Tim: > > -- Can I still run my Windows software on it? > > -- You do realise it was mostly*that* software that did the crashing? ToddAndMargo: > "That" software is no more buggy with their Linux > offerings than it is on Windows offering. > > The problem is the unstable platform (Win) that > those programs are running on. Well, there is that. But my take has always been that it's usually the software you're using that crashes (browser, word processor, spreadsheet, etc), and the OS may or may not fail to handle it. What you were actually trying to do (use an app) has gone tits up, and destroyed hours of work (hence why I save things very often while working on them). And using that same software on something else doesn't really help you avoid that issue.