Linux Replacements for Windows Programs

[bitsnpcs]

For whatever reason the original title was changed back to "Useful Links'. I have changed it back again to ' Linux Replacements for Windows Programs '.

I had not knowingly altered the title. I am unsure why it happened.
I notice today when I quoted and replied to a message it used the old title of that message on my  reply, as the message I quoted had the old title. I have edited my replies in the thread so that all the reply titles match the main one so it doesn't happen if they are quoted by anyone.
It may need doing to any others in the thread that use the old title so if quoted it uses the correct name.
Knowing this now, I realize as I had 2 windows open when adding the first additional links if that window or the first one had the old title as they had been open a while it may have saved it using that title ?

[anon222]

Nice bitsnpcs! This is very usefull for the people switching from MS.
I've started making something like this a while ago, but gave up.

Office

Calligra
https://www.calligra.org/
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Web

Midori is a lightweight web browser based on WebKit.
sudo apt-get install midori

Minitube a YouTube player
sudo apt-get install minitube

Usefull

Nomacs image viewer has some advanced features that I like.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:nomacs/stable
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt get-install nomacs
sudo apt-get purge nomacs && sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:nomacs/stable

Mintstick. Simple tool to write .img and .iso files to USB sticks. A GUI to write .img or .iso files to a USB Key.
https://www.freecinema2022.gq/forums/index...opic=752.0

Kazam is a simple screen recording program that will capture the content of your screen and record a video file that can be played by any video player that supports VP8/WebM video format.
sudo apt-get install kazam

Indicator Stickynotes is a small app, that allows you to pin stickynotes to your Indicator bar, in order not to forget things.
It has a nice interface and you can lock the notes.
You can make new categories in the settings and then choose different colors (text and background) for each category.
I prefer this one over the default Xfce4-notes.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:umang/indicator-stickynotes
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install indicator-stickynotes
removal
sudo apt-get purge indicator-stickynotes && sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa:umang/indicator-stickynotes

Webcam software

Guvcview is a simple GTK+ interface for capturing and viewing video from webcams. It's better than Cheese.
sudo apt-get install guvcview

Cheese is a webcam application that supports image and video capture. It has a countdown timer.
sudo apt-get install cheese

Audio players

Qmmp is a feature-rich audio player with support of many formats. It is written in Qt and it's fast.
It supports Winamp and XMMS skins.
sudo apt-get install qmmp

Clementine is a QT-based music player focusing on a fast and easy-to-use interface for searching and playing your music.
Summary of included features :
  - Search and play your local music library.
  - Listen to internet radio from Last.fm, SomaFM and Magnatune.
  - Tabbed playlists, import and export M3U, XSPF, PLS and ASX.
  - Visualisations from projectM.
  - Transcode music into MP3, Ogg Vorbis, Ogg Speex, FLAC or AAC
  - Edit tags on MP3 and OGG files, organise your music.
  - Download missing album cover art from Last.fm.
  - Native desktop notifications using libnotify.
  - Supports MPRIS, or remote control using the command-line.
  - Remote control using a Wii Remote, MPRIS or the command-line.
  - Copy music to your iPod, iPhone, MTP or mass-storage USB player.
sudo apt-get install clementine

Audacious is a good audio player. It comes with gtk and winamp intrerface (look in the settings).
I haven't uset it much (because I like qmmp) but I think it has a an exelent playlist management.
sudo apt-get install audacious

Media players

QMlay2 and SMPlayer have great performance even on older hardware, but both ot them have great features.

SMPlayer is a graphical user interface (GUI) for the award-winning MPlayer, which is capable of playing almost all known video and audio formats.
SMPlayer can play Youtube videos and it also includes a handy tool which allows to search for Youtube videos SMTube. It also includes skins. It's fast and full of features.
installation
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rvm/smplayer
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install smplayer smtube smplayer-themes smplayer-skins
removal
sudo apt-get purge smplayer smtube smplayer-themes smplayer-skins
sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppa/smplayer

QMplay2 is QT-based and has some styles which can be changed to GTK+, Windows, Cleanlooks, CDE, Motif, and Plastique.
This player support almost all videos, music and subtitles.
Also video playback and Internet streams (eg wrzuta, youtube, http, rtsp, rtmp, mms, and more).
It offers several other options Equalizer, Downloader, and YouTube.
To add youtube videos to playlist copy url from the browser then go to QMPlay2 control+u, Direct address>Youtube videos and paste url.
installation
sudo add-apt-repository -y ppaamrog131/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install qmplay2
removal
sudo apt-get purge qmplay2
sudo add-apt-repository --remove ppaamrog131/ppa

Kaffeine is a media player for KDE. What makes it different from the others is it's excellent support of digital TV (DVB).
Kaffeine has user-friendly interface, so that even first time users can start immediately playing their movies: from DVD (including DVD menus, titles, chapters, etc.), VCD, or a file.
sudo apt-get install kaffeine

[Valtam]

Nice addition misko

[Alex]

Thank you Misko! I am interested in the Calligra suite, I followed the link but I am unsure what to exactly download to install it in LL and have it work. Could you please point me to the exact file download?

Thanks

[anon222]

Thank you Misko! I am interested in the Calligra suite, I followed the link but I am unsure what to exactly download to install it in LL and have it work. Could you please point me to the exact file download?

Thanks

Version 2.8.1

Code:

sudo apt-get install calligra

version 2.8.5 is avaiable from the kubuntu backports ppa

Code:

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:kubuntu-ppa/backports

Code:

sudo apt-get update

Code:

sudo apt-get install calligra

[Alex]

Thank you once again, Misko...and it all worked perfectly (at first I had thought something had gone wrong as i could not find Calligra, but a restart fixed it...lol)

Cheers,

[0bWAN]

Absolutely AWESOME !!!!

You ROCK !!!!!

[Wirezfree]

Couple of things:

MS Visio replacement: DIA
http://dia-installer.de/index.html.en

Briefly tried, on test box, not sure yet.??
~ Seems like no active development though... pity.

FreeFile Sync is available on Windows and Linux
Great file sync tool...
Working great on LL and my last remaining XP box
http://freefilesync.sourceforge.net/

Added this
Voice Recognition "Simon"
https://simon.kde.org/
According to  a review in my latest Linux Magazine,
"as good as mainstream Dragon Naturally Speaking"

Dave

[ohjrson]

Ok you have the Libre office lined through in some of those references, (at the beginning of the post) Why? Are they not working in LL?

I think I have used some of them and they seem fine but I will double check to be sure.

[bitsnpcs]

Ok you have the Libre office lined through in some of those references, (at the beginning of the post) Why? Are they not working in LL?

I think I have used some of them and they seem fine but I will double check to be sure.

Hello ohjrson,
thank you for your help. The Strikethroughs were on the original list, to denote they were part of the LibreOffice Suite.
You are correct they do work in LL.
Based on your post, I have now -
1/ removed the strikethroughs and added in superscript, being the first of these it's #1 , this will be more accurate/and informing, it is also a better way to reference that.
2/ I added in a Reference section for explaining this and any future superscripts.
3/ I gave you credit for your work in the "Removed" section, and clicked Thanks :-)
4/ I gave you credit for your work in the "Reference" section on superscript #1.

Your work helped me to improve the list for us all both now and in the future, and is very much appreciated.