Can anyone please let me know if it is possible to run windows based programs on any linux distro and how to go about this? i work with fruity loops and some other music production stuff but i just found linux and i'm willing to drop windows OS completely for linux. any one help me pleasssssse.

its possible just go to winehq.com but if you use ubuntu then go to packages.ubuntu.com if you are that deep into music why don't you try audacity. remember try searching your package manager or simply google for more applications. i know of one that helps create midi files but can't remember. welcome to linux

Welcome to linux. Well, I advise that you get linux alternatives for your programs on windows. There are some I know: Hydrogen (create beats), Muse(seq.), Rosegarden(seq), Timdity, Audacity(multitrack hdr tool). I use Timidity (it's for MIDI), Rosegarden and Audacity.

Cheers mate!

Can one av a download manager on Ubuntu? just like i do on Windows(where i use Internet Download Manger)

its possible all u have to do is search packages.ubuntu.com or simply do your google search

I hear u.
i will do dat wen i successfully instal my Ubuntu. i wanna try reinstall my system 2day wit d recovery partition of course.
Nxt make a partitn via d Gparted,
Hopefully, ,

Hayprof, there's a good download manager for Linux. It's name is d4X. You can download it (do a google search: d4X download) and to maximize it's use, download the FlashGot extension for Firefox.

Ok, will search for it

Anyone used Gparted b4?

have u backed up your data there's nothing more important that that o

i av backed up my data
rite now i am doin d resising of my 62gb windows ntfs partitn
i am taking 12gb frm it to use for ubuntu.
I pray it completes dat but after that i wanna knw if my new partition is goin to be extnded or primary?
Wot file system do i create for ubuntu.

Finally installed Ubuntu on my pc

kinda not vote for d4x as a good download manager on linux. it kinda slow compared to window's popular Download Accelerator Plus(DAP).
The best i pretty use is prozilla. It's equally fast, if not faster than DAP. It can setup multiple connections to the downloaded file and resume download, just like DAP. Again it has a command line and gui interface. Just a small files less than 200kb but perform wonder! The CL interface is detailed and interesting. So i did not bother installing the gui in ma own case.give it a try, it's the best!