Not nearly as kookie as those saying “switch over to this foreign crap ubunty instead”! XP is still out there if that’s what you’d prefer, I saw several boxed copies of it at Walmart just a couple days ago.
Linux has its place. Solaris has its. OSX has its. As yet Vista does not. HPUX and SysV no longer have a place.
Windows 2000 remains the best OS MS ever shipped.
I've been out of using desktop Linux for a while. Really, I just don't need it for desktops, and the last time I tried was just too much hassle. But with all this talk of Ubuntu, including from you, I may just have to download an ISO and try it out. I'll give you a report on how it runs on an fairly old, slow system that's currently running XP.
Warning though, last time I popped in a Knoppix CD to run some utilities on it the system seemed to run faster except for the app load times (it's a live CD, what can I expect?).