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php Vuze (formerly Azureus)], Tranmission, Deluge, qBittorrent, Tixati, Frostwire, Tribler, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qtorrent Qtorrent], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bittornado bittornado], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ktorrent Ktorrent],
|BitTorrent P2P network clients
|-
| '''Skype''', Voipbuster, '''Yate''', '''Linphone''', '''Jitsi''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype Skype], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linphone Linphone], Asterisk, Empathy, Yate, Jitsi
|VoIP software
|-
| Bitvise Tunnelier ||
[http://sourceforge.net/projects/gstm/ gSTM]
|gSTM is a front-end for managing SSH-tunneled port redirects.
|}

== Server ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| IIS, [[Apache]] ||
[[Apache]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nginx Engine-X], [http://www.lighttpd.net/ lighttpd]
|[[Web Servers]]
|-
| Folder sharing, printer sharing ||
[[Samba]]
|Share files and printers between Windows and Linux systems. Installed by default on most distributions.
|-
|IIS, [http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ FileZilla FTP Client & Server]
|[[vsftpd]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure-ftpd pure-ftpd]
|FTP servers, for hosting files.
|-
|[http://www.netlimiter.com/ NetLimiter] ||
[http://monkey.org/~marius/pages/?page=trickle Trickle], [http://l7-filter.sourceforge.net/ Level 7 Filter], [http://www.clarkconnect.com/info/index.php ClarkConnect], [http://www.bandwidtharbitrator.com/ Bandwidth Arbitrator], [http://www.mastershaper.org/index.php/Main_Page MasterShaper]
|Bandwidth shaping and management.
|-
| Exchange ||
[[Citadel]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbra zimbra], [[Open-Xchange]]
|Groupware (sharing of appointments, contacts, e-mail, documents, etc. between members of a group)
|-
| Sharepoint ||
[http://www.knowledgetree.com/opensource KnowledgeTree]
|Manage and secure documents, collaborate around document creation and editing, full document contents indexing
|-
| Norton/McAfee Antivirus, [http://clamwin.com/ ClamWin], AVG, AntiVir, Avast, ClamAV ||
[[ClamAV]], [https://support.avast.com/en-eu/article/131/ Avast Security for Linux]
| Antivirus software.
|-
| ZoneAlarm , Sygate SPF||
[[Guarddog]], [[Firestarter]], [[GUFW]], [[iptables]]
| Firewall software
|}

= Multimedia =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
|[http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/ Adobe Photoshop], [http://www.corel.com/ Corel Photo-Paint], '''GIMP''', '''Glimpse''', '''GIMPShop''', '''ImageMagick''', '''Xnview''', '''[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)]''', '''[https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable]''', '''Pinta''', '''MyPaint''', '''Krita''', '''Filmulator''', '''Photivo''', '''RawTherapee''', '''digiKam''', '''nomacs''' ||
[http://www.gimp.org/ GIMP], Glimpse,
[[GIMPShop]], ImageMagick, Pinta, MyPaint,
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krita Krita], Xnview,
[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)], [https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable], Filmulator, Photivo, RawTherapee, digiKam, nomacs
|Raster graphics editors
|-
|[http://www.corel.com/ Corel Draw], [http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator/ Adobe Illustrator], '''Inkscape''', '''Vectr''', '''Gravit''', '''LibreOffice Draw''', '''sK1''', '''SVG-edit''' ||
[http://www.inkscape.org/ Inkscape], Vectr, Gravit, LibreOffice Draw, Karbon, sK1, SVG-edit. [https://itsfoss.com/vector-graphics-editors-linux/ Ref.]
|Vector graphics editors
|-
|Adobe Animate, '''Synfig''', '''Pencil2D''', '''Tupi (Tupitube Desk)''', '''OpenToonz''', '''Blender''', '''Toon Boom Harmony''', '''Krita''', '''Aseprite''', '''TVPaint''', '''Animaker''', '''Ajax Animator''', '''Glaxnimate''', '''Tahoma2D''', '''Enve''' ||
Synfig, Pencil2D, Tupi (Tupitube Desk), OpenToonz, Blender, Toon Boom Harmony, Krita, Aseprite, TVPaint, Animaker, Ajax Animator, Glaxnimate, Tahoma2D , Enve
| 2D Animations
|-
| Irfanview, ACDSee, '''digiKam''', '''Xnview''', '''nomacs''' ||
[[XnView]], [http://mirageiv.berlios.de/ Mirage], [[GThumb]], Shotwell, KPhotoAlbum, Geeqie, digiKam, Gwenview, Ristretto, Viewnior, nomacs
|Image viewers
|-
| 3D Studio MAX, '''Blender''', [http://www.autodesk.com '''Maya'''] ||
[[Blender]],
[http://www.autodesk.com Maya],
[[K-3D]]
|3D modeling software
|-
| Autodesk Inventor, Solidworks, CATIA || [http://www.freecadweb.org FreeCAD], [http://www.salome-platform.org/ SALOME platform]
| Professional 3D CAD software
|-
| Windows Media Player, PowerDVD, SMPlayer, MPV, [[VLC]] ||
SMPlayer,
MPV,
[[VLC]],
[[Xine]],
[[Totem]],
[[Kaffeine]],
Parole,
Celluloid,
[[MPlayer]]
| [[Video Players]]
|-
| SIA Smaart Live || [http://sf.net/projects/brp-pacu/ BRP-PACU] || [[Sound]] analysis
|-
| Winamp, Sonique, iTunes, [http://www.atunes.org/ aTunes], '''Clementine''', '''VLC''', '''SMplayer''', '''Deadbeef''', '''Strawberry''', '''Audacious''' ||
[[Amarok]],
Clementine,
[[RhythmBox]],
[http://banshee-project.org/index.php/Main_Page Banshee],
[[Xine]],
VLC,
SMplayer,
Elisa,
Deadbeef,
Audacious, Strawberry. See also Video Players section
|[[Music Players]]
|-
| [http://www.otsav.com/ OTSAV, OTS Turntables], [http://serato.com/ Serato], [http://www.native-instruments.com/en/traktor/ Traktor], [http://www.virtualdj.com/ Virtual DJ], [http://www.pcdj.com/ PC DJ], [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
| [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
|Audio & video play out (DJ/presenter)
|-
| Windows Movie Maker, Adobe Premiere Elements, [http://www.goldwave.com/mqrelease.php Multiquence], '''Avidemux''', '''OpenShot''', '''VidCutter''', [https://shotcut.org/ '''Shotcut'''], '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron]''', [https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php '''Olive'''], '''Lightworks''' ||
[[Cinelerra]] (difficult but very professional),
[[KDenlive]] (easy and powerful),
[[LiVES]],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avidemux AviDemux],
OpenShot,
VidCutter,
Flowblade,
Pitivi,
DaVinci Resolve,
[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron],
[https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php Olive],
Lightworks (thanks to Linux Format magazine),
[https://shotcut.org/ Shotcut](thanks to Linux Format magazine)
|[[Video Editors]]
|-
| '''Audacity''', Cubase, '''Ardour''', Adobe Audition (formerly Cool Edit Pro), [http://www.goldwave.com/ GoldWave], Cakewalk/Sonar, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''LMMS''', '''Traverso-DAW''', '''[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]''' ||
[[Audacity]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden],
[[Beast]],
[[Ardour]],
Harrison Mixbus,
[http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/index.php Radium],
DaVinci Resolve,
Bitwig Studio,
Qtractor,
[https://traverso-daw.org/ Traverso-DAW],
LMMS,
[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]
|Digital audio workstation software
|-
| Audio Catalyst, '''Ocenaudio''', dbpoweramp, CDex, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''Audacity''' ||
[[Audacity]],
Ocenaudio,
DaVinci Resolve,
[[Grip]]
| [[Audio Editors]]
|-
| '''Wavesurfer''', '''Audacity''', '''Sox'''||[https://itsfoss.com/record-streaming-audio/ Audio Recorder], Ecasound, Audacity, Sox, Wavesurfer
|Audio recorders
|-
| Cakewalk/Sonar ||
[[kmid]],
[[kmidi]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden]
| [[MIDI]]
|-
|[http://www.noteworthysoftware.com/ NoteWorthy Composer], '''MuseScore''', '''LilyPond'''||
[http://www.musescore.org/ MuseScore], [http://lilypond.org/web/ LilyPond]
|Musical score typesetting
|-
|[http://www.guitar-pro.com/ GuitarPro], TuxGuitar ||
[http://www.tuxguitar.com.ar/ TuxGuitar]
|Guitar tablature editors
|-
| Microsoft Paint, Kid Pix, '''Tux Paint''', '''Pencil 2D''', '''Krita''', '''Pinta''', '''Mypaint''', '''Mtpaint''' ||
[http://www.tuxpaint.org/ Tuxpaint], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KolourPaint KolourPaint], Pencil 2D, Krita, [https://launchpad.net/dibuja Dibuja], Pinta, Mypaint, Mtpaint
|Basic raster painting programs
|-
| Videora, [https://handbrake.fr/ '''Handbrake'''], '''WinFF''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || [https://handbrake.fr/ Handbrake], WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, Transmageddon, VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Video converter
|-
| '''WinFF''', '''Handbrake''', '''fre:ac - free audio converter (freac)''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || Handbrake, WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, fre:ac - free audio converter (freac), VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Audio converter
|-
|TMPGEnc DVD Author, Roxio DVDit, '''Open DVD Producer''', '''DVDStyler''' ||
DVDStyler, [http://opendvdproducer.jonata.org/ Open DVD Producer], [http://www.rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html DeVeDe]
|DVD authoring software
|-
|'''uTox''', '''qTox''', '''Jitsi''', '''OpenMeetings''', '''Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone)''', '''Microsoft Teams''', '''Zoom''' || uTox, qTox, OpenMettings, Jitsi, Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone), Empathy, Microsoft Teams, Zoom
| Video Conferencing
|}

= Education =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| '''Klavaro''', '''Tipp10''' || Klavaro, Tipp10, [[KTouch]], Tux Typing, GNU Typist || Touch typing tutors
|-
| '''Maple''', '''Mathematica''' || Maple, Mathematica, [http://maxima.sourceforge.net/ Maxima]
| Computer algebra systems
|-
| '''Matlab''', '''Octave''', '''Scilab''' ||
Matlab, [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ Octave],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SciLab SciLab], Sage, KAlgebra
| High level numeric computation environments
|-
| '''SPSS''', '''Stata''', EViews, '''PSPP''', '''[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project]''', '''[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]''' ||
[http://www.stata.com/products/unix.html Stata], SPSS,
[http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/pspp.html PSPP],
[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Plus S-Plus],
[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]
| Statistical analysis
|-
| Verilog ||
[http://www.icarus.com/eda/verilog/ iverilog]
| Verilog Simulator
|-
| '''Google Earth''', NASA World Wind, '''Celestia''', '''Stellarium''', '''Skychart''', '''Aladin Sky Atlas''', Microsoft Flight Simulator, '''FlightGear''' ||
[http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html Google Earth], [https://celestia.space/index.html Celestia], [http://www.stellarium.org/ Stellarium], [https://marble.kde.org/ Marble], [http://www.geody.com/ Geody], Kstars, Skychart, Aladin Sky Atlas, [http://www.flightgear.org/ FlightGear]
| Geography, astronomy and simulation
|}

''Please add new applications to this list. A good resource is the [http://www.nawaz.org/wiki/index.php?title=Table_of_Equivalents BeetleSpace Windows/Linux Software Table of Equivalents], which is GNU FDL licensed.''

= See also =

* [[running windows software]]
* [http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux.]
* [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareEquivalents Ubuntu software equivalents's page]
* [http://www.linuxeq.com/ The Linux Equivalent Project]

[[Category:FAQ]]

Linux software equivalent to Windows software

2022-04-03T22:29:00Z

Kareempharmacist: /* Networking */

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.

= Office and Productivity =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Office, '''OpenOffice''', '''Libre Office''', '''WPS Office''', '''Softmaker Office''', '''Onlyoffice Desktop'''
| [[Libre Office]], [https://www.wps.com/linux WPS Office](WPS-Community), [[OpenOffice]], [https://www.calligra.org/ Calligra], Softmaker FreeOffice, OnlyOffice Desktop
| Office package
|-
| Microsoft Word, OOwriter, LibreOffice Writer, WPS Writer, Softmaker TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[OOWriter]], [http://www.abiword.org AbiWord], WPS Writer, LibreOffice Writer, Calligra Words, FreeOffice TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop, Lyx, [[LaTeX]]
| [[Word Processing]]
|-
| Notepad, Wordpad, TheGun, EditPlus, SciTE, Notepad++ ||
[[Vim]], [[KWrite]],
[[Kate]], [http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/ BlueFish], [[Gedit]], [[Joe]], Sublime Text, [[Leafpad]], [[Nano]]
| [[Text Editors]]
|-
| Access, dBase, Foxpro, Paradox, '''OOBase''', '''LibreOffice Base'''
| [http://userbase.kde.org/Kexi Kexi], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Base OOBase], LibreOffice Base
| [[Database]]
|-
| Excel, Corel WordPrefect, '''LibreOffice Calc''', '''Softmaker Office PlanMaker''', '''WPS Spreedsheets''', '''OOCalc''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Calc, Calligra Sheets, Softmaker Office PlanMaker, WPS Spreedsheets, [[OOCalc]], [http://www.gnumeric.org gnumeric], OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Spreadsheet]]
|-
| Visio, [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html '''yED'''], '''LibreOffice Draw'''
| [https://www.calligra.org/flow/ Calligra Flow], [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html yED], LibreOffice Draw
| Diagramming
|-
| PowerPoint, '''LibreOffice Impress''', '''OOImpress''', '''WPS Presentation''', '''Softmaker Office Presentations''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Impress, [[OOImpress]], Calligra Stage, WPS Presentation, Softmaker Office Presentations, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Presentation software]]
|-
| Final Draft, Script Studio, '''Fade In''', '''KIT Scenarist''', '''Story Architect''', '''Trelby''', '''Scrite'''
| Fade In, KIT Scenarist, Story Architect, Trelby, Scrite
| Screenwriting software
|-
| Microsoft Project Manager
| [[MOOS Project Viewer]], Calligra Plan
| Project management
|-
| '''Wondershare EdrawMax''', XMind
| Wondershare EdrawMax, Minder, XMind
| Mind maps
|-
| Outlook, '''Thunderbird + Lightning'''
| [[Kontact]], [https://pawsa.fedorapeople.org/balsa/ BALSA], [[Thunderbird]] + [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/ Lightning]
| Personal information managers
|-
| Alcohol 120%, Discjuggler, Easy CD Creator, Nero Burning ROM ||
[[K3b]], [[XCDRoast]], Brasero, Xfburn, [[CD/DVD_Burning|''more'']]
|DVD/CD burning
|-
|Alcohol 120%, Nero Burning ROM, '''MakeMKV''', ImgBurn, Infrarecorder || MakeMKV, Thoggen, Dvdbackup, HandBrake, DVD::RIP, AcidRIP
| DVD ripping software
|-
| Quicken, Microsoft Money, TurboTax
| [http://gnucash.org/ GnucAsh], [http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/index-home.html KMyMoney], [[CrossOver]] Office with Quicken, [http://www.lazy8.nu/ lazy8ledger]
| Accounting
|-
| ActiveSync ||
[[SynCE]]
|Synchronization with Windows Mobile devices
|-
| WinEdt, TeXnicCenter
| [[Kile]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texmaker Texmaker], [[LyX]]
| LaTeX IDEs
|-
| Veritas Backup Exec, [http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm Cobian Backup], '''Duplicati''' ||
LuckyBackup, Déjà Dup, Grsync, Duplicati [[list of backUp applications|''more'']]
| [[Backup]]
|-
| Google Desktop ||
[[Recoll]]
| Desktop Search
|-
| Norton Ghost ||
[[Partition Image]], [[g4u]], [http://www.mondorescue.org/ Mondo Rescue], [[dd]], gDiskDump (a dd frontend), Clonezilla, Trinity Rescue Kit
|Disk imaging
|-
| Norton Partition Magic ||
[[GParted]], Clonezilla (a live cd), KDE Partition Manager, GNOME Disks
|Disk partitioning
|-
|[http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/Disk_Size_Explorer.asp Disk Size Explorer]
|[https://utils.kde.org/projects/filelight/ File Light], [[Konqueror]], Baobab, xdiskusage, duc [https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-analyze-your-disk-usage-pattern-in-linux/ ref.]
| Disk usage analyzers
|-
|[http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html Filemon], [http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Regmon.html Regmon]
| [http://syscalltrack.sourceforge.net/ syscalltrack]
| system call tracking (file monitor & others)
|-
| WinMerge, SyncToy ||
[http://meld.sourceforge.net/ Meld], [[Unison]], [http://synkron.sourceforge.net/ Synkron], [[rSync]]
| File synchronization
|-
| Google Drive, Dropbox, etc ||
[https://rclone.org Rclone]
| Cloud hosted file synchronization (Amazon S3, Dropbox, Google Cloud Storage, Google Drive, FTP, Microsoft OneDrive, sFTP, etc)
|-
| Windows Update, Add/Remove programs||
[[apt-get]], [http://aptitude.sourceforge.net/ Aptitude], [http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Portage portage], [[Rpm|rpm]], [[urpmi]], [[yast]], [[yum]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptic_Package_Manager Synaptic], [https://snapcraft.io Snapcraft (Snap)]
|Every Linux distribution has an infrastructure to manage installed software which is quite different from Windows. For instance, all updates are handled by a single program. See [[package management]].
|-
| WinRunner || [http://hoopajoo.net/projects/xautomation.html xautomation] || automating interactive applications
|-
| 7-Zip, Winzip, Winrar, Peazip ||
[[Karchiver]],
[[File Roller]],
Xarchiver,
[[ark]],
[[hjsplit]]; [[packing and unpacking files|''command line tools'']]
|Archivers
|-
| chkdsk || [[fsck]], [https://www.tecmint.com/linux-disk-scanning-tools/ other tools] || check your file system (and the [[hard disk]] beneath it) for errors
|-
| Daemon Tools ||
[[mount]], Disk Image Mounter in Gnome/KDE, Furius ISO mount, AcetoneISO
|ISO mounting
|-
| Disclib || [http://www.gwhere.org/home.php3 gWhere]
| Disk cataloging programs
|-
| Evernote, OneNote || NixNote, Tusk, Whatever, GeekNote, ForeverNote, [https://joplinapp.org/ Joplin], Xournal, XFCE4 Notes, Xpad, Hnb, Gnote, Feathernotes, Cherrytree, Bijiben, Basket, Noblenote, Nvpy. Thanks to [https://itsfoss.com/evernote-on-linux/]
|Note Taking App
|}

== Desktop Publishing ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Dreamweaver, NVU, KompoZer, Google Web Designer ||
[http://www.google.com/webdesigner/ Google Web Designer] (WYSIWYG)
[[html editors|more]]
|[[Web Design]]
|-
| Quark, Quark Express, Microsoft Publisher, '''Scribus''', '''Karbon''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribus Scribus], Laidout, VivaDesigner, QuickSilver, Xara Xtreme, Karbon
|DTP software
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader, Xpdf Reader, Foxit reader, Sumatra pdf ||

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evince Evince],
Zathura,
Okular,
Bookworm,
Qpdfview,
Foxit reader,
PDF Studio Viewer,
[[Xpdf]],
MuPDF,
Atril,
[[Ghostview]], [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF readers
|-
| Adobe Acrobat Distiller, PDFCreator ||
[http://www.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~vrbehr/cups-pdf/ CUPS-PDF], Libre Office, [[OpenOffice.org]], PDF Studio, [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter] -- can convert to pdf. [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF authoring
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF editor, [http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio '''PDF Studio Pro'''], '''Master PDF Editor''', '''Libreoffice Draw''', '''Scribus''', '''Inkscape''' ||
[http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio PDF Studio Pro], Master PDF Editor, [http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfedit Pdfedit], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam Pdfjam], [http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk Pdftk], Scribus, Inkscape, Karbon, Okular, Libreoffice Draw. Thanks to [https://www.ubuntupit.com/linux-pdf-editor-top-15-reviewed-and-compared/ this] [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF editing tools
|-
| SilverFast ||
[[xSane]], [http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html VueScan], Simple Scan, Skanlite, Gscan2pdf, GIMP with Quitelnsane
| [[scanning]]
|-
| FinePrint ||
[http://www.boomaga.org boomaga], [http://wfr.tcl.tk/279 page-crunch], [http://freshmeat.net/projects/mpage/ mpage], [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter], [http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~ajcd/psutils/index.html psnup/PSutils], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam pdfnup/PDFjam]
| Document printing/reformatting tools
|}

= Networking =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Internet Explorer, '''Microsoft Edge''', '''Firefox''', '''Opera''', '''Chrome''', '''Pale Moon''', '''Brave''', '''Vivaldi''', '''Otter Browser''', '''Falkon''', '''Dooble''', '''Slimjet''' ||
[[Firefox]],
[[Konqueror]],
Epiphany (Gnome Web), Falkon, Microsoft Edge, Slimjet, Midori,
[http://www.google.com/chrome Chrome], Chromium,
[[Opera]],
Otter Browser,
Brave,
Vivaldi, Falkon,
Pale Moon, Dillo, Dooble
[[Browsers|''more'']]
| [[Web Browsers]]
|-
| Microsoft Outlook, '''Thunderbird''', Pegasus, Lotus Notes, '''Seamonkey''', '''Claws Mail''', '''Mailspring''' ||
[[Kontact]],
[http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/features/evolution.html Evolution], Seamonkey,
[[Thunderbird]], Claws Mail, Mailspring, Geary [https://itsfoss.com/best-email-clients-linux/ others]
|Email clients.
|-
| ICQ, MSN Messenger, AIM (AOL Instant Messenger), Trillian, '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Irssi''' ||
[[Kopete]], [[aMSN]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emesene Emesene (MSN)], [[Centericq]], Hexchat, [[PidgIn]], [[Irssi]]
| [[Instant messaging]] [[software]].
|-
| Microsoft HyperTerminal ||
[[minicom]]
|-
| FileZilla FTP Client, WS FTP, Bullet Proof FTP, CuteFTP ||
[http://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client FileZilla FTP Client],
[http://www.kftp.org/misc/description KFTP (KFTPGrabber)],
[[Kasablanca]],
[[FireFTP]],
[[Konqueror]],
[[KBear]],
[[gFTP]],
[http://www.crossftp.com/ CrossFTP],
[[Nautilus]]
|FTP clients. Please note GNOME, KDE (and other) programs can directly open and edit files on FTP, SFTP and WebDAV shares, often using [[KIO]], [[GIO]] or [GVfs]].
|-
| mIRC, '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Quassel''', '''KVIrc''', '''Irssi''' ||
HexChat, [[PidgIn]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quassel_IRC Quassel], [[KVIrc]], Irssi, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konversation Konversation], [[BitchX]]
| [[IRC Clients]]
|-
|[http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/ UltraVNC], TightVNC, RealVNC, Remote Desktop ||
[http://www.tightvnc.com/ TightVNC],
[http://www.realvnc.com/ RealVNC], [http://www.rdesktop.org/ rdesktop],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/freenx/ FreeNX],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/x11vnc/ x11vnc],
[http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ Synergy],
XDMCP, [[SSH]] with X11 forwarding (-X or -Y option)
| [[Desktop Sharing]]
|-
| MailWasher, SpamAssassin for Windows ||
SpamAssassin
| Spam filter
|-
|Forte Free Agent, [[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]] ||
[[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]], [http://www.newsreaders.com/unix/clients.html See More Clients Here]
|News Reader (Usenet [[newsgroup]]s)
|-
| eMule, '''aMule''' || aMule
|ED2K P2P network clients
|-
| [http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php '''Vuze (formerly Azureus)'''], [http://utorrent.com/ utorrent], '''Transmission''', '''Deluge''', '''qBittorrent''', '''Tixati''', '''Frostwire''', '''Tribler''' ||
[http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php Vuze (formerly Azureus)], Tranmission, Deluge, qBittorrent, Tixati, Frostwire, Tribler, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qtorrent Qtorrent], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bittornado bittornado], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ktorrent Ktorrent],
|BitTorrent P2P network clients
|-
| '''Skype''', Voipbuster, '''Yate''', '''Linphone''', '''Jitsi''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype Skype], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linphone Linphone], Asterisk, Empathy, Yate, Jitsi
|VoIP software
|-
| Bitvise Tunnelier ||
[http://sourceforge.net/projects/gstm/ gSTM]
|gSTM is a front-end for managing SSH-tunneled port redirects.
|}

== Server ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| IIS, [[Apache]] ||
[[Apache]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nginx Engine-X], [http://www.lighttpd.net/ lighttpd]
|[[Web Servers]]
|-
| Folder sharing, printer sharing ||
[[Samba]]
|Share files and printers between Windows and Linux systems. Installed by default on most distributions.
|-
|IIS, [http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ FileZilla FTP Client & Server]
|[[vsftpd]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure-ftpd pure-ftpd]
|FTP servers, for hosting files.
|-
|[http://www.netlimiter.com/ NetLimiter] ||
[http://monkey.org/~marius/pages/?page=trickle Trickle], [http://l7-filter.sourceforge.net/ Level 7 Filter], [http://www.clarkconnect.com/info/index.php ClarkConnect], [http://www.bandwidtharbitrator.com/ Bandwidth Arbitrator], [http://www.mastershaper.org/index.php/Main_Page MasterShaper]
|Bandwidth shaping and management.
|-
| Exchange ||
[[Citadel]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbra zimbra], [[Open-Xchange]]
|Groupware (sharing of appointments, contacts, e-mail, documents, etc. between members of a group)
|-
| Sharepoint ||
[http://www.knowledgetree.com/opensource KnowledgeTree]
|Manage and secure documents, collaborate around document creation and editing, full document contents indexing
|-
| Norton/McAfee Antivirus, [http://clamwin.com/ ClamWin], AVG, AntiVir, Avast, ClamAV ||
[[ClamAV]], [https://support.avast.com/en-eu/article/131/ Avast Security for Linux]
| Antivirus software.
|-
| ZoneAlarm , Sygate SPF||
[[Guarddog]], [[Firestarter]], [[GUFW]], [[iptables]]
| Firewall software
|}

