The more I read, the more I'd glad I decided not to go past Win2K Pro (which I much prefer to what I've seen of XP Home btw) with Windows and do 95% of my stuff on Linux. far less hassle both in stability (at least compared to any version of Windoes I've used) and an absence of the things mentioned in this thread. Plus, my online updates do not just update my OS but for most of the software I run on the OS too!

I'm toying with the idea of upgrading one of my PCs soon to Suse 10.1. I can't be bothered with the free Open Suse version (take me over a day to download) so that levaes me with the choice at the moment of an Open Suse CD set which I can get for abot £6 + postage or really splash out and get the full Novell retail DVD version for a whapping £35 when it becomes available later this month.