The biggest change for me in the last few years has been moving over to KDE and konqueror. the ability to access a web site in one tab and files on my system in another, all within one window, makes computing much less of a chore. there is nothing really new to get excited about computing though. we are still locked into the same old input devices and while the apps have more wizz and fizz, a spread sheet is still a set of rows and columns the same as it was on an apple II in 1980. »