I'm still on the fence as to which distro will take

the lead when Ubuntu fails, unless they wise up and default to something other
than unity. I'm not trying to start a flame war, but I really think Unity is a
mistake.

No argument there, Nathan. I've been on PLUG one year now since I decided to augment my business doing LAMP programming. So I'm rather green.

I always wanted to run Linux, but I took the "role" of disinterested user. I decided I would run Linux when it was ready to run for me. I occasionally tried this or that distro. I remember Knoppix. When Ubuntu appeared, I started trying it. Eventually a version appeared that installed effortlessly on my PC. Since then I have more or less had at least one box that will run Linux.

Part of my Linux desire was to give my three kids exposure to something different. And my middle child, my 14-year-old Michael, has been the Ubuntu user for about a year now.

I'm far from a power user. But I sort of know enough to do my LAMP development as a junior programmer at age 45.

I wish Ubuntu wouldn't fail. It's really sad. But they don't seem ready to acknowledge that Unity is plain hard to use.

Tom