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I'd suggest not bothering. I left all my music/ROMs on my Windows partition (for the time being before I get myself an external hard drive or something) and it works fine.

I'd suggest not bothering. I left all my music/ROMs on my Windows partition (for the time being before I get myself an external hard drive or something) and it works fine.

What about programs? I think I'll just move those. But how should I go about getting them onto the panel thing?

Windows programs may or may not run in Wine. I believe you can simply drag them onto your panel. If you want to put them in your menu, you can access the menu editor by right-clicking on the menu and choosing Edit Menus.

Unless your Windows apps are games, you should probably not think about running your Windows apps in Linux, but rather of finding native Linux equivalents.

For MSN/WLM, Pidgin works. Empathy (which comes with 9.10) also works I think but I don't use it often. If you want something closer to the "real deal" check out aMSN. Pidgin and aMSN can both be installed through Synaptic (System menu -> Administration -> Synaptic Package Manager)

For WMP, if you're playing music look into Rhythmbox (which is included with Ubuntu). Songbird is also supposed to be good but I've never used it. For video, the included Totem movie player seems to work fine.

For MS Office, check out Open Office (which comes with it by default) which can open and save MS Word and Powerpoint files. OO Writer can also export PDFs.

Ubuntu comes with Firefox, but you can easily install Opera or Chrome (dev build). There are ways to get Internet Explorer (6 or below, although some people seem to get 7 to work as well) running with Wine, but I don't recommend it. Safari will not run in Wine (I've tried).

Bingo. Just found it (or at least some of it) in /host.

I'd suggest not bothering. I left all my music/ROMs on my Windows partition (for the time being before I get myself an external hard drive or something) and it works fine.

For WMP, if you're playing music look into Rhythmbox (which is included with Ubuntu). Songbird is also supposed to be good but I've never used it. For video, the included Totem movie player seems to work fine.

Anyway, the Windows programs I was using included Sony Vegas 9.0 (video editor), Unregistered HyperCam 2 (screen recorder), all the DVDVideoSoft programs (YouTube downloading and video convering), FirstClass (school-related, and it seems to work), and Audacity (sound recording and editing).

Also, is there any way to access the Ubuntu files from Windows?

the Windows programs I was using included Sony Vegas 9.0 (video editor)

Unregistered HyperCam 2 (screen recorder)

Audacity (sound recording and editing)

I'd also prefer iTunes over the other music/video programs for the ability to sync with my iPod.

Also, is there any way to access the Ubuntu files from Windows? I know I can access the Windows files from Ubuntu.

I'd also prefer iTunes over the other music/video programs for the ability to sync with my iPod.

Welcome to vendor lock-in. For the record, Apple considers it illegal to even try to sync your iPod with a third-party app… You're better off just using a normal MP3 player (that you can drag-and-drop to and from using a file manger. Apparently Apple has a vested interest against using the standard USB MSD interface…?), but since you already have the overpriced Apple gadget it'd be pointless to ditch it. gtkpod can reportedly sync with an iPod.

6th generation Classic: Not supported. The 6th Gen Classic has completely different hardware compared to the other "classic" iPods, requiring a new port.

Thanks for all the help guys, but I don't know if I want to keep using Linux because XP is so much faster.

Thanks for all the help guys, but I don't know if I want to keep using Linux because XP is so much faster.