Originally Posted By: wfaulk
Originally Posted By: tanstaafl.
Rosetta Stone Spanish...........$395...Expensive, but necessary.
You got me here. AFAIK, there is not any equivalent to Rosetta Stone.

Reportedly works under WINE.

Originally Posted By: wfaulk
Originally Posted By: tanstaafl.
TurboFloorPlan 3D...............$ 80...I have spent hundreds of hours with this program designing my house.
Dunno much about architectural CAD for Linux.

The architectural cad world is very well represented on Linux, but predominantly through expensive profressional-grade CAD software packages. I suspect that Doug's use trends more towards the 3D floorplan visualization, than the CAD side of things. Probably sweet home 3d is the most comparable (which is java, and works on Windows, too). Moving up a few notches from there is CYCAS.

Originally Posted By: wfaulk
Originally Posted By: tanstaafl.
Recuva
There are undelete applications, though backup is always preferable.

Especially since the ability to undelete depends on what filesystem you're using. The last time I needed an undelete program, I had to dd the disk to a file on a different filesystem, and grep for strings I knew the files contained (fortunately, the deleted files were just plain-text).

Originally Posted By: wfaulk
Originally Posted By: tanstaafl.
TweakUI
I can assure you that you can tweak more of the UI on Linux than you can on Windows.

And you don't even need a downloaded program to do it!