i use ubuntu as well, and used a lot others, i basically say if you dont have a second computer or dont mind basically not having a computer for about a month and then realizing that you still realy dont have a computer, get linux. i am a programmer/computer freak so it just gave me something to do, plus i had at teh time 4 computers to mess with. all in all, for the regular person the learning curve is too great and too little output to say that it is better than windows. and one last thing, just forget about it if you have an ATI gpu, trust me