[CamB]

I've got my home machine running Ubuntu (dual boot). The only hard parts were:

- dual boot(!) using two drives - one with Linux, one with Windows
- getting a second soundcard (not the onboard one) to work
- getting a friggin USB wireless card to work (with WPA encryption).

There was plenty of information on the internet to help me figure those three things out. The wireless card was particularly difficult because doing virtually any sort of upgrade or installation is 1000% easier over the internet (for downloading the files and for tech support). Linux seems to be about Google skills.

Ubuntu has great forums which are really useful for noobs (like me). There is also Kubuntu, which uses KDE instead of Gnome (different graphic environments).

However, apparently both KDE and Gnome are a bit resource-hungry... but I've got a 2800+ and 1gb of ram so no worries.