Can Linux beat XP in homes yet or NOT?

[Zoltan Boszormenyi]

Bruno Wolff III írta:
> On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 19:16:33 +0600,
>   Mustafa Qasim <alajal at gmail.com> wrote:
>   
>> Salam!
>>           I want to ask all you folks there that we can see the current
>> advancements in Fedora and Ubunto distros. They've came onto screen as an OS
>> not only for server's operated by GEEKS but also a much secure and user
>> friendly OS for home users but still a large amount of our home user's are
>> still stick with XP(especially here in Pakistan) . Do we need to create
>> awareness at root grass level? Is it due to the Installation,configuring
>> softwares and migrating data or other smiler issues that are the giant
>> hurdle for home users? A XP user is still satisfied with
>> Spyware,Trojan,dialer,virus an many other attacks but he didn't dare or
>> didn't have enough guidance to get rid of it by using Linux.
>>     
>
> The biggest issue is can they run the software the want on it. I don't
> think my wife is going to use a linux based system until The Sims 2 runs
> on it.
>   

I don't play too much but Diablo 2 certainly
installs and runs jut fine under Wine for about a year now.
Also, do you remember Loki? The native Linux Heroes III
can be convinced to install on new systems and it runs
just fine even on FC6/x86_64.