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Windows will have to be taken down with a Windows clone.

Wrong. I'm reading this on a Red Hat 7.3 KDE system using Mozilla, instead of my Win98 system with IE 5.5. Why? KDE is more than sufficient for my purposes, and it doesn't come with Microsoft's obnoxious, noxious and fundamentally dishonest policies as noted in this article.

There are a few Win-based apps I still use, and I'm slowly moving them over to run under Wine. For me, RH7.3 crossed the threshold of preference.

I don't need, or want, a "clone" of Windoze. I do need, and want, similar functionality. Just as some friends prefer Macs to WinPCs, I'm finding I am beginning to prefer LinPCs to WinPCs.

And Microsoft has only itself to thank for this.

Eala: a Linux user in Redmond, WA.

I'm reading this on a Red Hat 7.3 KDE system using Mozilla, instead of my Win98 system with IE 5.5. Why? KDE is more than sufficient for my purposes, and it doesn't come with Microsoft's obnoxious, noxious and fundamentally dishonest policies as noted in this article. There are a few Win-based apps I still use, and I'm slowly moving them over to run under Wine. For me, RH7.3 crossed the threshold of preference.

Try OSX. It's much better than desktop Linux. Chimera (COCOA browser based on Mozilla rendering engine) owns regular Mozilla. It is so much faster on my G3 desktop (Blue and White G3 350 soon to be G4500). BeOS aside, there is no geekier OS than OSX. It might as well be called NeXTSTEP 5.1.5/5.2