Walt Fair, Jr. wrote: I point and laugh at idiots who generalize too much. Pointing and laughing is so much fun! I think the two main things that helps Linux maintain its stability rep are: 1. That no self-respecting Linux user will buy anything from Adobe. 2. That open source apps, while they might be a pain in the backside, user-unfriendly, and often lack polish, are generally coded a lot better than much of the freeware and shareware available for Windows. That said, and even though my machines are loaded with Adobe malware, they never crash, and I never shut them down unless a really annoying update demands it (and demands it and demands it -- I've left "restart now?" boxes floating around for weeks). I don't think that Linux is really more stable at all; it's just that people spend more time setting it up to be stable, and don't install so much broken code on it. I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!