I quite like Vista myself, never had any problems with it. Scopse - I've got discs of Ubuntu 7.10, both 32 and 64 bit. Have been very tempted to run Ubuntu (had it dual booting on old laptop briefly) but each time I've done it, I seem to get little niggles which would no doubt be fine for a computery guy, but I'm not one of them! First time the wireless card apparently wouldn't enable. Online said to do something with ndiswrapper or something along those lines, but it couldn't be found. Second time, no sound. Are these sorts of things generally easy to sort? Even for a n00b like me?! I really liked the look and feel of Ubuntu, but feel I might have a lot of issues trying to do stuff like that, and also with compatibility for programs like Reason, Matlab, games etc