[ Thanks to Jane Walker for this link.
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“Operating systems are useless unless applications will run on
them. Luckily, both Linux and Windows support a broad variety of
applications–many of which are compatible with both platforms.
That said, if you’re planning to switch from Windows to Linux–or
Linux to Windows–you need to consider a number of factors when you
plan the migration. This article will discuss those factors.“Because most of the caveats listed below are strongly linked to
the specific implementation of a given application, I’ll break
things down along those lines, going from the easiest to port to
the hardest to port…”