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[Kevin Wood]

Yeah, the new "I know you've got a 24" monitor, but I'm going to force a Gaypad desktop on you anyway" concept will mean this is my last Ubuntu for a while, I suspect.

[TheBoy]

As for not being "too stupid" to use Linux, that comes in when you have to maintain the system, where, unlike with Windows, you will have options other than "wipe it and reinstall".

Not a problem I've come across much, considering the number I see 

But as this is a Linux debate, not windoze, I still struggle to see how Ubuntu fits in, despite all the kids creaming themselves over it (probably due to the easy install, possibly one of the easiest of the 'free' (in cost) distros out there). But its not its own distro, based on Debian iirc, thus always out of date. And Debian itself isn't exactly the most current edge .  In Windoze world, its like installing XP. Old, dated, behind the times. Why? 

Or am I spoilt with all shit I get to play with? Or naive? 

[TheBoy]

Though like any distro it can struggle with esoteric hardware (lots of jiggery pokery getting the LIRC IR drivers working on my HTPC, for example)

Hmmm, I don't remember any jiggery pokery getting Windows on my HTPC, except in the MCE2005 days when a bit of a reg tweak to enable 6 tuners.  Windoze rulz