The word "devoid" does not mean what you obviously seem to think it does.

Try checking a dictionary before making an asshat of yourself

Yeah, it's called "Vista"

some of us like suprises you insensitive clod!

7.10 was not LTS and took forever to boot on my HP lappy and needed config to handle the start-up screen. 8.04 however was a dog for me and by that time I had learned enough debian to make the switch. Ubuntu is the whole set take it or leave it, debian is like lego, build it how you want and any bits you don't like can be removed and replaced with bits you do. I still run ubuntu from time to time (twas my first real working-with-wireless-linux) but Debian is just better once you become an advanced n00b.

One distro to rule them all... ;o)

Debian is suspiciously absent from that list...I have windows and Debian and currently there is nothing I can do in windows that I cannot do in Debian but, of course, YMMV as I don't really do anything 'mission critical' with my own computers.

More to do with hot poisonous gas being pumped out along with the searing pyroclastic flow...not just the dust, but how it is delivered...

Something to do with the price maybe?

sounds like a virus.

I've never met a Linux user who didn't know windows, but have met many windows users who have never even heard of Linux. Linux users *do* tend to be computer gods to the average knucklehead, simply because they know *more* about computers. Find me a Linuxer who has never heard of windows....

try debian testing + lxde + totem + all the codecs....very usable and quicker than XP on the mrs 8 year old hp Pavilion ze4315ap

More handwaving bullshit. You have no idea that anything you have stated is true apart from the fact you pulled it out of your own stinking arse.