[Squantos]

LOL........Good answer !

Part I didn’t understand must have been about New Mexicans !....:o)

As you state....if one wants simplicity, speed for surfing and basic documents in open office etc then Linux is the way to go.

Especially if one has an older desktop or laptop laying around. I snagged a new HP pavilion dv6436nr Entertainment notebook that has 2GB of memory, 160GB HD, Nvidia geforce go 6150 graphics card etc running Pista OS (sic) . It’s OK but when I loaded Ubuntu on my older compaq presario laptop with 50GB HD and 512mb of memory it out performs that new notebook in speed for surfing the net..........

My daily surfing notebook I use on the net is the old presario. It is faster, safer and no virus seems to bother it.......yet.

[hiredhand]

Yes! Linux is WONDERFUL on older hardware! Because of this, we stay "about" two years behind the rest of the world with PCs here at the house, and we get good performance out of them!

MS has consistently driven the home PC market to keep latest/gratest hardware in order to run their bloated OS and applications. But that's good for us because we get the "old" hardware that can't run MS OSes anymore!

Grub is on!....brb. :-)

[Golden Eagle]

Yeah well I’m a linux skeptic, Linus Torvalds came from a family of well known communists in east europe and a green party whacko named Richard Stallman owns more rights to the code than anyone. You can run US original Unix like Sun Solaris if you don’t like Windows or Macs, and even get it for free if that’s your need. Sorry if I’m intruding on you but many don’t know about the radical “free software” leftists like Stallman until someone lets them know. Check out some of his videos on youtube if you’ve gotten that running yet.