Well, Michael, You're, i think, speaking in terms of somebody who whole his life long worked with M$$$ products. In order toinstall a SuSE installation now, just knowing what is /dev/hda ...hdb aso, You can do it. Even without external help. Would'nt have some difficulties out there, if used to linux whole yr life long, Yu, now, wd be forced to understand the M$ skills at once ? I read comments out there abt multiple apps for linux, duplicate, triplicate,... Are You sure there are'nt 5 or 6 browsers which work under M$ Window$ ? As very often repeated, I am not an informatician, and b4 passing over to linux, i resisted myself to leave my direct,simple windows 3.11. Nevertheless, my linux installation works...... better than my WIndows 2000 partition... which becomes crazy when i add a second HDD to my PC. Of course, linux manages it without any problem.