The question is though, WHY would Mr. Average even bother with Linux atm? Linux is more an operating systems for power users or those who hate Microsoft with a passion. Linux for desktop is not that good at best, pretty much compareable to the level of MS Windows 3.1 at the time. Does it have a future as desktop? I don't know and that's a whole different subject. Fact is, Mr Average shouldn't be messing around with installing OSes at all, considering my Win2k install gave me far more troubles then my Linux Slackware 8.1 install. (in which I'm currently using Mozilla to browse the net and later on to do a NFS install of Slackware to my server that doesn't have a CDROM drive)

Anyways, NTFS partitions are only mountable as read-only. NTFS network shares can be mounted using SmbFS though, and they work absolutely fine, both reading and writing. Bad thing is this only works with Windows-mounted and networked partitions, so you can't access your own HD through Linux with this...