Thanks, everyone, for your input. Although I have enjoyed shooting the bull about OS’s and software in general, it seems to me that most/all of the posters in this coffee shop forum are / could be in the tech field. Anyway, there is a good bit of news for the Linux community: Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced an initiative to offer NDA covered driver development free of charge to hardware manufacturers. Hopefully this will improve the ‘just works’ status of Linux.

-Guy