I've been thinking about it.........do all of you think that M$ would die w/out its control as the primary OS of games? I wonder how many of you (those w/out Linux) would dump M$ for *nix or at least Mac (a flavor of *nix, but w/ it's happy little interface and following, sort of qualifies as another niche since it's also not open source [correct me if I'm wrong about that])......... Maybe I should just dump Windows completely, &, instead of running dual boot xp pro/mandrake 8.1, just use Mandrake w/ WINE DEATH TO WINDOWS MACHINES UP W/ LINUX BOXS