Comments on: Linux Equivalents To Things You Do In Windows

By: John Riley

John Riley — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 00:14:40 +0000

I used Linux for the last couple of years. Then my computer crashed. I had to buy a new one, and due to the warranty I’m stuck on Windows until January of 2011. I kinda forgot some when I originally posted this list. When I was on Linux I was a KDE user and I used:

Firefox = Web Browser
Thunderbird = EMail
Kopete = Instant Messenger
Konversation = IRC
FileZilla = FTP
GEdit = Text and HTML creation.
KTorrent = Torrents

Now that I’m stuck with Windows (Thank God it’s Windows XP Professional and not Windows Vista or Windows XP Home Edition!) I use:

Firefox = Web Browser
Thunderbird = EMail
Pidgin = Instant Messenger (There is no native Kopete for Windows)
X-Chat = IRC (There is no native Koversation for Windows)
FileZilla = FTP
GEdit = Text and HTML creation.
BitTorrent = Torrents

That’s all I can remember… Because even under Linux I used Microsoft Office 2003… I mean, I paid for it, I might as well use the bitch.

By: John Riley

John Riley — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 20:31:10 +0000

Yeah, I know. Konversation on KDE for Windows crashes when trying to setup network configurations.

By: Vertimyst

Vertimyst — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 19:12:31 +0000

Actually, Kopete (and maybe Konversation), as well as Amarok and several other KDE apps are available for Windows. They’re not 100% stable yet, but you can still try.

http://windows.kde.org/

By: John Riley

John Riley — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:43:13 +0000

I used Linux for the last couple of years. Then my computer crashed. I had to buy a new one, and due to the warranty I’m stuck on Windows until January of 2011. When I was on Linux I was a KDE user and I used:

Firefox = Web Browser
Thunderbird = EMail
Kopete = Instant Messenger
Konversation = IRC
FileZilla = FTP

Now that I’m stuck with Windows (Thank God it’s Windows XP Professional and not Windows Vista or Windows XP Home Edition!) I use:

Firefox = Web Browser
Thunderbird = EMail
Pidgin = Instant Messenger (There is no native Kopete for Windows)
X-Chat = IRC (There is no native Koversation for Windows)
FileZilla = FTP

That’s all I can remember… Because even under Linux I used Microsoft Office 2003… I mean, I paid for it, I might as well use the bitch.

By: Tolga BALCI

Tolga BALCI — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 08:59:10 +0000

Can we count

[1] Hugin in place of Microsoft ICE [http://research.microsoft.com/IVM/ICE/]

[2] Kivio in place of Visio

[3] Digikam in place of ACDSee

…sorry if any duplicates…

By: Joseph Barr

Joseph Barr — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 08:46:06 +0000

I use Amarok and K3b for all my musical listening and copying;also,
Serpentine and Sound Juicer to listen to my CD collection,etc.

By: Vertimyst

Vertimyst — Sun, 16 Nov 2008 02:44:20 +0000

Mm, I should also add that I use KTorrent for torrents in Linux, uTorrent in Windows.

By: David Chard

David Chard — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 22:21:15 +0000

Where is the Power Point program??
(Open Office Presentation comes with too much baggage)

By: LinuxCanuck

LinuxCanuck — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 18:21:57 +0000

Unfortunately, the Linux side is biased in favour of Gnome applications.

For KDE, substitute Kopete for Pidgin and Konversation for Xchat.

I don’t use Windows, so don’t care about equivalents.

Here are some open source applications that rock:

Amarok (media player, KDE)
K3b (burner, KDE)
Vlc (movie player, also has a Windows version)
gParted (Gnome) or Qtparted (KDE, partition managers)
Griffith (DVD database manager)
Deluge (bittorrent manager)
Pan (newsreader)
Akregator (RSS feed reader)
Gimp (both Linux and Windows, graphics editor)
Rawstudio (raw image converter)
Compiz Fusion (eye candy/ compositor)
Screenlets (gadgets)
Avant Window Navigator (OS/X style bar)

By: lefty.crupps

lefty.crupps — Sat, 15 Nov 2008 16:18:37 +0000

KDE apps all the way, not for any reason other than that they’re all so good:

chat – Kopete (multi protocol)
email – KMail and the Kontact suite (KDEPIM)
IRC – Konversation
music – Amarok
dvd backups – K9copy
movie watching – Kaffeine
web – Firefox, sometimes Konqueror
graphics – Gimp, Inkscape, Krita
downloads – KTorrent