Yes! I can proudly say after using Micro$oft products for many years, since I had installed KNOPPIX to my home computer and a spare laptop I HAVE NOT USED WINDOWSXP in quite a few days now!!!! I am coming along nicely learning a little bit more each day. I understand it may be important for some people to still keep their WINDOWS computers cause of various reasons. I still have WINXP on my gateway laptop and on my other HDD in this desktop computer I am on now. But I find I have been using KNOPPIX for about 90% of the time.....I think I may be addicted...bob