No, Linux is not the kind of fun I thought it was, and not the kind of fun you describe. No, Linux was and is a necessity, created by Gates's antisocial personality and capitalist firm. When Longhorn was announced, nobody envisaged that it would become the inferior product Vista proves to be, and nobody expected it to cost so much, twice, first for the OS itself, second for the hardware requirements. So when Vista was announced, and since I had at that moment 8 pc's to manage, I got an uneasy gutfeeling: this is going to be difficult. So, for 16 months now, I'm downloading and testing distro's