Yes, Linux isn't ready yet... I wouldn't argue about the issues making things work in linux... Linux is PAIN!!! But the potential I see in linux, and the VERY DARK future I see in windows make me keep going... I live in Mexico, my laptop was purchased in the USA... In linux I can watch DVD from any region (with Xine), but not in windows.... WHY!!!!!... I paid for them, they are MINE (aren't they). In linux your hardware does (or at least tries to) what you tell it to do (yeah, thell that to the stupid printer)... you tell him to play a DVD and I will play it... no matter what some bozo decided about regions... In linux all the software and your hardware works for you... no obscure programs sending info to some unknown server... or crapplets in the systray. In linux you can fiddle with things as much as you decide; things are open, for you to see, and change as much as you want or can... Linux IS AND WORKS FOR YOU... not for some big company.... IT IS YOURS, paradoxically, YOU OWN IT AND DOES YOUR BIDING, not Bill Gates' of the NSA or the KGB or the Gestapo or Cocacola or Columbia-MGM or whatever... Yes, GNU/linux is pain... I hope for now... but for the sake of all of us, some day, it will be the model and the basis for end-user/desktop computing.... otherwise, computing can become very crappy... when the closed source, spyware laden, palladium crippled pcs start to roll out the factories... Today's linux is PAIN!!!... PAIN!!!... PAIN!!!... but is the price someone has to pay for the Linux that will/could/should be. __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day http://shopping.yahoo.com