It's an "elitist" operating system that is so good that if you don't know about it, no one will tell you. But, it's bajillions of times better than Windows, except that you can't really use it without 4 engineering degrees and 12 years of practice. Oh, did I mention that you can't play games on it? Even with the ****, it's still many times better than OSx.:yinyang:
Dunno, IE8 installed easily with the Beta of W7. I give Linux a hard time because of a good portion of the users, not the system itself. I have Ubuntu variants running on 3 machines now (the ones I DON'T play games on, obviously).