Totally agree. My eeePC came with a PLUG UGLY Xandros (IIRC) distro, which I promptly replaced with eeeXubuntu. The fonts were a little teentsy on a 7 inch screen, which is probably why Asus felt they could not do something like that. However, with 10 inch screens at 1024x600 (and better to come) this is a different story. The newer machines can simply run plain Gnome Ubuntu. I confess I ditched the eee for a used IBM X40 (running, yes, yech, Windows XP), but would be willing to go back to a pure "netbook" with Linux now that those machines are getting more powerful. While Linux is viable, the average retail buyer still thinks Windows is the Name Brand and Linux some kind of generic schlock, and wants Word and Excel, not some OpenOffice weirdness. MS Office is really MS's sustaining crown jewel. When the FOSS world comes up with something that kicks MS Office's butt in every substantial way, THAT will be a major threat to MS. I actually prefer LaTex/gedit, which works swell on laughably wimpy hardware, and produces nicer documents with less work than MS Word - but since it is not WYSIWYG it will never make it with the Wal Mart or Best Buy crowds, and in addition, with Latex you tend to come up short when someone needs your .doc file to edit, rather than the output PDF. Perhaps a good "cloud" office suite (offering every conceivable format import and export) will really solve the problem - but even that will still will need a robust workalike offline solution in order to be viable, because you just can't be online with a laptop all the time, even with an aircard. Well, maybe if the magic tricks were done in the client-side Javascript (or other FOSS client-side modules), something like a cloud office solution with a good offline mode could really work. But is going to take something like that to displace Windows.