= Multimedia =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
|[http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/ Adobe Photoshop], [http://www.corel.com/ Corel Photo-Paint], '''GIMP''', '''Glimpse''', '''GIMPShop''', '''ImageMagick''', '''Xnview''', '''[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)]''', '''[https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable]''', '''Pinta''', '''MyPaint''', '''Krita''', '''Filmulator''', '''Photivo''', '''RawTherapee''', '''digiKam''', '''nomacs''' ||
[http://www.gimp.org/ GIMP], Glimpse,
[[GIMPShop]], ImageMagick, Pinta, MyPaint,
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krita Krita], Xnview,
[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)], [https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable], Filmulator, Photivo, RawTherapee, digiKam, nomacs
|Raster graphics editors
|-
|[http://www.corel.com/ Corel Draw], [http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator/ Adobe Illustrator], '''Inkscape''', '''Vectr''', '''Gravit''', '''LibreOffice Draw''', '''sK1''', '''SVG-edit''' ||
[http://www.inkscape.org/ Inkscape], Vectr, Gravit, LibreOffice Draw, Karbon, sK1, SVG-edit. [https://itsfoss.com/vector-graphics-editors-linux/ Ref.]
|Vector graphics editors
|-
|Adobe Animate, '''Synfig''', '''Pencil2D''', '''Tupi (Tupitube Desk)''', '''OpenToonz''', '''Blender''', '''Toon Boom Harmony''', '''Krita''', '''Aseprite''', '''TVPaint''', '''Animaker''', '''Ajax Animator''', '''Glaxnimate''', '''Tahoma2D''', '''Enve''' ||
Synfig, Pencil2D, Tupi (Tupitube Desk), OpenToonz, Blender, Toon Boom Harmony, Krita, Aseprite, TVPaint, Animaker, Ajax Animator, Glaxnimate, Tahoma2D , Enve
| 2D Animations
|-
| Irfanview, ACDSee, '''digiKam''', '''Xnview''', '''nomacs''' ||
[[XnView]], [http://mirageiv.berlios.de/ Mirage], [[GThumb]], Shotwell, KPhotoAlbum, Geeqie, digiKam, Gwenview, Ristretto, Viewnior, nomacs
|Image viewers
|-
| 3D Studio MAX, '''Blender''', [http://www.autodesk.com '''Maya'''] ||
[[Blender]],
[http://www.autodesk.com Maya],
[[K-3D]]
|3D modeling software
|-
| Autodesk Inventor, Solidworks, CATIA || [http://www.freecadweb.org FreeCAD], [http://www.salome-platform.org/ SALOME platform]
| Professional 3D CAD software
|-
| Windows Media Player, PowerDVD, SMPlayer, MPV, [[VLC]] ||
SMPlayer,
MPV,
[[VLC]],
[[Xine]],
[[Totem]],
[[Kaffeine]],
Parole,
Celluloid,
[[MPlayer]]
| [[Video Players]]
|-
| SIA Smaart Live || [http://sf.net/projects/brp-pacu/ BRP-PACU] || [[Sound]] analysis
|-
| Winamp, Sonique, iTunes, [http://www.atunes.org/ aTunes], '''Clementine''', '''VLC''', '''SMplayer''', '''Deadbeef''', '''Strawberry''', '''Audacious''' ||
[[Amarok]],
Clementine,
[[RhythmBox]],
[http://banshee-project.org/index.php/Main_Page Banshee],
[[Xine]],
VLC,
SMplayer,
Elisa,
Deadbeef,
Audacious, Strawberry. See also Video Players section
|[[Music Players]]
|-
| [http://www.otsav.com/ OTSAV, OTS Turntables], [http://serato.com/ Serato], [http://www.native-instruments.com/en/traktor/ Traktor], [http://www.virtualdj.com/ Virtual DJ], [http://www.pcdj.com/ PC DJ], [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
| [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
|Audio & video play out (DJ/presenter)
|-
| Windows Movie Maker, Adobe Premiere Elements, [http://www.goldwave.com/mqrelease.php Multiquence], '''Avidemux''', '''OpenShot''', '''VidCutter''', [https://shotcut.org/ '''Shotcut'''], '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron]''', [https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php '''Olive'''], '''Lightworks''' ||
[[Cinelerra]] (difficult but very professional),
[[KDenlive]] (easy and powerful),
[[LiVES]],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avidemux AviDemux],
OpenShot,
VidCutter,
Flowblade,
Pitivi,
DaVinci Resolve,
[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron],
[https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php Olive],
Lightworks (thanks to Linux Format magazine),
[https://shotcut.org/ Shotcut](thanks to Linux Format magazine)
|[[Video Editors]]
|-
| '''Audacity''', Cubase, '''Ardour''', Adobe Audition (formerly Cool Edit Pro), [http://www.goldwave.com/ GoldWave], Cakewalk/Sonar, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''LMMS''', '''Traverso-DAW''', '''[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]''' ||
[[Audacity]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden],
[[Beast]],
[[Ardour]],
Harrison Mixbus,
[http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/index.php Radium],
DaVinci Resolve,
Bitwig Studio,
Qtractor,
[https://traverso-daw.org/ Traverso-DAW],
LMMS,
[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]
|Digital audio workstation software
|-
| Audio Catalyst, '''Ocenaudio''', dbpoweramp, CDex, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''Audacity''' ||
[[Audacity]],
Ocenaudio,
DaVinci Resolve,
[[Grip]]
| [[Audio Editors]]
|-
| '''Wavesurfer''', '''Audacity''', '''Sox'''||[https://itsfoss.com/record-streaming-audio/ Audio Recorder], Ecasound, Audacity, Sox, Wavesurfer
|Audio recorders
|-
| Cakewalk/Sonar ||
[[kmid]],
[[kmidi]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden]
| [[MIDI]]
|-
|[http://www.noteworthysoftware.com/ NoteWorthy Composer], '''MuseScore''', '''LilyPond'''||
[http://www.musescore.org/ MuseScore], [http://lilypond.org/web/ LilyPond]
|Musical score typesetting
|-
|[http://www.guitar-pro.com/ GuitarPro], TuxGuitar ||
[http://www.tuxguitar.com.ar/ TuxGuitar]
|Guitar tablature editors
|-
| Microsoft Paint, Kid Pix, '''Tux Paint''', '''Pencil 2D''', '''Krita''', '''Pinta''', '''Mypaint''', '''Mtpaint''' ||
[http://www.tuxpaint.org/ Tuxpaint], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KolourPaint KolourPaint], Pencil 2D, Krita, [https://launchpad.net/dibuja Dibuja], Pinta, Mypaint, Mtpaint
|Basic raster painting programs
|-
| Videora, [https://handbrake.fr/ '''Handbrake'''], '''WinFF''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || [https://handbrake.fr/ Handbrake], WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, Transmageddon, VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Video converter
|-
| '''WinFF''', '''Handbrake''', '''fre:ac - free audio converter (freac)''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || Handbrake, WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, fre:ac - free audio converter (freac), VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Audio converter
|-
|TMPGEnc DVD Author, Roxio DVDit, '''Open DVD Producer''', '''DVDStyler''' ||
DVDStyler, [http://opendvdproducer.jonata.org/ Open DVD Producer], [http://www.rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html DeVeDe]
|DVD authoring software
|-
|'''uTox''', '''qTox''', '''Jitsi''', '''OpenMeetings''', '''Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone)''', '''Microsoft Teams''', '''Zoom''' || uTox, qTox, OpenMettings, Jitsi, Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone), Empathy, Microsoft Teams, Zoom
| Video Conferencing
|}

= Education =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| '''Klavaro''', '''Tipp10''' || Klavaro, Tipp10, [[KTouch]], Tux Typing, GNU Typist || Touch typing tutors
|-
| '''Maple''', '''Mathematica''' || Maple, Mathematica, [http://maxima.sourceforge.net/ Maxima]
| Computer algebra systems
|-
| '''Matlab''', '''Octave''', '''Scilab''' ||
Matlab, [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ Octave],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SciLab SciLab], Sage, KAlgebra
| High level numeric computation environments
|-
| '''SPSS''', '''Stata''', EViews, '''PSPP''', '''[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project]''', '''[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]''' ||
[http://www.stata.com/products/unix.html Stata], SPSS,
[http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/pspp.html PSPP],
[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Plus S-Plus],
[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]
| Statistical analysis
|-
| Verilog ||
[http://www.icarus.com/eda/verilog/ iverilog]
| Verilog Simulator
|-
| '''Google Earth''', NASA World Wind, '''Celestia''', '''Stellarium''', '''Skychart''', '''Aladin Sky Atlas''', Microsoft Flight Simulator, '''FlightGear''' ||
[http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html Google Earth], [https://celestia.space/index.html Celestia], [http://www.stellarium.org/ Stellarium], [https://marble.kde.org/ Marble], [http://www.geody.com/ Geody], Kstars, Skychart, Aladin Sky Atlas, [http://www.flightgear.org/ FlightGear]
| Geography, astronomy and simulation
|}

''Please add new applications to this list. A good resource is the [http://www.nawaz.org/wiki/index.php?title=Table_of_Equivalents BeetleSpace Windows/Linux Software Table of Equivalents], which is GNU FDL licensed.''

= See also =

* [[running windows software]]
* [http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux.]
* [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareEquivalents Ubuntu software equivalents's page]
* [http://www.linuxeq.com/ The Linux Equivalent Project]

[[Category:FAQ]]

Linux software equivalent to Windows software

2022-04-03T22:28:01Z

Kareempharmacist: /* Networking */

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.

= Office and Productivity =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Office, '''OpenOffice''', '''Libre Office''', '''WPS Office''', '''Softmaker Office''', '''Onlyoffice Desktop'''
| [[Libre Office]], [https://www.wps.com/linux WPS Office](WPS-Community), [[OpenOffice]], [https://www.calligra.org/ Calligra], Softmaker FreeOffice, OnlyOffice Desktop
| Office package
|-
| Microsoft Word, OOwriter, LibreOffice Writer, WPS Writer, Softmaker TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[OOWriter]], [http://www.abiword.org AbiWord], WPS Writer, LibreOffice Writer, Calligra Words, FreeOffice TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop, Lyx, [[LaTeX]]
| [[Word Processing]]
|-
| Notepad, Wordpad, TheGun, EditPlus, SciTE, Notepad++ ||
[[Vim]], [[KWrite]],
[[Kate]], [http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/ BlueFish], [[Gedit]], [[Joe]], Sublime Text, [[Leafpad]], [[Nano]]
| [[Text Editors]]
|-
| Access, dBase, Foxpro, Paradox, '''OOBase''', '''LibreOffice Base'''
| [http://userbase.kde.org/Kexi Kexi], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Base OOBase], LibreOffice Base
| [[Database]]
|-
| Excel, Corel WordPrefect, '''LibreOffice Calc''', '''Softmaker Office PlanMaker''', '''WPS Spreedsheets''', '''OOCalc''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Calc, Calligra Sheets, Softmaker Office PlanMaker, WPS Spreedsheets, [[OOCalc]], [http://www.gnumeric.org gnumeric], OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Spreadsheet]]
|-
| Visio, [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html '''yED'''], '''LibreOffice Draw'''
| [https://www.calligra.org/flow/ Calligra Flow], [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html yED], LibreOffice Draw
| Diagramming
|-
| PowerPoint, '''LibreOffice Impress''', '''OOImpress''', '''WPS Presentation''', '''Softmaker Office Presentations''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Impress, [[OOImpress]], Calligra Stage, WPS Presentation, Softmaker Office Presentations, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Presentation software]]
|-
| Final Draft, Script Studio, '''Fade In''', '''KIT Scenarist''', '''Story Architect''', '''Trelby''', '''Scrite'''
| Fade In, KIT Scenarist, Story Architect, Trelby, Scrite
| Screenwriting software
|-
| Microsoft Project Manager
| [[MOOS Project Viewer]], Calligra Plan
| Project management
|-
| '''Wondershare EdrawMax''', XMind
| Wondershare EdrawMax, Minder, XMind
| Mind maps
|-
| Outlook, '''Thunderbird + Lightning'''
| [[Kontact]], [https://pawsa.fedorapeople.org/balsa/ BALSA], [[Thunderbird]] + [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/ Lightning]
| Personal information managers
|-
| Alcohol 120%, Discjuggler, Easy CD Creator, Nero Burning ROM ||
[[K3b]], [[XCDRoast]], Brasero, Xfburn, [[CD/DVD_Burning|''more'']]
|DVD/CD burning
|-
|Alcohol 120%, Nero Burning ROM, '''MakeMKV''', ImgBurn, Infrarecorder || MakeMKV, Thoggen, Dvdbackup, HandBrake, DVD::RIP, AcidRIP
| DVD ripping software
|-
| Quicken, Microsoft Money, TurboTax
| [http://gnucash.org/ GnucAsh], [http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/index-home.html KMyMoney], [[CrossOver]] Office with Quicken, [http://www.lazy8.nu/ lazy8ledger]
| Accounting
|-
| ActiveSync ||
[[SynCE]]
|Synchronization with Windows Mobile devices
|-
| WinEdt, TeXnicCenter
| [[Kile]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texmaker Texmaker], [[LyX]]
| LaTeX IDEs
|-
| Veritas Backup Exec, [http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm Cobian Backup], '''Duplicati''' ||
LuckyBackup, Déjà Dup, Grsync, Duplicati [[list of backUp applications|''more'']]
| [[Backup]]
|-
| Google Desktop ||
[[Recoll]]
| Desktop Search
|-
| Norton Ghost ||
[[Partition Image]], [[g4u]], [http://www.mondorescue.org/ Mondo Rescue], [[dd]], gDiskDump (a dd frontend), Clonezilla, Trinity Rescue Kit
|Disk imaging
|-
| Norton Partition Magic ||
[[GParted]], Clonezilla (a live cd), KDE Partition Manager, GNOME Disks
|Disk partitioning
|-
|[http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/Disk_Size_Explorer.asp Disk Size Explorer]
|[https://utils.kde.org/projects/filelight/ File Light], [[Konqueror]], Baobab, xdiskusage, duc [https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-analyze-your-disk-usage-pattern-in-linux/ ref.]
| Disk usage analyzers
|-
|[http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html Filemon], [http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Regmon.html Regmon]
| [http://syscalltrack.sourceforge.net/ syscalltrack]
| system call tracking (file monitor & others)
|-
| WinMerge, SyncToy ||
[http://meld.sourceforge.net/ Meld], [[Unison]], [http://synkron.sourceforge.net/ Synkron], [[rSync]]
| File synchronization
|-
| Google Drive, Dropbox, etc ||
[https://rclone.org Rclone]
| Cloud hosted file synchronization (Amazon S3, Dropbox, Google Cloud Storage, Google Drive, FTP, Microsoft OneDrive, sFTP, etc)
|-
| Windows Update, Add/Remove programs||
[[apt-get]], [http://aptitude.sourceforge.net/ Aptitude], [http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Portage portage], [[Rpm|rpm]], [[urpmi]], [[yast]], [[yum]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptic_Package_Manager Synaptic], [https://snapcraft.io Snapcraft (Snap)]
|Every Linux distribution has an infrastructure to manage installed software which is quite different from Windows. For instance, all updates are handled by a single program. See [[package management]].
|-
| WinRunner || [http://hoopajoo.net/projects/xautomation.html xautomation] || automating interactive applications
|-
| 7-Zip, Winzip, Winrar, Peazip ||
[[Karchiver]],
[[File Roller]],
Xarchiver,
[[ark]],
[[hjsplit]]; [[packing and unpacking files|''command line tools'']]
|Archivers
|-
| chkdsk || [[fsck]], [https://www.tecmint.com/linux-disk-scanning-tools/ other tools] || check your file system (and the [[hard disk]] beneath it) for errors
|-
| Daemon Tools ||
[[mount]], Disk Image Mounter in Gnome/KDE, Furius ISO mount, AcetoneISO
|ISO mounting
|-
| Disclib || [http://www.gwhere.org/home.php3 gWhere]
| Disk cataloging programs
|-
| Evernote, OneNote || NixNote, Tusk, Whatever, GeekNote, ForeverNote, [https://joplinapp.org/ Joplin], Xournal, XFCE4 Notes, Xpad, Hnb, Gnote, Feathernotes, Cherrytree, Bijiben, Basket, Noblenote, Nvpy. Thanks to [https://itsfoss.com/evernote-on-linux/]
|Note Taking App
|}

== Desktop Publishing ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Dreamweaver, NVU, KompoZer, Google Web Designer ||
[http://www.google.com/webdesigner/ Google Web Designer] (WYSIWYG)
[[html editors|more]]
|[[Web Design]]
|-
| Quark, Quark Express, Microsoft Publisher, '''Scribus''', '''Karbon''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribus Scribus], Laidout, VivaDesigner, QuickSilver, Xara Xtreme, Karbon
|DTP software
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader, Xpdf Reader, Foxit reader, Sumatra pdf ||

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evince Evince],
Zathura,
Okular,
Bookworm,
Qpdfview,
Foxit reader,
PDF Studio Viewer,
[[Xpdf]],
MuPDF,
Atril,
[[Ghostview]], [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF readers
|-
| Adobe Acrobat Distiller, PDFCreator ||
[http://www.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~vrbehr/cups-pdf/ CUPS-PDF], Libre Office, [[OpenOffice.org]], PDF Studio, [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter] -- can convert to pdf. [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF authoring
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF editor, [http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio '''PDF Studio Pro'''], '''Master PDF Editor''', '''Libreoffice Draw''', '''Scribus''', '''Inkscape''' ||
[http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio PDF Studio Pro], Master PDF Editor, [http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfedit Pdfedit], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam Pdfjam], [http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk Pdftk], Scribus, Inkscape, Karbon, Okular, Libreoffice Draw. Thanks to [https://www.ubuntupit.com/linux-pdf-editor-top-15-reviewed-and-compared/ this] [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF editing tools
|-
| SilverFast ||
[[xSane]], [http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html VueScan], Simple Scan, Skanlite, Gscan2pdf, GIMP with Quitelnsane
| [[scanning]]
|-
| FinePrint ||
[http://www.boomaga.org boomaga], [http://wfr.tcl.tk/279 page-crunch], [http://freshmeat.net/projects/mpage/ mpage], [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter], [http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~ajcd/psutils/index.html psnup/PSutils], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam pdfnup/PDFjam]
| Document printing/reformatting tools
|}

= Networking =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Internet Explorer, '''Microsoft Edge''', '''Firefox''', '''Opera''', '''Chrome''', '''Pale Moon''', '''Brave''', '''Vivaldi''', '''Otter Browser''', '''Falkon''', '''Dooble''', '''Slimjet''' ||
[[Firefox]],
[[Konqueror]],
Epiphany (Gnome Web), Falkon, Microsoft Edge, Slimjet, Midori,
[http://www.google.com/chrome Chrome], Chromium,
[[Opera]],
Otter Browser,
Brave,
Vivaldi, Falkon,
Pale Moon, Dillo, Dooble
[[Browsers|''more'']]
| [[Web Browsers]]
|-
| Microsoft Outlook, '''Thunderbird''', Pegasus, Lotus Notes, '''Seamonkey''', '''Claws Mail''', '''Mailspring''' ||
[[Kontact]],
[http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/features/evolution.html Evolution], Seamonkey,
[[Thunderbird]], Claws Mail, Mailspring, Geary [https://itsfoss.com/best-email-clients-linux/ others]
|Email clients.
|-
| ICQ, MSN Messenger, AIM (AOL Instant Messenger), Trillian, '''Pidgin''', '''Irssi''' ||
Hexchat, [[Kopete]], [[aMSN]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emesene Emesene (MSN)], [[Centericq]], [[PidgIn]], [[Irssi]]
| [[Instant messaging]] [[software]].
|-
| Microsoft HyperTerminal ||
[[minicom]]
|-
| FileZilla FTP Client, WS FTP, Bullet Proof FTP, CuteFTP ||
[http://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client FileZilla FTP Client],
[http://www.kftp.org/misc/description KFTP (KFTPGrabber)],
[[Kasablanca]],
[[FireFTP]],
[[Konqueror]],
[[KBear]],
[[gFTP]],
[http://www.crossftp.com/ CrossFTP],
[[Nautilus]]
|FTP clients. Please note GNOME, KDE (and other) programs can directly open and edit files on FTP, SFTP and WebDAV shares, often using [[KIO]], [[GIO]] or [GVfs]].
|-
| mIRC, '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Quassel''', '''KVIrc''', '''Irssi''' ||
HexChat, [[PidgIn]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quassel_IRC Quassel], [[KVIrc]], Irssi, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konversation Konversation], [[BitchX]]
| [[IRC Clients]]
|-
|[http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/ UltraVNC], TightVNC, RealVNC, Remote Desktop ||
[http://www.tightvnc.com/ TightVNC],
[http://www.realvnc.com/ RealVNC], [http://www.rdesktop.org/ rdesktop],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/freenx/ FreeNX],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/x11vnc/ x11vnc],
[http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ Synergy],
XDMCP, [[SSH]] with X11 forwarding (-X or -Y option)
| [[Desktop Sharing]]
|-
| MailWasher, SpamAssassin for Windows ||
SpamAssassin
| Spam filter
|-
|Forte Free Agent, [[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]] ||
[[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]], [http://www.newsreaders.com/unix/clients.html See More Clients Here]
|News Reader (Usenet [[newsgroup]]s)
|-
| eMule, '''aMule''' || aMule
|ED2K P2P network clients
|-
| [http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php '''Vuze (formerly Azureus)'''], [http://utorrent.com/ utorrent], '''Transmission''', '''Deluge''', '''qBittorrent''', '''Tixati''', '''Frostwire''', '''Tribler''' ||
[http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php Vuze (formerly Azureus)], Tranmission, Deluge, qBittorrent, Tixati, Frostwire, Tribler, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qtorrent Qtorrent], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bittornado bittornado], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ktorrent Ktorrent],
|BitTorrent P2P network clients
|-
| '''Skype''', Voipbuster, '''Yate''', '''Linphone''', '''Jitsi''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype Skype], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linphone Linphone], Asterisk, Empathy, Yate, Jitsi
|VoIP software
|-
| Bitvise Tunnelier ||
[http://sourceforge.net/projects/gstm/ gSTM]
|gSTM is a front-end for managing SSH-tunneled port redirects.
|}

== Server ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| IIS, [[Apache]] ||
[[Apache]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nginx Engine-X], [http://www.lighttpd.net/ lighttpd]
|[[Web Servers]]
|-
| Folder sharing, printer sharing ||
[[Samba]]
|Share files and printers between Windows and Linux systems. Installed by default on most distributions.
|-
|IIS, [http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ FileZilla FTP Client & Server]
|[[vsftpd]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure-ftpd pure-ftpd]
|FTP servers, for hosting files.
|-
|[http://www.netlimiter.com/ NetLimiter] ||
[http://monkey.org/~marius/pages/?page=trickle Trickle], [http://l7-filter.sourceforge.net/ Level 7 Filter], [http://www.clarkconnect.com/info/index.php ClarkConnect], [http://www.bandwidtharbitrator.com/ Bandwidth Arbitrator], [http://www.mastershaper.org/index.php/Main_Page MasterShaper]
|Bandwidth shaping and management.
|-
| Exchange ||
[[Citadel]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbra zimbra], [[Open-Xchange]]
|Groupware (sharing of appointments, contacts, e-mail, documents, etc. between members of a group)
|-
| Sharepoint ||
[http://www.knowledgetree.com/opensource KnowledgeTree]
|Manage and secure documents, collaborate around document creation and editing, full document contents indexing
|-
| Norton/McAfee Antivirus, [http://clamwin.com/ ClamWin], AVG, AntiVir, Avast, ClamAV ||
[[ClamAV]], [https://support.avast.com/en-eu/article/131/ Avast Security for Linux]
| Antivirus software.
|-
| ZoneAlarm , Sygate SPF||
[[Guarddog]], [[Firestarter]], [[GUFW]], [[iptables]]
| Firewall software
|}

= Multimedia =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
|[http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/ Adobe Photoshop], [http://www.corel.com/ Corel Photo-Paint], '''GIMP''', '''Glimpse''', '''GIMPShop''', '''ImageMagick''', '''Xnview''', '''[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)]''', '''[https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable]''', '''Pinta''', '''MyPaint''', '''Krita''', '''Filmulator''', '''Photivo''', '''RawTherapee''', '''digiKam''', '''nomacs''' ||
[http://www.gimp.org/ GIMP], Glimpse,
[[GIMPShop]], ImageMagick, Pinta, MyPaint,
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krita Krita], Xnview,
[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)], [https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable], Filmulator, Photivo, RawTherapee, digiKam, nomacs
|Raster graphics editors
|-
|[http://www.corel.com/ Corel Draw], [http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator/ Adobe Illustrator], '''Inkscape''', '''Vectr''', '''Gravit''', '''LibreOffice Draw''', '''sK1''', '''SVG-edit''' ||
[http://www.inkscape.org/ Inkscape], Vectr, Gravit, LibreOffice Draw, Karbon, sK1, SVG-edit. [https://itsfoss.com/vector-graphics-editors-linux/ Ref.]
|Vector graphics editors
|-
|Adobe Animate, '''Synfig''', '''Pencil2D''', '''Tupi (Tupitube Desk)''', '''OpenToonz''', '''Blender''', '''Toon Boom Harmony''', '''Krita''', '''Aseprite''', '''TVPaint''', '''Animaker''', '''Ajax Animator''', '''Glaxnimate''', '''Tahoma2D''', '''Enve''' ||
Synfig, Pencil2D, Tupi (Tupitube Desk), OpenToonz, Blender, Toon Boom Harmony, Krita, Aseprite, TVPaint, Animaker, Ajax Animator, Glaxnimate, Tahoma2D , Enve
| 2D Animations
|-
| Irfanview, ACDSee, '''digiKam''', '''Xnview''', '''nomacs''' ||
[[XnView]], [http://mirageiv.berlios.de/ Mirage], [[GThumb]], Shotwell, KPhotoAlbum, Geeqie, digiKam, Gwenview, Ristretto, Viewnior, nomacs
|Image viewers
|-
| 3D Studio MAX, '''Blender''', [http://www.autodesk.com '''Maya'''] ||
[[Blender]],
[http://www.autodesk.com Maya],
[[K-3D]]
|3D modeling software
|-
| Autodesk Inventor, Solidworks, CATIA || [http://www.freecadweb.org FreeCAD], [http://www.salome-platform.org/ SALOME platform]
| Professional 3D CAD software
|-
| Windows Media Player, PowerDVD, SMPlayer, MPV, [[VLC]] ||
SMPlayer,
MPV,
[[VLC]],
[[Xine]],
[[Totem]],
[[Kaffeine]],
Parole,
Celluloid,
[[MPlayer]]
| [[Video Players]]
|-
| SIA Smaart Live || [http://sf.net/projects/brp-pacu/ BRP-PACU] || [[Sound]] analysis
|-
| Winamp, Sonique, iTunes, [http://www.atunes.org/ aTunes], '''Clementine''', '''VLC''', '''SMplayer''', '''Deadbeef''', '''Strawberry''', '''Audacious''' ||
[[Amarok]],
Clementine,
[[RhythmBox]],
[http://banshee-project.org/index.php/Main_Page Banshee],
[[Xine]],
VLC,
SMplayer,
Elisa,
Deadbeef,
Audacious, Strawberry. See also Video Players section
|[[Music Players]]
|-
| [http://www.otsav.com/ OTSAV, OTS Turntables], [http://serato.com/ Serato], [http://www.native-instruments.com/en/traktor/ Traktor], [http://www.virtualdj.com/ Virtual DJ], [http://www.pcdj.com/ PC DJ], [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
| [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
|Audio & video play out (DJ/presenter)
|-
| Windows Movie Maker, Adobe Premiere Elements, [http://www.goldwave.com/mqrelease.php Multiquence], '''Avidemux''', '''OpenShot''', '''VidCutter''', [https://shotcut.org/ '''Shotcut'''], '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron]''', [https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php '''Olive'''], '''Lightworks''' ||
[[Cinelerra]] (difficult but very professional),
[[KDenlive]] (easy and powerful),
[[LiVES]],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avidemux AviDemux],
OpenShot,
VidCutter,
Flowblade,
Pitivi,
DaVinci Resolve,
[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron],
[https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php Olive],
Lightworks (thanks to Linux Format magazine),
[https://shotcut.org/ Shotcut](thanks to Linux Format magazine)
|[[Video Editors]]
|-
| '''Audacity''', Cubase, '''Ardour''', Adobe Audition (formerly Cool Edit Pro), [http://www.goldwave.com/ GoldWave], Cakewalk/Sonar, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''LMMS''', '''Traverso-DAW''', '''[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]''' ||
[[Audacity]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden],
[[Beast]],
[[Ardour]],
Harrison Mixbus,
[http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/index.php Radium],
DaVinci Resolve,
Bitwig Studio,
Qtractor,
[https://traverso-daw.org/ Traverso-DAW],
LMMS,
[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]
|Digital audio workstation software
|-
| Audio Catalyst, '''Ocenaudio''', dbpoweramp, CDex, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''Audacity''' ||
[[Audacity]],
Ocenaudio,
DaVinci Resolve,
[[Grip]]
| [[Audio Editors]]
|-
| '''Wavesurfer''', '''Audacity''', '''Sox'''||[https://itsfoss.com/record-streaming-audio/ Audio Recorder], Ecasound, Audacity, Sox, Wavesurfer
|Audio recorders
|-
| Cakewalk/Sonar ||
[[kmid]],
[[kmidi]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden]
| [[MIDI]]
|-
|[http://www.noteworthysoftware.com/ NoteWorthy Composer], '''MuseScore''', '''LilyPond'''||
[http://www.musescore.org/ MuseScore], [http://lilypond.org/web/ LilyPond]
|Musical score typesetting
|-
|[http://www.guitar-pro.com/ GuitarPro], TuxGuitar ||
[http://www.tuxguitar.com.ar/ TuxGuitar]
|Guitar tablature editors
|-
| Microsoft Paint, Kid Pix, '''Tux Paint''', '''Pencil 2D''', '''Krita''', '''Pinta''', '''Mypaint''', '''Mtpaint''' ||
[http://www.tuxpaint.org/ Tuxpaint], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KolourPaint KolourPaint], Pencil 2D, Krita, [https://launchpad.net/dibuja Dibuja], Pinta, Mypaint, Mtpaint
|Basic raster painting programs
|-
| Videora, [https://handbrake.fr/ '''Handbrake'''], '''WinFF''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || [https://handbrake.fr/ Handbrake], WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, Transmageddon, VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Video converter
|-
| '''WinFF''', '''Handbrake''', '''fre:ac - free audio converter (freac)''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || Handbrake, WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, fre:ac - free audio converter (freac), VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Audio converter
|-
|TMPGEnc DVD Author, Roxio DVDit, '''Open DVD Producer''', '''DVDStyler''' ||
DVDStyler, [http://opendvdproducer.jonata.org/ Open DVD Producer], [http://www.rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html DeVeDe]
|DVD authoring software
|-
|'''uTox''', '''qTox''', '''Jitsi''', '''OpenMeetings''', '''Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone)''', '''Microsoft Teams''', '''Zoom''' || uTox, qTox, OpenMettings, Jitsi, Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone), Empathy, Microsoft Teams, Zoom
| Video Conferencing
|}

= Education =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| '''Klavaro''', '''Tipp10''' || Klavaro, Tipp10, [[KTouch]], Tux Typing, GNU Typist || Touch typing tutors
|-
| '''Maple''', '''Mathematica''' || Maple, Mathematica, [http://maxima.sourceforge.net/ Maxima]
| Computer algebra systems
|-
| '''Matlab''', '''Octave''', '''Scilab''' ||
Matlab, [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ Octave],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SciLab SciLab], Sage, KAlgebra
| High level numeric computation environments
|-
| '''SPSS''', '''Stata''', EViews, '''PSPP''', '''[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project]''', '''[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]''' ||
[http://www.stata.com/products/unix.html Stata], SPSS,
[http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/pspp.html PSPP],
[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Plus S-Plus],
[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]
| Statistical analysis
|-
| Verilog ||
[http://www.icarus.com/eda/verilog/ iverilog]
| Verilog Simulator
|-
| '''Google Earth''', NASA World Wind, '''Celestia''', '''Stellarium''', '''Skychart''', '''Aladin Sky Atlas''', Microsoft Flight Simulator, '''FlightGear''' ||
[http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html Google Earth], [https://celestia.space/index.html Celestia], [http://www.stellarium.org/ Stellarium], [https://marble.kde.org/ Marble], [http://www.geody.com/ Geody], Kstars, Skychart, Aladin Sky Atlas, [http://www.flightgear.org/ FlightGear]
| Geography, astronomy and simulation
|}

''Please add new applications to this list. A good resource is the [http://www.nawaz.org/wiki/index.php?title=Table_of_Equivalents BeetleSpace Windows/Linux Software Table of Equivalents], which is GNU FDL licensed.''

