My son is a linux wiz kid. As long as he loves me I’ll keep using it. All kidding aside I installed it myself (it was very quick and easy”. My printer,scanner,camera,external sound card,usb phone card,mouse, in other words all my hardware,old and new,was actual plug and play.It cruises the internet great. I have a virtual box installed within ubuntu to run a few windows programs with. It has been installed for a year without a sign of corruption or slowing.
I like SUSE Linux w/KDE (10.2 64 bit.) The only problem I’ve had is with some Windows games, everything else has been fantastic. Linuxiso.org is a great place to DL live evals or the installs. Its never crashed, had a virus or failed in any way for me. To be fair its on a dual boot pc with 32 bit XP that’s worked great too except for a virus or two. Both have been running for about a year.