alright, When I was in vista I played the xmas server, I went to a spot on the map and dropped to 10fps. When I switched back into linux I went back to the xmas server and back to that spot, I was hit 45 fps. Now the kicker, I had more stuff disabled in windows, like blood, bullet scars, net meter, etc and some other speed increasing system settings set in windows and still got a crappier fps than in linux. So I still say linux FTW!