I have used Ubuntu in the past. Once I found Mint, I haven't looked back. It's well polished as a desktop environment. I give Ubuntu kudos for what they have done but Mint takes the cake in polishing it. Of course, this is my opinion. I have 'converted' other people to Mint over Ubuntu with more success. Under the hood they are the same. It's the nice shiny paint job that people notice. I run Ubuntu @ home for my file, media, and backup servers. I also run WINXP headless in Virtualbox on the same server for those times I really need to use Microsoft crap. Linux has come a long way. I tried different distros over the last 10 years which included Mandrake, Redhat, OpenSuse, Debian and few others that I don't recall the names of. I like the choices that are out there but sometimes too many choices lead to very little success in the mass market. It really annoys me that I need to dual boot my PC into Windows just to watch Sunday Night Football online. I tried in a VM but it just doesn't run as good as it does natively. Of course YMMV.

AT&T in Dayton, NJ?

Maybe I can stop using the same gesture when my wifi card does not work.

Well, he is here on /. posting so we have to assume he has another PC or access to another PC.

and I have nothing to add.