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Office Suite => Open Office, Smart Suite

And you call that an alternative???
You probably call Fiat a "Porsche-alternative", right?

Media player => Real Audio

But please tell me, WHAT is the advantage of this buggy player full of ads?

MS Services for UNIX => gives me full UNIX System compatibilty, NFS..(MS gives this away just in case you didn't know..)

Yeah, Microsoft does so FOR FREE, so why the hell are you blaming Microsoft?


Most members of this forum crack high-class software, so they get in touch with it. They'll all have noticed, that that kind of software (and good software in general) is just available for Microsoft Windows OS. That's why nobody switched to Linucks and began to use crappy, buggy OpenSource-software (the only "advantage" of OpenSource-software is, it's "OpenSource" - so what?), which often is so limited, or is even completely unavailable for specific tasks.
I am NOT talking about those nasty One-Klick-Dummy-User-Software, but there is nothing like Photoshop (don't tell me about "gimp"), Scenarist, Cinema Craft Encoder, Audition, Acrobat, DVD Maestro, 3D Studio Max, etc.

There is no SINGLE reason to use Linux. It is not free: compare the prices!
SuSE Linux Professional: 90$
RedHat Enterprise Linux Workstation: 180$
These are just 2 examples of Linux-distributions which are more expensive than the Windows XP Operating System while offering much less features than the Microsoft product.