Re:heh (Score 1)

I couldn't agree with you more. I have periodically tried to get a linux desktop computer running since about 2005. I have tried SUSE, Fedora three times and this last time Ubantu. The result has always been the same. It installs easily and connects to the internet with a wired connection. The web browser and office applications work fine, I have never gotten a DVD to play. One time I got a CD to play with a Fedora distribution but it only played tracks after it had saved them to the disk. One time I got my HP printer installed on Fedora. The one time I used a dual boot with Fedora it crashed the machine (BIOS said disk was not bootable) when it rebooted from doing updates after linux had been loaded and running for about a month. There was no observable reason for the crash. The computer was on a UPS and nothing was apparently wrong with the hard disk or the computer hardware since it has continued to run Windows XP fine since it was reinstalled. Windows had a lot of issues up until XP but since then I really cannot complain. Between myself and my extended family I maintain 14 computers. One has the most recent Ubantu distribution the rest run windows. Two run Windows 7 - 64Bit, four run Vista -32Bit, and the rest XP 32 Bit. They all use Microsoft Security Essentials. They all run on networks, some wired and some wireless, with hardware from various manufacturers. I have never had a driver problem that couldn't be fixed by going to the manufacturers home page and downloading the necessary software. I do run Libre Office on most of the computers although several have Student Office 2003 and my grand daughter in collage has Student Office 2010 on her laptop. I plan to revisit the one linux computer and see if I can get it to play DVDs and CDs but frankly, asside from the fact that it's a hobby, I don't see any reason to waste much time on it.