I suppose I had a idea of what was coming after looking at the mailing list I never imagined that it would work straight out of the FTP nvidia and all. But there is a ton of anoying problems that I never had on 8.2. If it weren't for the fact that 8.2 totaly craps on my new motherboard (IDE, SATA, RAID, ethernet) and won't boot or let me try to fix it, I never would have upgraded. 9.0 on the other hand takes the hardware fine but stops working if I set the resolution over 1024x768 with nvidia, the system is slow and unresponsive which it should not be on a 3000+@400MHz FSB. SuSE has been good and they will certanly have fixed most of these things by 9.1, that's what you get for being the early adopter. Also my computer is now windows free, I needed somewhere to backup some data before changing my partitioning(something I have wanted to do for a long time) and the windows partition looked unneccesary and just the right size. As for all my problems they surely are solvable if I find the time/energy othervise Win2000 is making a return to get me trough the hectic 2½ months ahead. BTW If you are looking for a new motherboard stay clear of MSI, I have had nothing but trouble from it. It does not make it much further than POST if I don't crank the voltages up to the limit. (MSI KT6 Delta FISR)