This is exactly what I ment. You are looking to run your software on a GNU/Linux.
Unless you really need exactly that, then it might run under wine.
BUT
there are tons of replacements for everything.
3D: Maybe Blender
Video Editing: Kino, Avidemux?
Maybe not as perfect as a commercial product, but 99% free.
So instead of trying to see if your software runs under Linux, see what Linux OS provides you with software to fulfil your requirements.
For the record, my Mac OS 7 reference was meant only as a joke. I didn’t intend to start an OS war.
I think Windows 7 finally looks like a modern Windows OS, so that’s good. If I were a Windows user, I would likely obtain it.
It’s always seemed a bit pointless to me to install Linux just to use Wine, when you might as well just use Windows instead.
Well, not really, because many people prefer the Linux OS but do want to play a game or have very specific Software they need to run.
In such cases you can either resort to Wine or virtualization.
I made the final switch @home about 4 years ago and have never looked back. Basically you have everything you need (often just named differently) plus a lot more.
Funny thing with Linux is, you actually have sooo many choices, it is hard to decide what to take. Gnome/KDE/XFCE/LXDE just to name a few desktops.
Stuff like tilda I have yet to see for a Windows.
I’m not trying to convert you or anything. Just trying to show there are alternatives.
If you need to run windows then I’d suggest having windows installed as the native OS. Then install virtualbox and have all other OSes run inside that. The trick here is that I don’t know where they are at with native OpenGL support in guest systems. Otherwise guest systems run at almost 100% of the speed they would as a native OS (in my experience).
As an aside: Realistically most open-source software doesn’t stand-up to top tier com. software.
I’d be pretty confident that there are more applications produced for Windows each year then for Linux, so I’d argue Linux actually has less choice. There are ports of Gnome and KDE for Windows (and others) for a full change from Explorer, plus tonnes of explorer shell plugins and minor replacements. For example I recently started using VistaSwitcher instead of the standard Windows alt+tab. You can even get the Linux-classic of multiple desktops on a 3D cube (multiple apps exist for this on Windows).
I’ve used Linux a lot in the past; but the bugs, bad hardware support, lack of software (and I’m referring to the software I wanted to use as the alternatives weren’t as good) and yet more bugs always drove me back to Windows. Even just setting up multiple monitors can be a hassle, an area where Windows has had excellent support for years. It has been a very long time since I’ve had to spend over an hour fixing an issue with Windows, where as for me personally it was at least weekly with Linux.
VirtualBox has native graphics card support.
Seconded.
The 3D acceleration is still experimental and I have no idea how well it works.
@JL235:
I have had less problems with HW under Linux then with Windows.
Dual monitor with Linux was basically just as easy as under Windows.
Not to mention the spanning mode issues under Vista and 7.
Though I find it funny when people reduce Linux because of bugs, yet ignore the same problems on Windows.
Bugs exist everywhere.
With Linux I am unhappy because it has bugs.
Under Windows I’d be pi$$ed that I also payed money for it!! 
@Open Source Software
Depends. If you have a Software with massive amount of interest, say Paintshop, then yeah, it will naturally be better.
But on the other hand you have stuff that are either a niece product or just own the ‘market’.
f.i. appservers, webservers etc.
Though I’d exclude any OpenSource software from the list for Windows. If you use Windows (also OSX) you should pay for everything you use.
@Amount:
Dunno if there are more, but I have found a lot more stuff for Linux then I have found for Windows.
Sure, you can find 6285 chat clients or 957354 things that will add another icon to your task bar.
I use Windows at work but hardly install anything because most come with a license requiring a purchase, even for the most simplest of stuff.
So I basically switched my actual work machine @ work to Linux and have not missed anything.
Don’t take it personal. I intend no hostilities.
I tried it about 9 months ago and it worked (and worked well), but caused Windows to become unbootable after a restart (system restore solved the issue). I was running it on Windows 7 and at the time I don’t believe it was officially supported. Hoperfully they have newer drivers now.
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Though I find it funny when people reduce Linux because of bugs, yet ignore the same problems on Windows.
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I didn’t say there were no issues on Windows. I said that for me I encountered far worse on Linux. Tbh if all the software I had been running was more stable then I’d probably still be running Linux. When it works it is great, but it was a very long list of issues. There are some awesome open source apps out there like FireFox and Gimp (I’m using both right now). But the sad fact is that there is quite a lot of really buggy open source software out there. This is a huge pain when you just want to get stuff done.
I’d put good money down that a good number of the popular free apps your using are available for Windows too. I used to use loads of open software where I previously worked, and still do at home.