\documentclass[10pt,a4paper]{article} % Packages \usepackage{fancyhdr} % For header and footer \usepackage{multicol} % Allows multicols in tables \usepackage{tabularx} % Intelligent column widths \usepackage{tabulary} % Used in header and footer \usepackage{hhline} % Border under tables \usepackage{graphicx} % For images \usepackage{xcolor} % For hex colours %\usepackage[utf8x]{inputenc} % For unicode character support \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} % Without this we get weird character replacements \usepackage{colortbl} % For coloured tables \usepackage{setspace} % For line height \usepackage{lastpage} % Needed for total page number \usepackage{seqsplit} % Splits long words. %\usepackage{opensans} % Can't make this work so far. Shame. Would be lovely. \usepackage[normalem]{ulem} % For underlining links % Most of the following are not required for the majority % of cheat sheets but are needed for some symbol support. \usepackage{amsmath} % Symbols \usepackage{MnSymbol} % Symbols \usepackage{wasysym} % Symbols %\usepackage[english,german,french,spanish,italian]{babel} % Languages % Document Info \author{Greg Finzer (GregFinzer)} \pdfinfo{ /Title (windows-equivalent-software-for-linux.pdf) /Creator (Cheatography) /Author (Greg Finzer (GregFinzer)) /Subject (Windows Equivalent Software for Linux Cheat Sheet) } % Lengths and widths \addtolength{\textwidth}{6cm} \addtolength{\textheight}{-1cm} \addtolength{\hoffset}{-3cm} \addtolength{\voffset}{-2cm} \setlength{\tabcolsep}{0.2cm} % Space between columns \setlength{\headsep}{-12pt} % Reduce space between header and content \setlength{\headheight}{85pt} % If less, LaTeX automatically increases it \renewcommand{\footrulewidth}{0pt} % Remove footer line \renewcommand{\headrulewidth}{0pt} % Remove header line \renewcommand{\seqinsert}{\ifmmode\allowbreak\else\-\fi} % Hyphens in seqsplit % This two commands together give roughly % the right line height in the tables \renewcommand{\arraystretch}{1.3} \onehalfspacing % Commands \newcommand{\SetRowColor}[1]{\noalign{\gdef\RowColorName{#1}}\rowcolor{\RowColorName}} % Shortcut for row colour \newcommand{\mymulticolumn}[3]{\multicolumn{#1}{>{\columncolor{\RowColorName}}#2}{#3}} % For coloured multi-cols \newcolumntype{x}[1]{>{\raggedright}p{#1}} % New column types for ragged-right paragraph columns \newcommand{\tn}{\tabularnewline} % Required as custom column type in use % Font and Colours \definecolor{HeadBackground}{HTML}{333333} \definecolor{FootBackground}{HTML}{666666} \definecolor{TextColor}{HTML}{333333} \definecolor{DarkBackground}{HTML}{27A32F} \definecolor{LightBackground}{HTML}{F1F9F2} \renewcommand{\familydefault}{\sfdefault} \color{TextColor} % Header and Footer \pagestyle{fancy} \fancyhead{} % Set header to blank \fancyfoot{} % Set footer to blank \fancyhead[L]{ \noindent \begin{multicols}{3} \begin{tabulary}{5.8cm}{C} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \vspace{-7pt} {\parbox{\dimexpr\textwidth-2\fboxsep\relax}{\noindent \hspace*{-6pt}\includegraphics[width=5.8cm]{/web/www.cheatography.com/public/images/cheatography_logo.pdf}} } \end{tabulary} \columnbreak \begin{tabulary}{11cm}{L} \vspace{-2pt}\large{\bf{\textcolor{DarkBackground}{\textrm{Windows Equivalent Software for Linux Cheat Sheet}}}} \\ \normalsize{by \textcolor{DarkBackground}{Greg Finzer (GregFinzer)} via \textcolor{DarkBackground}{\uline{cheatography.com/15280/cs/47707/}}} \end{tabulary} \end{multicols}} \fancyfoot[L]{ \footnotesize \noindent \begin{multicols}{3} \begin{tabulary}{5.8cm}{LL} \SetRowColor{FootBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{p{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Cheatographer}} \\ \vspace{-2pt}Greg Finzer (GregFinzer) \\ \uline{cheatography.com/gregfinzer} \\ \uline{\seqsplit{github}.com/GregFinzer/} \end{tabulary} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabulary}{5.8cm}{L} \SetRowColor{FootBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{p{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Cheat Sheet}} \\ \vspace{-2pt}Not Yet Published.\\ Updated 20th February, 2026.\\ Page {\thepage} of \pageref{LastPage}. \end{tabulary} \vfill \columnbreak \begin{tabulary}{5.8cm}{L} \SetRowColor{FootBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{p{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Sponsor}} \\ \SetRowColor{white} \vspace{-5pt} %\includegraphics[width=48px,height=48px]{dave.jpeg} Measure your website readability!\\ www.readability-score.com \end{tabulary} \end{multicols}} \begin{document} \raggedright \raggedcolumns % Set font size to small. 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\mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Developer IDEs}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{VSCode, Rider, CLion, Webstorm, Ruby Mine, IntelliJ IDEA, RustRover, Goland, PyCharm, PHP Storm} \tn % Row Count 2 (+ 2) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{X} \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Databases}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} \mymulticolumn{1}{x{5.377cm}}{PostgreSQL, MySQL, MariaDB, Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle Database, SQLite, MongoDB, Redis, Apache Cassandra, CouchDB, Elasticsearch, Neo4j, InfluxDB} \tn % Row Count 3 (+ 3) \hhline{>{\arrayrulecolor{DarkBackground}}-} \end{tabularx} \par\addvspace{1.3em} \begin{tabularx}{5.377cm}{x{1.74195 cm} x{3.23505 cm} } \SetRowColor{DarkBackground} \mymulticolumn{2}{x{5.377cm}}{\bf\textcolor{white}{Developer Tools}} \tn % Row 0 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} git & git \tn % Row Count 1 (+ 1) % Row 1 \SetRowColor{white} TortoiseGit & TortoiseGit =\textgreater{} Glint, Sublime Merge, GitKraken, Git Cola \tn % Row Count 4 (+ 3) % Row 2 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Notepad++ & Kate, Sublime Text \tn % Row Count 5 (+ 1) % Row 3 \SetRowColor{white} Winmerge & Meld, KDiff3  \tn % Row Count 6 (+ 1) % Row 4 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Beyond Compare & Beyond Compare \tn % Row Count 7 (+ 1) % Row 5 \SetRowColor{white} Database Management & DataGrip, DBeaver, Beekeeper Studio, Rider, VS Code Extensions \tn % Row Count 10 (+ 3) % Row 6 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Postman & Postman \tn % Row Count 11 (+ 1) % Row 7 \SetRowColor{white} Expresso, RegexBuddy & https://regex101.com/ \tn % Row Count 13 (+ 2) % Row 8 \SetRowColor{LightBackground} Markdown Monster & VSCode with Markdown Extension, Rider \tn % Row Count 15 (+ 2) % Row 9 \SetRowColor{white} Nuget Package Explorer & \seqsplit{https://nuget.info/packages} \tn % Row Count 17 (+ 2) 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