Ubuntu 10.04's pretty nice with the social integration (Empathy, Evolution, Gwibber).

All your alter egos in a couple square inches (or a few square centimeters).

I just can't seem to convert any of my friends because they're all gaming addicts... (And most of their games don't work well in wine.)

I've been a part-Linux, part-Windows user for the past year or so, and the last nail in the coffin for Windows came when one of the essential .dlls got corrupted. Tried to re-install Windows and everything, but then the sound drivers wouldn't work.

Funny how I learned more about computers in a year than the library technicians (oh the irony...) at my school have all their career.

My friend (http://lincomlinux.org/homepage) and I were writing the .spec files for the base system one day, and one of the technicians accused us of hacking the school computers. (Even though there are quite advanced C++ and Java courses here, too.).

Basically, people need to know about Linux. Just knowledge of what Linux is (even if all they know is that it's an alternate OS to Windows and Mac) would brighten the technology world greatly, in my opinion.

Hope Chrome OS can facilitate this effect.