"You don't have a Linux port - you don't exist!"

[Klaidas]

Something between number 3 and 4.

[funkenstein]

again, just for playing non linux-native/cedega´able games, and a couple o´ther progs... also when I want flash sound synchronised...

[NiklasV]

The first thing I do is try to find an alternative for Linux.
If there is none, I email the developer requesting a Linux version (if they don't know there's demand for a Linux version, there's an even smaller chance they will make one.)
Then I try to get the program to work under Wine.
If that doesn't work, I go on without it.

[IYY]

I've used dual boot in the past to do the following:

- CMYK in photoshop.
- Macromedia Flash
- Old PC games like Fallout

[aysiu]

You browse the web for software you're interested in

Browse the web? How primitive. I open up Synaptic Package Manager and browse that.

[Christmas]

I'd try it with Wine, that would be the only alternative I'd have. However at the moment I have almost all the applications that I need and I managed to make WarCraft III work with Wine which is a great strategy game. No need for other applications/games.

[AndyCooll]

I voted for the first one since I don't use ******* on my pc's, and Linux has software for almost everything I meed.

I have a VMware XP image but I only use that to play FM2007.

Having said that when I was trying to make a backup copy of one of my wife's music video CDs this afternoon and K3B was refusing to play along, I came very close to seeing if there was any XP tool that would do the job. The first time I can ever remember getting to that stage of thinking!

[ephemeros]

The first thing I do is try to find an alternative for Linux.
If there is none, I email the developer requesting a Linux version (if they don't know there's demand for a Linux version, there's an even smaller chance they will make one.)
Then I try to get the program to work under Wine.
If that doesn't work, I go on without it.

yup, i do the same things, usually without result. take for example silo 3d, they even have a thread on the forum for a linux port, but the version 2 beta was released for mac and win, only. many guys said that it would be their preferred 3d modeler if it would run on linux. i think this says some things about the company :\.

[Shay Stephens]

The only windows software I try to get to work with wine is the stuff I already have and still rely on. I don't look for or try new windows software, to prevent me from continued and never ending dependence on windows.

If they don't have a linux version I drop all interest and keep searching for a linux app.

[weasel fierce]

most of the time I just shrug and ignore it. I have the app's I need, and I mostly game on my PS2.