I just pulled the Vi$ta - Ubuntu switch last week (Virus -Trojan -
rootkit Problems)and I'm not having near the learning curve I had as
little as four years ago. Everything works fine on my year-old Dell,
and as far as installing software, "Add/Remove Software" at the bottom
of the Applications Menu Saved me a boatload of time over Vi$ta's
process "find the CD/Download site, tell the frikin system a billion
times that 'Yes I'm sure', install (finally) method. Add/Remove is
especially sweet if you switch to "all available software" (see my chm
message). I had tried the early Fedora Core and Ubuntu systems, (In
fact I've been messing with Linux for about ten years now) and though
my head may still be in Windows world I'm not sorry I left (see first
parenthesis!) Yes, the command line is intimidating to those of us
used to the back flips, twists, and hooha of th gui, but doesn't it
make more sense to actually Tell the computer what to do than "click
on this, then this, then this" of the gui? Of course, I think the
commands could be made less arcane too,but still the learning curve
is a whole lot shallower than it was.