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Depends on where you look:

http://linuxshop.ru/linuxbegin/win-lin-soft-en/tab le.shtml
http://gnuwin.epfl.ch/en/index.html

Enjoy

Here are the ones I use...

The best ... http://www.linuxsoft.cz/en/
An older one, but still useful http://linuxshop.ru/linuxbegin/win-lin-soft-en/tab le.shtml
Even the gentoo package listing is useful http://packages.gentoo.org/categories/

Linux.org, Mandrake, and sourceforge have listings as well. But there should be a really kick ass one that all the linux fans could link to from their homepages.

Why would I want to pay $129 for a Linux distro that tries to emulate Windows when I can buy the current top-of-the-line version of Windows for $11 more?

Now add to that, the cost of Office, Visual Studio, Photoshop and about 200 other commercial applications for which Linux has dozens of alternatives that ship in that core OS, and you'll see why $129 vs. $5,000 or more makes much more sense.

Linux (as a distribution) is much more than just an OS + Notepad. Its an entire environment of productivity tools, entertainment tools, development tools and many other things that come with it, standard.

Stop comparing Apples to Porsches.

1. Apps: I won't claim any Windows application got a counter application for Linux, but most does - and most have more alternative for Linux than for windows.
check up this table http://linuxshop.ru/linuxbegin/win-lin-soft-en/tab le.shtml

2. again, the situation is better than it seems.
windows XP is 4 years old, currently, Linux support out of the box many things windows does not.
for example, try to install windows on serial ATA drive. you will need a floppy (!!) disk with drivers during the setup phase. (as if the early 90's are still here!)
the thing is, situation is improving constantly, and the better it gets, the better the incentive for vendors to support Linux.

3. The problem with fonts is most likely due to a mix with GTK and QT applications, that uses different configurations.
say, supposed someone would port a MacOS X application to windows, what are the odds that the windows fonts control would work for it?
there is a solution for it, however:
I use KDE, which uses QT, this cause a problem with GTK applications (regarding fonts etc). the solution is to use a small application called "GTK Style and fonts".
you can tell it use make GTK use the same font settings QT uses, which enable consistently changing fonts.
I don't know if there is a similar solution for users who runs Gnome (GTK) and use KDE applications. (QT).
about copy paste, works fine for me.
better than windows, actually, with the nice ability to copy by selecting with the mouse, and pasting with the middle mouse button.

Define what you mean by "a whole bunch of software that doesn't run on linux".

Word? Excel? There's OpenOffice.
Outlook? Evolution.
Internet Explorer? Konqueror or Firefox.
WinAmp? XMMS.
Windows Media Player? xine and mplayer.
Photoshop? The GIMP.
I could go on, but I hope the point is made. Also, I should add that all the software equivalents for Linux are free.

The problem, as I see it, is that Linux (in its current state) requires more time to "get to know", so to speak. When you boot up Linux, there's no obvious way to get to the Internet (through a little "e"), or to watch DVD's (through an icon that vaguely resembes a play button), etc. Additionally, Joe Average's attention span is too short to experiment to consult a friend, or the big, friendly Internet, and he gives up in frustration. Learning Linux takes devotion, that some just don't have.

http://linuxshop.ru/linuxbegin/win-lin-soft-en/tab le.shtml

Here's the link to Google's cache of that site, as it appears to be down at the moment:

http://snipurl.com/7lhd

And yes, Linux is ready for the desktop. I switched my own firm PC to Debian/testing last October and I use it for the daily work stuff without any problems. Even being a small island in a Windows-focussed infrastructure doesn't give much trouble.

The trick is not to try to be a 100% compatible to Windows. No, I rather prefer to be compatible to open standards and so I'm sharing my documents not in *.DOC files but in *.PDF and originally they are written with LaTeX. You can't convince a bean counter that switching makes sense if you just want to do the things the same way like before, because then nobody sees some "added value". If you do things different and even more successful then people start to think about the why...

* Sync with MS Outlook (go ahead, flame me)

WHY the fuck would you want to sync with a closed-source product from M$oft? Don't you know that Outlook is just a breeding-ground for viruses, you brain-dead jerk? There are dozens of perfectly-good replacements for Outlook, as you'd know if were capable of clicking a mouse button and reading.

If you're so stupid that you feel no software is worth using unless you have to pay for it, try this.
Get Mommy to read it to you.

Linux is making a pretty big dent regardless of those tools. Nevertheless, since you obviously don't know what you're talking about and dont'care to research, I'll do it for you.

VB:
KBasic
Mono

Access:
knoda
GNOME-DB
(For non-free, I beleive that StarOffice may have something and there's also InterBase.)

The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software in Linux.

>Yes, I am speaking about windows-program-clones.

Well, after my switch from Windows to RedHat, I found this helpful:
equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows software for linux.

NeoThermic

Try this.