One of the most common questions I get asked about Linux is, “Will my software work on Linux”?

In some cases the exact software is available on Linux, but in most cases it isn’t.

The good news is that there are plenty of alternatives for the most popular Windows applications for Linux.

In this article you will learn about some of the best applications available for the Linux operating system. We’ll look at alternatives for Microsoft Office, Internet Explorer, Photoshop, Adobe Reader, Windows Media Player and more.

Alternative to the Microsoft Office Suite:

LibreOffice
http://www.libreoffice.org

Open Office
https://www.openoffice.org

Calligra
https://www.calligra.org

AbiWord
http://www.abisource.com

Gnumeric
http://www.gnumeric.org

Alternative to the Notepad / Wordpad Text Editor:

gedit
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Gedit

Sublime Text
http://www.sublimetext.com

Notepadqq
https://notepadqq.com/s/

Alternatives to the Edge or Internet Explorer Web Browsers:

Chromium
https://www.chromium.org/chromium-projects/

Firefox
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/new/

Brave
https://brave.com/

Alternatives to the Photoshop Graphics Editor

Gimp
http://www.gimp.org

Inkscape
http://www.inkscape.org

Krita
https://krita.org

Alternatives to Movie Maker Video Editor:

OpenShot
http://www.openshot.org

Kdenlive
http://www.kdenlive.org

Shotcut
http://www.shotcut.org

VideoLAN Movie Creator
http://www.videolan.org/vlmc

Cinelerra
http://cinelerra.org

Open Movie Editor
http://www.openmovieeditor.org

Pitivi
http://www.pitivi.org

Windows Media Player Video Viewer

VLC
http://www.videolan.org/vlc

Mplayer
http://www.mplayerhq.hu/

Parole Media Player
http://docs.xfce.org/apps/parole/start

SMPlayer
http://smplayer.sourceforge.net/

KPlayer
http://www.kde.org/applications/multimedia/kplayer

Alternatives to Adobe Reader PDF Reader:

Adobe Reader (For Linux)
http://get.adobe.com/reader

Evince
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Evince

Okular
http://okular.kde.org

Foxit Reader
http://www.foxitsoftware.com

Alternative to Windows Photo Viewer Photo Manager:

digiKam
https://www.digikam.org

Shotwell
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Shotwell

F Spot
http://f-spot.org

gThumb
https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Apps/gthumb

Alternatives to Yahoo Messenger / AOL Instant Messenger Chat Clients:

Pidgin
https://www.pidgin.im

Element
https://element.io/

Empathy
https://wiki.gnome.org/action/show/Apps/Empathy

Kopete
http://kopete.kde.org

Gajim
http://gajim.org

Alternative to Nero Burning Rom CD/DVD Burner:

Nero Linux
http://www.nero.com/enu/promo-linux.html

Brasero
https://wiki.gnome.org/Apps/Brasero

K3b
http://www.k3b.org

Xfburn
http://goodies.xfce.org/projects/applications/xfburn

GnomeBaker
http://sourceforge.net/projects/gnomebaker

X CD Roast
http://www.xcdroast.org