Agreed. But other than windows no OS has enough market base to make a suitible desktop OS. Linux is getting there, but without support for windows based apps such as 1,000 of games. Its not taking off as fast as it could. Yes you can use Wine to run win32 apps on linux but its unstable at best. 2ndly Software manufactures arent going to start coding an entirely diffrent version of the software they offer just to suit Linux users who right now only make up less than 10% of the PC world. Personally I run Linux, Windows, and Solars (from Sun Micro) and have used BeOS in the past. Windows is by far the most user friendly, but also by far the least stable. So, while I agree with you somebitch. I dont see a current viable alternative to MS. Besides... If people stop using windows then I loose 1 of my many jobs. lol. (VB Programmer)