Linux: Fun Again (Score 2, Interesting)

Now say what you will. I have been playing with various flavours of linux for years but have always lost interest. Being it blowing up the machine, free beer, the 80's, recovering from the 80's, the 90's (if they really happened at all) and various and sundry things that can so often throw us off our path and: after months of frustration with trying to load up on my Walmart Basic A535 with the RAM maxed out at 512, nothing huge but we play with what we have. All the other distros and hours on google and half a pack of smokes, it was just no longer fun to play. With Ubuntu, bang, zoom, 99.94% of all my hardware was recognized (bear in mind 82.43143212334342232323_% of all statistics are made up on the spot). A quick search, couple of sudo commands and my wireless was working like a charm. I have had so much fun back playing with this. I am interested again. I am learning a ton in almost no time. The fact that my sound works, my cards work, my video was configured makes the experience so much more enjoyable. I really think that if 'new' people try this they will like this. It's nice to have converts regardless of the motivation. I make my living consulting and supporting m$ stuff and thats just the way it goes. But with a rocking home network and lots of boxes I can't wait to see what the playground becomes when this new toy joins the crew. If your new to linux, give this a try, have some fun. Nothing to lose and a wonderful new way of looking at all the things you pay to do anyway.