Thanks for your input rash mate, but unfortunately it comes with the territory.... Both the works one and the home one! Gaming, Photoshop and Illustrator are my tools of release - all of which are mainly Windows based. Believe me when I say that if I thought I could ever get one over on Micro$haft I would, 100%, but monopoly is exactly that. 90% of us are a captive audience and as such don't have many options available to us.

Besides, do you really think that the Mrs could ever wrap her head around command line interface and Xterminal?