Ubuntu and Windows Application Equivelents

Im willing to give ubuntu a try, but before i make the plunge i wanna know what is the linux equivelent of these windows applications.. These are my most used and important apps and i wanna make sure theres software like these that can be installed on ubuntu

EDIT: Should i install Kubuntu or Ubuntu?

Or should i just stick to windows? lol

ActionReplay XBox
Photoshop
Nero
NFO Viewer
Directory Printer
Easy SFV Creater/Checker
FlashFXP
Limewire
MIRC
Newsbin
PowerISO
Quickpar
Quicktime Alternative
Rainlender
Soulseek
Spybot
utorrent
Winamp
WinRar

photoshop --> gimp
and you won't need spybot...
or QTalternative

heres a few you should be able to find them on the top of any google search thats why i didnt include links

ActionReplay XBox -----> here
Photoshop -----> gimp
Nero -----> k3b
NFO Viewer -----> any text editor
Directory Printer -----> mc?
Easy SFV Creater/Checker -----> Don't know what that program is.
FlashFXP -----> gftp
Limewire -----> limewire
MIRC -----> Xchat, Irssi
Newsbin -----> Klibido, pan
PowerISO -----> "mount -t loop /location?"
Quickpar -----> par2repair
Quicktime Alternative -----> totem, mplayer.
Rainlender -----> gdesklets
Soulseek -----> Nicotine
Spybot -----> Doesn't need one
utorrent -----> There are loads, azureus
Winamp -----> xmms
WinRar -----> rar

and if there isnt and app for linux, use wine to emulate the windows app.

as for kubuntu or ubuntu, do you want kde or gnome?

Pretty much everything that needs to be covered, is =)

i gave up on ubuntu, been fucking with it all night and morning.

thanks guys, i might give it another try some other day.

i was pissed because i had it running with the latest firefox, did all kinds of tweaks, installed apps, and then noticed i cant read or write to my ntfs partitions. I install NTFS-FUSE but i read around how it can still cause problems with your ntfs drives and i dont wanna take a risk.

So if anyone had any ideas of what can be done next time, let me know because ubuntu was definately soooo close to letting me go of windows

I just use FAT32 for all the partitions I want to share between Linux and Windows.

i was thinking about doing that... but. i have this indulgence to stick with ntfs no matter what the upside to fat32 and linux is..

ntfs is still in testing and it could crash under linux use.

I f'ed myself over as well about this.

i can read my ntfs partitions just fine from ubuntu. havnt tried writing ye, nor do i need to. i just throw everything onto my fileserver from ubuntu if need be.

You should be able to read off an NTFS partition just fine without messing anything up. I have never wrote to an NTFS partition but can't you compile NTFS write support into the kernel?

The point is that NTFS write support exists, but isn't guaranteed not to screw up and trash a bunch of your files. If you really need to share partitions with read/write access, FAT32 is the way to go.

yea, you can read but writing is still unstable. not worth the risk. until then. no linux for me.

its a shame.

why is it so necissary for you to write to NTFS?

yeah. just make a small fat32 partition to transfer files back and fourth with

Come to the darkside!!!

Or would it be leave the darkside?

200gigs of mp3s, just to convert to fat32.
no thanks, i'll wait until everything is stable.

oh, i will goto the darkside eventually, i love fucking with linux.

You will still be able to read the 200 gigs of MP3's from linux. You don't have to write to anything to be able to listen.