davethewave83 wrote: > the ability to play sims2 in particular is the only thing holding my sister from switching to linux, It would seem the only use for xp any more is gaming, if that was not desired or if we had a console there would be no practical reason to not switch to linux fully. AppDB doesn't sound promising: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=version&iId=2633 So you'll have to keep that windows around...