= See also =

* [[running windows software]]
* [http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux.]
* [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareEquivalents Ubuntu software equivalents's page]
* [http://www.linuxeq.com/ The Linux Equivalent Project]

[[Category:FAQ]]

Linux software equivalent to Windows software

2022-04-03T22:27:11Z

Kareempharmacist: /* Networking */

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.

= Office and Productivity =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Office, '''OpenOffice''', '''Libre Office''', '''WPS Office''', '''Softmaker Office''', '''Onlyoffice Desktop'''
| [[Libre Office]], [https://www.wps.com/linux WPS Office](WPS-Community), [[OpenOffice]], [https://www.calligra.org/ Calligra], Softmaker FreeOffice, OnlyOffice Desktop
| Office package
|-
| Microsoft Word, OOwriter, LibreOffice Writer, WPS Writer, Softmaker TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[OOWriter]], [http://www.abiword.org AbiWord], WPS Writer, LibreOffice Writer, Calligra Words, FreeOffice TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop, Lyx, [[LaTeX]]
| [[Word Processing]]
|-
| Notepad, Wordpad, TheGun, EditPlus, SciTE, Notepad++ ||
[[Vim]], [[KWrite]],
[[Kate]], [http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/ BlueFish], [[Gedit]], [[Joe]], Sublime Text, [[Leafpad]], [[Nano]]
| [[Text Editors]]
|-
| Access, dBase, Foxpro, Paradox, '''OOBase''', '''LibreOffice Base'''
| [http://userbase.kde.org/Kexi Kexi], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Base OOBase], LibreOffice Base
| [[Database]]
|-
| Excel, Corel WordPrefect, '''LibreOffice Calc''', '''Softmaker Office PlanMaker''', '''WPS Spreedsheets''', '''OOCalc''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Calc, Calligra Sheets, Softmaker Office PlanMaker, WPS Spreedsheets, [[OOCalc]], [http://www.gnumeric.org gnumeric], OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Spreadsheet]]
|-
| Visio, [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html '''yED'''], '''LibreOffice Draw'''
| [https://www.calligra.org/flow/ Calligra Flow], [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html yED], LibreOffice Draw
| Diagramming
|-
| PowerPoint, '''LibreOffice Impress''', '''OOImpress''', '''WPS Presentation''', '''Softmaker Office Presentations''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Impress, [[OOImpress]], Calligra Stage, WPS Presentation, Softmaker Office Presentations, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Presentation software]]
|-
| Final Draft, Script Studio, '''Fade In''', '''KIT Scenarist''', '''Story Architect''', '''Trelby''', '''Scrite'''
| Fade In, KIT Scenarist, Story Architect, Trelby, Scrite
| Screenwriting software
|-
| Microsoft Project Manager
| [[MOOS Project Viewer]], Calligra Plan
| Project management
|-
| '''Wondershare EdrawMax''', XMind
| Wondershare EdrawMax, Minder, XMind
| Mind maps
|-
| Outlook, '''Thunderbird + Lightning'''
| [[Kontact]], [https://pawsa.fedorapeople.org/balsa/ BALSA], [[Thunderbird]] + [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/ Lightning]
| Personal information managers
|-
| Alcohol 120%, Discjuggler, Easy CD Creator, Nero Burning ROM ||
[[K3b]], [[XCDRoast]], Brasero, Xfburn, [[CD/DVD_Burning|''more'']]
|DVD/CD burning
|-
|Alcohol 120%, Nero Burning ROM, '''MakeMKV''', ImgBurn, Infrarecorder || MakeMKV, Thoggen, Dvdbackup, HandBrake, DVD::RIP, AcidRIP
| DVD ripping software
|-
| Quicken, Microsoft Money, TurboTax
| [http://gnucash.org/ GnucAsh], [http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/index-home.html KMyMoney], [[CrossOver]] Office with Quicken, [http://www.lazy8.nu/ lazy8ledger]
| Accounting
|-
| ActiveSync ||
[[SynCE]]
|Synchronization with Windows Mobile devices
|-
| WinEdt, TeXnicCenter
| [[Kile]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texmaker Texmaker], [[LyX]]
| LaTeX IDEs
|-
| Veritas Backup Exec, [http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm Cobian Backup], '''Duplicati''' ||
LuckyBackup, Déjà Dup, Grsync, Duplicati [[list of backUp applications|''more'']]
| [[Backup]]
|-
| Google Desktop ||
[[Recoll]]
| Desktop Search
|-
| Norton Ghost ||
[[Partition Image]], [[g4u]], [http://www.mondorescue.org/ Mondo Rescue], [[dd]], gDiskDump (a dd frontend), Clonezilla, Trinity Rescue Kit
|Disk imaging
|-
| Norton Partition Magic ||
[[GParted]], Clonezilla (a live cd), KDE Partition Manager, GNOME Disks
|Disk partitioning
|-
|[http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/Disk_Size_Explorer.asp Disk Size Explorer]
|[https://utils.kde.org/projects/filelight/ File Light], [[Konqueror]], Baobab, xdiskusage, duc [https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-analyze-your-disk-usage-pattern-in-linux/ ref.]
| Disk usage analyzers
|-
|[http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html Filemon], [http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Regmon.html Regmon]
| [http://syscalltrack.sourceforge.net/ syscalltrack]
| system call tracking (file monitor & others)
|-
| WinMerge, SyncToy ||
[http://meld.sourceforge.net/ Meld], [[Unison]], [http://synkron.sourceforge.net/ Synkron], [[rSync]]
| File synchronization
|-
| Google Drive, Dropbox, etc ||
[https://rclone.org Rclone]
| Cloud hosted file synchronization (Amazon S3, Dropbox, Google Cloud Storage, Google Drive, FTP, Microsoft OneDrive, sFTP, etc)
|-
| Windows Update, Add/Remove programs||
[[apt-get]], [http://aptitude.sourceforge.net/ Aptitude], [http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Portage portage], [[Rpm|rpm]], [[urpmi]], [[yast]], [[yum]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptic_Package_Manager Synaptic], [https://snapcraft.io Snapcraft (Snap)]
|Every Linux distribution has an infrastructure to manage installed software which is quite different from Windows. For instance, all updates are handled by a single program. See [[package management]].
|-
| WinRunner || [http://hoopajoo.net/projects/xautomation.html xautomation] || automating interactive applications
|-
| 7-Zip, Winzip, Winrar, Peazip ||
[[Karchiver]],
[[File Roller]],
Xarchiver,
[[ark]],
[[hjsplit]]; [[packing and unpacking files|''command line tools'']]
|Archivers
|-
| chkdsk || [[fsck]], [https://www.tecmint.com/linux-disk-scanning-tools/ other tools] || check your file system (and the [[hard disk]] beneath it) for errors
|-
| Daemon Tools ||
[[mount]], Disk Image Mounter in Gnome/KDE, Furius ISO mount, AcetoneISO
|ISO mounting
|-
| Disclib || [http://www.gwhere.org/home.php3 gWhere]
| Disk cataloging programs
|-
| Evernote, OneNote || NixNote, Tusk, Whatever, GeekNote, ForeverNote, [https://joplinapp.org/ Joplin], Xournal, XFCE4 Notes, Xpad, Hnb, Gnote, Feathernotes, Cherrytree, Bijiben, Basket, Noblenote, Nvpy. Thanks to [https://itsfoss.com/evernote-on-linux/]
|Note Taking App
|}

== Desktop Publishing ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Dreamweaver, NVU, KompoZer, Google Web Designer ||
[http://www.google.com/webdesigner/ Google Web Designer] (WYSIWYG)
[[html editors|more]]
|[[Web Design]]
|-
| Quark, Quark Express, Microsoft Publisher, '''Scribus''', '''Karbon''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribus Scribus], Laidout, VivaDesigner, QuickSilver, Xara Xtreme, Karbon
|DTP software
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader, Xpdf Reader, Foxit reader, Sumatra pdf ||

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evince Evince],
Zathura,
Okular,
Bookworm,
Qpdfview,
Foxit reader,
PDF Studio Viewer,
[[Xpdf]],
MuPDF,
Atril,
[[Ghostview]], [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF readers
|-
| Adobe Acrobat Distiller, PDFCreator ||
[http://www.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~vrbehr/cups-pdf/ CUPS-PDF], Libre Office, [[OpenOffice.org]], PDF Studio, [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter] -- can convert to pdf. [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF authoring
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF editor, [http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio '''PDF Studio Pro'''], '''Master PDF Editor''', '''Libreoffice Draw''', '''Scribus''', '''Inkscape''' ||
[http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio PDF Studio Pro], Master PDF Editor, [http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfedit Pdfedit], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam Pdfjam], [http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk Pdftk], Scribus, Inkscape, Karbon, Okular, Libreoffice Draw. Thanks to [https://www.ubuntupit.com/linux-pdf-editor-top-15-reviewed-and-compared/ this] [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF editing tools
|-
| SilverFast ||
[[xSane]], [http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html VueScan], Simple Scan, Skanlite, Gscan2pdf, GIMP with Quitelnsane
| [[scanning]]
|-
| FinePrint ||
[http://www.boomaga.org boomaga], [http://wfr.tcl.tk/279 page-crunch], [http://freshmeat.net/projects/mpage/ mpage], [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter], [http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~ajcd/psutils/index.html psnup/PSutils], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam pdfnup/PDFjam]
| Document printing/reformatting tools
|}

= Networking =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Internet Explorer, '''Microsoft Edge''', '''Firefox''', '''Opera''', '''Chrome''', '''Pale Moon''', '''Brave''', '''Vivaldi''', '''Otter Browser''', '''Falkon''', '''Dooble''', '''Slimjet''' ||
[[Firefox]],
[[Konqueror]],
Epiphany (Gnome Web), Falkon, Microsoft Edge, Slimjet, Midori,
[http://www.google.com/chrome Chrome], Chromium,
[[Opera]],
Otter Browser,
Brave,
Vivaldi, Falkon,
Pale Moon, Dillo, Dooble
[[Browsers|''more'']]
| [[Web Browsers]]
|-
| Microsoft Outlook, '''Thunderbird''', Pegasus, Lotus Notes, '''Seamonkey''', '''Claws Mail''', '''Mailspring''' ||
[[Kontact]],
[http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/features/evolution.html Evolution], Seamonkey,
[[Thunderbird]], Claws Mail, Mailspring, Geary [https://itsfoss.com/best-email-clients-linux/ others]
|Email clients.
|-
| ICQ, MSN Messenger, AIM (AOL Instant Messenger), Trillian, '''Pidgin''', '''Irssi''' ||
[[PidgIn]], Hexchat, [[Kopete]], [[aMSN]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emesene Emesene (MSN)], [[Centericq]], [[Irssi]]
| [[Instant messaging]] [[software]].
|-
| Microsoft HyperTerminal ||
[[minicom]]
|-
| FileZilla FTP Client, WS FTP, Bullet Proof FTP, CuteFTP ||
[http://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client FileZilla FTP Client],
[http://www.kftp.org/misc/description KFTP (KFTPGrabber)],
[[Kasablanca]],
[[FireFTP]],
[[Konqueror]],
[[KBear]],
[[gFTP]],
[http://www.crossftp.com/ CrossFTP],
[[Nautilus]]
|FTP clients. Please note GNOME, KDE (and other) programs can directly open and edit files on FTP, SFTP and WebDAV shares, often using [[KIO]], [[GIO]] or [GVfs]].
|-
| mIRC, '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Quassel''', '''KVIrc''', '''Irssi''' ||
HexChat, [[PidgIn]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quassel_IRC Quassel], [[KVIrc]], Irssi, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konversation Konversation], [[BitchX]]
| [[IRC Clients]]
|-
|[http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/ UltraVNC], TightVNC, RealVNC, Remote Desktop ||
[http://www.tightvnc.com/ TightVNC],
[http://www.realvnc.com/ RealVNC], [http://www.rdesktop.org/ rdesktop],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/freenx/ FreeNX],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/x11vnc/ x11vnc],
[http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ Synergy],
XDMCP, [[SSH]] with X11 forwarding (-X or -Y option)
| [[Desktop Sharing]]
|-
| MailWasher, SpamAssassin for Windows ||
SpamAssassin
| Spam filter
|-
|Forte Free Agent, [[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]] ||
[[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]], [http://www.newsreaders.com/unix/clients.html See More Clients Here]
|News Reader (Usenet [[newsgroup]]s)
|-
| eMule, '''aMule''' || aMule
|ED2K P2P network clients
|-
| [http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php '''Vuze (formerly Azureus)'''], [http://utorrent.com/ utorrent], '''Transmission''', '''Deluge''', '''qBittorrent''', '''Tixati''', '''Frostwire''', '''Tribler''' ||
[http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php Vuze (formerly Azureus)], Tranmission, Deluge, qBittorrent, Tixati, Frostwire, Tribler, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qtorrent Qtorrent], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bittornado bittornado], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ktorrent Ktorrent],
|BitTorrent P2P network clients
|-
| '''Skype''', Voipbuster, '''Yate''', '''Linphone''', '''Jitsi''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype Skype], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linphone Linphone], Asterisk, Empathy, Yate, Jitsi
|VoIP software
|-
| Bitvise Tunnelier ||
[http://sourceforge.net/projects/gstm/ gSTM]
|gSTM is a front-end for managing SSH-tunneled port redirects.
|}

== Server ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| IIS, [[Apache]] ||
[[Apache]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nginx Engine-X], [http://www.lighttpd.net/ lighttpd]
|[[Web Servers]]
|-
| Folder sharing, printer sharing ||
[[Samba]]
|Share files and printers between Windows and Linux systems. Installed by default on most distributions.
|-
|IIS, [http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ FileZilla FTP Client & Server]
|[[vsftpd]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure-ftpd pure-ftpd]
|FTP servers, for hosting files.
|-
|[http://www.netlimiter.com/ NetLimiter] ||
[http://monkey.org/~marius/pages/?page=trickle Trickle], [http://l7-filter.sourceforge.net/ Level 7 Filter], [http://www.clarkconnect.com/info/index.php ClarkConnect], [http://www.bandwidtharbitrator.com/ Bandwidth Arbitrator], [http://www.mastershaper.org/index.php/Main_Page MasterShaper]
|Bandwidth shaping and management.
|-
| Exchange ||
[[Citadel]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbra zimbra], [[Open-Xchange]]
|Groupware (sharing of appointments, contacts, e-mail, documents, etc. between members of a group)
|-
| Sharepoint ||
[http://www.knowledgetree.com/opensource KnowledgeTree]
|Manage and secure documents, collaborate around document creation and editing, full document contents indexing
|-
| Norton/McAfee Antivirus, [http://clamwin.com/ ClamWin], AVG, AntiVir, Avast, ClamAV ||
[[ClamAV]], [https://support.avast.com/en-eu/article/131/ Avast Security for Linux]
| Antivirus software.
|-
| ZoneAlarm , Sygate SPF||
[[Guarddog]], [[Firestarter]], [[GUFW]], [[iptables]]
| Firewall software
|}

= Multimedia =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
|[http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/ Adobe Photoshop], [http://www.corel.com/ Corel Photo-Paint], '''GIMP''', '''Glimpse''', '''GIMPShop''', '''ImageMagick''', '''Xnview''', '''[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)]''', '''[https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable]''', '''Pinta''', '''MyPaint''', '''Krita''', '''Filmulator''', '''Photivo''', '''RawTherapee''', '''digiKam''', '''nomacs''' ||
[http://www.gimp.org/ GIMP], Glimpse,
[[GIMPShop]], ImageMagick, Pinta, MyPaint,
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krita Krita], Xnview,
[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)], [https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable], Filmulator, Photivo, RawTherapee, digiKam, nomacs
|Raster graphics editors
|-
|[http://www.corel.com/ Corel Draw], [http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator/ Adobe Illustrator], '''Inkscape''', '''Vectr''', '''Gravit''', '''LibreOffice Draw''', '''sK1''', '''SVG-edit''' ||
[http://www.inkscape.org/ Inkscape], Vectr, Gravit, LibreOffice Draw, Karbon, sK1, SVG-edit. [https://itsfoss.com/vector-graphics-editors-linux/ Ref.]
|Vector graphics editors
|-
|Adobe Animate, '''Synfig''', '''Pencil2D''', '''Tupi (Tupitube Desk)''', '''OpenToonz''', '''Blender''', '''Toon Boom Harmony''', '''Krita''', '''Aseprite''', '''TVPaint''', '''Animaker''', '''Ajax Animator''', '''Glaxnimate''', '''Tahoma2D''', '''Enve''' ||
Synfig, Pencil2D, Tupi (Tupitube Desk), OpenToonz, Blender, Toon Boom Harmony, Krita, Aseprite, TVPaint, Animaker, Ajax Animator, Glaxnimate, Tahoma2D , Enve
| 2D Animations
|-
| Irfanview, ACDSee, '''digiKam''', '''Xnview''', '''nomacs''' ||
[[XnView]], [http://mirageiv.berlios.de/ Mirage], [[GThumb]], Shotwell, KPhotoAlbum, Geeqie, digiKam, Gwenview, Ristretto, Viewnior, nomacs
|Image viewers
|-
| 3D Studio MAX, '''Blender''', [http://www.autodesk.com '''Maya'''] ||
[[Blender]],
[http://www.autodesk.com Maya],
[[K-3D]]
|3D modeling software
|-
| Autodesk Inventor, Solidworks, CATIA || [http://www.freecadweb.org FreeCAD], [http://www.salome-platform.org/ SALOME platform]
| Professional 3D CAD software
|-
| Windows Media Player, PowerDVD, SMPlayer, MPV, [[VLC]] ||
SMPlayer,
MPV,
[[VLC]],
[[Xine]],
[[Totem]],
[[Kaffeine]],
Parole,
Celluloid,
[[MPlayer]]
| [[Video Players]]
|-
| SIA Smaart Live || [http://sf.net/projects/brp-pacu/ BRP-PACU] || [[Sound]] analysis
|-
| Winamp, Sonique, iTunes, [http://www.atunes.org/ aTunes], '''Clementine''', '''VLC''', '''SMplayer''', '''Deadbeef''', '''Strawberry''', '''Audacious''' ||
[[Amarok]],
Clementine,
[[RhythmBox]],
[http://banshee-project.org/index.php/Main_Page Banshee],
[[Xine]],
VLC,
SMplayer,
Elisa,
Deadbeef,
Audacious, Strawberry. See also Video Players section
|[[Music Players]]
|-
| [http://www.otsav.com/ OTSAV, OTS Turntables], [http://serato.com/ Serato], [http://www.native-instruments.com/en/traktor/ Traktor], [http://www.virtualdj.com/ Virtual DJ], [http://www.pcdj.com/ PC DJ], [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
| [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
|Audio & video play out (DJ/presenter)
|-
| Windows Movie Maker, Adobe Premiere Elements, [http://www.goldwave.com/mqrelease.php Multiquence], '''Avidemux''', '''OpenShot''', '''VidCutter''', [https://shotcut.org/ '''Shotcut'''], '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron]''', [https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php '''Olive'''], '''Lightworks''' ||
[[Cinelerra]] (difficult but very professional),
[[KDenlive]] (easy and powerful),
[[LiVES]],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avidemux AviDemux],
OpenShot,
VidCutter,
Flowblade,
Pitivi,
DaVinci Resolve,
[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron],
[https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php Olive],
Lightworks (thanks to Linux Format magazine),
[https://shotcut.org/ Shotcut](thanks to Linux Format magazine)
|[[Video Editors]]
|-
| '''Audacity''', Cubase, '''Ardour''', Adobe Audition (formerly Cool Edit Pro), [http://www.goldwave.com/ GoldWave], Cakewalk/Sonar, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''LMMS''', '''Traverso-DAW''', '''[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]''' ||
[[Audacity]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden],
[[Beast]],
[[Ardour]],
Harrison Mixbus,
[http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/index.php Radium],
DaVinci Resolve,
Bitwig Studio,
Qtractor,
[https://traverso-daw.org/ Traverso-DAW],
LMMS,
[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]
|Digital audio workstation software
|-
| Audio Catalyst, '''Ocenaudio''', dbpoweramp, CDex, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''Audacity''' ||
[[Audacity]],
Ocenaudio,
DaVinci Resolve,
[[Grip]]
| [[Audio Editors]]
|-
| '''Wavesurfer''', '''Audacity''', '''Sox'''||[https://itsfoss.com/record-streaming-audio/ Audio Recorder], Ecasound, Audacity, Sox, Wavesurfer
|Audio recorders
|-
| Cakewalk/Sonar ||
[[kmid]],
[[kmidi]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden]
| [[MIDI]]
|-
|[http://www.noteworthysoftware.com/ NoteWorthy Composer], '''MuseScore''', '''LilyPond'''||
[http://www.musescore.org/ MuseScore], [http://lilypond.org/web/ LilyPond]
|Musical score typesetting
|-
|[http://www.guitar-pro.com/ GuitarPro], TuxGuitar ||
[http://www.tuxguitar.com.ar/ TuxGuitar]
|Guitar tablature editors
|-
| Microsoft Paint, Kid Pix, '''Tux Paint''', '''Pencil 2D''', '''Krita''', '''Pinta''', '''Mypaint''', '''Mtpaint''' ||
[http://www.tuxpaint.org/ Tuxpaint], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KolourPaint KolourPaint], Pencil 2D, Krita, [https://launchpad.net/dibuja Dibuja], Pinta, Mypaint, Mtpaint
|Basic raster painting programs
|-
| Videora, [https://handbrake.fr/ '''Handbrake'''], '''WinFF''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || [https://handbrake.fr/ Handbrake], WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, Transmageddon, VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Video converter
|-
| '''WinFF''', '''Handbrake''', '''fre:ac - free audio converter (freac)''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || Handbrake, WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, fre:ac - free audio converter (freac), VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Audio converter
|-
|TMPGEnc DVD Author, Roxio DVDit, '''Open DVD Producer''', '''DVDStyler''' ||
DVDStyler, [http://opendvdproducer.jonata.org/ Open DVD Producer], [http://www.rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html DeVeDe]
|DVD authoring software
|-
|'''uTox''', '''qTox''', '''Jitsi''', '''OpenMeetings''', '''Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone)''', '''Microsoft Teams''', '''Zoom''' || uTox, qTox, OpenMettings, Jitsi, Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone), Empathy, Microsoft Teams, Zoom
| Video Conferencing
|}

= Education =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| '''Klavaro''', '''Tipp10''' || Klavaro, Tipp10, [[KTouch]], Tux Typing, GNU Typist || Touch typing tutors
|-
| '''Maple''', '''Mathematica''' || Maple, Mathematica, [http://maxima.sourceforge.net/ Maxima]
| Computer algebra systems
|-
| '''Matlab''', '''Octave''', '''Scilab''' ||
Matlab, [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ Octave],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SciLab SciLab], Sage, KAlgebra
| High level numeric computation environments
|-
| '''SPSS''', '''Stata''', EViews, '''PSPP''', '''[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project]''', '''[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]''' ||
[http://www.stata.com/products/unix.html Stata], SPSS,
[http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/pspp.html PSPP],
[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Plus S-Plus],
[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]
| Statistical analysis
|-
| Verilog ||
[http://www.icarus.com/eda/verilog/ iverilog]
| Verilog Simulator
|-
| '''Google Earth''', NASA World Wind, '''Celestia''', '''Stellarium''', '''Skychart''', '''Aladin Sky Atlas''', Microsoft Flight Simulator, '''FlightGear''' ||
[http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html Google Earth], [https://celestia.space/index.html Celestia], [http://www.stellarium.org/ Stellarium], [https://marble.kde.org/ Marble], [http://www.geody.com/ Geody], Kstars, Skychart, Aladin Sky Atlas, [http://www.flightgear.org/ FlightGear]
| Geography, astronomy and simulation
|}

''Please add new applications to this list. A good resource is the [http://www.nawaz.org/wiki/index.php?title=Table_of_Equivalents BeetleSpace Windows/Linux Software Table of Equivalents], which is GNU FDL licensed.''

= See also =

* [[running windows software]]
* [http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux.]
* [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareEquivalents Ubuntu software equivalents's page]
* [http://www.linuxeq.com/ The Linux Equivalent Project]

[[Category:FAQ]]

Linux software equivalent to Windows software

2022-04-03T22:24:27Z

Kareempharmacist: /* Networking */

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.

