> I want an OS that starts up and becomes invisible until shutdown, and I never want to touch the mouse. This. That's the same reason why I love Ubuntu as my

> I want an OS that starts up and becomes invisible until shutdown, and I never want to touch the mouse. This. That's the same reason why I love Ubuntu as my desktop. I'm hardly doing anything outside of the browser, except for coding and writing with Vim. > I lose a few hours of productivity every few months in exchange for massive productivity gains while working. Even though upgrades aren't that frequent on other platforms, they do exist. Every two or three releases I take the chance to make a fresh start and it's incredible how fast I can set up the desktop to fit my needs. Ubuntu's/Debian's excellent package management is a huge time saver.