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Before I forget, let me thank-you for following up on your initial post with further comments on what you were doing, and replies to the suggestions offered.

This is a pleasant change from the usual case, where my replies are meant with silence.

And a couple more web pages I saw this morning that relate to you inquiry:

Well the latest update, this is being posted using the hd install of Ubuntu. It took about 45 minutes, went without a hitch and everything is usable,I even have sound, well there's a few things I haven't checked but I have excellent tutorials to read and a very responsive forum at ubuntu to read and post if needed. It's not dual boot so that made it easy, just wipe everything.

If this is the way of Linux now, very soon it will be on many more boxes. My wife, who will be the main user, that is if she can drag me away, was already using it and while she is not unfamiliar with using computer programs in no way is she educated in the inner workings of the OS, setting up programs or configuring these machines. She uses Windows at work but was able to pick up the Gnome inetrface like nobody's business. Ha!

As for myself I'm learning 100% more each day, today I've become familiar with the file structure, permissions, using the command line and using the repositories and soon will find out if I need to install updated video drivers. Now though I have to do the more mundane things like setting up Firefox with the extensions I like, digging around the menus and finding out where to do all normal computer stuff and the like.

This has been perfect for my needs, I have an usable system with minimal work BUT all the complexity is there when I'm ready to dive in. Let's just say I love this and I have that same feeling I had when I booted my first PC back in the last century, this has brough back a love for computing I've always had, the computing that is not just playing games and running programs, the wonder of those first years with that mysterious DOS command line and making all those boot disks (loadhigh) to get my games to run and the joy of my first BBS is all here again. Not bad for an old man, well I'm 50 and not too gray.

Thanks again all,
t_o_p