Cedega service on Linux allows you to use steam.  It costs a bit for a subscription, but less than many Windows users spend on an antivirus.

If only Photoshop and some more games would work... then I would delete my XP partition.

I hear you there.  The way I have my home systems set up is I have Linux on my performance PC and movie playing PC.  I also have Windows on my performance PC to play games on even though it has Linux and Cedega.  I just boot Windows for playing games and use linux for everything else.

Maybe you should get a Mac for Photoshop and install Linux over your Windows partition then.

Mulitple IEs does not perfectly replicate the environment.  It's good 95% of the time but every so often a bizarre bug will appear in a native IE6 (run through VM) that you won't see in MIE.  Developing using MIE is fine but do the final test against a native one.

Wine works with Steam. And Photoshop up to CS3 works mostly.

anyone here knw hw i cn install an os onto my ps3? :s

I would be using Ubuntu right now except that someone told me my graphics card (an X1300) doesn't work well with it.

That is a barrier many people face with Linux is hardware compatability.  I was lucky enough to have my hardware be compatible with Ubuntu.

Someone once told me I could revive Aeris in FF7.  I checked into it before believing it.

In my defense the proprietary drivers were quite buggy.