= Office and Productivity =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Office, '''OpenOffice''', '''Libre Office''', '''WPS Office''', '''Softmaker Office''', '''Onlyoffice Desktop'''
| [[Libre Office]], [https://www.wps.com/linux WPS Office](WPS-Community), [[OpenOffice]], [https://www.calligra.org/ Calligra], Softmaker FreeOffice, OnlyOffice Desktop
| Office package
|-
| Microsoft Word, OOwriter, LibreOffice Writer, WPS Writer, Softmaker TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[OOWriter]], [http://www.abiword.org AbiWord], WPS Writer, LibreOffice Writer, Calligra Words, FreeOffice TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop, Lyx, [[LaTeX]]
| [[Word Processing]]
|-
| Notepad, Wordpad, TheGun, EditPlus, SciTE, Notepad++ ||
[[Vim]], [[KWrite]],
[[Kate]], [http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/ BlueFish], [[Gedit]], [[Joe]], Sublime Text, [[Leafpad]], [[Nano]]
| [[Text Editors]]
|-
| Access, dBase, Foxpro, Paradox, '''OOBase''', '''LibreOffice Base'''
| [http://userbase.kde.org/Kexi Kexi], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Base OOBase], LibreOffice Base
| [[Database]]
|-
| Excel, Corel WordPrefect, '''LibreOffice Calc''', '''Softmaker Office PlanMaker''', '''WPS Spreedsheets''', '''OOCalc''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Calc, Calligra Sheets, Softmaker Office PlanMaker, WPS Spreedsheets, [[OOCalc]], [http://www.gnumeric.org gnumeric], OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Spreadsheet]]
|-
| Visio, [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html '''yED'''], '''LibreOffice Draw'''
| [https://www.calligra.org/flow/ Calligra Flow], [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html yED], LibreOffice Draw
| Diagramming
|-
| PowerPoint, '''LibreOffice Impress''', '''OOImpress''', '''WPS Presentation''', '''Softmaker Office Presentations''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Impress, [[OOImpress]], Calligra Stage, WPS Presentation, Softmaker Office Presentations, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Presentation software]]
|-
| Final Draft, Script Studio, '''Fade In''', '''KIT Scenarist''', '''Story Architect''', '''Trelby''', '''Scrite'''
| Fade In, KIT Scenarist, Story Architect, Trelby, Scrite
| Screenwriting software
|-
| Microsoft Project Manager
| [[MOOS Project Viewer]], Calligra Plan
| Project management
|-
| '''Wondershare EdrawMax''', XMind
| Wondershare EdrawMax, Minder, XMind
| Mind maps
|-
| Outlook, '''Thunderbird + Lightning'''
| [[Kontact]], [https://pawsa.fedorapeople.org/balsa/ BALSA], [[Thunderbird]] + [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/ Lightning]
| Personal information managers
|-
| Alcohol 120%, Discjuggler, Easy CD Creator, Nero Burning ROM ||
[[K3b]], [[XCDRoast]], Brasero, Xfburn, [[CD/DVD_Burning|''more'']]
|DVD/CD burning
|-
|Alcohol 120%, Nero Burning ROM, '''MakeMKV''', ImgBurn, Infrarecorder || MakeMKV, Thoggen, Dvdbackup, HandBrake, DVD::RIP, AcidRIP
| DVD ripping software
|-
| Quicken, Microsoft Money, TurboTax
| [http://gnucash.org/ GnucAsh], [http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/index-home.html KMyMoney], [[CrossOver]] Office with Quicken, [http://www.lazy8.nu/ lazy8ledger]
| Accounting
|-
| ActiveSync ||
[[SynCE]]
|Synchronization with Windows Mobile devices
|-
| WinEdt, TeXnicCenter
| [[Kile]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texmaker Texmaker], [[LyX]]
| LaTeX IDEs
|-
| Veritas Backup Exec, [http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm Cobian Backup], '''Duplicati''' ||
LuckyBackup, Déjà Dup, Grsync, Duplicati [[list of backUp applications|''more'']]
| [[Backup]]
|-
| Google Desktop ||
[[Recoll]]
| Desktop Search
|-
| Norton Ghost ||
[[Partition Image]], [[g4u]], [http://www.mondorescue.org/ Mondo Rescue], [[dd]], gDiskDump (a dd frontend), Clonezilla, Trinity Rescue Kit
|Disk imaging
|-
| Norton Partition Magic ||
[[GParted]], Clonezilla (a live cd), KDE Partition Manager, GNOME Disks
|Disk partitioning
|-
|[http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/Disk_Size_Explorer.asp Disk Size Explorer]
|[https://utils.kde.org/projects/filelight/ File Light], [[Konqueror]], Baobab, xdiskusage, duc [https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-analyze-your-disk-usage-pattern-in-linux/ ref.]
| Disk usage analyzers
|-
|[http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html Filemon], [http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Regmon.html Regmon]
| [http://syscalltrack.sourceforge.net/ syscalltrack]
| system call tracking (file monitor & others)
|-
| WinMerge, SyncToy ||
[http://meld.sourceforge.net/ Meld], [[Unison]], [http://synkron.sourceforge.net/ Synkron], [[rSync]]
| File synchronization
|-
| Google Drive, Dropbox, etc ||
[https://rclone.org Rclone]
| Cloud hosted file synchronization (Amazon S3, Dropbox, Google Cloud Storage, Google Drive, FTP, Microsoft OneDrive, sFTP, etc)
|-
| Windows Update, Add/Remove programs||
[[apt-get]], [http://aptitude.sourceforge.net/ Aptitude], [http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Portage portage], [[Rpm|rpm]], [[urpmi]], [[yast]], [[yum]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptic_Package_Manager Synaptic], [https://snapcraft.io Snapcraft (Snap)]
|Every Linux distribution has an infrastructure to manage installed software which is quite different from Windows. For instance, all updates are handled by a single program. See [[package management]].
|-
| WinRunner || [http://hoopajoo.net/projects/xautomation.html xautomation] || automating interactive applications
|-
| 7-Zip, Winzip, Winrar, Peazip ||
[[Karchiver]],
[[File Roller]],
Xarchiver,
[[ark]],
[[hjsplit]]; [[packing and unpacking files|''command line tools'']]
|Archivers
|-
| chkdsk || [[fsck]], [https://www.tecmint.com/linux-disk-scanning-tools/ other tools] || check your file system (and the [[hard disk]] beneath it) for errors
|-
| Daemon Tools ||
[[mount]], Disk Image Mounter in Gnome/KDE, Furius ISO mount, AcetoneISO
|ISO mounting
|-
| Disclib || [http://www.gwhere.org/home.php3 gWhere]
| Disk cataloging programs
|-
| Evernote, OneNote || NixNote, Tusk, Whatever, GeekNote, ForeverNote, [https://joplinapp.org/ Joplin], Xournal, XFCE4 Notes, Xpad, Hnb, Gnote, Feathernotes, Cherrytree, Bijiben, Basket, Noblenote, Nvpy. Thanks to [https://itsfoss.com/evernote-on-linux/]
|Note Taking App
|}

== Desktop Publishing ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Dreamweaver, NVU, KompoZer, Google Web Designer ||
[http://www.google.com/webdesigner/ Google Web Designer] (WYSIWYG)
[[html editors|more]]
|[[Web Design]]
|-
| Quark, Quark Express, Microsoft Publisher, '''Scribus''', '''Karbon''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribus Scribus], Laidout, VivaDesigner, QuickSilver, Xara Xtreme, Karbon
|DTP software
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader, Xpdf Reader, Foxit reader, Sumatra pdf ||

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evince Evince],
Zathura,
Okular,
Bookworm,
Qpdfview,
Foxit reader,
PDF Studio Viewer,
[[Xpdf]],
MuPDF,
Atril,
[[Ghostview]], [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF readers
|-
| Adobe Acrobat Distiller, PDFCreator ||
[http://www.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~vrbehr/cups-pdf/ CUPS-PDF], Libre Office, [[OpenOffice.org]], PDF Studio, [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter] -- can convert to pdf. [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF authoring
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF editor, [http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio '''PDF Studio Pro'''], '''Master PDF Editor''', '''Libreoffice Draw''', '''Scribus''', '''Inkscape''' ||
[http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio PDF Studio Pro], Master PDF Editor, [http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfedit Pdfedit], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam Pdfjam], [http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk Pdftk], Scribus, Inkscape, Karbon, Okular, Libreoffice Draw. Thanks to [https://www.ubuntupit.com/linux-pdf-editor-top-15-reviewed-and-compared/ this] [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF editing tools
|-
| SilverFast ||
[[xSane]], [http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html VueScan], Simple Scan, Skanlite, Gscan2pdf, GIMP with Quitelnsane
| [[scanning]]
|-
| FinePrint ||
[http://www.boomaga.org boomaga], [http://wfr.tcl.tk/279 page-crunch], [http://freshmeat.net/projects/mpage/ mpage], [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter], [http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~ajcd/psutils/index.html psnup/PSutils], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam pdfnup/PDFjam]
| Document printing/reformatting tools
|}

= Networking =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Internet Explorer, '''Microsoft Edge''', '''Firefox''', '''Opera''', '''Chrome''', '''Pale Moon''', '''Brave''', '''Vivaldi''', '''Otter Browser''', '''Falkon''', '''Dooble''', '''Slimjet''' ||
[[Firefox]],
[[Konqueror]],
Epiphany (Gnome Web), Falkon, Microsoft Edge, Slimjet, Midori,
[http://www.google.com/chrome Chrome], Chromium,
[[Opera]],
Otter Browser,
Brave,
Vivaldi, Falkon,
Pale Moon, Dillo, Dooble
[[Browsers|''more'']]
| [[Web Browsers]]
|-
| Microsoft Outlook, '''Thunderbird''', Pegasus, Lotus Notes, '''Seamonkey''', '''Claws Mail''', '''Mailspring''' ||
[[Kontact]],
[http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/features/evolution.html Evolution], Seamonkey,
[[Thunderbird]], Claws Mail, Mailspring, Geary [https://itsfoss.com/best-email-clients-linux/ others]
|Email clients.
|-
| ICQ, MSN Messenger, AIM (AOL Instant Messenger), Trillian, '''Pidgin''', '''Irssi''' ||
[[PidgIn]],
Hexchat,
[[Kopete]],
[[aMSN]],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emesene Emesene (MSN)],
[[Centericq]], [[Irssi]]
| [[Instant messaging]] [[software]].
|-
| Microsoft HyperTerminal ||
[[minicom]]
|-
| FileZilla FTP Client, WS FTP, Bullet Proof FTP, CuteFTP ||
[http://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client FileZilla FTP Client],
[http://www.kftp.org/misc/description KFTP (KFTPGrabber)],
[[Kasablanca]],
[[FireFTP]],
[[Konqueror]],
[[KBear]],
[[gFTP]],
[http://www.crossftp.com/ CrossFTP],
[[Nautilus]]
|FTP clients. Please note GNOME, KDE (and other) programs can directly open and edit files on FTP, SFTP and WebDAV shares, often using [[KIO]], [[GIO]] or [GVfs]].
|-
| mIRC, '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Quassel''', '''KVIrc''', '''Irssi''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konversation Konversation],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quassel_IRC Quassel],
[[KVIrc]],
[[XChat]],
HexChat,
[[PidgIn]],
[[BitchX]], Irssi
| [[IRC Clients]]
|-
|[http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/ UltraVNC], TightVNC, RealVNC, Remote Desktop ||
[http://www.tightvnc.com/ TightVNC],
[http://www.realvnc.com/ RealVNC], [http://www.rdesktop.org/ rdesktop],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/freenx/ FreeNX],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/x11vnc/ x11vnc],
[http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ Synergy],
XDMCP, [[SSH]] with X11 forwarding (-X or -Y option)
| [[Desktop Sharing]]
|-
| MailWasher, SpamAssassin for Windows ||
SpamAssassin
| Spam filter
|-
|Forte Free Agent, [[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]] ||
[[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]], [http://www.newsreaders.com/unix/clients.html See More Clients Here]
|News Reader (Usenet [[newsgroup]]s)
|-
| eMule, '''aMule''' || aMule
|ED2K P2P network clients
|-
| [http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php '''Vuze (formerly Azureus)'''], [http://utorrent.com/ utorrent], '''Transmission''', '''Deluge''', '''qBittorrent''', '''Tixati''', '''Frostwire''', '''Tribler''' ||
[http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php Vuze (formerly Azureus)], Tranmission, Deluge, qBittorrent, Tixati, Frostwire, Tribler, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qtorrent Qtorrent], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bittornado bittornado], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ktorrent Ktorrent],
|BitTorrent P2P network clients
|-
| '''Skype''', Voipbuster, '''Yate''', '''Linphone''', '''Jitsi''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype Skype], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linphone Linphone], Asterisk, Empathy, Yate, Jitsi
|VoIP software
|-
| Bitvise Tunnelier ||
[http://sourceforge.net/projects/gstm/ gSTM]
|gSTM is a front-end for managing SSH-tunneled port redirects.
|}

== Server ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| IIS, [[Apache]] ||
[[Apache]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nginx Engine-X], [http://www.lighttpd.net/ lighttpd]
|[[Web Servers]]
|-
| Folder sharing, printer sharing ||
[[Samba]]
|Share files and printers between Windows and Linux systems. Installed by default on most distributions.
|-
|IIS, [http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ FileZilla FTP Client & Server]
|[[vsftpd]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure-ftpd pure-ftpd]
|FTP servers, for hosting files.
|-
|[http://www.netlimiter.com/ NetLimiter] ||
[http://monkey.org/~marius/pages/?page=trickle Trickle], [http://l7-filter.sourceforge.net/ Level 7 Filter], [http://www.clarkconnect.com/info/index.php ClarkConnect], [http://www.bandwidtharbitrator.com/ Bandwidth Arbitrator], [http://www.mastershaper.org/index.php/Main_Page MasterShaper]
|Bandwidth shaping and management.
|-
| Exchange ||
[[Citadel]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbra zimbra], [[Open-Xchange]]
|Groupware (sharing of appointments, contacts, e-mail, documents, etc. between members of a group)
|-
| Sharepoint ||
[http://www.knowledgetree.com/opensource KnowledgeTree]
|Manage and secure documents, collaborate around document creation and editing, full document contents indexing
|-
| Norton/McAfee Antivirus, [http://clamwin.com/ ClamWin], AVG, AntiVir, Avast, ClamAV ||
[[ClamAV]], [https://support.avast.com/en-eu/article/131/ Avast Security for Linux]
| Antivirus software.
|-
| ZoneAlarm , Sygate SPF||
[[Guarddog]], [[Firestarter]], [[GUFW]], [[iptables]]
| Firewall software
|}

= Multimedia =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
|[http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/ Adobe Photoshop], [http://www.corel.com/ Corel Photo-Paint], '''GIMP''', '''Glimpse''', '''GIMPShop''', '''ImageMagick''', '''Xnview''', '''[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)]''', '''[https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable]''', '''Pinta''', '''MyPaint''', '''Krita''', '''Filmulator''', '''Photivo''', '''RawTherapee''', '''digiKam''', '''nomacs''' ||
[http://www.gimp.org/ GIMP], Glimpse,
[[GIMPShop]], ImageMagick, Pinta, MyPaint,
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krita Krita], Xnview,
[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)], [https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable], Filmulator, Photivo, RawTherapee, digiKam, nomacs
|Raster graphics editors
|-
|[http://www.corel.com/ Corel Draw], [http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator/ Adobe Illustrator], '''Inkscape''', '''Vectr''', '''Gravit''', '''LibreOffice Draw''', '''sK1''', '''SVG-edit''' ||
[http://www.inkscape.org/ Inkscape], Vectr, Gravit, LibreOffice Draw, Karbon, sK1, SVG-edit. [https://itsfoss.com/vector-graphics-editors-linux/ Ref.]
|Vector graphics editors
|-
|Adobe Animate, '''Synfig''', '''Pencil2D''', '''Tupi (Tupitube Desk)''', '''OpenToonz''', '''Blender''', '''Toon Boom Harmony''', '''Krita''', '''Aseprite''', '''TVPaint''', '''Animaker''', '''Ajax Animator''', '''Glaxnimate''', '''Tahoma2D''', '''Enve''' ||
Synfig, Pencil2D, Tupi (Tupitube Desk), OpenToonz, Blender, Toon Boom Harmony, Krita, Aseprite, TVPaint, Animaker, Ajax Animator, Glaxnimate, Tahoma2D , Enve
| 2D Animations
|-
| Irfanview, ACDSee, '''digiKam''', '''Xnview''', '''nomacs''' ||
[[XnView]], [http://mirageiv.berlios.de/ Mirage], [[GThumb]], Shotwell, KPhotoAlbum, Geeqie, digiKam, Gwenview, Ristretto, Viewnior, nomacs
|Image viewers
|-
| 3D Studio MAX, '''Blender''', [http://www.autodesk.com '''Maya'''] ||
[[Blender]],
[http://www.autodesk.com Maya],
[[K-3D]]
|3D modeling software
|-
| Autodesk Inventor, Solidworks, CATIA || [http://www.freecadweb.org FreeCAD], [http://www.salome-platform.org/ SALOME platform]
| Professional 3D CAD software
|-
| Windows Media Player, PowerDVD, SMPlayer, MPV, [[VLC]] ||
SMPlayer,
MPV,
[[VLC]],
[[Xine]],
[[Totem]],
[[Kaffeine]],
Parole,
Celluloid,
[[MPlayer]]
| [[Video Players]]
|-
| SIA Smaart Live || [http://sf.net/projects/brp-pacu/ BRP-PACU] || [[Sound]] analysis
|-
| Winamp, Sonique, iTunes, [http://www.atunes.org/ aTunes], '''Clementine''', '''VLC''', '''SMplayer''', '''Deadbeef''', '''Strawberry''', '''Audacious''' ||
[[Amarok]],
Clementine,
[[RhythmBox]],
[http://banshee-project.org/index.php/Main_Page Banshee],
[[Xine]],
VLC,
SMplayer,
Elisa,
Deadbeef,
Audacious, Strawberry. See also Video Players section
|[[Music Players]]
|-
| [http://www.otsav.com/ OTSAV, OTS Turntables], [http://serato.com/ Serato], [http://www.native-instruments.com/en/traktor/ Traktor], [http://www.virtualdj.com/ Virtual DJ], [http://www.pcdj.com/ PC DJ], [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
| [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
|Audio & video play out (DJ/presenter)
|-
| Windows Movie Maker, Adobe Premiere Elements, [http://www.goldwave.com/mqrelease.php Multiquence], '''Avidemux''', '''OpenShot''', '''VidCutter''', [https://shotcut.org/ '''Shotcut'''], '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron]''', [https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php '''Olive'''], '''Lightworks''' ||
[[Cinelerra]] (difficult but very professional),
[[KDenlive]] (easy and powerful),
[[LiVES]],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avidemux AviDemux],
OpenShot,
VidCutter,
Flowblade,
Pitivi,
DaVinci Resolve,
[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron],
[https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php Olive],
Lightworks (thanks to Linux Format magazine),
[https://shotcut.org/ Shotcut](thanks to Linux Format magazine)
|[[Video Editors]]
|-
| '''Audacity''', Cubase, '''Ardour''', Adobe Audition (formerly Cool Edit Pro), [http://www.goldwave.com/ GoldWave], Cakewalk/Sonar, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''LMMS''', '''Traverso-DAW''', '''[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]''' ||
[[Audacity]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden],
[[Beast]],
[[Ardour]],
Harrison Mixbus,
[http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/index.php Radium],
DaVinci Resolve,
Bitwig Studio,
Qtractor,
[https://traverso-daw.org/ Traverso-DAW],
LMMS,
[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]
|Digital audio workstation software
|-
| Audio Catalyst, '''Ocenaudio''', dbpoweramp, CDex, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''Audacity''' ||
[[Audacity]],
Ocenaudio,
DaVinci Resolve,
[[Grip]]
| [[Audio Editors]]
|-
| '''Wavesurfer''', '''Audacity''', '''Sox'''||[https://itsfoss.com/record-streaming-audio/ Audio Recorder], Ecasound, Audacity, Sox, Wavesurfer
|Audio recorders
|-
| Cakewalk/Sonar ||
[[kmid]],
[[kmidi]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden]
| [[MIDI]]
|-
|[http://www.noteworthysoftware.com/ NoteWorthy Composer], '''MuseScore''', '''LilyPond'''||
[http://www.musescore.org/ MuseScore], [http://lilypond.org/web/ LilyPond]
|Musical score typesetting
|-
|[http://www.guitar-pro.com/ GuitarPro], TuxGuitar ||
[http://www.tuxguitar.com.ar/ TuxGuitar]
|Guitar tablature editors
|-
| Microsoft Paint, Kid Pix, '''Tux Paint''', '''Pencil 2D''', '''Krita''', '''Pinta''', '''Mypaint''', '''Mtpaint''' ||
[http://www.tuxpaint.org/ Tuxpaint], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KolourPaint KolourPaint], Pencil 2D, Krita, [https://launchpad.net/dibuja Dibuja], Pinta, Mypaint, Mtpaint
|Basic raster painting programs
|-
| Videora, [https://handbrake.fr/ '''Handbrake'''], '''WinFF''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || [https://handbrake.fr/ Handbrake], WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, Transmageddon, VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Video converter
|-
| '''WinFF''', '''Handbrake''', '''fre:ac - free audio converter (freac)''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || Handbrake, WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, fre:ac - free audio converter (freac), VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Audio converter
|-
|TMPGEnc DVD Author, Roxio DVDit, '''Open DVD Producer''', '''DVDStyler''' ||
DVDStyler, [http://opendvdproducer.jonata.org/ Open DVD Producer], [http://www.rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html DeVeDe]
|DVD authoring software
|-
|'''uTox''', '''qTox''', '''Jitsi''', '''OpenMeetings''', '''Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone)''', '''Microsoft Teams''', '''Zoom''' || uTox, qTox, OpenMettings, Jitsi, Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone), Empathy, Microsoft Teams, Zoom
| Video Conferencing
|}

= Education =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| '''Klavaro''', '''Tipp10''' || Klavaro, Tipp10, [[KTouch]], Tux Typing, GNU Typist || Touch typing tutors
|-
| '''Maple''', '''Mathematica''' || Maple, Mathematica, [http://maxima.sourceforge.net/ Maxima]
| Computer algebra systems
|-
| '''Matlab''', '''Octave''', '''Scilab''' ||
Matlab, [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ Octave],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SciLab SciLab], Sage, KAlgebra
| High level numeric computation environments
|-
| '''SPSS''', '''Stata''', EViews, '''PSPP''', '''[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project]''', '''[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]''' ||
[http://www.stata.com/products/unix.html Stata], SPSS,
[http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/pspp.html PSPP],
[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Plus S-Plus],
[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]
| Statistical analysis
|-
| Verilog ||
[http://www.icarus.com/eda/verilog/ iverilog]
| Verilog Simulator
|-
| '''Google Earth''', NASA World Wind, '''Celestia''', '''Stellarium''', '''Skychart''', '''Aladin Sky Atlas''', Microsoft Flight Simulator, '''FlightGear''' ||
[http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html Google Earth], [https://celestia.space/index.html Celestia], [http://www.stellarium.org/ Stellarium], [https://marble.kde.org/ Marble], [http://www.geody.com/ Geody], Kstars, Skychart, Aladin Sky Atlas, [http://www.flightgear.org/ FlightGear]
| Geography, astronomy and simulation
|}

''Please add new applications to this list. A good resource is the [http://www.nawaz.org/wiki/index.php?title=Table_of_Equivalents BeetleSpace Windows/Linux Software Table of Equivalents], which is GNU FDL licensed.''

= See also =

* [[running windows software]]
* [http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux.]
* [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareEquivalents Ubuntu software equivalents's page]
* [http://www.linuxeq.com/ The Linux Equivalent Project]

[[Category:FAQ]]

Linux software equivalent to Windows software

2022-04-03T22:22:29Z

Kareempharmacist: /* Networking */

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.

= Office and Productivity =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Office, '''OpenOffice''', '''Libre Office''', '''WPS Office''', '''Softmaker Office''', '''Onlyoffice Desktop'''
| [[Libre Office]], [https://www.wps.com/linux WPS Office](WPS-Community), [[OpenOffice]], [https://www.calligra.org/ Calligra], Softmaker FreeOffice, OnlyOffice Desktop
| Office package
|-
| Microsoft Word, OOwriter, LibreOffice Writer, WPS Writer, Softmaker TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[OOWriter]], [http://www.abiword.org AbiWord], WPS Writer, LibreOffice Writer, Calligra Words, FreeOffice TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop, Lyx, [[LaTeX]]
| [[Word Processing]]
|-
| Notepad, Wordpad, TheGun, EditPlus, SciTE, Notepad++ ||
[[Vim]], [[KWrite]],
[[Kate]], [http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/ BlueFish], [[Gedit]], [[Joe]], Sublime Text, [[Leafpad]], [[Nano]]
| [[Text Editors]]
|-
| Access, dBase, Foxpro, Paradox, '''OOBase''', '''LibreOffice Base'''
| [http://userbase.kde.org/Kexi Kexi], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Base OOBase], LibreOffice Base
| [[Database]]
|-
| Excel, Corel WordPrefect, '''LibreOffice Calc''', '''Softmaker Office PlanMaker''', '''WPS Spreedsheets''', '''OOCalc''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Calc, Calligra Sheets, Softmaker Office PlanMaker, WPS Spreedsheets, [[OOCalc]], [http://www.gnumeric.org gnumeric], OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Spreadsheet]]
|-
| Visio, [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html '''yED'''], '''LibreOffice Draw'''
| [https://www.calligra.org/flow/ Calligra Flow], [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html yED], LibreOffice Draw
| Diagramming
|-
| PowerPoint, '''LibreOffice Impress''', '''OOImpress''', '''WPS Presentation''', '''Softmaker Office Presentations''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Impress, [[OOImpress]], Calligra Stage, WPS Presentation, Softmaker Office Presentations, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Presentation software]]
|-
| Final Draft, Script Studio, '''Fade In''', '''KIT Scenarist''', '''Story Architect''', '''Trelby''', '''Scrite'''
| Fade In, KIT Scenarist, Story Architect, Trelby, Scrite
| Screenwriting software
|-
| Microsoft Project Manager
| [[MOOS Project Viewer]], Calligra Plan
| Project management
|-
| '''Wondershare EdrawMax''', XMind
| Wondershare EdrawMax, Minder, XMind
| Mind maps
|-
| Outlook, '''Thunderbird + Lightning'''
| [[Kontact]], [https://pawsa.fedorapeople.org/balsa/ BALSA], [[Thunderbird]] + [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/ Lightning]
| Personal information managers
|-
| Alcohol 120%, Discjuggler, Easy CD Creator, Nero Burning ROM ||
[[K3b]], [[XCDRoast]], Brasero, Xfburn, [[CD/DVD_Burning|''more'']]
|DVD/CD burning
|-
|Alcohol 120%, Nero Burning ROM, '''MakeMKV''', ImgBurn, Infrarecorder || MakeMKV, Thoggen, Dvdbackup, HandBrake, DVD::RIP, AcidRIP
| DVD ripping software
|-
| Quicken, Microsoft Money, TurboTax
| [http://gnucash.org/ GnucAsh], [http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/index-home.html KMyMoney], [[CrossOver]] Office with Quicken, [http://www.lazy8.nu/ lazy8ledger]
| Accounting
|-
| ActiveSync ||
[[SynCE]]
|Synchronization with Windows Mobile devices
|-
| WinEdt, TeXnicCenter
| [[Kile]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texmaker Texmaker], [[LyX]]
| LaTeX IDEs
|-
| Veritas Backup Exec, [http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm Cobian Backup], '''Duplicati''' ||
LuckyBackup, Déjà Dup, Grsync, Duplicati [[list of backUp applications|''more'']]
| [[Backup]]
|-
| Google Desktop ||
[[Recoll]]
| Desktop Search
|-
| Norton Ghost ||
[[Partition Image]], [[g4u]], [http://www.mondorescue.org/ Mondo Rescue], [[dd]], gDiskDump (a dd frontend), Clonezilla, Trinity Rescue Kit
|Disk imaging
|-
| Norton Partition Magic ||
[[GParted]], Clonezilla (a live cd), KDE Partition Manager, GNOME Disks
|Disk partitioning
|-
|[http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/Disk_Size_Explorer.asp Disk Size Explorer]
|[https://utils.kde.org/projects/filelight/ File Light], [[Konqueror]], Baobab, xdiskusage, duc [https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-analyze-your-disk-usage-pattern-in-linux/ ref.]
| Disk usage analyzers
|-
|[http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html Filemon], [http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Regmon.html Regmon]
| [http://syscalltrack.sourceforge.net/ syscalltrack]
| system call tracking (file monitor & others)
|-
| WinMerge, SyncToy ||
[http://meld.sourceforge.net/ Meld], [[Unison]], [http://synkron.sourceforge.net/ Synkron], [[rSync]]
| File synchronization
|-
| Google Drive, Dropbox, etc ||
[https://rclone.org Rclone]
| Cloud hosted file synchronization (Amazon S3, Dropbox, Google Cloud Storage, Google Drive, FTP, Microsoft OneDrive, sFTP, etc)
|-
| Windows Update, Add/Remove programs||
[[apt-get]], [http://aptitude.sourceforge.net/ Aptitude], [http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Portage portage], [[Rpm|rpm]], [[urpmi]], [[yast]], [[yum]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptic_Package_Manager Synaptic], [https://snapcraft.io Snapcraft (Snap)]
|Every Linux distribution has an infrastructure to manage installed software which is quite different from Windows. For instance, all updates are handled by a single program. See [[package management]].
|-
| WinRunner || [http://hoopajoo.net/projects/xautomation.html xautomation] || automating interactive applications
|-
| 7-Zip, Winzip, Winrar, Peazip ||
[[Karchiver]],
[[File Roller]],
Xarchiver,
[[ark]],
[[hjsplit]]; [[packing and unpacking files|''command line tools'']]
|Archivers
|-
| chkdsk || [[fsck]], [https://www.tecmint.com/linux-disk-scanning-tools/ other tools] || check your file system (and the [[hard disk]] beneath it) for errors
|-
| Daemon Tools ||
[[mount]], Disk Image Mounter in Gnome/KDE, Furius ISO mount, AcetoneISO
|ISO mounting
|-
| Disclib || [http://www.gwhere.org/home.php3 gWhere]
| Disk cataloging programs
|-
| Evernote, OneNote || NixNote, Tusk, Whatever, GeekNote, ForeverNote, [https://joplinapp.org/ Joplin], Xournal, XFCE4 Notes, Xpad, Hnb, Gnote, Feathernotes, Cherrytree, Bijiben, Basket, Noblenote, Nvpy. Thanks to [https://itsfoss.com/evernote-on-linux/]
|Note Taking App
|}

== Desktop Publishing ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Dreamweaver, NVU, KompoZer, Google Web Designer ||
[http://www.google.com/webdesigner/ Google Web Designer] (WYSIWYG)
[[html editors|more]]
|[[Web Design]]
|-
| Quark, Quark Express, Microsoft Publisher, '''Scribus''', '''Karbon''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribus Scribus], Laidout, VivaDesigner, QuickSilver, Xara Xtreme, Karbon
|DTP software
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader, Xpdf Reader, Foxit reader, Sumatra pdf ||

