Your windoze DVD playing might be inhibited by all the rescources windoze uses. Since linux will run relatively faster than windoze on similar hardware. I have a windoze setup on a 3.4GHz P4, 1GB of ram and i can play games on one monitor, and watch a dvd on the other with no problems, however, now that i have a Knoppix 3.7 install on another computer, i use that one for all my multimedia. I have found out since my first linux install 5 months ago, i'm getting more and more comfortable in the linux environment... if i could only play Everquest 2 in linux i wouldn't need windoze anymore =) just really waiting on better graphics drivers and then the 'ol 21 gun salute to windoze.