Ubuntu

[gorilla]

Just installed Ubuntu (a free open source linux distribution) and am very impressed. I've been a windows man all the way, purely because windows has come preloaded on all my PC's. Over the last couple of years I've been experimenting with open source software and am now a big advocate. For the home user, I don't see the point of buyng MS Office for instance when open office will do the job just as well. Now I know there are some teething problems with linux and open office has some compatibility issues with MS office, but for general day to day use they work. The only problem I ever had with XP was that I couldn't get SP2 installed. I ended up having to reinstall windows to do fix that. That said I never expereinced a crash and was generally very happy with it. So why the change? Well, why not? I had everything backed up, I have the XP disk, so there was nothing scary about giving it ago. Will I revert back? Who knows, but I certainly doubt it.

I see there are quite a few mac users here now, just wondering how many linux users there are?