FileZilla
The same FTP and SFTP file transfer program you used on Windows, with an official Linux version.
Our verdict
FileZilla is one of the easy ones. The Linux version is the same program, made by the same people, with the same four-panel window. If you already know where the site manager is, you know where it is here.
Bring your saved connections with you. Export the site manager file on Windows before you wipe the machine and import it on the Linux side, and every host and password comes across in one go.
Install it from your Linux app store rather than downloading from the web. The downloads on the project's own site have carried bundled extras in the past, and the app store version is clean.
What's good
- Identical to the Windows version, so there is nothing at all to relearn
- Handles FTP, FTPS and SFTP, which covers almost every web host
- Your saved site list can be exported from Windows and imported here
- Free and open source, with no account to create
What to know first
- The installer on the project's own site has been known to bundle extra offers, so use your app store instead
- The interface is dated and busy for a first-time user
- The Flathub version is community maintained rather than published by the FileZilla team
- Only the client is free, the server side is a separate paid product
The details
- Cost
- Free
- Open source
- Yes (GPL-2.0-or-later)
- How you install it
- App store (Flatpak), .deb installer, .rpm installer, Built-in app store
Windows apps it can replace
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