Although, we have a big Linux team, sometimes our developers used to work in Windows have to switch to Linux for their projects. Our senior PHP developer Valery Makarenko has put together a list of his everyday programs and their Linux analogs.
| Programs | Windows | Linux |
| Instant messenger | QIP | SIM |
| Web Browser | Mozilla Firefox / Opera / IE | Mozilla Firefox / Opera |
| File manager, editor, archiver, ftp, scp, coffee brewer | FAR | bash / Midnight Commander |
| MySQL | EMS MySQL manager | MySQL Tools from MySQL creators |
| TheBat, Outlook | KMail, Thunderbird | |
| Office | MS Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint) | OpenOffice |
| Vocabulary | Lingvo | StarDict |
| Hardware monitoring | DTemp/MBMonitor | GKRellm |
| Organizer | WinOrganizer, ATNotes | KNotes/ Kwallet |
| SVN client | Tortoise SVN | KSVN |
| CASE | Enterprise Architect | Umbrella / ArgoUML (java) |
| Multimedia (audio) | Winamp | Mplayer/ BMP |
| IDE | Eclipse (java) | Eclipse (java) |
Heh. This matrix is BS actually. The world of unix applications doesn’t limit on KDE.
You are right, the unix world is not just the KDE environment. The point was how to make a transition to Linux less harmful for a Windows mind.
And there is soooo much more…