Hi, I think the article is quite good, because I myself never had a chance to have a good look at a MAC OS. I just don't have the money to buy a MAC, not to mention pay for an operating system when I can find that it does not suit my needs. I cannot afford to buy aomething I will not like to use. As we can see, it's really hard to find a perfect operating system, even MACs are not perfect. There also a lot of things that will improve in Linuxes and there so many things now working out of the box, that I simly don't see any other operating system offering so much flexibility. To me it doesn't matter if the Ubuntu was taken as an example. I used Mandriva for many years and now I have a Gentoo/Sabayon installation, this for sure is not a very easy to use system for a newbie, so I can understand why Ubuntu was taken as an example. I did have a look at Ubuntu thanks to a few live CD's. As for me, personally I would not choose Ubuntu. I also tested PCLinuxOS. What I see is that Linuxes are making really huge steps ahead in easy installations, setups, etc. I recently started a wireless connection in not time, where as on a Windows XP belonging to one of my collegues - it took me two hours of browsing through documents to get things started. What I like about Linuxes is the way I can easly configure a Linux environment (I use only KDE). I can configure virtually everythhing - fonts, colours, schemes, buttons. When I look at Konqueror, this has become my absolute favourite. I can set up everyting, change the icons, add menu items. Konqueror gives me access to every part of the system without any hassle - it's a tool almost for everything. I have easy access to folders, home location, system folder, medias, web pages, just one click on the right sidebar.... Moving my files - absolutely all is there what I need, browsing pictures, videos. And this just one tool has improved a lot in the recent few versions. Amarok - I cannot find any other tool that suits my needs, easy access to all my files, 500 radio stations. And what I like is that this program does not try to think what I would like to do, instead let's me do it by myself. I think the article is a nice peace of collected information. If I would have to choose to pay for a stable system I guess maybe a MAC OS would be the first system I would try to look at, but after reading this article - I know I am going to stay with Gentoo/Linux for quite a while. MAC OS? Not thanks... I also know what is the benefit of a Linux disto. We have so many distros, which may cause confusion, but there is a positive point of using an Open Source operating system. All distos try to take advantage of all the good ideas from each other. When I saw the OpenSUSE meny I could only say - brilliant. So in the end a MAC or Widnows OS - thay lack the flexibility and are all a closed product, so we have to wait ages to have any new ideas implemented, where as in Linux all we have to do is wait 3-6 months and we can expect a lot of new features not available in other OS within a short time. Regards, Richard »