Netflix — just an observation.
Mint. I'll check it out. I am due an upgrade — I am still running Ubuntu 10.04 because I like the old icon style desktop. Plus it works perfectly on my dell laptop.
I had a bad experience with Linux a few years ago searching for drivers for all of my hardware. I spent hours and hours searching the net (that is what I meant about "google is your friend"). Some people probably enjoy it and I did for the first couple of days.
Anyway, I am a little hesitant to upgrade since I have had such good luck with Ubuntu 10.04. The good news is that you can test drive it before installing it so I'll probably do that.
I had many ‘bad starts’ with Linux.. I tested pretty much every year since about 2000.. Wasn’t satisfied until about 3-4 years ago. I still like DOS.. :p I hated Win then, still do. But, I had to move on.
Sadly, we lost DOS and were forced to use Windows. I don’t thing Windows itself was weened off of DOS until Win 7... all previous had the DOS shell..
Taking it further, Mac/Apple, are ALL based on Unix!! :D (they will never admit that ;)).. DOS is a mix of simple commands (you used to have to know what you were doing to be able to do anything with the PC ;) that were mixed with Unix.. Heck, I could FTP from DOS (with a dial-up) to a UNIX machine back then :p