I admit there are kinks in various distros, but I have also found that once you set it up, it's really hard to mess it up over time. Personal experience of cou

I admit there are kinks in various distros, but I have also found that once you set it up, it's really hard to mess it up over time. Personal experience of course. I was a huge Ubuntu fan until 10.10. That's the last one without Unity. After that, I started seeing all sorts of bugs especially display related. Unity killed Ubuntu for me. I tried out Mint and that did not go down too well with me either. I finally tried out Lubuntu and that's what I use everywhere now. - Did not need to setup wireless, wired at all. It just worked. - For multi monitor support I had to install nvidia's drivers from the repo and set up the dual monitor config from their utility. (This is a PITA utility and I blame nvidia) - For the age-old 'setting up the printer' in linux meme, I went to Brother's website, and followed 3-4 simple steps and I was set up and ready to go. - Installed Virtual Box, vim, Gnome-Do and that's it. A lightweight box which does everything I want of it. Waiting for me to customize it the way I want to. I did this same thing on a $300 netbook (save for the VM, which I did not try). I added 8Gig RAM stick to it and was planning on replacing the 500GB 7.2k HDD with an SSD. An awesome *nix machine for about 350-550 depending on upgrades. I do understand why people pay for Macs, the choice of spending money over time. To me, the option to move around between distros, the freedom to upgrade hardware and just the ridiculous value for money I get is why I choose Lubuntu.