I still dual boot Windows XP as a security blanket until i get more comfortable with Linux (can i use the words windows and security in the same sentence?). I only use Windows about once every few days and i use it for............wait why am i still using Windows?

I seem to use Linux more than Windows now, too.

Well, I have to say, the only reason I use Windows these day's is for Autocad... I only hope and pray they will come out with a linux version... but wishful thinking at best...

KC

Well, I'm not in the CAD business, but there has been a new release at

http://www.inkscape.org/

Would that go in the direction you need?

I am in the CAD business. I do kitchen designs plus houseplans, an i use QCAD. Easier than AutoCAD and does everything i need. No 3D but i dont need that. And like everything else in Linux its free. You can either compile it yourself or get it as RPM from livna.org.

Lol buy a new one lol ! it less expensive than a windows liscence ( if you paid it )

I have just been too lazy to partition and format the hard drive. I have not used Winxp in months. I first kept it for my games, but I have since stopped playing them as much. Plus I like the challenge of trying to get them to play using Cedega. So on my next really boring weekend, bye bye xp don't you come 'round here no mo'

I keep 'doze because I have so much on there (music, games, ect.) that I havn't found the time to move over. Plus I'm hoping to get a good job soon, and when I do, bye-bye HP Pavilion, hello home-built compy anyways, once I do that, I'm probably going to try and hook-up the two as a network and just steal crap from the Winny (the Pooh, lol) part of this old 80 gb hdd. That and some games I have don't run under Linux.
*goes to find info on hacking apart prebuilt network games and rebuilding them to work like you want*

It looks like I'll have to keep Windows to run Sync software for my new Nokia 9500 and to keep using my Sharp JX-2000 Laser (Win)printer.

I say we all get together and file a lawsuite against Microsoft for trying to form a monopoly, and every other computer group out there for helping them. Winmodems, Winprinters, whats next, Winhard drives?

MS Office? OpenOffice is much more superior to M$ Office. I keep Windows 2003 Server Enterprise on a second partition. I do NOT know why, I wanted to see how it works and just never felt like ridding myself of it. If StarCraft and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas for PC ran on Linux (haven't checked), I would never use Windows again.

Adobe PageMaker v7.0
Adobe Photoshop v7.0
Wenlin v3.0

Microtek ScanMaker 4850 ... no *nix driver

To print photos, on photo paper ... HP DeskJet 920C ... HP provides a driver
for Linux at 1200dpi (if you kiss the pony right) and 4800dpi in Windoze

If I want to do Chinese input properly, Windoze ... Ctrl+Space on kbd
I spent considerable time compiling and configuring FCITX to have it hose
my Fluxbox window manager. I've heard SCIM works, but only from KDE
users ... and I don't like KDE, or other desktop environments.

I abhor the Micro$loth Corporation, probably as much as anyone else.
However, I have work to do, and this software and hardware was made
to work with Windoze. So when I have to use it, and boot into Windoze,
which I already paid for, I get my work done as quickly as possible
and then get out ...

The only software I use Windows for is Microstran (finite element modelling, and I must use this program for University, not an alternative) and Bible Library.

If anyone can tell me how to make Microstran work on Wine and tell me of any other Bible software (other than Bible Time, which I already have but it lacks some of the translations I would like) I would be very pleased.

You might try Bible Gateway which is an online reference,
or the Bible Toolbar extension for searching Bible Gateway.

I haven't had success with Wine, either, and have some Bible
software I used in Windoze that is awesome.

I'm running IE6 and Outlook express via wine, took about 5 minutes to install using the fedora core 3 RPM and Winetools.. just thought i'd mention that..