"It's a P6 chip ... RISC architecture is gonna change everything".

Yeah, I'd like to see a retina display on one of those as well.

So it's not close to being in Hollywood with the movie stars, but I can tell you if there's one guy out there who's so totally humble, Linus is it. He's a nice guy; it's great to see him get to do things like this from time to time.

Like martas below, I'm definitely not a newbie user, having been using linux since the days of RedHat 5.1 (not RHEL, but Red Had Linux), and graduating up through the ranks of Mandrake, Debian and Gentoo (for 3 years) before settling down with Ubuntu. I've had my fill of kernel compiles from scratch, building modules from scratch and patching my current kernels, all the way to doing a make buildworld (both the gentoo equiv and BSD)... but in the end, I just want it to "just work." Ubuntu lets me do this, yet still allows me to compile the apps that I can't find either in a PPA or in the repositories.

I fit your Professional stereotype being one of those who currently uses RHEL for work, but I still much prefer using Ubuntu on the desktop for the "it just works" philosophy.

Agreed. I like it when it "just works" right out of the box. More and more linux distros are like this, and it's quite a nice change from the old days of "install and tweak for days before everything's 'just right' then do it all over again because a software update 'fixed' the bugs..."