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Converts Windows Programs to their Linux Equivalant.
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║ Windows ║ Linux ║
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║ Firefox ║ Firefox ║
║ Chrome ║ Chromium or Chrome ║
║ Photoshop ║ GIMP ║
║ Ms.Paint ║ KolourPaint ║
║ Paint.NET ║ Pinta ║
║ FlashEditor ║ Inkscape + Animation Plugin ║
║ MSOffice ║ LibreOffice/OpenOffice ║
║ Flash ║ Flash ║
║ MSVisualC#/VBA ║ MonoDevelop ║
║ MSVisualAnythingElse ║ Eclipse ║
║ Notepad ║ nano ║
║ Notepad++ ║ Gedit + Plugins / Kate ║
║ Utorrent ║ qbittorrent ║
║ Windows Media Player/Itunes ║ Banshee/Clementine ║
║ Realplayer/WMP ║ VLC ║
║ WinAmp ║ Audacious ║
║ Windows Media Center ║ XBMC ║
║ Outlook ║ Thunderbird/Evolution ║
║ Adobe Lightroom ║ Darktable ║
║ max3d/Maya ║ Blender ║
║ Googledrive ║ GDrive ║
║ Anything Else ║ Wine It! ║
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NOTE: Wine is much better than the public opinion. They
recently made it to stable 1.7 which makes lots of programs
run almost natively. Check the WineDB before giving up ;)
NOTE2: Archive formats are provided by most good distros via File-Roller (e.g ubuntu) or Ark(e.g KDE)
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Updated with ChromeOS's suggestions.

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Syncdrive is no more, replaced with GDrive.

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uTorrent => Deluge
Windows Movie Maker => Opemshot(so much better)
Skype => Skype
Ventrilo => Mumble/Teamspeak
Sony Vegas => Kdenlive
Steam => Steam
Remote desktop server => vnc
Remote Desktop client => Reminna
Remote Assistance => Teamviewer

That's all I can come up with right now.
Edit: also this http://prism-break.org/

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