Just a short list that Displays the Software alternatives I chose when I switched to Ubuntu from OS X

• Music: iTunes => Banshee
• Twitter: Tweetie => Gwibber
• IRC: Linkinus => XChat-GNOME
• Office: MS Office 2011 for Mac => Office 2007 (Wine) *
• Photo Library: Aperture => Shotwell Photo Manager
• Picture manipulation: Photoshop CS5 => Photoshop CS5 (Wine)
• Virtualisation: VMware Fusion => VirtualBox OSE
• Feed Reader: Gruml => Liferea Feed Reader
• Editor: TextMate => Sublime X (Alpha)

* I went with Wine for Office because of School related Reasons. I need to make sure they look alright on the teachers machine – who uses Microsoft Office.


Also I should mention that a lot of my every day programms run native on Linux:

• Chrome
• Firefox
• VLC
• Thunderbird
• Skype
• JDownloader
• Dropbox
• Mysql
• PHP