love the applications, hate the OS.
I definitely understand that. There are days when I kinda wish I ran Windows, so I could play a game I'm reading about, but Windows just keeps getting in the way. I'd much rather be free from prying eyes/big brother/registration/etc.
I’ll probably leave mine dual-boot, just so I can use winblows natively when I want to (games) and a Linux environment for the rest of my computing. I have used openoffice before. The version I used was a little cludgy, but I understand the later editions are better.
I played with debian and Ubuntu before, and Have setup a CentOS webserver for a nonprofit I work with, but personally I am looking for a simple desktop OS that allows me under the hood for small custom stuff (cron, shell scripts, etc.) I may want to crank up a httpd for a temporary use or setup an inhouse email server. Again, nothing major, but I don’t want to have to babysit a Linux OS any more than I like to debug and secure my Winblows machine.