Well never did get around to upgrading to
Vista. No need to now as it is of course going to be supplanted by
Windows 7 the whole thing sort of reminds me of the
Windows Millennium faux pas. My next casual use PC will be quiet and probably run
Ubuntu or maybe
Fedora. Maybe (so damned expensive though) I might opt for an
Apple product. Of course opting for the Mac would be joining the most closed close shop of all. Thing is I've decided I get enough Windows at work and when I sit down at a personal computer (yes Macs are personal computers also) I really don't care if it bears no resemblance to Windows in fact I prefer it that way most of the time. Currently I dual boot with XP out of necessity for some devices I own to be able to update but past that I spend the largest part of my casual PC time in Ubuntuville. I am just about to buy a new computer mostly out of necessity, if I go with something already built it will no doubt have some version of Vista installed and my key concern will be how easy will it be to dual boot it with Linux. If I build it then it will end up more than likely being strictly a Linux rig. However I have not ruled out Macs they certainly look cool and I've heard they can do
dual booting as well.