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Originally Posted by nate
I love linux (I have it on two computers) but the thought of designing websites on it without frontpage, fireworks photoshop and a hundred other apps I use daily sounds unpleasant. Also, no autocad :-(
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http://www.osalt.com/ is a pretty decent reference to find replacements as well. As for a replacement to frontpage, there's NVU, Quanta and Aptana. They are all similar and are not too difficult to use.
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Originally Posted by raymor
Of course there's no need to use
Photoshop - several major film studios use Gimp, which is very very
similar to Photoshop.
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There is
http://www.gimpshop.com/ which makes gimp look and act like photoshop. If you do anything with print-media, Gimp isn't for you. Gimp also has binaries to allow it to be run on Windows if you want to try it without taking the plunge.
Not that it is a great alternative, but,
http://www.winehq.com/ does show a number of applications and their compatibility running using Wine. I was never 100% satisfied with Wine with certain applications. Even Gold Star applications had occasional hitches. If you pick the right machine, you can run Xen or KVM to run a virtualized OS underneath linux to run your application if you can't find a replacement. Some applications can be run in 'coherence' mode which means that it just opens up the app window rather than showing you a miniaturized desktop.
Linux will definitely be difficult for a power user to convert to. It would be great for someone that surfs the web, does email, uses openoffice.org, etc. Once you get beyond general productivity applications, it'll be more difficult.