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Integrating WINE really isn't sufficient. We need a store people can buy applications that work with WINE. It is nearly impossible to figure it out right now or get the versions that do work. Most applications that do work are older versions of the applications and not as readily available. Especially with activation and lock-ins you can't buy used any more. Allot of applications and games do work- just not enough that you can bet on a random applications working either and definitely not ones 'off the shelf' at your retailer. I think people need to support those selling GNU/Linux more. Buy from those supporting it. Buy from those selling it exclusively especially. Buy from those who take additional steps to support it or develop for it- not just off the shelf. Are they offering an assortment of products or just laptops and desktops? Paying more for niche Linux products means that stuff gets better rather farther apart. Paying for stuff with MS on it just means we end up further behind. In allot of areas we are ahead- but in others we haven't made ANY headway. Consumer desktop publishing applications like print shop for instance; zero headway. Video editing on the other hand; some. We do have Kino- which is a joke to most it is a full fledged video editing application. And then we also have a pro editing application that is nearly impossible to use for anybody other than the real hollywood studios (which means the Mac guys couldn't handle it and would conclude Linux isn't good at video editing).