Why would it matter how many apps people purchase? It's not Apple so you can get free applications much easier.

Personally I have a Blackberry and I haven't had to buy an app yet.

If the automatic install doesn't work all you do is go into synaptic package manager and search for flash. Install the restricted adobe plug-in, restart firefox and you now have adobe flash.

I think there is a deb package for Adobe 10 on adobe.com making it even easier to install. Download, open the file, click install. Enjoy!

I would want this for Zune for the codec support and it will let you be able to use it as a hard drive instead of using the Zune software. That is what is holding me back from upgrading from my 3 year old 20gb iAudio X5 with a dying non-replaceable battery. If The Zune 30 or 80 could handle ogg and flac files without using the Zune software I'd drop $250 on it no problem. The closest thing is a Cowon A3 but I don't like the landscape setup it has.

Taylor: Quite a few of your complaints are being fixed in 8.10 or upcoming releases. There is a guest account created by default in 8.10 so you can enable or disable the account as you see fit.

1. Software installs are only difficult if there is not a .deb package available. If there is a .deb file for the software you can just double click and install it. That's even faster than Windows click next 5 times to start. I will admit that installing something that does not have a deb package is harder but hopefully linux as a whole will fix that some day.

2. Daily operations such as? You may not like how Gnome is setup then. Maybe give KDE4 a shot and see how you like it. I started off using KDE because it was much closer to Windows but now I'm on Gnome because everything works more reliably for me than early KDE4.

3. Also being worked on. There are new graphical tools coming out for many common things you may have to do. CLI is still faster if you know what you are doing but it's nice to have the option.

4. DX is a microsoft product so there will never be a native release. Wine works well enough for many gamers. If OpenGL took off again there would be many more native linux games available.

5. It's a security 'feature' for linux but I do like you idea though. Maybe submit it to http://brainstorm.ubuntu.com/ and it could be implemented in an upcoming release.

6. Can you do that on Windows? I've never heard of restricting access to a physical hard drive. Network drives yes, but physical, no.

Linux is not for everyone, that I won't dispute, but the last time I compiled my own kernel was in 2003 when I was doing a Gentoo stage 2 install. Anymore I just install the updates Ubuntu offers me and it's worked well for me so far. I use Ubuntu 8.04 on my laptop and home server but my main PC is still Windows for gaming and for some programs I can't get the alternative for on Linux.

For files that are not offered in the repositories try http://getdeb.net I've found a lot of great programs on there that I would have had to install manually.

That is the reason why I will not pick up a Zune not matter how much space they put in them. Let me drag and drop my files and use it as a USB hard drive. How hard is that?

A New Parrapa the Rappa would be awesome to have as a PSN game actually.

Punch. Kick. It's all in the mind!

The original Microsoft Explorer Optical mouse was the best mouse I have ever owned.

Quake sold it for me. I'm gonna mod mine tonight. Is there online play for it yet?

I do (I'm 22) but I use actual words and sentances. It took me longer to decipher "y w pep plz" than it would have taken me to text out "Get pepperoni plz."

My little sister uses that chicken scratch and I can't stand it. I would hate to be an english teacher these days when kids are using that in reports. As soon as I'd see LOL or ur in a paper they would get an F for failing the english language.

That's what you get for buying DRM. Reasons like this are why I still buy physical copies and rip them myself. That way I know it's high quality and I can play it on any mp3 capable device I want.