Since at least 2001, a meme known as "(year) will be the year of Linux on the Desktop" has been published by a number of tech-related magazines and websites, referring to the prior year's experiences of supposed "gains" for Linux adoption by business corporations.

The latest version of Mozilla Firefox webbrowser gives you easy, safe and comfortable suite for visiting your favorite web-sites.	OpenOffice.org Calc is a spreadsheet application, that allows you to make computations, analyze and manage data.
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Applications

Most Linux distributions provide a program (APT, YUM, RPM, YAST or UP2DATE) for browsing a list of thousands of free software applications that have already been tested and configured for a specific distribution. These free programs can be downloaded and installed with one mouse click. A digital signature guarantees that the program was not modified after the download package was created and the package manager automatically tracks and installs updates as they become available.

Besides the free Windows compatibility layer Wine, most distributions offer Dual boot and X86 virtualization for running both Linux and Windows on the same computer.