I'm running Ubuntu 6.06 on a Pentium-M 1.7GHz laptop and running Flash through Firefox through Wine is incredibly slow! Forget the pro's and cons of relying on Windows libs via wine, it's too slow! If you really want to play flash 8/9 movies/games then get yourself a copy of Windows or just wait until Adobe get off their arses and release Flash 9 for Linux. (I read somewhere that Adobe have 15 developers assigned to Flash for Linux, so I don't think we'll be waiting too long.) I don't like to admit it, but Windows does have its uses...