Can you run windows applications on Ubuntu?
My kids do it all the time. I run Windows programs under Fedora also.
As far as the article:
1. Defrag Windows disk drive 3X a day
Linux doesn't require defragging. You'll be hard pressed to find a Linux defragger.
2. Remove anti-virus software
No AV on Win: bad idea. No AV on Linux: No problem!
3. Disable Automatic Updates
Most Linux updates are breakfixes or content additions. Not too many mandatory security updates from the Linux home office.
4. Upgrade RAM I have an old HP Vectra 133 MHz PC with 512 MB RAM that runs Ubuntu 10.04 better than any other OS!
5. Buy a new CPU
See #4
6. Downgrade to Windows 95
Ok, gotta be sarcasm now. I wouldn't install Fedora 2 when 12 is better than the previous distros. Speaks volumes about MS
7. Wait for Windows 9
Def. sarcasm now. Windows 9? They keep changing the naming scheme. I'll give them Windows 8, but by "9" is ready, it'll be something stupid (Windows RGX Ultra-Internet Mail Warehouse Server Enterprise SP3.4 x64 edition).
Yes, you can run most Win programs under WINE. I do it all the time.
>Can you run windows applications on Ubuntu?
Yes. You can run some apps under wine. Quite a few actually.
Personally, what I like to do is install a windows virtual machine using virtual box and then use rdesktop to connect to the virtual machine.
It works VERY well and it’s free. I have two virtual XP machines on my laptop. The laptop runs Gentoo Linux natively. Even graphics intensive tasks such as Rhino3d CAD have acceptable performance running in the virtual XP machine.
You should be able to use synaptic to install wine and/or virtualbox under ubuntu.
You can run some - install Wine. Look into CodeWeaver’s supported Wine based product. It works pretty well.