Well, I may agree that Linux is one of the few OSes that shies away from that DRM that Vista's going to have, but I have to be honest with you. Linux is great as a SECOND OS, NOT a PRIMARY OS. Just as long as you have a big enough hard drive to partition into halves or thirds, you can have Windows Vista as your primary OS, followed by a Linux distro, and then another Linux distro, Mac OS X Leopard, if you own a Mac, or an older Windows OS, if you still want to hold onto Win 2000/XP, or Windows 98, etc... That's how I see it. I mean, as far as gaming, there are some ports written for Linux, but the stability of those games can be 50/50. After all, Windows may or may not be stable for some intense games, either, but it is easier for Blitz game design, that much I can tell you.