Linux-vs-Windows (was Re: Augury and reading ...)

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Sat, Jul 24, 2004 at 01:40:56AM -0400, John Esak wrote:
> Well, I view the situation as far more than that kind of thing... how about
> expanding the scenario to somebody puts this great Linux desktop drop-in on
> someone's desk that has been using Adobe Photo Shop for the past 5 years to
> their work.  Will Adobe Photo Shop (off the shelf) run on SuSE's new client?

I rather suspect it might, these days, though the install might be a
bit rough.

WinE has come *quite* a ways along.

It will happily run Office 2000 these days...

> Unless this new breed of Linux desktop clients allows the use of any of the
> zillions of readily available programs to be run without problem, they (it)
> will run into the same thing Apple has for the past couple decades. They
> have only a tiny percentage of any store's shelf-space... Unfortunately,
> people use these big mainstream products everywhere these days. I don't see
> how the new Linux desktop client will get past this obstacle.

Look into WinE.  

Cheers,
-- jra
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