Well, why do you want to run Lindows?
Being able to install software depends on how closely a distribution follows the file hierachy standards, and such.
If you want to install software from a tarball, you need developer tools like the C-compiler, and header files (includes). Lindows has a click-and-run system to install new software from a menu. Some people might like this, but you need to pay for it. I've read stories about people installing Lindows for their grandmom, and they liked it because they understood click-and-run.
But in reality, you're paying Lindows for free software
I'm very keen on installing programs from a tarball. I never really had a dependency hell, and I don't have to look for packages. (because everyone releases their program as tarball) and I use "checkinstall" to create a package for me, so I can remove the program too.
But if you really want to get rid of the command line, try Mandrake or SuSe. (or just Microsoft Windows... seriously!)
ps. there is one big reason why I could advise everyone NOT to use Lindows:
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There is one Linux distribution that is ignoring many years of common sense, good design, and an awareness of secure operating environments in favor of a Microsoft-like deprecation of security before the nebulous term "ease of use": Lindows. By default, Lindows runs the user of the system as root (and it even encourages the user to forgo setting up a root password during installation by labeling it as "optional"!), an unbelievably shortsighted decision that results in a Linux box with the same security as a Windows 9.x machine.
If you go to the Lindows Web site, they state that it is possible to add other, non-privileged users, but nowhere in the operating system do they advocate adding these other users. Yet they claim their distribution of Linux is secure! In an effort to emulate Microsoft and make things "easy", they have compromised the security of their users, an unforgivable action. No one in the field of security, or even IT, can recommend Lindows while such a blatant disregard for security is the norm for the OS.
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