Well, I've done it.
I made the switch for my household from WinXP to Ubuntu (at least, the portion I control...).
I switched my laptop shortly before joining this forum, and I've since reinstalled it once, to optimize partitioning. This weekend, however, I decided to move my desktop to Ubuntu as well. I had some hardships (from the ATi driver on the install disc bombing my install out, to the 8.34 ATi driver nearly disabling my system entirely) but I've overcome them all, and made the switch. I still have a copy of my old workstation in VMware format just in case I forgot something, but everything is looking good so far.
The only thing I haven't found a linux version for is a Nortel VPN client. That's the main reason I still have my WinXP vmware machine.
I'm hoping that over time I can find the time and the energy to hook up my other two workstations (one was a winxp tv pc for a while, the other is just a file server) and get them converted, and of course the wife's laptop will remain XP until I can convince her otherwise. She's getting more used to Ubuntu, but I don't think she wants it yet.
Either way, it's one more step toward total MS freedom. Hooray for open source!
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