fly_west wrote: > hi, i just switched to ubuntu from Windows XP. i think that i can live with it, but maybe not the word processing software that comes with it. my question is, with respect to wine, can i just run Word under wine on ubuntu without the Windows XP OS? thank you. The place to check for that kind of information is the AppDB: http://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=10