Here is my imput. The areas I draw my arguments from lay in working for a software developer, and being a beta tester for Corel Draw for linux. It's real simple Wine in essence is all the windows class files. All yoru DLL's in doing so it makes it easier to port existing software over instead of writing it from scratch. This being much cheaper and time consuming. The bad side to this is with linux having to support gnome, kde, qt and wine libraries it's getting two bulky and in so doing too unstable. I think for me what I like is linux is customizable allowing you to only install what you need. As for it being a general purpose desktop I dont see that happening. I think it would be excellent in graphic firms running Adobe ( which has been ported to Unix), cad based firms running some version of Microstation ( already based on Unix.), and also general Office with the help of apps such as Star office. Rowan Reid Job Captain, Systems Administrator STUDIO 3 ARCHITECTS 909 982 1717