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evince Evince],
Zathura,
Okular,
Bookworm,
Qpdfview,
Foxit reader,
PDF Studio Viewer,
[[Xpdf]],
MuPDF,
Atril,
[[Ghostview]], [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF readers
|-
| Adobe Acrobat Distiller, PDFCreator ||
[http://www.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~vrbehr/cups-pdf/ CUPS-PDF], Libre Office, [[OpenOffice.org]], PDF Studio, [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter] -- can convert to pdf. [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF authoring
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF editor, [http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio '''PDF Studio Pro'''], '''Master PDF Editor''', '''Libreoffice Draw''', '''Scribus''', '''Inkscape''' ||
[http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio PDF Studio Pro], Master PDF Editor, [http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfedit Pdfedit], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam Pdfjam], [http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk Pdftk], Scribus, Inkscape, Karbon, Okular, Libreoffice Draw. Thanks to [https://www.ubuntupit.com/linux-pdf-editor-top-15-reviewed-and-compared/ this] [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF editing tools
|-
| SilverFast ||
[[xSane]], [http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html VueScan], Simple Scan, Skanlite, Gscan2pdf, GIMP with Quitelnsane
| [[scanning]]
|-
| FinePrint ||
[http://www.boomaga.org boomaga], [http://wfr.tcl.tk/279 page-crunch], [http://freshmeat.net/projects/mpage/ mpage], [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter], [http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~ajcd/psutils/index.html psnup/PSutils], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam pdfnup/PDFjam]
| Document printing/reformatting tools
|}

= Networking =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Internet Explorer, '''Microsoft Edge''', '''Firefox''', '''Opera''', '''Chrome''', '''Pale Moon''', '''Brave''', '''Vivaldi''', '''Otter Browser''', '''Falkon''', '''Dooble''', '''Slimjet''' ||
[[Firefox]],
[[Konqueror]],
Epiphany (Gnome Web), Falkon, Microsoft Edge, Slimjet, Midori,
[http://www.google.com/chrome Chrome], Chromium,
[[Opera]],
Otter Browser,
Brave,
Vivaldi, Falkon,
Pale Moon, Dillo, Dooble
[[Browsers|''more'']]
| [[Web Browsers]]
|-
| Microsoft Outlook, '''Thunderbird''', Pegasus, Lotus Notes, '''Seamonkey''', '''Claws Mail''', '''Mailspring''' ||
[[Kontact]],
[http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/features/evolution.html Evolution], Seamonkey,
[[Thunderbird]], Claws Mail, Mailspring, Geary [https://itsfoss.com/best-email-clients-linux/ others]
|Email clients.
|-
| ICQ, MSN Messenger, AIM (AOL Instant Messenger), Trillian, '''Pidgin''', '''Irssi''' ||
[[PidgIn]],
Hexchat,
[[Kopete]],
[[aMSN]],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emesene Emesene (MSN)],
[[Centericq]], [[Irssi]]
| [[Instant messaging]] [[software]].
|-
| Microsoft HyperTerminal ||
[[minicom]]
|-
| FileZilla FTP Client, WS FTP, Bullet Proof FTP, CuteFTP ||
[http://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client FileZilla FTP Client],
[http://www.kftp.org/misc/description KFTP (KFTPGrabber)],
[[Kasablanca]],
[[FireFTP]],
[[Konqueror]],
[[KBear]],
[[gFTP]],
[http://www.crossftp.com/ CrossFTP],
[[Nautilus]]
|FTP clients. Please note GNOME, KDE (and other) programs can directly open and edit files on FTP, SFTP and WebDAV shares, often using [[KIO]], [[GIO]] or [GVfs]].
|-
| mIRC, '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Quassel''', '''KVIrc''', '''Irssi''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konversation Konversation],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quassel_IRC Quassel],
[[KVIrc]],
[[XChat]],
HexChat,
[[PidgIn]],
[[BitchX]], Irssi
| [[IRC Clients]]
|-
|[http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/ UltraVNC], TightVNC, RealVNC, Remote Desktop ||
[http://www.tightvnc.com/ TightVNC],
[http://www.realvnc.com/ RealVNC], [http://www.rdesktop.org/ rdesktop],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/freenx/ FreeNX],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/x11vnc/ x11vnc],
[http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ Synergy],
XDMCP, [[SSH]] with X11 forwarding (-X or -Y option)
| [[Desktop Sharing]]
|-
| MailWasher, SpamAssassin for Windows ||
SpamAssassin
| Spam filter
|-
|Forte Free Agent, [[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]] ||
[[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]], [http://www.newsreaders.com/unix/clients.html See More Clients Here]
|News Reader (Usenet [[newsgroup]]s)
|-
| eMule, '''MLDonkey''', '''aMule''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mldonkey MlDOnKey], aMule
|ED2K P2P network clients
|-
| [http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php '''Vuze (formerly Azureus)'''], [http://utorrent.com/ utorrent], '''Transmission''', '''Deluge''', '''qBittorrent''', '''Tixati''', '''Frostwire''', '''Tribler''' ||
[http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php Vuze (formerly Azureus)], Tranmission, Deluge, qBittorrent, Tixati, Frostwire, Tribler, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qtorrent Qtorrent], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bittornado bittornado], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ktorrent Ktorrent],
|BitTorrent P2P network clients
|-
| '''Skype''', Voipbuster, '''Yate''', '''Linphone''', '''Jitsi''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype Skype], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linphone Linphone], Asterisk, Empathy, Yate, Jitsi
|VoIP software
|-
| Bitvise Tunnelier ||
[http://sourceforge.net/projects/gstm/ gSTM]
|gSTM is a front-end for managing SSH-tunneled port redirects.
|}

== Server ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| IIS, [[Apache]] ||
[[Apache]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nginx Engine-X], [http://www.lighttpd.net/ lighttpd]
|[[Web Servers]]
|-
| Folder sharing, printer sharing ||
[[Samba]]
|Share files and printers between Windows and Linux systems. Installed by default on most distributions.
|-
|IIS, [http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ FileZilla FTP Client & Server]
|[[vsftpd]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure-ftpd pure-ftpd]
|FTP servers, for hosting files.
|-
|[http://www.netlimiter.com/ NetLimiter] ||
[http://monkey.org/~marius/pages/?page=trickle Trickle], [http://l7-filter.sourceforge.net/ Level 7 Filter], [http://www.clarkconnect.com/info/index.php ClarkConnect], [http://www.bandwidtharbitrator.com/ Bandwidth Arbitrator], [http://www.mastershaper.org/index.php/Main_Page MasterShaper]
|Bandwidth shaping and management.
|-
| Exchange ||
[[Citadel]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbra zimbra], [[Open-Xchange]]
|Groupware (sharing of appointments, contacts, e-mail, documents, etc. between members of a group)
|-
| Sharepoint ||
[http://www.knowledgetree.com/opensource KnowledgeTree]
|Manage and secure documents, collaborate around document creation and editing, full document contents indexing
|-
| Norton/McAfee Antivirus, [http://clamwin.com/ ClamWin], AVG, AntiVir, Avast, ClamAV ||
[[ClamAV]], [https://support.avast.com/en-eu/article/131/ Avast Security for Linux]
| Antivirus software.
|-
| ZoneAlarm , Sygate SPF||
[[Guarddog]], [[Firestarter]], [[GUFW]], [[iptables]]
| Firewall software
|}

= Multimedia =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
|[http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/ Adobe Photoshop], [http://www.corel.com/ Corel Photo-Paint], '''GIMP''', '''Glimpse''', '''GIMPShop''', '''ImageMagick''', '''Xnview''', '''[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)]''', '''[https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable]''', '''Pinta''', '''MyPaint''', '''Krita''', '''Filmulator''', '''Photivo''', '''RawTherapee''', '''digiKam''', '''nomacs''' ||
[http://www.gimp.org/ GIMP], Glimpse,
[[GIMPShop]], ImageMagick, Pinta, MyPaint,
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krita Krita], Xnview,
[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)], [https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable], Filmulator, Photivo, RawTherapee, digiKam, nomacs
|Raster graphics editors
|-
|[http://www.corel.com/ Corel Draw], [http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator/ Adobe Illustrator], '''Inkscape''', '''Vectr''', '''Gravit''', '''LibreOffice Draw''', '''sK1''', '''SVG-edit''' ||
[http://www.inkscape.org/ Inkscape], Vectr, Gravit, LibreOffice Draw, Karbon, sK1, SVG-edit. [https://itsfoss.com/vector-graphics-editors-linux/ Ref.]
|Vector graphics editors
|-
|Adobe Animate, '''Synfig''', '''Pencil2D''', '''Tupi (Tupitube Desk)''', '''OpenToonz''', '''Blender''', '''Toon Boom Harmony''', '''Krita''', '''Aseprite''', '''TVPaint''', '''Animaker''', '''Ajax Animator''', '''Glaxnimate''', '''Tahoma2D''', '''Enve''' ||
Synfig, Pencil2D, Tupi (Tupitube Desk), OpenToonz, Blender, Toon Boom Harmony, Krita, Aseprite, TVPaint, Animaker, Ajax Animator, Glaxnimate, Tahoma2D , Enve
| 2D Animations
|-
| Irfanview, ACDSee, '''digiKam''', '''Xnview''', '''nomacs''' ||
[[XnView]], [http://mirageiv.berlios.de/ Mirage], [[GThumb]], Shotwell, KPhotoAlbum, Geeqie, digiKam, Gwenview, Ristretto, Viewnior, nomacs
|Image viewers
|-
| 3D Studio MAX, '''Blender''', [http://www.autodesk.com '''Maya'''] ||
[[Blender]],
[http://www.autodesk.com Maya],
[[K-3D]]
|3D modeling software
|-
| Autodesk Inventor, Solidworks, CATIA || [http://www.freecadweb.org FreeCAD], [http://www.salome-platform.org/ SALOME platform]
| Professional 3D CAD software
|-
| Windows Media Player, PowerDVD, SMPlayer, MPV, [[VLC]] ||
SMPlayer,
MPV,
[[VLC]],
[[Xine]],
[[Totem]],
[[Kaffeine]],
Parole,
Celluloid,
[[MPlayer]]
| [[Video Players]]
|-
| SIA Smaart Live || [http://sf.net/projects/brp-pacu/ BRP-PACU] || [[Sound]] analysis
|-
| Winamp, Sonique, iTunes, [http://www.atunes.org/ aTunes], '''Clementine''', '''VLC''', '''SMplayer''', '''Deadbeef''', '''Strawberry''', '''Audacious''' ||
[[Amarok]],
Clementine,
[[RhythmBox]],
[http://banshee-project.org/index.php/Main_Page Banshee],
[[Xine]],
VLC,
SMplayer,
Elisa,
Deadbeef,
Audacious, Strawberry. See also Video Players section
|[[Music Players]]
|-
| [http://www.otsav.com/ OTSAV, OTS Turntables], [http://serato.com/ Serato], [http://www.native-instruments.com/en/traktor/ Traktor], [http://www.virtualdj.com/ Virtual DJ], [http://www.pcdj.com/ PC DJ], [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
| [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
|Audio & video play out (DJ/presenter)
|-
| Windows Movie Maker, Adobe Premiere Elements, [http://www.goldwave.com/mqrelease.php Multiquence], '''Avidemux''', '''OpenShot''', '''VidCutter''', [https://shotcut.org/ '''Shotcut'''], '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron]''', [https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php '''Olive'''], '''Lightworks''' ||
[[Cinelerra]] (difficult but very professional),
[[KDenlive]] (easy and powerful),
[[LiVES]],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avidemux AviDemux],
OpenShot,
VidCutter,
Flowblade,
Pitivi,
DaVinci Resolve,
[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron],
[https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php Olive],
Lightworks (thanks to Linux Format magazine),
[https://shotcut.org/ Shotcut](thanks to Linux Format magazine)
|[[Video Editors]]
|-
| '''Audacity''', Cubase, '''Ardour''', Adobe Audition (formerly Cool Edit Pro), [http://www.goldwave.com/ GoldWave], Cakewalk/Sonar, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''LMMS''', '''Traverso-DAW''', '''[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]''' ||
[[Audacity]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden],
[[Beast]],
[[Ardour]],
Harrison Mixbus,
[http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/index.php Radium],
DaVinci Resolve,
Bitwig Studio,
Qtractor,
[https://traverso-daw.org/ Traverso-DAW],
LMMS,
[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]
|Digital audio workstation software
|-
| Audio Catalyst, '''Ocenaudio''', dbpoweramp, CDex, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''Audacity''' ||
[[Audacity]],
Ocenaudio,
DaVinci Resolve,
[[Grip]]
| [[Audio Editors]]
|-
| '''Wavesurfer''', '''Audacity''', '''Sox'''||[https://itsfoss.com/record-streaming-audio/ Audio Recorder], Ecasound, Audacity, Sox, Wavesurfer
|Audio recorders
|-
| Cakewalk/Sonar ||
[[kmid]],
[[kmidi]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden]
| [[MIDI]]
|-
|[http://www.noteworthysoftware.com/ NoteWorthy Composer], '''MuseScore''', '''LilyPond'''||
[http://www.musescore.org/ MuseScore], [http://lilypond.org/web/ LilyPond]
|Musical score typesetting
|-
|[http://www.guitar-pro.com/ GuitarPro], TuxGuitar ||
[http://www.tuxguitar.com.ar/ TuxGuitar]
|Guitar tablature editors
|-
| Microsoft Paint, Kid Pix, '''Tux Paint''', '''Pencil 2D''', '''Krita''', '''Pinta''', '''Mypaint''', '''Mtpaint''' ||
[http://www.tuxpaint.org/ Tuxpaint], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KolourPaint KolourPaint], Pencil 2D, Krita, [https://launchpad.net/dibuja Dibuja], Pinta, Mypaint, Mtpaint
|Basic raster painting programs
|-
| Videora, [https://handbrake.fr/ '''Handbrake'''], '''WinFF''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || [https://handbrake.fr/ Handbrake], WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, Transmageddon, VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Video converter
|-
| '''WinFF''', '''Handbrake''', '''fre:ac - free audio converter (freac)''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || Handbrake, WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, fre:ac - free audio converter (freac), VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Audio converter
|-
|TMPGEnc DVD Author, Roxio DVDit, '''Open DVD Producer''', '''DVDStyler''' ||
DVDStyler, [http://opendvdproducer.jonata.org/ Open DVD Producer], [http://www.rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html DeVeDe]
|DVD authoring software
|-
|'''uTox''', '''qTox''', '''Jitsi''', '''OpenMeetings''', '''Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone)''', '''Microsoft Teams''', '''Zoom''' || uTox, qTox, OpenMettings, Jitsi, Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone), Empathy, Microsoft Teams, Zoom
| Video Conferencing
|}

= Education =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| '''Klavaro''', '''Tipp10''' || Klavaro, Tipp10, [[KTouch]], Tux Typing, GNU Typist || Touch typing tutors
|-
| '''Maple''', '''Mathematica''' || Maple, Mathematica, [http://maxima.sourceforge.net/ Maxima]
| Computer algebra systems
|-
| '''Matlab''', '''Octave''', '''Scilab''' ||
Matlab, [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ Octave],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SciLab SciLab], Sage, KAlgebra
| High level numeric computation environments
|-
| '''SPSS''', '''Stata''', EViews, '''PSPP''', '''[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project]''', '''[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]''' ||
[http://www.stata.com/products/unix.html Stata], SPSS,
[http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/pspp.html PSPP],
[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Plus S-Plus],
[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]
| Statistical analysis
|-
| Verilog ||
[http://www.icarus.com/eda/verilog/ iverilog]
| Verilog Simulator
|-
| '''Google Earth''', NASA World Wind, '''Celestia''', '''Stellarium''', '''Skychart''', '''Aladin Sky Atlas''', Microsoft Flight Simulator, '''FlightGear''' ||
[http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html Google Earth], [https://celestia.space/index.html Celestia], [http://www.stellarium.org/ Stellarium], [https://marble.kde.org/ Marble], [http://www.geody.com/ Geody], Kstars, Skychart, Aladin Sky Atlas, [http://www.flightgear.org/ FlightGear]
| Geography, astronomy and simulation
|}

''Please add new applications to this list. A good resource is the [http://www.nawaz.org/wiki/index.php?title=Table_of_Equivalents BeetleSpace Windows/Linux Software Table of Equivalents], which is GNU FDL licensed.''

= See also =

* [[running windows software]]
* [http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux.]
* [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareEquivalents Ubuntu software equivalents's page]
* [http://www.linuxeq.com/ The Linux Equivalent Project]

[[Category:FAQ]]

Linux software equivalent to Windows software

2022-04-03T22:22:05Z

Kareempharmacist: /* Networking */

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.

= Office and Productivity =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Office, '''OpenOffice''', '''Libre Office''', '''WPS Office''', '''Softmaker Office''', '''Onlyoffice Desktop'''
| [[Libre Office]], [https://www.wps.com/linux WPS Office](WPS-Community), [[OpenOffice]], [https://www.calligra.org/ Calligra], Softmaker FreeOffice, OnlyOffice Desktop
| Office package
|-
| Microsoft Word, OOwriter, LibreOffice Writer, WPS Writer, Softmaker TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[OOWriter]], [http://www.abiword.org AbiWord], WPS Writer, LibreOffice Writer, Calligra Words, FreeOffice TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop, Lyx, [[LaTeX]]
| [[Word Processing]]
|-
| Notepad, Wordpad, TheGun, EditPlus, SciTE, Notepad++ ||
[[Vim]], [[KWrite]],
[[Kate]], [http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/ BlueFish], [[Gedit]], [[Joe]], Sublime Text, [[Leafpad]], [[Nano]]
| [[Text Editors]]
|-
| Access, dBase, Foxpro, Paradox, '''OOBase''', '''LibreOffice Base'''
| [http://userbase.kde.org/Kexi Kexi], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Base OOBase], LibreOffice Base
| [[Database]]
|-
| Excel, Corel WordPrefect, '''LibreOffice Calc''', '''Softmaker Office PlanMaker''', '''WPS Spreedsheets''', '''OOCalc''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Calc, Calligra Sheets, Softmaker Office PlanMaker, WPS Spreedsheets, [[OOCalc]], [http://www.gnumeric.org gnumeric], OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Spreadsheet]]
|-
| Visio, [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html '''yED'''], '''LibreOffice Draw'''
| [https://www.calligra.org/flow/ Calligra Flow], [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html yED], LibreOffice Draw
| Diagramming
|-
| PowerPoint, '''LibreOffice Impress''', '''OOImpress''', '''WPS Presentation''', '''Softmaker Office Presentations''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Impress, [[OOImpress]], Calligra Stage, WPS Presentation, Softmaker Office Presentations, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Presentation software]]
|-
| Final Draft, Script Studio, '''Fade In''', '''KIT Scenarist''', '''Story Architect''', '''Trelby''', '''Scrite'''
| Fade In, KIT Scenarist, Story Architect, Trelby, Scrite
| Screenwriting software
|-
| Microsoft Project Manager
| [[MOOS Project Viewer]], Calligra Plan
| Project management
|-
| '''Wondershare EdrawMax''', XMind
| Wondershare EdrawMax, Minder, XMind
| Mind maps
|-
| Outlook, '''Thunderbird + Lightning'''
| [[Kontact]], [https://pawsa.fedorapeople.org/balsa/ BALSA], [[Thunderbird]] + [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/ Lightning]
| Personal information managers
|-
| Alcohol 120%, Discjuggler, Easy CD Creator, Nero Burning ROM ||
[[K3b]], [[XCDRoast]], Brasero, Xfburn, [[CD/DVD_Burning|''more'']]
|DVD/CD burning
|-
|Alcohol 120%, Nero Burning ROM, '''MakeMKV''', ImgBurn, Infrarecorder || MakeMKV, Thoggen, Dvdbackup, HandBrake, DVD::RIP, AcidRIP
| DVD ripping software
|-
| Quicken, Microsoft Money, TurboTax
| [http://gnucash.org/ GnucAsh], [http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/index-home.html KMyMoney], [[CrossOver]] Office with Quicken, [http://www.lazy8.nu/ lazy8ledger]
| Accounting
|-
| ActiveSync ||
[[SynCE]]
|Synchronization with Windows Mobile devices
|-
| WinEdt, TeXnicCenter
| [[Kile]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texmaker Texmaker], [[LyX]]
| LaTeX IDEs
|-
| Veritas Backup Exec, [http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm Cobian Backup], '''Duplicati''' ||
LuckyBackup, Déjà Dup, Grsync, Duplicati [[list of backUp applications|''more'']]
| [[Backup]]
|-
| Google Desktop ||
[[Recoll]]
| Desktop Search
|-
| Norton Ghost ||
[[Partition Image]], [[g4u]], [http://www.mondorescue.org/ Mondo Rescue], [[dd]], gDiskDump (a dd frontend), Clonezilla, Trinity Rescue Kit
|Disk imaging
|-
| Norton Partition Magic ||
[[GParted]], Clonezilla (a live cd), KDE Partition Manager, GNOME Disks
|Disk partitioning
|-
|[http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/Disk_Size_Explorer.asp Disk Size Explorer]
|[https://utils.kde.org/projects/filelight/ File Light], [[Konqueror]], Baobab, xdiskusage, duc [https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-analyze-your-disk-usage-pattern-in-linux/ ref.]
| Disk usage analyzers
|-
|[http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html Filemon], [http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Regmon.html Regmon]
| [http://syscalltrack.sourceforge.net/ syscalltrack]
| system call tracking (file monitor & others)
|-
| WinMerge, SyncToy ||
[http://meld.sourceforge.net/ Meld], [[Unison]], [http://synkron.sourceforge.net/ Synkron], [[rSync]]
| File synchronization
|-
| Google Drive, Dropbox, etc ||
[https://rclone.org Rclone]
| Cloud hosted file synchronization (Amazon S3, Dropbox, Google Cloud Storage, Google Drive, FTP, Microsoft OneDrive, sFTP, etc)
|-
| Windows Update, Add/Remove programs||
[[apt-get]], [http://aptitude.sourceforge.net/ Aptitude], [http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Portage portage], [[Rpm|rpm]], [[urpmi]], [[yast]], [[yum]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptic_Package_Manager Synaptic], [https://snapcraft.io Snapcraft (Snap)]
|Every Linux distribution has an infrastructure to manage installed software which is quite different from Windows. For instance, all updates are handled by a single program. See [[package management]].
|-
| WinRunner || [http://hoopajoo.net/projects/xautomation.html xautomation] || automating interactive applications
|-
| 7-Zip, Winzip, Winrar, Peazip ||
[[Karchiver]],
[[File Roller]],
Xarchiver,
[[ark]],
[[hjsplit]]; [[packing and unpacking files|''command line tools'']]
|Archivers
|-
| chkdsk || [[fsck]], [https://www.tecmint.com/linux-disk-scanning-tools/ other tools] || check your file system (and the [[hard disk]] beneath it) for errors
|-
| Daemon Tools ||
[[mount]], Disk Image Mounter in Gnome/KDE, Furius ISO mount, AcetoneISO
|ISO mounting
|-
| Disclib || [http://www.gwhere.org/home.php3 gWhere]
| Disk cataloging programs
|-
| Evernote, OneNote || NixNote, Tusk, Whatever, GeekNote, ForeverNote, [https://joplinapp.org/ Joplin], Xournal, XFCE4 Notes, Xpad, Hnb, Gnote, Feathernotes, Cherrytree, Bijiben, Basket, Noblenote, Nvpy. Thanks to [https://itsfoss.com/evernote-on-linux/]
|Note Taking App
|}

== Desktop Publishing ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Dreamweaver, NVU, KompoZer, Google Web Designer ||
[http://www.google.com/webdesigner/ Google Web Designer] (WYSIWYG)
[[html editors|more]]
|[[Web Design]]
|-
| Quark, Quark Express, Microsoft Publisher, '''Scribus''', '''Karbon''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribus Scribus], Laidout, VivaDesigner, QuickSilver, Xara Xtreme, Karbon
|DTP software
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader, Xpdf Reader, Foxit reader, Sumatra pdf ||

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evince Evince],
Zathura,
Okular,
Bookworm,
Qpdfview,
Foxit reader,
PDF Studio Viewer,
[[Xpdf]],
MuPDF,
Atril,
[[Ghostview]], [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF readers
|-
| Adobe Acrobat Distiller, PDFCreator ||
[http://www.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~vrbehr/cups-pdf/ CUPS-PDF], Libre Office, [[OpenOffice.org]], PDF Studio, [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter] -- can convert to pdf. [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF authoring
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF editor, [http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio '''PDF Studio Pro'''], '''Master PDF Editor''', '''Libreoffice Draw''', '''Scribus''', '''Inkscape''' ||
[http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio PDF Studio Pro], Master PDF Editor, [http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfedit Pdfedit], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam Pdfjam], [http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk Pdftk], Scribus, Inkscape, Karbon, Okular, Libreoffice Draw. Thanks to [https://www.ubuntupit.com/linux-pdf-editor-top-15-reviewed-and-compared/ this] [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF editing tools
|-
| SilverFast ||
[[xSane]], [http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html VueScan], Simple Scan, Skanlite, Gscan2pdf, GIMP with Quitelnsane
| [[scanning]]
|-
| FinePrint ||
[http://www.boomaga.org boomaga], [http://wfr.tcl.tk/279 page-crunch], [http://freshmeat.net/projects/mpage/ mpage], [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter], [http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~ajcd/psutils/index.html psnup/PSutils], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam pdfnup/PDFjam]
| Document printing/reformatting tools
|}

= Networking =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Internet Explorer, '''Microsoft Edge''', '''Firefox''', '''Opera''', '''Chrome''', '''Pale Moon''', '''Brave''', '''Vivaldi''', '''Otter Browser''', '''Falkon''', '''Dooble''', '''Slimjet''' ||
[[Firefox]],
[[Konqueror]],
Epiphany (Gnome Web), Falkon, Microsoft Edge, Slimjet, Midori,
[http://www.google.com/chrome Chrome], Chromium,
[[Opera]],
Otter Browser,
Brave,
Vivaldi, Falkon,
Pale Moon, Dillo, Dooble
[[Browsers|''more'']]
| [[Web Browsers]]
|-
| Microsoft Outlook, '''Thunderbird''', Pegasus, Lotus Notes, '''Seamonkey''', '''Claws Mail''', '''Mailspring''' ||
[[Kontact]],
[http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/features/evolution.html Evolution], Seamonkey,
[[Thunderbird]], Claws Mail, Mailspring, Geary [https://itsfoss.com/best-email-clients-linux/ others]
|Email clients.
|-
| ICQ, MSN Messenger, AIM (AOL Instant Messenger), Trillian, '''Pidgin''', '''Irssi''' ||
[[PidgIn]],
Hexchat,
[[Kopete]],
[[aMSN]],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emesene Emesene (MSN)],
[[Centericq]], [[Irssi]]
| [[Instant messaging]] [[software]].
|-
| Microsoft HyperTerminal ||
[[minicom]]
|-
| FileZilla FTP Client, WS FTP, Bullet Proof FTP, CuteFTP ||
[http://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client FileZilla FTP Client],
[http://www.kftp.org/misc/description KFTP (KFTPGrabber)],
[[Kasablanca]],
[[FireFTP]],
[[Konqueror]],
[[KBear]],
[[gFTP]],
[http://www.crossftp.com/ CrossFTP],
[[Nautilus]]
|FTP clients. Please note GNOME, KDE (and other) programs can directly open and edit files on FTP, SFTP and WebDAV shares, often using [[KIO]], [[GIO]] or [GVfs]].
|-
| mIRC, '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Quassel''', '''KVIrc''', '''Irssi''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konversation Konversation],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quassel_IRC Quassel],
[[KVIrc]],
[[XChat]],
HexChat,
[[PidgIn]],
[[BitchX]], Irssi
| [[IRC Clients]]
|-
|[http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/ UltraVNC], TightVNC, RealVNC, Remote Desktop ||
[http://www.tightvnc.com/ TightVNC],
[http://www.realvnc.com/ RealVNC], [http://www.rdesktop.org/ rdesktop],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/freenx/ FreeNX],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/x11vnc/ x11vnc],
[http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ Synergy],
XDMCP, [[SSH]] with X11 forwarding (-X or -Y option)
| [[Desktop Sharing]]
|-
| MailWasher, SpamAssassin for Windows ||
SpamAssassin
| Spam filter
|-
|Forte Free Agent, [[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]] ||
[[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]], [http://www.newsreaders.com/unix/clients.html See More Clients Here]
|News Reader (Usenet [[newsgroup]]s)
|-
| eMule, '''MLDonkey''','''aMule''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mldonkey MlDOnKey], aMule
|ED2K P2P network clients
|-
| [http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php '''Vuze (formerly Azureus)'''], [http://utorrent.com/ utorrent], '''Transmission''', '''Deluge''', '''qBittorrent''', '''Tixati''', '''Frostwire''', '''Tribler''' ||
[http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php Vuze (formerly Azureus)], Tranmission, Deluge, qBittorrent, Tixati, Frostwire, Tribler, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qtorrent Qtorrent], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bittornado bittornado], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ktorrent Ktorrent],
|BitTorrent P2P network clients
|-
| '''Skype''', Voipbuster, '''Yate''', '''Linphone''', '''Jitsi''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype Skype], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linphone Linphone], Asterisk, Empathy, Yate, Jitsi
|VoIP software
|-
| Bitvise Tunnelier ||
[http://sourceforge.net/projects/gstm/ gSTM]
|gSTM is a front-end for managing SSH-tunneled port redirects.
|}

