

Of course, performance isn't as good as on a Windows platform and various incompatibilities can cause certain components to not function properly, but it's still an amazing feat. To address all of these, a project was born, Wine, offering a free and relatively easy way to install and use a large number of Windows-only applications under Linux. Some can't live without Microsoft Office, others think Internet Explorer is the best browser and, of course, graphics professionals or photographers won't change Photoshop with anything the open-source world has to offer.


One of the main reasons people have to stick with Windows is because certain applications that they use on a daily basis don't have (quality) alternatives on Linux.
