> So how do Linspire owners run all those applications that are written to
> run on Mac or Windows?
Very simply: they can't.
However, the Linux community provides a vast array of substitutes, including "office" clones which read and write (albeit imperfectly) files produced by their MS counterparts.
There are some limitations to this; in some cases the substitutes may not offer all the functionality of the Mac/Windows counterparts. Photoshop and Quicken come to mind as well as probably quite a few vertical market applications.
As for games, I don't, so I will let someone else tackle that topic.
Here is a guy whose father asked him to install Vista. He surreptitiously installed Linux (Ubuntu) instead and his father, who thinks he is now running Vista, is raving about it: http://www.degredo.net/
Ha!
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Colin Brace
Amsterdam