greg/Jtc

The point of your debate is what exactly? How is any of it relevant to your average home (or for that matter office) user?

I can't claim to have had years of experience of Unix, (or any of it's derivatives), but I've had enough to know that for the average home or office user (as a client) it's no more effective an OS than either Windows 2000 or XP. For what 99.9% of people want to do with a computer at home the choice of OS is pretty much irrelevant and it comes down almost entirely to personal preferences and software choices. Do people on here really believe that if MS OS were so bad they would have the market dominance they have? Even with the best will in the world and full belief in all the anti-competitive practices and cospiracy theories that are banded around about MS the simple fact is that if window (in all it's derivations at the given point in time) weren't "good enough" and other OS options are "so much better" then we would all be using Nix derivatives on our Computers now.

I'm no M$ fanboy but lets put this arguement in to perspective.

GTM