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my post does not then, apply to you. I am talking about the other 95% of people who are looking for a home solution. anyone looking to use Vista for business obviously is getting bad advice :-)

and to taxed2death - redhat and SUSE. albeit not recently.

I run SuSE 10.2 at home on all my systems, even my T30 ThinkPad with WPC54G wireless card. Works like a champ. And my 80 year old dad uses it too. It wasn't that difficult to show him around the basics of the system, and how to launch Firefox, E-Mail and Solitaire.

If you haven't checked out SuSE or Redhat recently, you might want to give them another look.

I've been mightily impressed with SLED 10.2 and OpenSuSE 10. In the past couple months I've "labbed" them on 5 machines and only had a problem when running Beryl. Compiz has worked on 3 of the installs but Beryl breaks everything.

I've started deploying SLED peripherally on my network: using it to lock down 6 public access machines, and am prepping a migration of my company's intranet from a Win2K server to a SLED server.