Quote Originally Posted by motla68 View Post
I was curious as to what Linux version you were using and how you like it?

I made the switch to, new years resolution, no more MS Gestapo, selected Ubuntu having won award for most user friendly and be easy enough for wife to figure out.
Mint Linux is probably more user friendly than even Ubuntu.

Quote Originally Posted by motla68
I was even surprised to find that the new Macs have a flavor of Linux for their kernel now.
This is incorrect. Mac OS X uses the BSD kernel. BSD is a fork from System V UNIX.

There are free variants of BSD such as FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and DragonFly.

Quote Originally Posted by motla68
I keep on finding reasons to like it, there is just a couple of programs that only run on windows I have another computer for, but trying to encourage the company to come out with a linux version, hopefully not too much longer for that.

The support community for linux out there is incredible and it is all free as it should be.

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There are myriad of ways to run Windows apps on Linux including installing Wine or running Windows in a virtual machine using such software as VirtualBox or Xen.