Hey ... I used it for a while but it was too much trouble... Ask me your question I will be glad to help Well apart from email, the internet and perhaps star office there does not seem too many things to use linux for, other than as a server. I'm trying to use linux, so as to lran about it, with a view to selling it as a stable solution to my customers. who on the most part have problems with workstations but also use windows applications. I myself have tried wine, on my home system, but find it will not run some of my windows apps, quicken will run but has problems and family tree maker just gives up. So am constantly switching from windows to linux and back. It also managed to screw the drive with all my data. Ideally I'd like to get right away from windows not even having it installed on the system. So the real question is if you are not using wine what are you using to run windows apps in linux. Regards Keith Jacobs