It looks promising but having just had to use it to try and resolve a problem with a friends ipod and had problems with crashing and really slow performance on a c2d 2.4ghz and 2gigs of ram.. I prefer to use Rhythmbox, I like the retro look..

Just a few random searches will prove that google brings back more relevant results. I'm actually surprised people are still talking about it.

Maybe I have a different opinion on what budget is.. Less than $100USD.. Here I was thinking that I'd read a hardware review on slashdot that may actually be useful to me. Alas no.

As long as the Gimp guys aren't going to change can we make OO look like Gimp?

Thousands of years of evolution is better than a pair of shoes... Crazy talk!

If you don't want people talking to you perhaps you should stay in your basement?

My sentiments exactly. I use computers all day at work, mostly Windows desktops and servers but a few Linux servers hidden around the place for important tasks. When I get home from work I don't want to tinker around with my machine I want it to just do it's thing. I use Ubuntu on my laptop and it just works, quite literally. It's been ready for the desktop for ages, for general document creation, web browsing, wireless, printers, file sharing, you name it, everything a normal user including myself would do is easily attainable using Ubuntu.

To think that personal computing is going to be taken over by cloud computing and smartphones, this guy obviously hasn't used a smartphone and doesn't give a crap about who has access to his data with cloud computing.. This is totally crazy talk from someone that is supposed to know about these kinds of things. I think he needs to get checked in to a mental asylum.

LOL! Best movie ever! Thanks guys for making my day.

All this goes to show is how bad Dell tech support is. All they needed to say was that openoffice is compatible and that her internet connection will work, she just might have to call her ISPs tech support as well. It is clearly becoming a problem that these kinds of companies don't make it clear what operating systems they "support". How hard is it to include a guide on the CD to setting up your internet connection in Linux?

What's with all the hating anyway? Isn't this a perfect example of how you can show people the Linux experience? You know, helping other users. The entire philosophy behind Linux. You guys should be ashamed.