What software do you miss from Windows & macOS?

This page summarizes the projects mentioned and recommended in the original post on /r/linux

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  • ansel

    A darktable fork minus the bloat plus some design vision.

  • Yes. Sometimes I think I should have learned programming a bit more, but it's just not my kind of thing. Although, because of recent changes in darktable a developer made a fork. Had some valid points. https://github.com/Aurelien-Pierre/R-Darktable

  • mkchromecast

    Cast macOS and Linux Audio/Video to your Google Cast and Sonos Devices

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  • manuskript

    A open-source tool for writers

  • There are few native alternatives, most notably Manuskript, but they're all, in my opinion, subpar. I dream of a solution that would integrate something like LibreOffice + scene features and git for pushing the projects to Gitlab/Github + pandoc for production of the final manuscript.

  • subtitleedit

    the subtitle editor :)

  • SubtitleEdit. I think this kinda runs with Mono or WINE with Mono but the end result is a little odd. Plus, it's pretty much a Windows-first program. Aegisub is pretty popular but it seems like it, and its main subtitle format, Advanced SubStation Alpha (ASS), are more for those who watch anime. I just watch standard live action Western TV and I've never really found anything I like for editing SubRip (srt) files.

  • linux-packaging-scripts

    Discontinued Only for Github Actions, The hacked linux-packaging-scripts of minecraft-linux (endless tweaked)

  • This is the one, it's no longer supported. It works up to the last 1.18. You have to own bedrock on the android playstore, as it uses that version.

  • AssetStudio

    Discontinued AssetStudio is a tool for exploring, extracting and exporting assets and assetbundles.

  • Something like AssetStudio so I can extract music from Unity games. Wine works perfectly fine, though I'd rather have a native build of it.

  • corectrl

  • AMD https://gitlab.com/corectrl/corectrl

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  • novelWriter

    novelWriter is an open source plain text editor designed for writing novels. It supports a minimal markdown-like syntax for formatting text. It is written with Python 3 (3.8+) and Qt 5 (5.15.0+) for cross-platform support.

  • Yeah, I actually found the AppImage after posting that comment. That goes a long way. novelWriter also looks excellent, but it's still very much not even in the same class.

  • nvidia-vaapi-driver

    A VA-API implemention using NVIDIA's NVDEC

  • More info here: https://github.com/elFarto/nvidia-vaapi-driver/issues/74

  • pw-nvidia-denoiser

    Pipewire NVIDIA Denoiser DSP Filter

  • Someone has built a Nvidia denoiser plugin for pipewire. The developer has used Nvidia audioeffects API. It is just a teet and have some limitations. The SDK was recently released for Linux. May be some developers can take look at this and may integrate it with their app(when it matures)

  • desktop

    Next generation notepad-based calculator, built with extendibility and privacy in mind. (by parsify-dev)

  • Parsify desktop

  • onedrive

    OneDrive Client for Linux

  • Onedrive works great with 3rd party tool -- https://github.com/abraunegg/onedrive. I set up this in docker, runs great. Only tricky thing is authorization, but you do this only on set up and once you changed your password. I have just docker spell saved for this.

  • files

    File browser designed for elementary OS (by elementary)

  • There's Pantheon Files, but it doesn't come anywere close to having as many features as MacOS's file manager. It's a pity that the Dolphin Miller plugin was discontinued. :c

  • onedriver

    A native Linux filesystem for Microsoft OneDrive

  • /u/Dmitry-Galyuk already mentioned a third-party Onedrive client. As an alternative, you can also try Onedriver, which I think is easier to setup.

  • zim-desktop-wiki

    Main repository of the zim desktop wiki project

  • OneNote has a web app in Office 365. Or maybe try Zim.

  • xdotool

    fake keyboard/mouse input, window management, and more

  • For stuff like that where you don't need to read window properties, I would use xdotool: https://github.com/jordansissel/xdotool

  • quodlibet

    Music player and music library manager for Linux, Windows, and macOS

  • quodlibet is only closest thing I found that I can tolerate.

  • drawing

    Simple image editor for Linux

  • Similar to Pinta, there is drawing.

  • flameshot

    Powerful yet simple to use screenshot software :desktop_computer: :camera_flash:

  • FlameShot is fairly close to ShareX (not quite 1:1 though)

  • opensnitch

    OpenSnitch is a GNU/Linux interactive application firewall inspired by Little Snitch.

  • There are opensnitch, portmaster for Linux.

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  • pdfsam

    PDFsam, a desktop application to split, merge, mix, rotate PDF files and extract pages

  • There is PDFsam to do bunch of stuffs on pdf. You also have PDF arranger in flathub.

  • SOLIDWORKS-for-Linux

    This is a project, where I give you a way to use SOLIDWORKS on Linux!

  • SaaSHub

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