I guess I am part of that minority too. To me, a Linux system is a tool that I use. Others who need what that system can offer will use it too. If you don't need it, forget about it, which seems to come back to lpaulgib was getting at. Of course good luck trying to pin down what "need" is.. I "need" my 411 script and phone-book file (ala The UNIX Programming Environment by Brian W. Kernighan and Rob Pike), and for that simple one line script alone, I refuse to do without some kind of Unix like system to use.