I have Ubuntu on a small partition on my laptop. I have some low-end Window apps running on it from using Wine to install. But a couple higher-end apps won’t run. I know Quicken 6 will with some effort at installation, but don’t have time to get it done until after the holidays.
This is the sole reason I haven’t migrated completely from XP. The apps I really want are a problem.
How true. If there was a Linux version of Photoshop, I'd be gone. As it is, both our internet boxes run Ubuntu/Firefox and are fine.
I run WinXP on my Ubuntu Linux machines through a free application called VirtualBox. It’s a virtual machine similar, but easier and free, than VMWare. In fact, I have several “VirtualMachines” running on one machine.
You can download VirtualBox here: http://www.virtualbox.org/wiki/Downloads , or, you can download it from the repositories.
I like to get the latest version from their website as a .deb pkg, and let my archive manager install it as I download it. Clean and quick!
I don’t even bother with Wine anymore.
Good luck!