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Originally Posted by Lycanthrope
Sony, no - not natively, but many Windows programs can be run with a package called wine. Also, there are tons of open source programs available for every task imaginable - and they are often better than their Windows counterparts.
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See this is why despite being FREE Linux will never become popular. People buy a computer and they expect thing to work. The average person is ignorant of computers anyways and face it Linux even in it's most dumbed down form is too complicated for them. No one is going to want to search for
open source" anything. Telling them Windows and all MS products suck anyways is not going to get them to switch. Once they make a Linux version that work with programs people already have and is as easy to use for most people then it might have a chance. You think since it's "open source" and they have tens of thousands of geeks working on this thing that they could have done this by now.