Upgrade from Windows 7 to Ubuntu Part 3: Applications

After talked about intro and releases, now I will talk about applications on Ubuntu GNU/Linux that are replacements to ones on Windows. You need to know this information in order to switch as the most important thing you really use is the application. For example, if previously you are accustomed to Microsoft Office, MATLAB, and Adobe Reader, on Ubuntu you will use LibreOffice, Octave, and Evince, respectively. More fortunately, just as I said on Part 2, all applications are available for you in the central Ubuntu repository, you do not need to manually search different places anymore. I hope this will be useful for you. Happy reading!

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Preamble

GNU/Linux in general and Ubuntu in particular already provided us all software for all kind of purposes. You may wonder if you can edit photos or create 2D animations on Ubuntu. The answer is yes, you can, with professional apps available free and gratis. You may also wonder what is replacement to IDM on Ubuntu, and the answer is there is Persepolis for you here. And so on.

Please be aware that in our community we believe that all software should be free including all Windows applications. "Free" does not mean gratis, but respecting user's freedom and community. So whenever you find out any replacement I put here not satisfying your needs, we feel sorry for you, you should ask your proprietary software developer to free their product for you (paid or not is OK), so you can run it fully on Ubuntu because it's your right and their responsibility, not ours.

For example, you may find AutoCAD cannot be replaced with FreeCAD for your needs, so you should ask Autodesk company to free AutoCAD for you (you should receive source code of it with free license) so you could run AutoCAD fully on Ubuntu. You purchased AutoCAD from them then it's their responsibility not ours.

How To Get Software

The easiest way to add new software to our computer is by: simply run your Ubuntu Software Center and search program name under Ubuntu columns below. I selected for you programs that are officially available on Ubuntu.

1. Most Popular Applications

This category summarizes all. This includes generic programs everybody knows such as office suite, player, browser, and image editors. Important to notice here, that GNU/Linux does not need antivirus and neither defragmentation tool just like I mentioned in Part 1.

Windows			Ubuntu
Microsoft Office			LibreOffice*
Word			Writer*
Excel			Calc*
PowerPoint			Impress*
Winamp			Rhythmbox*
Media Player			Totem*
Internet Download Manager			Persepolis Download Manager
Windows Explorer			Nautilus*
MATLAB			GNU Octave
Photoshop			GIMP
CorelDRAW			Inkscape
Paint Shop Pro			Krita
Kaspersky Antivirus			-
WinRAR			Archive Manager*
Adobe Reader			Evince*

2. Multimedia Applications

This category includes tools used for imaging, drawing, photo editing, animation, 2D/3D designing, audio/video editing, special effect (for movie), rendering, and so on.

Windows			Ubuntu
Photoshop			GIMP
CorelDRAW			Inkscape
PageMaker			Scribus
Lightroom			Darktable
Picture & Fax Viewer			Image Viewer*
ACDSee			Digikam
Ulead Studio			Kdenlive
Adobe Audition			Audacity
Any Video Converter			WinFF
Camtasia Studio			Kazam
Voice Recorder			GNOME Sound Recorder
Macromedia Flash MX			Synfig Studio
Corel Painter			Krita
AutoCAD			FreeCAD
3D Studio Max			Blender
After Effects			Natron
FruityLoops			LMMS
Windows Media Center			Kodi HTPC
Adobe Digital Editions			Calibre Ebook Manager

3. Internet Applications

This category includes web browser, chatting, and downloader programs.

Windows			Ubuntu
Internet Explorer			Mozilla Firefox*
Outlook			Mozilla Thunderbird*
MIRC			Hexchat
Yahoo! Messenger			Pidgin
WhatsApp			Telegram Desktop
Skype			GNU Jami
Internet Download Manager			Persepolis Download Manager
WinSCP			FileZilla
PuTTY			PuTTY
BitTorrent			Transmission*
TeamViewer			Remmina*
Outlook (RSS Feed)			Akregator
XAMPP			XAMPP
Cisco Packet Tracer			GNS3
Kazaa LimeWire Bearshare			Vuze

4. Educational Applications

This includes educational game for kids, scientific and training programs for elementary up to university grades.

Windows			Ubuntu
Childsplay			GCompris
MATLAB			GNU Octave
ArcGIS			Quantum GIS
AutoCAD			FreeCAD
Microsoft Paint			GNU Paint
Typing Master			Tux Typing
Genius Maker			Tux Math
Mendeley			Zotero
Notepad			Gedit*
DOS			FreeDOS
VMWare			QEMU
Scientific Workplace			Texmaker
Lingoes Oxford Dictionary WordWeb Pro			StarDict
Google Earth			KDE Marble
Periodic Table Explorer			KDE Kalzium
NASA World Wind			Celestia
CyberSky			KDE KStars

5. Utility Applications

This category includes usable tools we use daily like system maintenance, disk partitioning, network sharing, etc.

Windows			Ubuntu
Control Panel			System Settings*
Add/Remove Programs			Ubuntu Software Center*
WinZIP			Archive Manager*
Task Manager			System Monitor*
Notepad			Gedit Text Editor*
Clipping Tool			GNOME Screenshot*
Disk Management			Disk Utility*
EASEUS Partition Manager			GParted
Pandora Data Recovery			Testdisk
Xinorbis Disk Examiner			Disk Usage Analyzer*
EasyBCD			BootRepair
Connectify Wifi Sharing			Network Manager*
Nero Burning ROM			Brasero*
WinRAR			Archive Manager*
Rufus			Startup Disk Creator*
Prolink Modem Manager Huawei Modem Manager ZTE Modem Manager			Modem Manager GUI

6. Programming

This category includes popularly used programming tools, language platforms, and code editors. I tried my best to present the easiest choices here as starting point for you.

Windows			Ubuntu
Visual Basic Visual Studio AutoIt			Qt SDK
Turbo Pascal			Free Pascal
Turbo Assembler			GNU Assembler*
Delphi			Lazarus
Sublime Text DevC++ Notepad++			Geany
Visual C, Visual C++			GCC
OpenJDK			OpenJDK
Dreamweaver			Bluefish
MikTeX			Texmaker
Android Studio Intellij IDEA			Eclipse
.NET Framework			Mono Framework
Visual Studio .NET			MonoDevelop

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