[HAL9000]

It has been a while since you used a Linux GUI I take it.

My most recent Linux installation was Red Hat's Fedora Core 2, about a year ago. Thankfully, I rarely need to access the GUI on it, but I do occasionally. I'll be upgrading it to FC4 soon, but don't expect any major improvements in the GUI. It's the same old Windows 95-style that Linux has been stuck with for a while now.

Occasionally I'll try out the latest attempts at Linux GUIs like Nautilus (which flopped) or the Croquet Project (which is interesting, but a long way from commercial usability).

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

^^^^^^^^My most recent Linux installation was Red Hat's Fedora Core 2^^^^^^^^^^

I understand now. You need something which has more polish. You are using a distribution which is intended as a "proving ground" for RH's server line.(fedora is very solid but is not consumer grade) You might as well use RHEL and complain how un-user friendly it is.

Try Suse 10 or ubuntu then make your case. My dad the mac user(that would be tiger) is very impressed with Yast.(for example)

^^^^^^^^^^^I'll be upgrading it to FC4 soon, but don't expect any major improvements in the GUI.^^^^^^^^^^

That's right, you won't. That's not really the goal of Fedora.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Working Fedora Core 5 here today, also Vector L:inux, both have Firefox 1.05.01 out of the box.....

I think Vector is a little faster....not sure if it is using both of my procesors, of my AMD64 X2 3800+ though.....