i used to be sooo jealous of my (ex)boyfriend's linux system...he NEVER crashed! i think he used gnome as his desktop thing, and it was great. besides the stability, it had the best games :-P! he eventually had to dual boot his computer with windows, too, though, because lots of things are so incompatible with linux programs. but it was great! if i ever get my OWN computer, i'll probably do a dual boot on it. do you use mandrake, redhat, or what?