Linked by Phil Hall on Thu 5th Dec 2002 00:35 UTC
I'm a long-time Windows user, but for years I've been searching for an intelligent alternative. Macs are actually a great choice, but have you priced them lately? I don't have two grand to spend for another system. I had been reading all the hoopla surrounding Xandros Desktop for a number of months and decided to take the plunge. I had been burned two times previously trying to install other Linux distributions. Their tech support was non-existent. I'm essentially working in a vacuum. When something has gone wrong in the past, I've found that I was on my own. 
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Why don't the Wine, Crossover, Transgamming crews get together with Lycrois, Xandros, Lindows and start a logo program for compatibility? Both are now good enough to start shopping to real developers.
The logo push would go after the < $20 software crowd. (The majority of the "massive" windows software.) Come up with a logo program that certifies the Windows 98 level product to also work on Wine/ Crossover. With minor tweaking most of the stuff out there would work--and Linux would get lots of converts.
Remember, there are far more PC's out there with Win 98 that are about to be abandon by MS. That is a huge market of little people (the Walmart crowd) that these companies shoud go after.
Personally, I have tried the demo of Lycoris. It's very cool, I like it. Honestly, I could set my people that have seen XP in front of it and they could do OK with it. I haven't tried it at work yet, but I may get the full version of their office desktop with full support for windows networking and mainframe terminals!