I did a similar thing many years ago. I was a heavy Windows user and in 2004 I decided that I wanted to know more about Linux. There was new distro around at th

I did a similar thing many years ago. I was a heavy Windows user and in 2004 I decided that I wanted to know more about Linux. There was new distro around at the time called "Ubuntu" and people at work were raving about it. So I switched my desktop from Windows to Ubuntu and never looked back. I have tried other Linux based desktop distros over the years but Ubuntu seems to be the best if you just want to get work done. I never had issues with drivers etc. Currently I run XUbuntu as my main development work station.