Of course they are never going to support it, thats where projects like Moonlight come in and need to catch up to where Silverlight is at.

As to the point of the initial comment being thats the reason why people don't migrate over, I don't agree with that. Primary reason that I think is because mainstream apps aren't available for Linux such as MS, Adobe, games, etc. Not to say there aren't alternatives but the average end-user wants to buy the popular mainstream apps and not use something such as WINE to run them. The few end-users that do venture out to Linux land to give it a try we then loose more because of the install process for adding apps. While there are builds that are better than others for the beginning user such as Ubuntu, Fedora, etc that can use packages (rpm, deb) for installs even those get difficult for many end-users quick if they need to compile an app. Or for the user who needs a specific application such as VPN which can be a bear to install and configure depending on build and protocols needed, for example.

In fact there are many programmes i need it in linux .

Like babylon on windows for translation.

There is also have a problem with software companies produce programmes for only windows and ignore Linux.

Greetings

HxD hex editor

Sketch UP Google

yeah
indeed

i refuse to use any software from google
i draw the line at google search
(i hope this is not considered trolling and i will stop and no i am not trying to get my post count up)

http://www.linuxquestions.org/questi...d.php?t=761709

Thought I'd tack this link on here, to the Syndicated News forum, where LXer just posted something relevant to this thread (among others).

I haven't read the story, I'm just giving the link for those interested.

Sasha

MS Windows

I would like to see ports of Reason and Guitar Rig.
Audacity just dosn't do the trick for me.

.......and vst capabilities in general

On http://www.babylon.com you can find a wonderful program which helps you with translations in a convenient way.
It almost works under Wine..
I think that what they do at the moment with their advertising is almost the same way it is possible to distribute as open source.
Its a pity that their programmers think that its a bridge too far for them. What power does LQ have to push them?

Phun. I know that their website has a linux version, but I can't get it to work. I would like this great program to be put on the mint software portal, as when I used the windows verion in WINE, it messed up Linux.

I agree that Dreamweaver would be great ported across to Linux. I can honestly say I don't particularly miss any Window$ software, but DreamWeaver sure as hell made life easier occasionally - not enough to go back to Windoze tho!
Better than a DreamWeaver port would be a Linux wysiwyg web designer that works properly! I've tried a few and had no success whatsoever, and have experienced sudden crashes for no reason, just didn't work at all etc. This is a shame as there is so much great Linux software around in almost every other category.

Rich

A quick addition to what I said about Linux wysiwyg not working: Kompozer, as I just found out, is close to a new release. The old version did not work with Ubuntu 8.10 and 9.04 because of the version of GTK. I've just, quickly, tried Kompozer and it looks to work fine so far. BTW Kompozer is not a KDE app'!

Rich

Holdem Manager for playing poker.