Windows Alternatives

Creative Apps

Newer Photoshop and Illustrator do not work well with Wine, versions XS6 and below are usually fine. Photoshop Lightroom does work with Wine versions 11.10 and above with the staging patch set.

Krita https://krita.org/en/download/

GIMP https://www.gimp.org/

FireAlpaca https://firealpaca.com/

FTP Clients

WinSCP does work well with Wine.

FileZilla https://filezilla-project.org/

Media Players

VLC https://www.videolan.org/

mpv https://mpv.io/

Foobar2000 (requires Wine, works well, developer accepts bug reports if using Wine) https://www.foobar2000.org/windows

System Utilities

WinRAR/7-Zip

Ark is built in to most KDE installs https://flathub.org/en/apps/org.kde.ark

PeaZip https://flathub.org/en/apps/io.github.peazip.PeaZip

WinDirStat/SpaceMonger/WizTree

Filelight https://flathub.org/en/apps/org.kde.filelight

Disk Usage Analyzer https://flathub.org/en/apps/org.gnome.baobab

Gaming

Shadowplay

GPU Screen Recorder https://flathub.org/en/apps/com.dec05eba.gpu_screen_recorder

Minecraft Launcher

Prism Launcher https://prismlauncher.org/

Epic Games/GOG/Amazon Games

Heroic Games Launcher https://heroicgameslauncher.com/

Logitech Mice

Both do the same thing but have a slightly different interface.

Solaar https://flathub.org/en/apps/io.github.pwr_solaar.solaar

Pipe https://flathub.org/en/apps/org.freedesktop.Piper

Corsair Devices

CKB Next, does not support all corsair devices, check the supported hardware on the linked GitHub page https://github.com/ckb-next/ckb-next

Stream Deck

OpenDeck, uses Wine to try and run Stream Deck plugins designed for windows https://github.com/nekename/OpenDeck

StreamController, does not attempt to run Windows versions of plugins, smaller app store https://flathub.org/en/apps/com.core447.StreamController

RGB Software

OpenRGB - has to have specific support from the developers but a lot of devices are supported https://openrgb.org/

FPS overlay

MangoHud, similar to RTSS https://github.com/flightlessmango/Mangohud

Emulators

RetroArch, also available on Steam https://www.retroarch.com/