== Server ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| IIS, [[Apache]] ||
[[Apache]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nginx Engine-X], [http://www.lighttpd.net/ lighttpd]
|[[Web Servers]]
|-
| Folder sharing, printer sharing ||
[[Samba]]
|Share files and printers between Windows and Linux systems. Installed by default on most distributions.
|-
|IIS, [http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ FileZilla FTP Client & Server]
|[[vsftpd]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure-ftpd pure-ftpd]
|FTP servers, for hosting files.
|-
|[http://www.netlimiter.com/ NetLimiter] ||
[http://monkey.org/~marius/pages/?page=trickle Trickle], [http://l7-filter.sourceforge.net/ Level 7 Filter], [http://www.clarkconnect.com/info/index.php ClarkConnect], [http://www.bandwidtharbitrator.com/ Bandwidth Arbitrator], [http://www.mastershaper.org/index.php/Main_Page MasterShaper]
|Bandwidth shaping and management.
|-
| Exchange ||
[[Citadel]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbra zimbra], [[Open-Xchange]]
|Groupware (sharing of appointments, contacts, e-mail, documents, etc. between members of a group)
|-
| Sharepoint ||
[http://www.knowledgetree.com/opensource KnowledgeTree]
|Manage and secure documents, collaborate around document creation and editing, full document contents indexing
|-
| Norton/McAfee Antivirus, [http://clamwin.com/ ClamWin], AVG, AntiVir, Avast, ClamAV ||
[[ClamAV]], [https://support.avast.com/en-eu/article/131/ Avast Security for Linux]
| Antivirus software.
|-
| ZoneAlarm , Sygate SPF||
[[Guarddog]], [[Firestarter]], [[GUFW]], [[iptables]]
| Firewall software
|}

= Multimedia =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
|[http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/ Adobe Photoshop], [http://www.corel.com/ Corel Photo-Paint], '''GIMP''', '''Glimpse''', '''GIMPShop''', '''ImageMagick''', '''Xnview''', '''[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)]''', '''[https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable]''', '''Pinta''', '''MyPaint''', '''Krita''', '''Filmulator''', '''Photivo''', '''RawTherapee''', '''digiKam''', '''nomacs''' ||
[http://www.gimp.org/ GIMP], Glimpse,
[[GIMPShop]], ImageMagick, Pinta, MyPaint,
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krita Krita], Xnview,
[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)], [https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable], Filmulator, Photivo, RawTherapee, digiKam, nomacs
|Raster graphics editors
|-
|[http://www.corel.com/ Corel Draw], [http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator/ Adobe Illustrator], '''Inkscape''', '''Vectr''', '''Gravit''', '''LibreOffice Draw''', '''sK1''', '''SVG-edit''' ||
[http://www.inkscape.org/ Inkscape], Vectr, Gravit, LibreOffice Draw, Karbon, sK1, SVG-edit. [https://itsfoss.com/vector-graphics-editors-linux/ Ref.]
|Vector graphics editors
|-
|Adobe Animate, '''Synfig''', '''Pencil2D''', '''Tupi (Tupitube Desk)''', '''OpenToonz''', '''Blender''', '''Toon Boom Harmony''', '''Krita''', '''Aseprite''', '''TVPaint''', '''Animaker''', '''Ajax Animator''', '''Glaxnimate''', '''Tahoma2D''', '''Enve''' ||
Synfig, Pencil2D, Tupi (Tupitube Desk), OpenToonz, Blender, Toon Boom Harmony, Krita, Aseprite, TVPaint, Animaker, Ajax Animator, Glaxnimate, Tahoma2D , Enve
| 2D Animations
|-
| Irfanview, ACDSee, '''digiKam''', '''Xnview''', '''nomacs''' ||
[[XnView]], [http://mirageiv.berlios.de/ Mirage], [[GThumb]], Shotwell, KPhotoAlbum, Geeqie, digiKam, Gwenview, Ristretto, Viewnior, nomacs
|Image viewers
|-
| 3D Studio MAX, '''Blender''', [http://www.autodesk.com '''Maya'''] ||
[[Blender]],
[http://www.autodesk.com Maya],
[[K-3D]]
|3D modeling software
|-
| Autodesk Inventor, Solidworks, CATIA || [http://www.freecadweb.org FreeCAD], [http://www.salome-platform.org/ SALOME platform]
| Professional 3D CAD software
|-
| Windows Media Player, PowerDVD, SMPlayer, MPV, [[VLC]] ||
SMPlayer,
MPV,
[[VLC]],
[[Xine]],
[[Totem]],
[[Kaffeine]],
Parole,
Celluloid,
[[MPlayer]]
| [[Video Players]]
|-
| SIA Smaart Live || [http://sf.net/projects/brp-pacu/ BRP-PACU] || [[Sound]] analysis
|-
| Winamp, Sonique, iTunes, [http://www.atunes.org/ aTunes], '''Clementine''', '''VLC''', '''SMplayer''', '''Deadbeef''', '''Strawberry''', '''Audacious''' ||
[[Amarok]],
Clementine,
[[RhythmBox]],
[http://banshee-project.org/index.php/Main_Page Banshee],
[[Xine]],
VLC,
SMplayer,
Elisa,
Deadbeef,
Audacious, Strawberry. See also Video Players section
|[[Music Players]]
|-
| [http://www.otsav.com/ OTSAV, OTS Turntables], [http://serato.com/ Serato], [http://www.native-instruments.com/en/traktor/ Traktor], [http://www.virtualdj.com/ Virtual DJ], [http://www.pcdj.com/ PC DJ], [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
| [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
|Audio & video play out (DJ/presenter)
|-
| Windows Movie Maker, Adobe Premiere Elements, [http://www.goldwave.com/mqrelease.php Multiquence], '''Avidemux''', '''OpenShot''', '''VidCutter''', [https://shotcut.org/ '''Shotcut'''], '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron]''', [https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php '''Olive'''], '''Lightworks''' ||
[[Cinelerra]] (difficult but very professional),
[[KDenlive]] (easy and powerful),
[[LiVES]],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avidemux AviDemux],
OpenShot,
VidCutter,
Flowblade,
Pitivi,
DaVinci Resolve,
[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron],
[https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php Olive],
Lightworks (thanks to Linux Format magazine),
[https://shotcut.org/ Shotcut](thanks to Linux Format magazine)
|[[Video Editors]]
|-
| '''Audacity''', Cubase, '''Ardour''', Adobe Audition (formerly Cool Edit Pro), [http://www.goldwave.com/ GoldWave], Cakewalk/Sonar, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''LMMS''', '''Traverso-DAW''', '''[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]''' ||
[[Audacity]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden],
[[Beast]],
[[Ardour]],
Harrison Mixbus,
[http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/index.php Radium],
DaVinci Resolve,
Bitwig Studio,
Qtractor,
[https://traverso-daw.org/ Traverso-DAW],
LMMS,
[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]
|Digital audio workstation software
|-
| Audio Catalyst, '''Ocenaudio''', dbpoweramp, CDex, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''Audacity''' ||
[[Audacity]],
Ocenaudio,
DaVinci Resolve,
[[Grip]]
| [[Audio Editors]]
|-
| '''Wavesurfer''', '''Audacity''', '''Sox'''||[https://itsfoss.com/record-streaming-audio/ Audio Recorder], Ecasound, Audacity, Sox, Wavesurfer
|Audio recorders
|-
| Cakewalk/Sonar ||
[[kmid]],
[[kmidi]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden]
| [[MIDI]]
|-
|[http://www.noteworthysoftware.com/ NoteWorthy Composer], '''MuseScore''', '''LilyPond'''||
[http://www.musescore.org/ MuseScore], [http://lilypond.org/web/ LilyPond]
|Musical score typesetting
|-
|[http://www.guitar-pro.com/ GuitarPro], TuxGuitar ||
[http://www.tuxguitar.com.ar/ TuxGuitar]
|Guitar tablature editors
|-
| Microsoft Paint, Kid Pix, '''Tux Paint''', '''Pencil 2D''', '''Krita''', '''Pinta''', '''Mypaint''', '''Mtpaint''' ||
[http://www.tuxpaint.org/ Tuxpaint], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KolourPaint KolourPaint], Pencil 2D, Krita, [https://launchpad.net/dibuja Dibuja], Pinta, Mypaint, Mtpaint
|Basic raster painting programs
|-
| Videora, [https://handbrake.fr/ '''Handbrake'''], '''WinFF''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || [https://handbrake.fr/ Handbrake], WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, Transmageddon, VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Video converter
|-
| '''WinFF''', '''Handbrake''', '''fre:ac - free audio converter (freac)''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || Handbrake, WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, fre:ac - free audio converter (freac), VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Audio converter
|-
|TMPGEnc DVD Author, Roxio DVDit, '''Open DVD Producer''', '''DVDStyler''' ||
DVDStyler, [http://opendvdproducer.jonata.org/ Open DVD Producer], [http://www.rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html DeVeDe]
|DVD authoring software
|-
|'''uTox''', '''qTox''', '''Jitsi''', '''OpenMeetings''', '''Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone)''', '''Microsoft Teams''', '''Zoom''' || uTox, qTox, OpenMettings, Jitsi, Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone), Empathy, Microsoft Teams, Zoom
| Video Conferencing
|}

= Education =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| '''Klavaro''', '''Tipp10''' || Klavaro, Tipp10, [[KTouch]], Tux Typing, GNU Typist || Touch typing tutors
|-
| '''Maple''', '''Mathematica''' || Maple, Mathematica, [http://maxima.sourceforge.net/ Maxima]
| Computer algebra systems
|-
| '''Matlab''', '''Octave''', '''Scilab''' ||
Matlab, [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ Octave],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SciLab SciLab], Sage, KAlgebra
| High level numeric computation environments
|-
| '''SPSS''', '''Stata''', EViews, '''PSPP''', '''[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project]''', '''[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]''' ||
[http://www.stata.com/products/unix.html Stata], SPSS,
[http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/pspp.html PSPP],
[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Plus S-Plus],
[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]
| Statistical analysis
|-
| Verilog ||
[http://www.icarus.com/eda/verilog/ iverilog]
| Verilog Simulator
|-
| '''Google Earth''', NASA World Wind, '''Celestia''', '''Stellarium''', '''Skychart''', '''Aladin Sky Atlas''', Microsoft Flight Simulator, '''FlightGear''' ||
[http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html Google Earth], [https://celestia.space/index.html Celestia], [http://www.stellarium.org/ Stellarium], [https://marble.kde.org/ Marble], [http://www.geody.com/ Geody], Kstars, Skychart, Aladin Sky Atlas, [http://www.flightgear.org/ FlightGear]
| Geography, astronomy and simulation
|}

''Please add new applications to this list. A good resource is the [http://www.nawaz.org/wiki/index.php?title=Table_of_Equivalents BeetleSpace Windows/Linux Software Table of Equivalents], which is GNU FDL licensed.''

= See also =

* [[running windows software]]
* [http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux.]
* [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareEquivalents Ubuntu software equivalents's page]
* [http://www.linuxeq.com/ The Linux Equivalent Project]

[[Category:FAQ]]

Linux software equivalent to Windows software

2022-04-03T22:20:09Z

Kareempharmacist: /* Networking */

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.

= Office and Productivity =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Office, '''OpenOffice''', '''Libre Office''', '''WPS Office''', '''Softmaker Office''', '''Onlyoffice Desktop'''
| [[Libre Office]], [https://www.wps.com/linux WPS Office](WPS-Community), [[OpenOffice]], [https://www.calligra.org/ Calligra], Softmaker FreeOffice, OnlyOffice Desktop
| Office package
|-
| Microsoft Word, OOwriter, LibreOffice Writer, WPS Writer, Softmaker TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[OOWriter]], [http://www.abiword.org AbiWord], WPS Writer, LibreOffice Writer, Calligra Words, FreeOffice TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop, Lyx, [[LaTeX]]
| [[Word Processing]]
|-
| Notepad, Wordpad, TheGun, EditPlus, SciTE, Notepad++ ||
[[Vim]], [[KWrite]],
[[Kate]], [http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/ BlueFish], [[Gedit]], [[Joe]], Sublime Text, [[Leafpad]], [[Nano]]
| [[Text Editors]]
|-
| Access, dBase, Foxpro, Paradox, '''OOBase''', '''LibreOffice Base'''
| [http://userbase.kde.org/Kexi Kexi], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Base OOBase], LibreOffice Base
| [[Database]]
|-
| Excel, Corel WordPrefect, '''LibreOffice Calc''', '''Softmaker Office PlanMaker''', '''WPS Spreedsheets''', '''OOCalc''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Calc, Calligra Sheets, Softmaker Office PlanMaker, WPS Spreedsheets, [[OOCalc]], [http://www.gnumeric.org gnumeric], OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Spreadsheet]]
|-
| Visio, [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html '''yED'''], '''LibreOffice Draw'''
| [https://www.calligra.org/flow/ Calligra Flow], [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html yED], LibreOffice Draw
| Diagramming
|-
| PowerPoint, '''LibreOffice Impress''', '''OOImpress''', '''WPS Presentation''', '''Softmaker Office Presentations''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Impress, [[OOImpress]], Calligra Stage, WPS Presentation, Softmaker Office Presentations, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Presentation software]]
|-
| Final Draft, Script Studio, '''Fade In''', '''KIT Scenarist''', '''Story Architect''', '''Trelby''', '''Scrite'''
| Fade In, KIT Scenarist, Story Architect, Trelby, Scrite
| Screenwriting software
|-
| Microsoft Project Manager
| [[MOOS Project Viewer]], Calligra Plan
| Project management
|-
| '''Wondershare EdrawMax''', XMind
| Wondershare EdrawMax, Minder, XMind
| Mind maps
|-
| Outlook, '''Thunderbird + Lightning'''
| [[Kontact]], [https://pawsa.fedorapeople.org/balsa/ BALSA], [[Thunderbird]] + [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/ Lightning]
| Personal information managers
|-
| Alcohol 120%, Discjuggler, Easy CD Creator, Nero Burning ROM ||
[[K3b]], [[XCDRoast]], Brasero, Xfburn, [[CD/DVD_Burning|''more'']]
|DVD/CD burning
|-
|Alcohol 120%, Nero Burning ROM, '''MakeMKV''', ImgBurn, Infrarecorder || MakeMKV, Thoggen, Dvdbackup, HandBrake, DVD::RIP, AcidRIP
| DVD ripping software
|-
| Quicken, Microsoft Money, TurboTax
| [http://gnucash.org/ GnucAsh], [http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/index-home.html KMyMoney], [[CrossOver]] Office with Quicken, [http://www.lazy8.nu/ lazy8ledger]
| Accounting
|-
| ActiveSync ||
[[SynCE]]
|Synchronization with Windows Mobile devices
|-
| WinEdt, TeXnicCenter
| [[Kile]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texmaker Texmaker], [[LyX]]
| LaTeX IDEs
|-
| Veritas Backup Exec, [http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm Cobian Backup], '''Duplicati''' ||
LuckyBackup, Déjà Dup, Grsync, Duplicati [[list of backUp applications|''more'']]
| [[Backup]]
|-
| Google Desktop ||
[[Recoll]]
| Desktop Search
|-
| Norton Ghost ||
[[Partition Image]], [[g4u]], [http://www.mondorescue.org/ Mondo Rescue], [[dd]], gDiskDump (a dd frontend), Clonezilla, Trinity Rescue Kit
|Disk imaging
|-
| Norton Partition Magic ||
[[GParted]], Clonezilla (a live cd), KDE Partition Manager, GNOME Disks
|Disk partitioning
|-
|[http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/Disk_Size_Explorer.asp Disk Size Explorer]
|[https://utils.kde.org/projects/filelight/ File Light], [[Konqueror]], Baobab, xdiskusage, duc [https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-analyze-your-disk-usage-pattern-in-linux/ ref.]
| Disk usage analyzers
|-
|[http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html Filemon], [http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Regmon.html Regmon]
| [http://syscalltrack.sourceforge.net/ syscalltrack]
| system call tracking (file monitor & others)
|-
| WinMerge, SyncToy ||
[http://meld.sourceforge.net/ Meld], [[Unison]], [http://synkron.sourceforge.net/ Synkron], [[rSync]]
| File synchronization
|-
| Google Drive, Dropbox, etc ||
[https://rclone.org Rclone]
| Cloud hosted file synchronization (Amazon S3, Dropbox, Google Cloud Storage, Google Drive, FTP, Microsoft OneDrive, sFTP, etc)
|-
| Windows Update, Add/Remove programs||
[[apt-get]], [http://aptitude.sourceforge.net/ Aptitude], [http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Portage portage], [[Rpm|rpm]], [[urpmi]], [[yast]], [[yum]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptic_Package_Manager Synaptic], [https://snapcraft.io Snapcraft (Snap)]
|Every Linux distribution has an infrastructure to manage installed software which is quite different from Windows. For instance, all updates are handled by a single program. See [[package management]].
|-
| WinRunner || [http://hoopajoo.net/projects/xautomation.html xautomation] || automating interactive applications
|-
| 7-Zip, Winzip, Winrar, Peazip ||
[[Karchiver]],
[[File Roller]],
Xarchiver,
[[ark]],
[[hjsplit]]; [[packing and unpacking files|''command line tools'']]
|Archivers
|-
| chkdsk || [[fsck]], [https://www.tecmint.com/linux-disk-scanning-tools/ other tools] || check your file system (and the [[hard disk]] beneath it) for errors
|-
| Daemon Tools ||
[[mount]], Disk Image Mounter in Gnome/KDE, Furius ISO mount, AcetoneISO
|ISO mounting
|-
| Disclib || [http://www.gwhere.org/home.php3 gWhere]
| Disk cataloging programs
|-
| Evernote, OneNote || NixNote, Tusk, Whatever, GeekNote, ForeverNote, [https://joplinapp.org/ Joplin], Xournal, XFCE4 Notes, Xpad, Hnb, Gnote, Feathernotes, Cherrytree, Bijiben, Basket, Noblenote, Nvpy. Thanks to [https://itsfoss.com/evernote-on-linux/]
|Note Taking App
|}

== Desktop Publishing ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Dreamweaver, NVU, KompoZer, Google Web Designer ||
[http://www.google.com/webdesigner/ Google Web Designer] (WYSIWYG)
[[html editors|more]]
|[[Web Design]]
|-
| Quark, Quark Express, Microsoft Publisher, '''Scribus''', '''Karbon''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribus Scribus], Laidout, VivaDesigner, QuickSilver, Xara Xtreme, Karbon
|DTP software
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader, Xpdf Reader, Foxit reader, Sumatra pdf ||

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evince Evince],
Zathura,
Okular,
Bookworm,
Qpdfview,
Foxit reader,
PDF Studio Viewer,
[[Xpdf]],
MuPDF,
Atril,
[[Ghostview]], [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF readers
|-
| Adobe Acrobat Distiller, PDFCreator ||
[http://www.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~vrbehr/cups-pdf/ CUPS-PDF], Libre Office, [[OpenOffice.org]], PDF Studio, [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter] -- can convert to pdf. [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF authoring
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF editor, [http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio '''PDF Studio Pro'''], '''Master PDF Editor''', '''Libreoffice Draw''', '''Scribus''', '''Inkscape''' ||
[http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio PDF Studio Pro], Master PDF Editor, [http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfedit Pdfedit], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam Pdfjam], [http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk Pdftk], Scribus, Inkscape, Karbon, Okular, Libreoffice Draw. Thanks to [https://www.ubuntupit.com/linux-pdf-editor-top-15-reviewed-and-compared/ this] [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF editing tools
|-
| SilverFast ||
[[xSane]], [http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html VueScan], Simple Scan, Skanlite, Gscan2pdf, GIMP with Quitelnsane
| [[scanning]]
|-
| FinePrint ||
[http://www.boomaga.org boomaga], [http://wfr.tcl.tk/279 page-crunch], [http://freshmeat.net/projects/mpage/ mpage], [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter], [http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~ajcd/psutils/index.html psnup/PSutils], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam pdfnup/PDFjam]
| Document printing/reformatting tools
|}

= Networking =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Internet Explorer, '''Microsoft Edge''', '''Firefox''', '''Opera''', '''Chrome''', '''Pale Moon''', '''Brave''', '''Vivaldi''', '''Otter Browser''', '''Falkon''', '''Dooble''', '''Slimjet''' ||
[[Firefox]],
[[Konqueror]],
Epiphany (Gnome Web), Falkon, Microsoft Edge, Slimjet, Midori,
[http://www.google.com/chrome Chrome], Chromium,
[[Opera]],
Otter Browser,
Brave,
Vivaldi, Falkon,
Pale Moon, Dillo, Dooble
[[Browsers|''more'']]
| [[Web Browsers]]
|-
| Microsoft Outlook, '''Thunderbird''', Pegasus, Lotus Notes, '''Seamonkey''', '''Claws Mail''', '''Mailspring''' ||
[[Kontact]],
[http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/features/evolution.html Evolution], Seamonkey,
[[Thunderbird]], Claws Mail, Mailspring, Geary [https://itsfoss.com/best-email-clients-linux/ others]
|Email clients.
|-
| ICQ, MSN Messenger, AIM (AOL Instant Messenger), Trillian, '''Pidgin''', '''Irssi''' ||
[[PidgIn]],
Hexchat,
[[Kopete]],
[[aMSN]],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emesene Emesene (MSN)],
[[Centericq]], [[Irssi]]
| [[Instant messaging]] [[software]].
|-
| Microsoft HyperTerminal ||
[[minicom]]
|-
| FileZilla FTP Client, WS FTP, Bullet Proof FTP, CuteFTP ||
[http://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client FileZilla FTP Client],
[http://www.kftp.org/misc/description KFTP (KFTPGrabber)],
[[Kasablanca]],
[[FireFTP]],
[[Konqueror]],
[[KBear]],
[[gFTP]],
[http://www.crossftp.com/ CrossFTP],
[[Nautilus]]
|FTP clients. Please note GNOME, KDE (and other) programs can directly open and edit files on FTP, SFTP and WebDAV shares, often using [[KIO]], [[GIO]] or [GVfs]].
|-
| mIRC, '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Quassel''', '''KVIrc''', '''Irssi''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konversation Konversation],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quassel_IRC Quassel],
[[KVIrc]],
[[XChat]],
HexChat,
[[PidgIn]],
[[BitchX]], Irssi
| [[IRC Clients]]
|-
|[http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/ UltraVNC], TightVNC, RealVNC, Remote Desktop ||
[http://www.tightvnc.com/ TightVNC],
[http://www.realvnc.com/ RealVNC], [http://www.rdesktop.org/ rdesktop],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/freenx/ FreeNX],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/x11vnc/ x11vnc],
[http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ Synergy],
XDMCP, [[SSH]] with X11 forwarding (-X or -Y option)
| [[Desktop Sharing]]
|-
| MailWasher, SpamAssassin for Windows ||
SpamAssassin
| Spam filter
|-
|Forte Free Agent, [[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]] ||
[[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]], [http://www.newsreaders.com/unix/clients.html See More Clients Here]
|News Reader (Usenet [[newsgroup]]s)
|-
| eMule, '''aMule''', '''MLDonkey'''
||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mldonkey MlDOnKey], aMule
|ED2K P2P network clients
|-
| [http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php '''Vuze (formerly Azureus)'''], [http://utorrent.com/ utorrent], '''Transmission''', '''Deluge''', '''qBittorrent''', '''Tixati''', '''Frostwire''', '''Tribler''' ||
[http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php Vuze (formerly Azureus)], Tranmission, Deluge, qBittorrent, Tixati, Frostwire, Tribler, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qtorrent Qtorrent], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bittornado bittornado], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ktorrent Ktorrent],
|BitTorrent P2P network clients
|-
| '''Skype''', Voipbuster, '''Yate''', '''Linphone''', '''Jitsi''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype Skype], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linphone Linphone], Asterisk, Empathy, Yate, Jitsi
|VoIP software
|-
| Bitvise Tunnelier ||
[http://sourceforge.net/projects/gstm/ gSTM]
|gSTM is a front-end for managing SSH-tunneled port redirects.
|}

== Server ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| IIS, [[Apache]] ||
[[Apache]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nginx Engine-X], [http://www.lighttpd.net/ lighttpd]
|[[Web Servers]]
|-
| Folder sharing, printer sharing ||
[[Samba]]
|Share files and printers between Windows and Linux systems. Installed by default on most distributions.
|-
|IIS, [http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ FileZilla FTP Client & Server]
|[[vsftpd]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure-ftpd pure-ftpd]
|FTP servers, for hosting files.
|-
|[http://www.netlimiter.com/ NetLimiter] ||
[http://monkey.org/~marius/pages/?page=trickle Trickle], [http://l7-filter.sourceforge.net/ Level 7 Filter], [http://www.clarkconnect.com/info/index.php ClarkConnect], [http://www.bandwidtharbitrator.com/ Bandwidth Arbitrator], [http://www.mastershaper.org/index.php/Main_Page MasterShaper]
|Bandwidth shaping and management.
|-
| Exchange ||
[[Citadel]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbra zimbra], [[Open-Xchange]]
|Groupware (sharing of appointments, contacts, e-mail, documents, etc. between members of a group)
|-
| Sharepoint ||
[http://www.knowledgetree.com/opensource KnowledgeTree]
|Manage and secure documents, collaborate around document creation and editing, full document contents indexing
|-
| Norton/McAfee Antivirus, [http://clamwin.com/ ClamWin], AVG, AntiVir, Avast, ClamAV ||
[[ClamAV]], [https://support.avast.com/en-eu/article/131/ Avast Security for Linux]
| Antivirus software.
|-
| ZoneAlarm , Sygate SPF||
[[Guarddog]], [[Firestarter]], [[GUFW]], [[iptables]]
| Firewall software
|}

