Linux Substitutes for Windows Software
Having moved to Linux quite some time ago I realized that finding substitutes for most software would not be easy. Some software just does not exist outside the Windows platform. I was quite suprised to find that most of the substitutes turned out better than expected, some even better than the original. Geany in my opinion is better than notepad++. Filezilla is the same on both platforms.
One piece of software I am really missing is Windows Live Writer, as there is nothing on Linux that even comes close. I do run VirtualBox, but do not find the idea of typing my text in a virtual windows appealing enough to try it. Lets just say I like WLW very much, but would prefer to keep it Windows-free.
Another program i can’t seem to substitute under Linux is Paint Shop Pro, one of my favourite image editors. I know there are a multitude of alternatives readily available for the Linux platform, it’s just that every one of them either seems to do too little or too much. With PSP I was right at home. Unfortunately trying to use wine resulted in a disaster as PSP would randomly crash while I was working away happily.
Linux is not always great …
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