He must not have tried Ubuntu (Score 1)

I read Con's "history of the personal computer". I don't know what distribution he's talking about. I'm using Ubuntu on both my home machine and work machine and they run great! In fact, I have them both dual booting Linux and XP. When I switch over to the XP partition the drive starts chugging away like it's trying to push a donkey up a hill. When I'm running Ubuntu Linux it's much faster. I even see my wife using it some times, and if you asked her whan OS she was using I'm sure she couldn't tell you. It just works quickly and does what it's supposed to do. Huzzah for the Linux Desktop.