= Multimedia =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
|[http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/ Adobe Photoshop], [http://www.corel.com/ Corel Photo-Paint], '''GIMP''', '''Glimpse''', '''GIMPShop''', '''ImageMagick''', '''Xnview''', '''[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)]''', '''[https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable]''', '''Pinta''', '''MyPaint''', '''Krita''', '''Filmulator''', '''Photivo''', '''RawTherapee''', '''digiKam''', '''nomacs''' ||
[http://www.gimp.org/ GIMP], Glimpse,
[[GIMPShop]], ImageMagick, Pinta, MyPaint,
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krita Krita], Xnview,
[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)], [https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable], Filmulator, Photivo, RawTherapee, digiKam, nomacs
|Raster graphics editors
|-
|[http://www.corel.com/ Corel Draw], [http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator/ Adobe Illustrator], '''Inkscape''', '''Vectr''', '''Gravit''', '''LibreOffice Draw''', '''sK1''', '''SVG-edit''' ||
[http://www.inkscape.org/ Inkscape], Vectr, Gravit, LibreOffice Draw, Karbon, sK1, SVG-edit. [https://itsfoss.com/vector-graphics-editors-linux/ Ref.]
|Vector graphics editors
|-
|Adobe Animate, '''Synfig''', '''Pencil2D''', '''Tupi (Tupitube Desk)''', '''OpenToonz''', '''Blender''', '''Toon Boom Harmony''', '''Krita''', '''Aseprite''', '''TVPaint''', '''Animaker''', '''Ajax Animator''', '''Glaxnimate''', '''Tahoma2D''', '''Enve''' ||
Synfig, Pencil2D, Tupi (Tupitube Desk), OpenToonz, Blender, Toon Boom Harmony, Krita, Aseprite, TVPaint, Animaker, Ajax Animator, Glaxnimate, Tahoma2D , Enve
| 2D Animations
|-
| Irfanview, ACDSee, '''digiKam''', '''Xnview''', '''nomacs''' ||
[[XnView]], [http://mirageiv.berlios.de/ Mirage], [[GThumb]], Shotwell, KPhotoAlbum, Geeqie, digiKam, Gwenview, Ristretto, Viewnior, nomacs
|Image viewers
|-
| 3D Studio MAX, '''Blender''', [http://www.autodesk.com '''Maya'''] ||
[[Blender]],
[http://www.autodesk.com Maya],
[[K-3D]]
|3D modeling software
|-
| Autodesk Inventor, Solidworks, CATIA || [http://www.freecadweb.org FreeCAD], [http://www.salome-platform.org/ SALOME platform]
| Professional 3D CAD software
|-
| Windows Media Player, PowerDVD, SMPlayer, MPV, [[VLC]] ||
SMPlayer,
MPV,
[[VLC]],
[[Xine]],
[[Totem]],
[[Kaffeine]],
Parole,
Celluloid,
[[MPlayer]]
| [[Video Players]]
|-
| SIA Smaart Live || [http://sf.net/projects/brp-pacu/ BRP-PACU] || [[Sound]] analysis
|-
| Winamp, Sonique, iTunes, [http://www.atunes.org/ aTunes], '''Clementine''', '''VLC''', '''SMplayer''', '''Deadbeef''', '''Strawberry''', '''Audacious''' ||
[[Amarok]],
Clementine,
[[RhythmBox]],
[http://banshee-project.org/index.php/Main_Page Banshee],
[[Xine]],
VLC,
SMplayer,
Elisa,
Deadbeef,
Audacious, Strawberry. See also Video Players section
|[[Music Players]]
|-
| [http://www.otsav.com/ OTSAV, OTS Turntables], [http://serato.com/ Serato], [http://www.native-instruments.com/en/traktor/ Traktor], [http://www.virtualdj.com/ Virtual DJ], [http://www.pcdj.com/ PC DJ], [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
| [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
|Audio & video play out (DJ/presenter)
|-
| Windows Movie Maker, Adobe Premiere Elements, [http://www.goldwave.com/mqrelease.php Multiquence], '''Avidemux''', '''OpenShot''', '''VidCutter''', [https://shotcut.org/ '''Shotcut'''], '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron]''', [https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php '''Olive'''], '''Lightworks''' ||
[[Cinelerra]] (difficult but very professional),
[[KDenlive]] (easy and powerful),
[[LiVES]],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avidemux AviDemux],
OpenShot,
VidCutter,
Flowblade,
Pitivi,
DaVinci Resolve,
[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron],
[https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php Olive],
Lightworks (thanks to Linux Format magazine),
[https://shotcut.org/ Shotcut](thanks to Linux Format magazine)
|[[Video Editors]]
|-
| '''Audacity''', Cubase, '''Ardour''', Adobe Audition (formerly Cool Edit Pro), [http://www.goldwave.com/ GoldWave], Cakewalk/Sonar, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''LMMS''', '''Traverso-DAW''', '''[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]''' ||
[[Audacity]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden],
[[Beast]],
[[Ardour]],
Harrison Mixbus,
[http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/index.php Radium],
DaVinci Resolve,
Bitwig Studio,
Qtractor,
[https://traverso-daw.org/ Traverso-DAW],
LMMS,
[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]
|Digital audio workstation software
|-
| Audio Catalyst, '''Ocenaudio''', dbpoweramp, CDex, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''Audacity''' ||
[[Audacity]],
Ocenaudio,
DaVinci Resolve,
[[Grip]]
| [[Audio Editors]]
|-
| '''Wavesurfer''', '''Audacity''', '''Sox'''||[https://itsfoss.com/record-streaming-audio/ Audio Recorder], Ecasound, Audacity, Sox, Wavesurfer
|Audio recorders
|-
| Cakewalk/Sonar ||
[[kmid]],
[[kmidi]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden]
| [[MIDI]]
|-
|[http://www.noteworthysoftware.com/ NoteWorthy Composer], '''MuseScore''', '''LilyPond'''||
[http://www.musescore.org/ MuseScore], [http://lilypond.org/web/ LilyPond]
|Musical score typesetting
|-
|[http://www.guitar-pro.com/ GuitarPro], TuxGuitar ||
[http://www.tuxguitar.com.ar/ TuxGuitar]
|Guitar tablature editors
|-
| Microsoft Paint, Kid Pix, '''Tux Paint''', '''Pencil 2D''', '''Krita''', '''Pinta''', '''Mypaint''', '''Mtpaint''' ||
[http://www.tuxpaint.org/ Tuxpaint], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KolourPaint KolourPaint], Pencil 2D, Krita, [https://launchpad.net/dibuja Dibuja], Pinta, Mypaint, Mtpaint
|Basic raster painting programs
|-
| Videora, [https://handbrake.fr/ '''Handbrake'''], '''WinFF''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || [https://handbrake.fr/ Handbrake], WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, Transmageddon, VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Video converter
|-
| '''WinFF''', '''Handbrake''', '''fre:ac - free audio converter (freac)''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || Handbrake, WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, fre:ac - free audio converter (freac), VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Audio converter
|-
|TMPGEnc DVD Author, Roxio DVDit, '''Open DVD Producer''', '''DVDStyler''' ||
DVDStyler, [http://opendvdproducer.jonata.org/ Open DVD Producer], [http://www.rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html DeVeDe]
|DVD authoring software
|-
|'''uTox''', '''qTox''', '''Jitsi''', '''OpenMeetings''', '''Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone)''', '''Microsoft Teams''', '''Zoom''' || uTox, qTox, OpenMettings, Jitsi, Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone), Empathy, Microsoft Teams, Zoom
| Video Conferencing
|}

= Education =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| '''Klavaro''', '''Tipp10''' || Klavaro, Tipp10, [[KTouch]], Tux Typing, GNU Typist || Touch typing tutors
|-
| '''Maple''', '''Mathematica''' || Maple, Mathematica, [http://maxima.sourceforge.net/ Maxima]
| Computer algebra systems
|-
| '''Matlab''', '''Octave''', '''Scilab''' ||
Matlab, [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ Octave],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SciLab SciLab], Sage, KAlgebra
| High level numeric computation environments
|-
| '''SPSS''', '''Stata''', EViews, '''PSPP''', '''[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project]''', '''[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]''' ||
[http://www.stata.com/products/unix.html Stata], SPSS,
[http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/pspp.html PSPP],
[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Plus S-Plus],
[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]
| Statistical analysis
|-
| Verilog ||
[http://www.icarus.com/eda/verilog/ iverilog]
| Verilog Simulator
|-
| '''Google Earth''', NASA World Wind, '''Celestia''', '''Stellarium''', '''Skychart''', '''Aladin Sky Atlas''', Microsoft Flight Simulator, '''FlightGear''' ||
[http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html Google Earth], [https://celestia.space/index.html Celestia], [http://www.stellarium.org/ Stellarium], [https://marble.kde.org/ Marble], [http://www.geody.com/ Geody], Kstars, Skychart, Aladin Sky Atlas, [http://www.flightgear.org/ FlightGear]
| Geography, astronomy and simulation
|}

''Please add new applications to this list. A good resource is the [http://www.nawaz.org/wiki/index.php?title=Table_of_Equivalents BeetleSpace Windows/Linux Software Table of Equivalents], which is GNU FDL licensed.''

= See also =

* [[running windows software]]
* [http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux.]
* [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareEquivalents Ubuntu software equivalents's page]
* [http://www.linuxeq.com/ The Linux Equivalent Project]

[[Category:FAQ]]

Linux software equivalent to Windows software

2022-04-03T22:18:19Z

Kareempharmacist: /* Networking */

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.

= Office and Productivity =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Office, '''OpenOffice''', '''Libre Office''', '''WPS Office''', '''Softmaker Office''', '''Onlyoffice Desktop'''
| [[Libre Office]], [https://www.wps.com/linux WPS Office](WPS-Community), [[OpenOffice]], [https://www.calligra.org/ Calligra], Softmaker FreeOffice, OnlyOffice Desktop
| Office package
|-
| Microsoft Word, OOwriter, LibreOffice Writer, WPS Writer, Softmaker TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[OOWriter]], [http://www.abiword.org AbiWord], WPS Writer, LibreOffice Writer, Calligra Words, FreeOffice TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop, Lyx, [[LaTeX]]
| [[Word Processing]]
|-
| Notepad, Wordpad, TheGun, EditPlus, SciTE, Notepad++ ||
[[Vim]], [[KWrite]],
[[Kate]], [http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/ BlueFish], [[Gedit]], [[Joe]], Sublime Text, [[Leafpad]], [[Nano]]
| [[Text Editors]]
|-
| Access, dBase, Foxpro, Paradox, '''OOBase''', '''LibreOffice Base'''
| [http://userbase.kde.org/Kexi Kexi], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Base OOBase], LibreOffice Base
| [[Database]]
|-
| Excel, Corel WordPrefect, '''LibreOffice Calc''', '''Softmaker Office PlanMaker''', '''WPS Spreedsheets''', '''OOCalc''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Calc, Calligra Sheets, Softmaker Office PlanMaker, WPS Spreedsheets, [[OOCalc]], [http://www.gnumeric.org gnumeric], OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Spreadsheet]]
|-
| Visio, [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html '''yED'''], '''LibreOffice Draw'''
| [https://www.calligra.org/flow/ Calligra Flow], [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html yED], LibreOffice Draw
| Diagramming
|-
| PowerPoint, '''LibreOffice Impress''', '''OOImpress''', '''WPS Presentation''', '''Softmaker Office Presentations''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Impress, [[OOImpress]], Calligra Stage, WPS Presentation, Softmaker Office Presentations, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Presentation software]]
|-
| Final Draft, Script Studio, '''Fade In''', '''KIT Scenarist''', '''Story Architect''', '''Trelby''', '''Scrite'''
| Fade In, KIT Scenarist, Story Architect, Trelby, Scrite
| Screenwriting software
|-
| Microsoft Project Manager
| [[MOOS Project Viewer]], Calligra Plan
| Project management
|-
| '''Wondershare EdrawMax''', XMind
| Wondershare EdrawMax, Minder, XMind
| Mind maps
|-
| Outlook, '''Thunderbird + Lightning'''
| [[Kontact]], [https://pawsa.fedorapeople.org/balsa/ BALSA], [[Thunderbird]] + [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/ Lightning]
| Personal information managers
|-
| Alcohol 120%, Discjuggler, Easy CD Creator, Nero Burning ROM ||
[[K3b]], [[XCDRoast]], Brasero, Xfburn, [[CD/DVD_Burning|''more'']]
|DVD/CD burning
|-
|Alcohol 120%, Nero Burning ROM, '''MakeMKV''', ImgBurn, Infrarecorder || MakeMKV, Thoggen, Dvdbackup, HandBrake, DVD::RIP, AcidRIP
| DVD ripping software
|-
| Quicken, Microsoft Money, TurboTax
| [http://gnucash.org/ GnucAsh], [http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/index-home.html KMyMoney], [[CrossOver]] Office with Quicken, [http://www.lazy8.nu/ lazy8ledger]
| Accounting
|-
| ActiveSync ||
[[SynCE]]
|Synchronization with Windows Mobile devices
|-
| WinEdt, TeXnicCenter
| [[Kile]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texmaker Texmaker], [[LyX]]
| LaTeX IDEs
|-
| Veritas Backup Exec, [http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm Cobian Backup], '''Duplicati''' ||
LuckyBackup, Déjà Dup, Grsync, Duplicati [[list of backUp applications|''more'']]
| [[Backup]]
|-
| Google Desktop ||
[[Recoll]]
| Desktop Search
|-
| Norton Ghost ||
[[Partition Image]], [[g4u]], [http://www.mondorescue.org/ Mondo Rescue], [[dd]], gDiskDump (a dd frontend), Clonezilla, Trinity Rescue Kit
|Disk imaging
|-
| Norton Partition Magic ||
[[GParted]], Clonezilla (a live cd), KDE Partition Manager, GNOME Disks
|Disk partitioning
|-
|[http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/Disk_Size_Explorer.asp Disk Size Explorer]
|[https://utils.kde.org/projects/filelight/ File Light], [[Konqueror]], Baobab, xdiskusage, duc [https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-analyze-your-disk-usage-pattern-in-linux/ ref.]
| Disk usage analyzers
|-
|[http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html Filemon], [http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Regmon.html Regmon]
| [http://syscalltrack.sourceforge.net/ syscalltrack]
| system call tracking (file monitor & others)
|-
| WinMerge, SyncToy ||
[http://meld.sourceforge.net/ Meld], [[Unison]], [http://synkron.sourceforge.net/ Synkron], [[rSync]]
| File synchronization
|-
| Google Drive, Dropbox, etc ||
[https://rclone.org Rclone]
| Cloud hosted file synchronization (Amazon S3, Dropbox, Google Cloud Storage, Google Drive, FTP, Microsoft OneDrive, sFTP, etc)
|-
| Windows Update, Add/Remove programs||
[[apt-get]], [http://aptitude.sourceforge.net/ Aptitude], [http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Portage portage], [[Rpm|rpm]], [[urpmi]], [[yast]], [[yum]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptic_Package_Manager Synaptic], [https://snapcraft.io Snapcraft (Snap)]
|Every Linux distribution has an infrastructure to manage installed software which is quite different from Windows. For instance, all updates are handled by a single program. See [[package management]].
|-
| WinRunner || [http://hoopajoo.net/projects/xautomation.html xautomation] || automating interactive applications
|-
| 7-Zip, Winzip, Winrar, Peazip ||
[[Karchiver]],
[[File Roller]],
Xarchiver,
[[ark]],
[[hjsplit]]; [[packing and unpacking files|''command line tools'']]
|Archivers
|-
| chkdsk || [[fsck]], [https://www.tecmint.com/linux-disk-scanning-tools/ other tools] || check your file system (and the [[hard disk]] beneath it) for errors
|-
| Daemon Tools ||
[[mount]], Disk Image Mounter in Gnome/KDE, Furius ISO mount, AcetoneISO
|ISO mounting
|-
| Disclib || [http://www.gwhere.org/home.php3 gWhere]
| Disk cataloging programs
|-
| Evernote, OneNote || NixNote, Tusk, Whatever, GeekNote, ForeverNote, [https://joplinapp.org/ Joplin], Xournal, XFCE4 Notes, Xpad, Hnb, Gnote, Feathernotes, Cherrytree, Bijiben, Basket, Noblenote, Nvpy. Thanks to [https://itsfoss.com/evernote-on-linux/]
|Note Taking App
|}

== Desktop Publishing ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Dreamweaver, NVU, KompoZer, Google Web Designer ||
[http://www.google.com/webdesigner/ Google Web Designer] (WYSIWYG)
[[html editors|more]]
|[[Web Design]]
|-
| Quark, Quark Express, Microsoft Publisher, '''Scribus''', '''Karbon''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribus Scribus], Laidout, VivaDesigner, QuickSilver, Xara Xtreme, Karbon
|DTP software
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader, Xpdf Reader, Foxit reader, Sumatra pdf ||

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evince Evince],
Zathura,
Okular,
Bookworm,
Qpdfview,
Foxit reader,
PDF Studio Viewer,
[[Xpdf]],
MuPDF,
Atril,
[[Ghostview]], [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF readers
|-
| Adobe Acrobat Distiller, PDFCreator ||
[http://www.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~vrbehr/cups-pdf/ CUPS-PDF], Libre Office, [[OpenOffice.org]], PDF Studio, [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter] -- can convert to pdf. [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF authoring
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF editor, [http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio '''PDF Studio Pro'''], '''Master PDF Editor''', '''Libreoffice Draw''', '''Scribus''', '''Inkscape''' ||
[http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio PDF Studio Pro], Master PDF Editor, [http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfedit Pdfedit], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam Pdfjam], [http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk Pdftk], Scribus, Inkscape, Karbon, Okular, Libreoffice Draw. Thanks to [https://www.ubuntupit.com/linux-pdf-editor-top-15-reviewed-and-compared/ this] [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF editing tools
|-
| SilverFast ||
[[xSane]], [http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html VueScan], Simple Scan, Skanlite, Gscan2pdf, GIMP with Quitelnsane
| [[scanning]]
|-
| FinePrint ||
[http://www.boomaga.org boomaga], [http://wfr.tcl.tk/279 page-crunch], [http://freshmeat.net/projects/mpage/ mpage], [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter], [http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~ajcd/psutils/index.html psnup/PSutils], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam pdfnup/PDFjam]
| Document printing/reformatting tools
|}

= Networking =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Internet Explorer, '''Microsoft Edge''', '''Firefox''', '''Opera''', '''Chrome''', '''Pale Moon''', '''Brave''', '''Vivaldi''', '''Otter Browser''', '''Falkon''', '''Dooble''', '''Slimjet''' ||
[[Firefox]],
[[Konqueror]],
Epiphany (Gnome Web), Falkon, Microsoft Edge, Slimjet, Midori,
[http://www.google.com/chrome Chrome], Chromium,
[[Opera]],
Otter Browser,
Brave,
Vivaldi, Falkon,
Pale Moon, Dillo, Dooble
[[Browsers|''more'']]
| [[Web Browsers]]
|-
| Microsoft Outlook, '''Thunderbird''', Pegasus, Lotus Notes, '''Seamonkey''', '''Claws Mail''', '''Mailspring''' ||
[[Kontact]],
[http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/features/evolution.html Evolution], Seamonkey,
[[Thunderbird]], Claws Mail, Mailspring, Geary [https://itsfoss.com/best-email-clients-linux/ others]
|Email clients.
|-
| ICQ, MSN Messenger, AIM (AOL Instant Messenger), Trillian, '''Pidgin''', '''Irssi''' ||
[[PidgIn]],
Hexchat,
[[Kopete]],
[[aMSN]],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emesene Emesene (MSN)],
[[Centericq]], [[Irssi]]
| [[Instant messaging]] [[software]].
|-
| Microsoft HyperTerminal ||
[[minicom]]
|-
| FileZilla FTP Client, WS FTP, Bullet Proof FTP, CuteFTP ||
[http://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client FileZilla FTP Client],
[http://www.kftp.org/misc/description KFTP (KFTPGrabber)],
[[Kasablanca]],
[[FireFTP]],
[[Konqueror]],
[[KBear]],
[[gFTP]],
[http://www.crossftp.com/ CrossFTP],
[[Nautilus]]
|FTP clients. Please note GNOME, KDE (and other) programs can directly open and edit files on FTP, SFTP and WebDAV shares, often using [[KIO]], [[GIO]] or [GVfs]].
|-
| mIRC, '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Quassel''', '''KVIrc''', '''Irssi''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konversation Konversation],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quassel_IRC Quassel],
[[KVIrc]],
[[XChat]],
HexChat,
[[PidgIn]],
[[BitchX]], Irssi
| [[IRC Clients]]
|-
|[http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/ UltraVNC], TightVNC, RealVNC, Remote Desktop ||
[http://www.tightvnc.com/ TightVNC],
[http://www.realvnc.com/ RealVNC], [http://www.rdesktop.org/ rdesktop],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/freenx/ FreeNX],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/x11vnc/ x11vnc],
[http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ Synergy],
XDMCP, [[SSH]] with X11 forwarding (-X or -Y option)
| [[Desktop Sharing]]
|-
| MailWasher, SpamAssassin for Windows ||
SpamAssassin
| Spam filter
|-
|Forte Free Agent, [[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]] ||
[[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]], [http://www.newsreaders.com/unix/clients.html See More Clients Here]
|News Reader (Usenet [[newsgroup]]s)
|-
| eMule, '''aMule'''
||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mldonkey MlDOnKey], aMule
|ED2K P2P network clients
|-
| [http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php '''Vuze (formerly Azureus)'''], [http://utorrent.com/ utorrent], '''Transmission''', '''Deluge''', '''qBittorrent''', '''Tixati''', '''Frostwire''', '''Tribler''' ||
[http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php Vuze (formerly Azureus)], Tranmission, Deluge, qBittorrent, Tixati, Frostwire, Tribler, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qtorrent Qtorrent], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bittornado bittornado], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ktorrent Ktorrent],
|BitTorrent P2P network clients
|-
| '''Skype''', Voipbuster, '''Yate''', '''Linphone''', '''Jitsi''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype Skype], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linphone Linphone], Asterisk, Empathy, Yate, Jitsi
|VoIP software
|-
| Bitvise Tunnelier ||
[http://sourceforge.net/projects/gstm/ gSTM]
|gSTM is a front-end for managing SSH-tunneled port redirects.
|}

== Server ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| IIS, [[Apache]] ||
[[Apache]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nginx Engine-X], [http://www.lighttpd.net/ lighttpd]
|[[Web Servers]]
|-
| Folder sharing, printer sharing ||
[[Samba]]
|Share files and printers between Windows and Linux systems. Installed by default on most distributions.
|-
|IIS, [http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ FileZilla FTP Client & Server]
|[[vsftpd]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure-ftpd pure-ftpd]
|FTP servers, for hosting files.
|-
|[http://www.netlimiter.com/ NetLimiter] ||
[http://monkey.org/~marius/pages/?page=trickle Trickle], [http://l7-filter.sourceforge.net/ Level 7 Filter], [http://www.clarkconnect.com/info/index.php ClarkConnect], [http://www.bandwidtharbitrator.com/ Bandwidth Arbitrator], [http://www.mastershaper.org/index.php/Main_Page MasterShaper]
|Bandwidth shaping and management.
|-
| Exchange ||
[[Citadel]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbra zimbra], [[Open-Xchange]]
|Groupware (sharing of appointments, contacts, e-mail, documents, etc. between members of a group)
|-
| Sharepoint ||
[http://www.knowledgetree.com/opensource KnowledgeTree]
|Manage and secure documents, collaborate around document creation and editing, full document contents indexing
|-
| Norton/McAfee Antivirus, [http://clamwin.com/ ClamWin], AVG, AntiVir, Avast, ClamAV ||
[[ClamAV]], [https://support.avast.com/en-eu/article/131/ Avast Security for Linux]
| Antivirus software.
|-
| ZoneAlarm , Sygate SPF||
[[Guarddog]], [[Firestarter]], [[GUFW]], [[iptables]]
| Firewall software
|}

= Multimedia =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
|[http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/ Adobe Photoshop], [http://www.corel.com/ Corel Photo-Paint], '''GIMP''', '''Glimpse''', '''GIMPShop''', '''ImageMagick''', '''Xnview''', '''[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)]''', '''[https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable]''', '''Pinta''', '''MyPaint''', '''Krita''', '''Filmulator''', '''Photivo''', '''RawTherapee''', '''digiKam''', '''nomacs''' ||
[http://www.gimp.org/ GIMP], Glimpse,
[[GIMPShop]], ImageMagick, Pinta, MyPaint,
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krita Krita], Xnview,
[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)], [https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable], Filmulator, Photivo, RawTherapee, digiKam, nomacs
|Raster graphics editors
|-
|[http://www.corel.com/ Corel Draw], [http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator/ Adobe Illustrator], '''Inkscape''', '''Vectr''', '''Gravit''', '''LibreOffice Draw''', '''sK1''', '''SVG-edit''' ||
[http://www.inkscape.org/ Inkscape], Vectr, Gravit, LibreOffice Draw, Karbon, sK1, SVG-edit. [https://itsfoss.com/vector-graphics-editors-linux/ Ref.]
|Vector graphics editors
|-
|Adobe Animate, '''Synfig''', '''Pencil2D''', '''Tupi (Tupitube Desk)''', '''OpenToonz''', '''Blender''', '''Toon Boom Harmony''', '''Krita''', '''Aseprite''', '''TVPaint''', '''Animaker''', '''Ajax Animator''', '''Glaxnimate''', '''Tahoma2D''', '''Enve''' ||
Synfig, Pencil2D, Tupi (Tupitube Desk), OpenToonz, Blender, Toon Boom Harmony, Krita, Aseprite, TVPaint, Animaker, Ajax Animator, Glaxnimate, Tahoma2D , Enve
| 2D Animations
|-
| Irfanview, ACDSee, '''digiKam''', '''Xnview''', '''nomacs''' ||
[[XnView]], [http://mirageiv.berlios.de/ Mirage], [[GThumb]], Shotwell, KPhotoAlbum, Geeqie, digiKam, Gwenview, Ristretto, Viewnior, nomacs
|Image viewers
|-
| 3D Studio MAX, '''Blender''', [http://www.autodesk.com '''Maya'''] ||
[[Blender]],
[http://www.autodesk.com Maya],
[[K-3D]]
|3D modeling software
|-
| Autodesk Inventor, Solidworks, CATIA || [http://www.freecadweb.org FreeCAD], [http://www.salome-platform.org/ SALOME platform]
| Professional 3D CAD software
|-
| Windows Media Player, PowerDVD, SMPlayer, MPV, [[VLC]] ||
SMPlayer,
MPV,
[[VLC]],
[[Xine]],
[[Totem]],
[[Kaffeine]],
Parole,
Celluloid,
[[MPlayer]]
| [[Video Players]]
|-
| SIA Smaart Live || [http://sf.net/projects/brp-pacu/ BRP-PACU] || [[Sound]] analysis
|-
| Winamp, Sonique, iTunes, [http://www.atunes.org/ aTunes], '''Clementine''', '''VLC''', '''SMplayer''', '''Deadbeef''', '''Strawberry''', '''Audacious''' ||
[[Amarok]],
Clementine,
[[RhythmBox]],
[http://banshee-project.org/index.php/Main_Page Banshee],
[[Xine]],
VLC,
SMplayer,
Elisa,
Deadbeef,
Audacious, Strawberry. See also Video Players section
|[[Music Players]]
|-
| [http://www.otsav.com/ OTSAV, OTS Turntables], [http://serato.com/ Serato], [http://www.native-instruments.com/en/traktor/ Traktor], [http://www.virtualdj.com/ Virtual DJ], [http://www.pcdj.com/ PC DJ], [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
| [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
|Audio & video play out (DJ/presenter)
|-
| Windows Movie Maker, Adobe Premiere Elements, [http://www.goldwave.com/mqrelease.php Multiquence], '''Avidemux''', '''OpenShot''', '''VidCutter''', [https://shotcut.org/ '''Shotcut'''], '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron]''', [https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php '''Olive'''], '''Lightworks''' ||
[[Cinelerra]] (difficult but very professional),
[[KDenlive]] (easy and powerful),
[[LiVES]],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avidemux AviDemux],
OpenShot,
VidCutter,
Flowblade,
Pitivi,
DaVinci Resolve,
[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron],
[https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php Olive],
Lightworks (thanks to Linux Format magazine),
[https://shotcut.org/ Shotcut](thanks to Linux Format magazine)
|[[Video Editors]]
|-
| '''Audacity''', Cubase, '''Ardour''', Adobe Audition (formerly Cool Edit Pro), [http://www.goldwave.com/ GoldWave], Cakewalk/Sonar, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''LMMS''', '''Traverso-DAW''', '''[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]''' ||
[[Audacity]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden],
[[Beast]],
[[Ardour]],
Harrison Mixbus,
[http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/index.php Radium],
DaVinci Resolve,
Bitwig Studio,
Qtractor,
[https://traverso-daw.org/ Traverso-DAW],
LMMS,
[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]
|Digital audio workstation software
|-
| Audio Catalyst, '''Ocenaudio''', dbpoweramp, CDex, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''Audacity''' ||
[[Audacity]],
Ocenaudio,
DaVinci Resolve,
[[Grip]]
| [[Audio Editors]]
|-
| '''Wavesurfer''', '''Audacity''', '''Sox'''||[https://itsfoss.com/record-streaming-audio/ Audio Recorder], Ecasound, Audacity, Sox, Wavesurfer
|Audio recorders
|-
| Cakewalk/Sonar ||
[[kmid]],
[[kmidi]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden]
| [[MIDI]]
|-
|[http://www.noteworthysoftware.com/ NoteWorthy Composer], '''MuseScore''', '''LilyPond'''||
[http://www.musescore.org/ MuseScore], [http://lilypond.org/web/ LilyPond]
|Musical score typesetting
|-
|[http://www.guitar-pro.com/ GuitarPro], TuxGuitar ||
[http://www.tuxguitar.com.ar/ TuxGuitar]
|Guitar tablature editors
|-
| Microsoft Paint, Kid Pix, '''Tux Paint''', '''Pencil 2D''', '''Krita''', '''Pinta''', '''Mypaint''', '''Mtpaint''' ||
[http://www.tuxpaint.org/ Tuxpaint], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KolourPaint KolourPaint], Pencil 2D, Krita, [https://launchpad.net/dibuja Dibuja], Pinta, Mypaint, Mtpaint
|Basic raster painting programs
|-
| Videora, [https://handbrake.fr/ '''Handbrake'''], '''WinFF''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || [https://handbrake.fr/ Handbrake], WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, Transmageddon, VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Video converter
|-
| '''WinFF''', '''Handbrake''', '''fre:ac - free audio converter (freac)''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || Handbrake, WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, fre:ac - free audio converter (freac), VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Audio converter
|-
|TMPGEnc DVD Author, Roxio DVDit, '''Open DVD Producer''', '''DVDStyler''' ||
DVDStyler, [http://opendvdproducer.jonata.org/ Open DVD Producer], [http://www.rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html DeVeDe]
|DVD authoring software
|-
|'''uTox''', '''qTox''', '''Jitsi''', '''OpenMeetings''', '''Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone)''', '''Microsoft Teams''', '''Zoom''' || uTox, qTox, OpenMettings, Jitsi, Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone), Empathy, Microsoft Teams, Zoom
| Video Conferencing
|}

= Education =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| '''Klavaro''', '''Tipp10''' || Klavaro, Tipp10, [[KTouch]], Tux Typing, GNU Typist || Touch typing tutors
|-
| '''Maple''', '''Mathematica''' || Maple, Mathematica, [http://maxima.sourceforge.net/ Maxima]
| Computer algebra systems
|-
| '''Matlab''', '''Octave''', '''Scilab''' ||
Matlab, [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ Octave],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SciLab SciLab], Sage, KAlgebra
| High level numeric computation environments
|-
| '''SPSS''', '''Stata''', EViews, '''PSPP''', '''[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project]''', '''[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]''' ||
[http://www.stata.com/products/unix.html Stata], SPSS,
[http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/pspp.html PSPP],
[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Plus S-Plus],
[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]
| Statistical analysis
|-
| Verilog ||
[http://www.icarus.com/eda/verilog/ iverilog]
| Verilog Simulator
|-
| '''Google Earth''', NASA World Wind, '''Celestia''', '''Stellarium''', '''Skychart''', '''Aladin Sky Atlas''', Microsoft Flight Simulator, '''FlightGear''' ||
[http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html Google Earth], [https://celestia.space/index.html Celestia], [http://www.stellarium.org/ Stellarium], [https://marble.kde.org/ Marble], [http://www.geody.com/ Geody], Kstars, Skychart, Aladin Sky Atlas, [http://www.flightgear.org/ FlightGear]
| Geography, astronomy and simulation
|}

''Please add new applications to this list. A good resource is the [http://www.nawaz.org/wiki/index.php?title=Table_of_Equivalents BeetleSpace Windows/Linux Software Table of Equivalents], which is GNU FDL licensed.''

