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I don't do any gaming so I live fine without widows. At work I use windows since I have a sysadmin job there but for my use I can't recall the last time I used windows.
and I'm not just a surf the web user either, I organize 20,000 pictures and add a couple thousand a year from our 4 cameras and all the places we go. Organize and review my gps logs, geoencode the pictures. Do all my bills online and track those and our finances, budget, kids college funds. Track our schedules with my wife's part time evening job, kids school, schedule, my oncall and work scheduls. I maintain a home inventory system for all our toys/tools, track projects things I build and modify. Track maintenance schedules for our vehicles, etc. Find and organize maps and info about places we visit, record the pictures, gps logs of rides/hikes. Keep a somewhat daily journal of everything we do, digitizing anything paper so it can be backed up and take up less space.

sam_o_rogers

Well, I suppose you could say I'm cheating. Have an XP machine that has some programs installed on it that I need for work, and I don't have the install disk for.

Can I live without Windows? Well this netbook came with XP pre-installed, but after three months I've yet to boot into Windows.

Would like to try some BigFishGames for Windows, using Wine, but it keeps throwing an error that I'm not the Administrator, regardless of user I use. Even tried it as root and went so far as to create an adminstrator user ID with the ability to install software. No joy. Think it is a wine thing.

Wine runs Snood poppers just great, except after I bought it I discovered a few levels later that the game got really, um, I guess challenging is the word.

I kind of cheated and stole the .ttf files from the windows partition so Open Office would have all the fonts that Windows people use.

Gimp and Open Office have undergone a lot of development since the 6.06 version of Ubuntu I downloaded a couple of years ago.

Programming - I want to get up to speed on Python. Code written for that will run on all three platforms. Also plan on installing OpenLaszlo. Have SWFTOOLS already installed but haven't started using it yet.

Browsing - Flash 10 works fine on Ubuntu 9.04. Refuse to install Moonlight. Firefox is my prefered browser. Some Javascript. Skype works just fine, including camera. Acrobat Reader likewise. (Yes, I know they are proprietary, but the point is that some vendors know that there is more to life than windows.)