[Thilock_Dominus]

Since I have zero interest in running M$ apps (to the point of uninstalling IE and OE), I wouldn't know about using Wine for that - from what I understand, some apps run okay under Wine, some don't. If you also have a Windoze partition, I'd think you're better off using them from Windoze, but if you get to the point where you're in linux most of the time, I can see where it'd be worthwhile to experiment to see which apps you can Wine and dine.

Most programs I'm using on WinXP is on Linux(writing, e-mail, some few games, music etc.), that is why I'm changing OS. But I have some old DOS games from "old" times I'll to install under Linux and that's why I stumble on Wine when I was searching on google.

But meanwhile I'm gonna run dual boot until I get familiar with Mandrake Linux...and then takes a decesion.

best regards
Thilock