He's yet another of those paralysed critics. And before you go to praise *nix.... Let me state I have no idea how ubuntu is doing so well. I installed it on my system, and it insisted on using the nv driver, which wouldn't work for my newer (geforce 6100) card, and it did not even have the frame-buffer X-server, to use for fallback. Fine, i said, and downloaded the latest nvidia drivers. But since ubuntu uses a newer kernel, the pre-compiled binaries wouldn't work & I had to tell it compile driver from source. But then, BAMM, ubuntu does not have kernel sources on CD. Nor GCC. I happened to be skilled enough to download those as well & get it all working fine, but what about those who expect things to "just work" ?