lucstef: As you said... "Years ago." Mandrake 9.1 detected and installed everything in one go here, and I built the box by myself. Duane: I have Maya 4.5 for Linux right now, and it works without bugs. I didn't know Wings3D had an OSX port, though... cool. A year ago I could not credibly say that Linux was friendly to the average Joe Sixpack... but things have changed dramatically since then. lmckenzie: I don't get it - the documentation comes on the CD's, they are as close as using the man command, and the site where the distro was released has all the documentation you need - indeed, the default web browser usually has all the locally-stored documentation for the OS set up as it's home page by default. All that's missing is the silver platter as far as docs are concerned. I agree as per integration to a point, but the reason Microsoft gets bit so hard by viruses is because it went overboard as per integration... MS just released yet another critical "must-have" patch because a flaw in their Office app (or VB, or Visio, or...) gives someone complete control of a machine. I'd personally hate to have that extreme level of integration on *ix (no matter what flavor.) Ah well - like I said earlier - if you like and enjoy Windows, good on ye. Some of us just want better. /P