= See also =

* [[running windows software]]
* [http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux.]
* [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareEquivalents Ubuntu software equivalents's page]
* [http://www.linuxeq.com/ The Linux Equivalent Project]

[[Category:FAQ]]

Linux software equivalent to Windows software

2022-04-03T22:13:34Z

Kareempharmacist: /* Networking */

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.

= Office and Productivity =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Office, '''OpenOffice''', '''Libre Office''', '''WPS Office''', '''Softmaker Office''', '''Onlyoffice Desktop'''
| [[Libre Office]], [https://www.wps.com/linux WPS Office](WPS-Community), [[OpenOffice]], [https://www.calligra.org/ Calligra], Softmaker FreeOffice, OnlyOffice Desktop
| Office package
|-
| Microsoft Word, OOwriter, LibreOffice Writer, WPS Writer, Softmaker TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[OOWriter]], [http://www.abiword.org AbiWord], WPS Writer, LibreOffice Writer, Calligra Words, FreeOffice TextMaker, OnlyOffice Desktop, Lyx, [[LaTeX]]
| [[Word Processing]]
|-
| Notepad, Wordpad, TheGun, EditPlus, SciTE, Notepad++ ||
[[Vim]], [[KWrite]],
[[Kate]], [http://bluefish.openoffice.nl/ BlueFish], [[Gedit]], [[Joe]], Sublime Text, [[Leafpad]], [[Nano]]
| [[Text Editors]]
|-
| Access, dBase, Foxpro, Paradox, '''OOBase''', '''LibreOffice Base'''
| [http://userbase.kde.org/Kexi Kexi], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org_Base OOBase], LibreOffice Base
| [[Database]]
|-
| Excel, Corel WordPrefect, '''LibreOffice Calc''', '''Softmaker Office PlanMaker''', '''WPS Spreedsheets''', '''OOCalc''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Calc, Calligra Sheets, Softmaker Office PlanMaker, WPS Spreedsheets, [[OOCalc]], [http://www.gnumeric.org gnumeric], OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Spreadsheet]]
|-
| Visio, [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html '''yED'''], '''LibreOffice Draw'''
| [https://www.calligra.org/flow/ Calligra Flow], [http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yed_about.html yED], LibreOffice Draw
| Diagramming
|-
| PowerPoint, '''LibreOffice Impress''', '''OOImpress''', '''WPS Presentation''', '''Softmaker Office Presentations''', '''OnlyOffice Desktop'''
| LibreOffice Impress, [[OOImpress]], Calligra Stage, WPS Presentation, Softmaker Office Presentations, OnlyOffice Desktop
| [[Presentation software]]
|-
| Final Draft, Script Studio, '''Fade In''', '''KIT Scenarist''', '''Story Architect''', '''Trelby''', '''Scrite'''
| Fade In, KIT Scenarist, Story Architect, Trelby, Scrite
| Screenwriting software
|-
| Microsoft Project Manager
| [[MOOS Project Viewer]], Calligra Plan
| Project management
|-
| '''Wondershare EdrawMax''', XMind
| Wondershare EdrawMax, Minder, XMind
| Mind maps
|-
| Outlook, '''Thunderbird + Lightning'''
| [[Kontact]], [https://pawsa.fedorapeople.org/balsa/ BALSA], [[Thunderbird]] + [http://www.mozilla.org/projects/calendar/lightning/ Lightning]
| Personal information managers
|-
| Alcohol 120%, Discjuggler, Easy CD Creator, Nero Burning ROM ||
[[K3b]], [[XCDRoast]], Brasero, Xfburn, [[CD/DVD_Burning|''more'']]
|DVD/CD burning
|-
|Alcohol 120%, Nero Burning ROM, '''MakeMKV''', ImgBurn, Infrarecorder || MakeMKV, Thoggen, Dvdbackup, HandBrake, DVD::RIP, AcidRIP
| DVD ripping software
|-
| Quicken, Microsoft Money, TurboTax
| [http://gnucash.org/ GnucAsh], [http://kmymoney2.sourceforge.net/index-home.html KMyMoney], [[CrossOver]] Office with Quicken, [http://www.lazy8.nu/ lazy8ledger]
| Accounting
|-
| ActiveSync ||
[[SynCE]]
|Synchronization with Windows Mobile devices
|-
| WinEdt, TeXnicCenter
| [[Kile]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Texmaker Texmaker], [[LyX]]
| LaTeX IDEs
|-
| Veritas Backup Exec, [http://www.educ.umu.se/~cobian/cobianbackup.htm Cobian Backup], '''Duplicati''' ||
LuckyBackup, Déjà Dup, Grsync, Duplicati [[list of backUp applications|''more'']]
| [[Backup]]
|-
| Google Desktop ||
[[Recoll]]
| Desktop Search
|-
| Norton Ghost ||
[[Partition Image]], [[g4u]], [http://www.mondorescue.org/ Mondo Rescue], [[dd]], gDiskDump (a dd frontend), Clonezilla, Trinity Rescue Kit
|Disk imaging
|-
| Norton Partition Magic ||
[[GParted]], Clonezilla (a live cd), KDE Partition Manager, GNOME Disks
|Disk partitioning
|-
|[http://www.codeproject.com/vb/net/Disk_Size_Explorer.asp Disk Size Explorer]
|[https://utils.kde.org/projects/filelight/ File Light], [[Konqueror]], Baobab, xdiskusage, duc [https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/how-to-analyze-your-disk-usage-pattern-in-linux/ ref.]
| Disk usage analyzers
|-
|[http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Filemon.html Filemon], [http://www.sysinternals.com/Utilities/Regmon.html Regmon]
| [http://syscalltrack.sourceforge.net/ syscalltrack]
| system call tracking (file monitor & others)
|-
| WinMerge, SyncToy ||
[http://meld.sourceforge.net/ Meld], [[Unison]], [http://synkron.sourceforge.net/ Synkron], [[rSync]]
| File synchronization
|-
| Google Drive, Dropbox, etc ||
[https://rclone.org Rclone]
| Cloud hosted file synchronization (Amazon S3, Dropbox, Google Cloud Storage, Google Drive, FTP, Microsoft OneDrive, sFTP, etc)
|-
| Windows Update, Add/Remove programs||
[[apt-get]], [http://aptitude.sourceforge.net/ Aptitude], [http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Portage portage], [[Rpm|rpm]], [[urpmi]], [[yast]], [[yum]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synaptic_Package_Manager Synaptic], [https://snapcraft.io Snapcraft (Snap)]
|Every Linux distribution has an infrastructure to manage installed software which is quite different from Windows. For instance, all updates are handled by a single program. See [[package management]].
|-
| WinRunner || [http://hoopajoo.net/projects/xautomation.html xautomation] || automating interactive applications
|-
| 7-Zip, Winzip, Winrar, Peazip ||
[[Karchiver]],
[[File Roller]],
Xarchiver,
[[ark]],
[[hjsplit]]; [[packing and unpacking files|''command line tools'']]
|Archivers
|-
| chkdsk || [[fsck]], [https://www.tecmint.com/linux-disk-scanning-tools/ other tools] || check your file system (and the [[hard disk]] beneath it) for errors
|-
| Daemon Tools ||
[[mount]], Disk Image Mounter in Gnome/KDE, Furius ISO mount, AcetoneISO
|ISO mounting
|-
| Disclib || [http://www.gwhere.org/home.php3 gWhere]
| Disk cataloging programs
|-
| Evernote, OneNote || NixNote, Tusk, Whatever, GeekNote, ForeverNote, [https://joplinapp.org/ Joplin], Xournal, XFCE4 Notes, Xpad, Hnb, Gnote, Feathernotes, Cherrytree, Bijiben, Basket, Noblenote, Nvpy. Thanks to [https://itsfoss.com/evernote-on-linux/]
|Note Taking App
|}

== Desktop Publishing ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Dreamweaver, NVU, KompoZer, Google Web Designer ||
[http://www.google.com/webdesigner/ Google Web Designer] (WYSIWYG)
[[html editors|more]]
|[[Web Design]]
|-
| Quark, Quark Express, Microsoft Publisher, '''Scribus''', '''Karbon''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scribus Scribus], Laidout, VivaDesigner, QuickSilver, Xara Xtreme, Karbon
|DTP software
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF Reader, Xpdf Reader, Foxit reader, Sumatra pdf ||

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evince Evince],
Zathura,
Okular,
Bookworm,
Qpdfview,
Foxit reader,
PDF Studio Viewer,
[[Xpdf]],
MuPDF,
Atril,
[[Ghostview]], [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF readers
|-
| Adobe Acrobat Distiller, PDFCreator ||
[http://www.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de/~vrbehr/cups-pdf/ CUPS-PDF], Libre Office, [[OpenOffice.org]], PDF Studio, [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter] -- can convert to pdf. [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF authoring
|-
| Adobe Acrobat PDF editor, [http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio '''PDF Studio Pro'''], '''Master PDF Editor''', '''Libreoffice Draw''', '''Scribus''', '''Inkscape''' ||
[http://www.qoppa.com/pdfstudio PDF Studio Pro], Master PDF Editor, [http://sourceforge.net/projects/pdfedit Pdfedit], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam Pdfjam], [http://www.accesspdf.com/pdftk Pdftk], Scribus, Inkscape, Karbon, Okular, Libreoffice Draw. Thanks to [https://www.ubuntupit.com/linux-pdf-editor-top-15-reviewed-and-compared/ this] [[PDF|''more'']]
|PDF editing tools
|-
| SilverFast ||
[[xSane]], [http://www.hamrick.com/vsm.html VueScan], Simple Scan, Skanlite, Gscan2pdf, GIMP with Quitelnsane
| [[scanning]]
|-
| FinePrint ||
[http://www.boomaga.org boomaga], [http://wfr.tcl.tk/279 page-crunch], [http://freshmeat.net/projects/mpage/ mpage], [http://printing.kde.org/overview/kprinter.php Kprinter], [http://www.tardis.ed.ac.uk/~ajcd/psutils/index.html psnup/PSutils], [http://www.warwick.ac.uk/go/pdfjam pdfnup/PDFjam]
| Document printing/reformatting tools
|}

= Networking =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| Microsoft Internet Explorer, '''Microsoft Edge''', '''Firefox''', '''Opera''', '''Chrome''', '''Pale Moon''', '''Brave''', '''Vivaldi''', '''Otter Browser''', '''Falkon''', '''Dooble''', '''Slimjet''' ||
[[Firefox]],
[[Konqueror]],
Epiphany (Gnome Web), Falkon, Microsoft Edge, Slimjet, Midori,
[http://www.google.com/chrome Chrome], Chromium,
[[Opera]],
Otter Browser,
Brave,
Vivaldi, Falkon,
Pale Moon, Dillo, Dooble
[[Browsers|''more'']]
| [[Web Browsers]]
|-
| Microsoft Outlook, '''Thunderbird''', Pegasus, Lotus Notes, '''Seamonkey''', '''Claws Mail''', '''Mailspring''' ||
[[Kontact]],
[http://www.novell.com/products/desktop/features/evolution.html Evolution], Seamonkey,
[[Thunderbird]], Claws Mail, Mailspring, Geary [https://itsfoss.com/best-email-clients-linux/ others]
|Email clients.
|-
| ICQ, MSN Messenger, AIM (AOL Instant Messenger), Trillian, '''Pidgin''', '''Irssi''' ||
[[PidgIn]],
Hexchat,
[[Kopete]],
[[aMSN]],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emesene Emesene (MSN)],
[[Centericq]], [[Irssi]]
| [[Instant messaging]] [[software]].
|-
| Microsoft HyperTerminal ||
[[minicom]]
|-
| FileZilla FTP Client, WS FTP, Bullet Proof FTP, CuteFTP ||
[http://filezilla-project.org/download.php?type=client FileZilla FTP Client],
[http://www.kftp.org/misc/description KFTP (KFTPGrabber)],
[[Kasablanca]],
[[FireFTP]],
[[Konqueror]],
[[KBear]],
[[gFTP]],
[http://www.crossftp.com/ CrossFTP],
[[Nautilus]]
|FTP clients. Please note GNOME, KDE (and other) programs can directly open and edit files on FTP, SFTP and WebDAV shares, often using [[KIO]], [[GIO]] or [GVfs]].
|-
| mIRC, '''Hexchat''', '''Pidgin''', '''Quassel''', '''KVIrc''', '''Irssi''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konversation Konversation],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quassel_IRC Quassel],
[[KVIrc]],
[[XChat]],
HexChat,
[[PidgIn]],
[[BitchX]], Irssi
| [[IRC Clients]]
|-
|[http://ultravnc.sourceforge.net/ UltraVNC], TightVNC, RealVNC, Remote Desktop ||
[http://www.tightvnc.com/ TightVNC],
[http://www.realvnc.com/ RealVNC], [http://www.rdesktop.org/ rdesktop],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/freenx/ FreeNX],
[http://freshmeat.net/projects/x11vnc/ x11vnc],
[http://synergy2.sourceforge.net/ Synergy],
XDMCP, [[SSH]] with X11 forwarding (-X or -Y option)
| [[Desktop Sharing]]
|-
| MailWasher, SpamAssassin for Windows ||
SpamAssassin
| Spam filter
|-
|Forte Free Agent, [[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]] ||
[[Thunderbird]], [[Pan]], [http://www.newsreaders.com/unix/clients.html See More Clients Here]
|News Reader (Usenet [[newsgroup]]s)
|-
| eMule ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mldonkey MlDOnKey]
|ED2K P2P network clients
|-
| [http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php '''Vuze (formerly Azureus)'''], [http://utorrent.com/ utorrent], '''Transmission''', '''Deluge''', '''qBittorrent''', '''Tixati''', '''Frostwire''', '''Tribler''' ||
[http://azureus.sourceforge.net/index.php Vuze (formerly Azureus)], Tranmission, Deluge, qBittorrent, Tixati, Frostwire, Tribler, [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qtorrent Qtorrent], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bittornado bittornado], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ktorrent Ktorrent],
|BitTorrent P2P network clients
|-
| '''Skype''', Voipbuster, '''Yate''', '''Linphone''', '''Jitsi''' ||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skype Skype], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linphone Linphone], Asterisk, Empathy, Yate, Jitsi
|VoIP software
|-
| Bitvise Tunnelier ||
[http://sourceforge.net/projects/gstm/ gSTM]
|gSTM is a front-end for managing SSH-tunneled port redirects.
|}

== Server ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| IIS, [[Apache]] ||
[[Apache]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nginx Engine-X], [http://www.lighttpd.net/ lighttpd]
|[[Web Servers]]
|-
| Folder sharing, printer sharing ||
[[Samba]]
|Share files and printers between Windows and Linux systems. Installed by default on most distributions.
|-
|IIS, [http://filezilla.sourceforge.net/ FileZilla FTP Client & Server]
|[[vsftpd]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pure-ftpd pure-ftpd]
|FTP servers, for hosting files.
|-
|[http://www.netlimiter.com/ NetLimiter] ||
[http://monkey.org/~marius/pages/?page=trickle Trickle], [http://l7-filter.sourceforge.net/ Level 7 Filter], [http://www.clarkconnect.com/info/index.php ClarkConnect], [http://www.bandwidtharbitrator.com/ Bandwidth Arbitrator], [http://www.mastershaper.org/index.php/Main_Page MasterShaper]
|Bandwidth shaping and management.
|-
| Exchange ||
[[Citadel]], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimbra zimbra], [[Open-Xchange]]
|Groupware (sharing of appointments, contacts, e-mail, documents, etc. between members of a group)
|-
| Sharepoint ||
[http://www.knowledgetree.com/opensource KnowledgeTree]
|Manage and secure documents, collaborate around document creation and editing, full document contents indexing
|-
| Norton/McAfee Antivirus, [http://clamwin.com/ ClamWin], AVG, AntiVir, Avast, ClamAV ||
[[ClamAV]], [https://support.avast.com/en-eu/article/131/ Avast Security for Linux]
| Antivirus software.
|-
| ZoneAlarm , Sygate SPF||
[[Guarddog]], [[Firestarter]], [[GUFW]], [[iptables]]
| Firewall software
|}

= Multimedia =

{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
|[http://www.adobe.com/products/photoshop/ Adobe Photoshop], [http://www.corel.com/ Corel Photo-Paint], '''GIMP''', '''Glimpse''', '''GIMPShop''', '''ImageMagick''', '''Xnview''', '''[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)]''', '''[https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable]''', '''Pinta''', '''MyPaint''', '''Krita''', '''Filmulator''', '''Photivo''', '''RawTherapee''', '''digiKam''', '''nomacs''' ||
[http://www.gimp.org/ GIMP], Glimpse,
[[GIMPShop]], ImageMagick, Pinta, MyPaint,
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krita Krita], Xnview,
[http://www.lightcrafts.com/ LightZone (non-free high quality)], [https://www.darktable.org/ Darktable], Filmulator, Photivo, RawTherapee, digiKam, nomacs
|Raster graphics editors
|-
|[http://www.corel.com/ Corel Draw], [http://www.adobe.com/products/illustrator/ Adobe Illustrator], '''Inkscape''', '''Vectr''', '''Gravit''', '''LibreOffice Draw''', '''sK1''', '''SVG-edit''' ||
[http://www.inkscape.org/ Inkscape], Vectr, Gravit, LibreOffice Draw, Karbon, sK1, SVG-edit. [https://itsfoss.com/vector-graphics-editors-linux/ Ref.]
|Vector graphics editors
|-
|Adobe Animate, '''Synfig''', '''Pencil2D''', '''Tupi (Tupitube Desk)''', '''OpenToonz''', '''Blender''', '''Toon Boom Harmony''', '''Krita''', '''Aseprite''', '''TVPaint''', '''Animaker''', '''Ajax Animator''', '''Glaxnimate''', '''Tahoma2D''', '''Enve''' ||
Synfig, Pencil2D, Tupi (Tupitube Desk), OpenToonz, Blender, Toon Boom Harmony, Krita, Aseprite, TVPaint, Animaker, Ajax Animator, Glaxnimate, Tahoma2D , Enve
| 2D Animations
|-
| Irfanview, ACDSee, '''digiKam''', '''Xnview''', '''nomacs''' ||
[[XnView]], [http://mirageiv.berlios.de/ Mirage], [[GThumb]], Shotwell, KPhotoAlbum, Geeqie, digiKam, Gwenview, Ristretto, Viewnior, nomacs
|Image viewers
|-
| 3D Studio MAX, '''Blender''', [http://www.autodesk.com '''Maya'''] ||
[[Blender]],
[http://www.autodesk.com Maya],
[[K-3D]]
|3D modeling software
|-
| Autodesk Inventor, Solidworks, CATIA || [http://www.freecadweb.org FreeCAD], [http://www.salome-platform.org/ SALOME platform]
| Professional 3D CAD software
|-
| Windows Media Player, PowerDVD, SMPlayer, MPV, [[VLC]] ||
SMPlayer,
MPV,
[[VLC]],
[[Xine]],
[[Totem]],
[[Kaffeine]],
Parole,
Celluloid,
[[MPlayer]]
| [[Video Players]]
|-
| SIA Smaart Live || [http://sf.net/projects/brp-pacu/ BRP-PACU] || [[Sound]] analysis
|-
| Winamp, Sonique, iTunes, [http://www.atunes.org/ aTunes], '''Clementine''', '''VLC''', '''SMplayer''', '''Deadbeef''', '''Strawberry''', '''Audacious''' ||
[[Amarok]],
Clementine,
[[RhythmBox]],
[http://banshee-project.org/index.php/Main_Page Banshee],
[[Xine]],
VLC,
SMplayer,
Elisa,
Deadbeef,
Audacious, Strawberry. See also Video Players section
|[[Music Players]]
|-
| [http://www.otsav.com/ OTSAV, OTS Turntables], [http://serato.com/ Serato], [http://www.native-instruments.com/en/traktor/ Traktor], [http://www.virtualdj.com/ Virtual DJ], [http://www.pcdj.com/ PC DJ], [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
| [http://www.mixxx.org/ Mixxx], [http://www.ultramixer.com/ UltraMixer]
|Audio & video play out (DJ/presenter)
|-
| Windows Movie Maker, Adobe Premiere Elements, [http://www.goldwave.com/mqrelease.php Multiquence], '''Avidemux''', '''OpenShot''', '''VidCutter''', [https://shotcut.org/ '''Shotcut'''], '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron]''', [https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php '''Olive'''], '''Lightworks''' ||
[[Cinelerra]] (difficult but very professional),
[[KDenlive]] (easy and powerful),
[[LiVES]],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avidemux AviDemux],
OpenShot,
VidCutter,
Flowblade,
Pitivi,
DaVinci Resolve,
[https://natrongithub.github.io/ Natron],
[https://www.olivevideoeditor.org/download.php Olive],
Lightworks (thanks to Linux Format magazine),
[https://shotcut.org/ Shotcut](thanks to Linux Format magazine)
|[[Video Editors]]
|-
| '''Audacity''', Cubase, '''Ardour''', Adobe Audition (formerly Cool Edit Pro), [http://www.goldwave.com/ GoldWave], Cakewalk/Sonar, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''LMMS''', '''Traverso-DAW''', '''[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]''' ||
[[Audacity]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden],
[[Beast]],
[[Ardour]],
Harrison Mixbus,
[http://users.notam02.no/~kjetism/radium/index.php Radium],
DaVinci Resolve,
Bitwig Studio,
Qtractor,
[https://traverso-daw.org/ Traverso-DAW],
LMMS,
[https://www.tracktion.com/products/waveform Waveform]
|Digital audio workstation software
|-
| Audio Catalyst, '''Ocenaudio''', dbpoweramp, CDex, '''DaVinci Resolve''', '''Audacity''' ||
[[Audacity]],
Ocenaudio,
DaVinci Resolve,
[[Grip]]
| [[Audio Editors]]
|-
| '''Wavesurfer''', '''Audacity''', '''Sox'''||[https://itsfoss.com/record-streaming-audio/ Audio Recorder], Ecasound, Audacity, Sox, Wavesurfer
|Audio recorders
|-
| Cakewalk/Sonar ||
[[kmid]],
[[kmidi]],
[http://www.rosegardenmusic.com/ Rosegarden]
| [[MIDI]]
|-
|[http://www.noteworthysoftware.com/ NoteWorthy Composer], '''MuseScore''', '''LilyPond'''||
[http://www.musescore.org/ MuseScore], [http://lilypond.org/web/ LilyPond]
|Musical score typesetting
|-
|[http://www.guitar-pro.com/ GuitarPro], TuxGuitar ||
[http://www.tuxguitar.com.ar/ TuxGuitar]
|Guitar tablature editors
|-
| Microsoft Paint, Kid Pix, '''Tux Paint''', '''Pencil 2D''', '''Krita''', '''Pinta''', '''Mypaint''', '''Mtpaint''' ||
[http://www.tuxpaint.org/ Tuxpaint], [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KolourPaint KolourPaint], Pencil 2D, Krita, [https://launchpad.net/dibuja Dibuja], Pinta, Mypaint, Mtpaint
|Basic raster painting programs
|-
| Videora, [https://handbrake.fr/ '''Handbrake'''], '''WinFF''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || [https://handbrake.fr/ Handbrake], WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, Transmageddon, VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Video converter
|-
| '''WinFF''', '''Handbrake''', '''fre:ac - free audio converter (freac)''', '''VLC''', '''VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder''' || Handbrake, WinFF, Curlew, Selene Media Converter, VLC, fre:ac - free audio converter (freac), VCT - Video Converter & Transcoder
|Audio converter
|-
|TMPGEnc DVD Author, Roxio DVDit, '''Open DVD Producer''', '''DVDStyler''' ||
DVDStyler, [http://opendvdproducer.jonata.org/ Open DVD Producer], [http://www.rastersoft.com/programas/devede.html DeVeDe]
|DVD authoring software
|-
|'''uTox''', '''qTox''', '''Jitsi''', '''OpenMeetings''', '''Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone)''', '''Microsoft Teams''', '''Zoom''' || uTox, qTox, OpenMettings, Jitsi, Jami (formerly GNU Ring, SFLphone), Empathy, Microsoft Teams, Zoom
| Video Conferencing
|}

= Education =
{| class="wikitable sortable"
! Windows apps !! Linux apps !! Description
|-
| '''Klavaro''', '''Tipp10''' || Klavaro, Tipp10, [[KTouch]], Tux Typing, GNU Typist || Touch typing tutors
|-
| '''Maple''', '''Mathematica''' || Maple, Mathematica, [http://maxima.sourceforge.net/ Maxima]
| Computer algebra systems
|-
| '''Matlab''', '''Octave''', '''Scilab''' ||
Matlab, [http://www.gnu.org/software/octave/ Octave],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SciLab SciLab], Sage, KAlgebra
| High level numeric computation environments
|-
| '''SPSS''', '''Stata''', EViews, '''PSPP''', '''[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project]''', '''[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]''' ||
[http://www.stata.com/products/unix.html Stata], SPSS,
[http://www.gnu.org/software/pspp/pspp.html PSPP],
[http://www.r-project.org/ R-project],
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S-Plus S-Plus],
[http://gretl.sourceforge.net/ Gretl]
| Statistical analysis
|-
| Verilog ||
[http://www.icarus.com/eda/verilog/ iverilog]
| Verilog Simulator
|-
| '''Google Earth''', NASA World Wind, '''Celestia''', '''Stellarium''', '''Skychart''', '''Aladin Sky Atlas''', Microsoft Flight Simulator, '''FlightGear''' ||
[http://earth.google.com/download-earth.html Google Earth], [https://celestia.space/index.html Celestia], [http://www.stellarium.org/ Stellarium], [https://marble.kde.org/ Marble], [http://www.geody.com/ Geody], Kstars, Skychart, Aladin Sky Atlas, [http://www.flightgear.org/ FlightGear]
| Geography, astronomy and simulation
|}

''Please add new applications to this list. A good resource is the [http://www.nawaz.org/wiki/index.php?title=Table_of_Equivalents BeetleSpace Windows/Linux Software Table of Equivalents], which is GNU FDL licensed.''

= See also =

* [[running windows software]]
* [http://www.linuxrsp.ru/win-lin-soft/table-eng.html The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux.]
* [https://wiki.ubuntu.com/SoftwareEquivalents Ubuntu software equivalents's page]
* [http://www.linuxeq.com/ The Linux Equivalent Project]

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