Gee a success story in the making. It was a dark Oct. day ( a couple weeks ago) My wife and I argue for the umpteenth time about upgrading to mickeysoft XP. I stood swearing I'd never upgrade to XP. She confidently said " What are you going to do went Mickeysoft stops supporting ME like they did 95?". This is my reply after a little reseach (may too little). I bought SuSE 8.2 professional (how egoistical of me).
Installed it with a few problems (less then what my wife had with XP). It taking a little time to get used to SuSE , but I love it, no reboots, no program freezes and everything works decently
(sometimes a bit too easy lol) Some of rough spots are with Seti@home client (that belongs to another forum) and getting something to work with MSN messenger (yet another forum and besides who needs it, if someone wants to chat with me there's always ICQ which runs fine with my version of Gaim). Everything is grant with my SuSE and I'll learn a bit more everyday. So I say to mickeysoft "nevermore". Now just a few games more would be good, but not necessary. I can live without them.

PS I'm not a computer Geek or wizard, just a average human being

The icing on the cake :

http://happypenguin.org/
http://www.tuxgames.com/
http://www.linuxgames.com/

There are LOADS of games. A lot less commercial games than for windows but somehow, the best seem to get ported more and more.

Here is a msn messenger clone for linux that I have used for couple of weeks now with no problems. It still works with the changes to the msn service but it doesnt have the games that messenger 6 has.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/amsn

Yeah...I have used aMSN for a couple years now. It works great!