[wyowolf]

Ok a better question, what CANT it do that windows can? I run 7 now, basically surf the web, and run my synology disk station from it... dont play any games, the only real software I run from time to time is a brewing related software called Beersmith...not sure if it will run in L or not...

All my movies/music/photos are all on the synology and streamed to whatever...

[Bob434]

[[Ok a better question, what CANT it do that windows can?]]

Run windows only software and games (the software can however be run in virtual machine- but games, not so much- I can’t use photoshop in virtual machine- )

And it has a wakcadoodle install via command for software notl isted in software manager or synamptic packages- but really, all the causal user woudl need is what’s listed in software manager and that’s pretty easy to use- one click really-

[[the only real software I run from time to time is a brewing related software called Beersmith]]

Run it in virtual machine with windows installed on it- should run fine-

[markomalley]

Beersmith 2 runs just fine in Linux (no VM required):

[markomalley]

Ok a better question, what CANT it do that windows can?

(Caveat: I am still on Mint 17.3 -- haven't bothered to upgrade to 18 yet)

Literally the only things where I need to use Windows are:

• Turbotax (there are Linux packages that can help with taxes, but I've been using Turbotax for so many years, I just don't want to switch)
• Office 365 (I use LibreOffice for my personal stuff, but for work, I need to actually run real MS Office). Wine will support up to Office 10, but the Office 2016 that is sent out with the current Office 365 isn't supported through Wine yet)

When I'm in the mood for games, I run Steam (which is perfectly supported in Linux, so no need to mess with Windows there).

For the Windows software needs, what I do is run a virtual machine using Oracle VirtualBox. I dedicate 4 GB of RAM and 3 computer cores to the virtual machine and that seems to be plenty. Since I have 16 GB of RAM and a 6 core processor, I can basically run both simultaneously. And both do perfectly OK.