er... actually i think it has little/nothing to do with it. in the end people are lazy, have lives outside of techdom (imagine someone only wanting to use the computer to read email and surf the web..yes, these people do exist), and linux (while it has gotten much better) is still an OS for people that surf this site. i run windows at home. i run windows at work. i have no incentive to run linux at home other than a greater sense of security and the ability to go out for drinks a few more nights because i didn't drop an absurd amount of cash on some piece of software. i dabbled in dual booting machines and VMware server but i usually seem to give up after a while because i run into something in linux that, my god, just works in windows, and it really isn't worth my time surfing discussion boards looking for someone that ran into a similar problem and edited some file (that i have to read the specs on to edit (yes, i know, i'm lazy)) hoping that it will work for me.