oohh the infernal eternal debate. only using linux and win98 refuse to buy another version of win. and soon to not have win at all, as x-windowing system for the unix based os is much better than windows. after six months, I only managed to completely lock linux up once..and that was telling it to do something when I knew it shouldn't. ( I ran a system config tool after system was up and running. ) during the same six months, win crashed, trashing hd five times, locked up repeatedly. unix x-windowing os, linux and mac.