I've been using linux for a long time. I've tried Red Hat, OpenSUSE, and Mandrake/Mandriva, but I'm now a fan of Ubuntu. At first I used dual boot with Windows 98 and linux and got some experience with system failures. Linux was first and after an hour on the internet I had it running without any data loss. Then, the windows partition crashed and I never could get it back. So I started using linux for everything.