I have Linux now (properly updated). openSuSE 10.3, and it's wonderful. By some strange coincidence, I'm using XP while talking about Linux, but anyways. Even telnet is better in Linux. It just...Works. For telnet, I mean. Telnet is still pretty useless, all-in-all. There are >frequent< updates, but that's OK, because I haven't gotten one so far that required a restart. The only bad thing is that Logitech doesn't make drivers on Linux for my webcam. I actually bought the camera because some chick TOLD me to (I got a rather more high-end one than was implied, though), and I know I'm never going to see her again. I'm not getting much use out of it...So not having drivers isn't a problem I guess, at the moment. Well yeah, Linux may need more learning than Windows, but I'm fine with that. If there's one thing I have enough attention span for, it's learning computer languages and prompts.