One of the first things Im asked when I post on a forum (other than
this ons) is why Im still on Fiesty. Because its stable. Yea, Ill
install Gutsy (maybe) on a laptop to play around with but not for my
main system. I do work on my os - my os is not my work.

I think Ubuntu has done a lot for linux to bring it along. And in my
personal opinion, its more stable than XP Pro - and I loved that over
any MS distro. The good thing about linux is, you can install a piece
of software and if it hangs - you dont have to crash your system to
get control. Well, ok, there are those rare times where that is not
true - but overall - I havent lost any data on linux and I lost GB's
of data on windows even when I was doing everything right.

But there is a learning curve. You cant just jump into it. Im still
not totally stable on linux. There are things that still are very
difficult to me - like the command line and all the commands and what
they do - but that hasnt stopped me from making a living - and a good
one at that - installing, supporting and using ubuntu.