I agree with you - mostly. I have been using Linux since late 1996, and have seen it get progressively better and better with each release. I like it very much and have the patience and experience to fix most of the quirkiness with the window managers you describe, but I think Windows 2000 is a tremendous improvement over any other Microsoft OS - I even prefer it to Linux. I certainly don't "envy" other users in the Linux community, but I loathe the anti-Microsoft rhetoric that spews from the mouths of the 13 year-olds at Slashdot. Their anti-social "religion" speaks poorly for the rest of us. I suppose that's what drives people to choose one side or another