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   From: Goeroeboeroe    
   Subject: Re: My ubuntu experience   
   Date: Wed, 24 Jan 2007 11:42:40 +0100   
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   Op Wed, 24 Jan 2007 03:49:54 +0000, schreef SINNER:   
      
   > * Immure Obfuscation wrote in alt.os.linux.ubuntu:   
   >> "Chris Game"  wrote in message    
   >    
   > [...]   
   >    
   >> I'd also like it if my Windows applications ran on Linux (not **similar**    
   >> applications ... I mean the **same** applications).   
   >    
   > http://frankscorner.org/   
   >    
   >> For years, Microsoft    
   >> supported Office on the Mac. Well, it's not likely they'd do so for Linux.    
   >> But I also rely on products from other vendors (Adobe is on my must-have    
   >> list). If Adobe and other vendors would release the **same** Windows apps   
   on    
   >> the Linux platform, then ta-ta to Windows.   
   >    
   > Now that I just solved your issues when can we expect the switch?   
      
   This is the kind of advice that people turns away from Linux, because   
   this has to end with a big disappointment. Lots and lots of programs   
   don't run on Wine.   
   If Chris wants to use certain Windows-programs on   
   Linux, he first has to look if that's possible at all, and if possible,   
   how. I have to test browsers on sites I make, and a lot of browsers   
   absolutely refuse to run on Linux or any kind of a program like Wine. I   
   had to install VMWare with XP inside it.   
   I'm afraid if somebody tries   
   Linux with this in his mind and he finds out you can't run all   
   Windows-apps on Linux he'll soon quit Linux and stay with Windows. And, in   
   my opinion, if somebody wants to run all or most of his Windows   
   applications on Linux, probably in the same way as they run on Windows, I   
   think he should just stick with Windows.   
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