As a general desktop, that is. I was thinking of the problem I had yesterday trying to restart printing services (which I still haven't found in the documentation). For Linux to be a general desktop system, it needs to be usable by the general population at large. A middle age non-computer type would *NEVER* be able to use Linux. Until it reaches the point that it can recover gracefully from something as simple as a printer running out of paper, it really isn't going to make large inroads against Windows. If you told an average user "just restart the print service", he'd reply "Why do I have to do that? Windows kept going automatically." There is no question that in many ways, Linux is superior to Windows. Until it grows a bit more in the area of being able to recover from simple problems, the average person isn't going to use it. I'm a Linux newbie, so I really don't know what's happening in this area. Is there work being done on this type of recovery?