I agree. Being around computers as a teenager with pre windows OS'es (DOS, OS2, etc.), through the minefield of Win9x, and all the way up to my current stint of 7 years in Corporate IT officially, I am very experienced with every flavor of the MS spectrum. With the alleged DRM and negative impact items in Vista and Win7 from what I have read, I actively WANT to switch to Linux in one form or another. Yet every time I play around with a distro whether it be Slackware or Ubuntu or Red Hat or any number of other distros of ranging sizes and capabilities, I always come back to XP.

It is hard being a gamer and not being able to enjoy a decent game while in Linux. Even WINE is limited in the games I wish to run so that is a limitation there as well. I would hate to see Linux become more like Windows simply for the sake of getting Win users but alas it is about the only way.

I never have any problems with my XP installs and even my family who abuse Windows can't seem to break it within a year of building a machine for them. I want to switch but until it is close to the user friendliness that Windoze offers I won't make a permanent switch anytime soon.

That describes the Air Force and not NASA...