No more linux for me...

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@mickeymick
"I can't wait to hear the justification for this one..."

well, simply try to run windows 95 on a 486/66 and then run redhat 5 for example... scary uh? not scared yet? now load openoffice in linux and office in windows...
now install mandrake suse or any distro on a 166mmx with 128MB of ram... now install windowsXP with the same config... uh windows runs faster yeah? (I say this because I have windowsXP installed on a 166mmx with 128MB without all the eye-candy and it runs far better than linux.

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Disable the eyecandy, the option of seeing directories as web-pages, animation in menus etc and you will see that it runs far better than linux.

Of course if your time has no value you can spend your life customizing and recompiling linux to make it run more or less decently.

Sadly linux apps and the OS itself sucks and openoffice crawls...

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@csirac_:
we'll saying that linux sucks isn't true, I agree, as a server it's one of the best oses you can get (Although some people say *BSD is better I don't care much... it's a unix and it's not friendly to the user...)

But I don't need a server... I want a desktop OS, not a server OS. BeOS is nice as a desktop OS if we forget hardware recognition and drivers...

IMHO the OS must be customizable, but the user must not be forced to recompile, etc when he adds new hardware... if I select an incorrect driver in X it will fall down. If I don't have a mouse connected it won't work. At least with Windows, BeOS and AmigaOS I don't have that problems. I don't feel the need of keeping in my memory hundreds of command line commands... we are in the XXI century... if my gfx card isn't configured correctly I shouldn't need to edit any text file or recompile the kernel. Would you imagine your grandfather recompiling the kernel to install a new device? I don't want to go back to the 70s... green text screens don't turn me on :-D