There are plenty of windows programs, that may run in linux. The most popular, installable layer for allowing this is called "wine". There are plenty of apps that may run; here's a list with some of them, running in different versions of wine. Some application not being on the list doesn't mean it can't be run; for instance, on http://belot.hit.bg there's a pretty popular in Bulgaria card game, called "belot", which is not listed; still, it runs in wine very well.
There are certain things one has to know about wine; still, reading all the documentation seems boring. Here is a comprehensive list of some of the most important things one has to know fot to be able to use wine at its best. It neither starts nor ends with the configuration command "winecfg", and is something even experienced users of wine may find worth scrolling through. Here goes a "thanks" to the author of that list.
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Cool:)
But there's one problem though -- A Windows/Mac application (say, Adobe Fireworks, or Photoshop, etc.) will always run faster on Windows/Mac, than on Linux, because it's designed to do so:)
Still, it's nice that sometimes you can run under Linux something, which was intended originally to run only under Windows:)
Thanks Michel; there for sure are some programs as alternatives of the ones you pointed out (Photoshop - Gimpshop, Fireworks - maybe Xara Extreme), whilst I'm not quite sure if they have the full options of the forementioned programs. Sure, one can try to emulate Photoshop; I've read about people doing that, but I don't know for sure if all the filters work properly, etc. For me, as a non-specialist, this is not a big deal, as I don't use these programs professionally; but for you, and probably for other people that use such advanced features, this could be vital. As for being fast or not, I cannot claim this for sure, cause I have never emulated them; from my personal experience with Ubuntu, I have observed, that once Wine is started, each and every program, which is being emulated through wine, starts instantly - that means, once you start belot.exe, and then try to open another complicated program, it loads as fast as in Windows environment. I think it's just another feature, the prelinking of programs.
My comment became too long. Of course, one has to use what one likes to use. Peace.
Adrian
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