So what you seem to be saying (trying to read between the lines here) is that you used Linux once for a month or so and didn't like it. I assume this was back about a decade ago based on your very vague criticisms. In the mean time I can set my mom or dad up with it and they are good to go (not terribly computer literate and in their 70s). Even my wife can use Linux just fine and she's still proud that she can "google" and "facebook" and "ebay" so this mythical learning curve can't be that bad.

Bah, you kids and your fancy schmancy 1Gb HDD. My first HDD was 10Mb. Of course, it was an upgrade to the 720kb floppy drive on my Atari ST with the massive 512Kb RAM (later upgraded to 1024Kb by soldering more RAM chips). All of these were big upgrades to tape drives (literally audio cassette drives) - the seek times on those were..... disturbingly long. I still have an old 8088 machine in the corner of my lab with a 20Mb hdd (and an ISA monochrome video card).

I was thinking F60.2 - antisocial personality disorder - would be more appropriate.

http://martypoom.tripod.com/ John 64 and Mel Gibson Safari 3. Thank Marty Poom for the PC versions!

You are right - it isn't 300,000. It's more like 70,000 - bit still, why quibble over the numbers? It's the spirit of the argument that counts.