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Originally Posted by Uncle Robin
I can empathize with the OP when it comes to the availability of high-quality alternatives to specialized commercial software available in Windows. I recently upgraded the RAM on my PC and decided to test out a few Linux distros in VMs. It's been nearly 10 years since I was active in Linux and an hour or two was all it took to remind me why. 10 years ago I was beginning to need high-quality speech recognition software more and more often, and there was nothing in the Linux world that came within a parsec of Dragon NaturallySpeaking. Ten years on, Dragon has got better and better while my need for it has grown greater and greater, and there still isn't any viable Linux alternative. So I can definitely understand how the OP feels when one would like to try Linux but it simply does not have the software one needs. FWIW this entire post is courtesy of Dragon.
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Yeah, exactly. Again, it's not a criticism per se of Linux. I am glad Linux exists as an alternative to the commercial giants, and I do not Linux software to keep up with Windows and Mac software; the money is simply not there. But I am glad it is there. One day we may truly need it. And there is always wine.