I jumped on the Linux bandwagon about 7 years ago (and haven't looked back). Started with RedHat, then Fedora and now I'm a happy Kubuntu user (after much resistance). I bought my mom a new laptop and tried to install Ubuntu on it, that didn't work because I couldn't fix screen resolution issues. Next thing I tried was PCLinuxOS and everything worked flawlessly. You will find issues here and there, but those are hard to avoid.

My Linux box is where I do most of my things, except for work emails that reside on an exchange server (the company gave me a Windows laptop). Like someone else mentioned, mainly thanks to Ubuntu and Google we don't have to deal with the frustrations of the past. I remember the dependency problems in RedHat that used to drive me nuts.

I recommend you visit www.distrowatch.com every now and then. For the last several months PCLinuxOS has been the king (Whattup Ubuntu?). I bought the N800 mainly because it runs Linux and Nokia deserves my support.

Long Live the Mighty Penguin!!