I had dabbled with Linux starting with Slackware in 1996 or 97 then didn't play with it anymore until XP came along and I messed around with SuSe. But when Vista hit I said screw MS and their stupidity and left my XP SP2 system operating as was. I got a LiveCD of Dapper Drake in '06 and then got another LiveCD With Gutsy Gibbon in '07. That was when I put my first PC on Linux full fledged. With the release of Hardy Heron in '08, I dual booted my laptop running XP on one side and Hardy Heron on the other. Now my preference was and has been Linux. My challenge has been this garbage of courting the Darkside to look Metro like the iPhone and the Windows Phone. If I wanted that look I would buy one of those phones. I want my desktop to look like a desktop, not an idiot box going "Huhh! I push da button and it give me pretty picture, Huh!". If the technologically challenged want to dumb themselves down even more by not even being required to read, let them go the way of the dinosaur. I say leave the technology and design to the techies and keep the artsy-fartsy queers away from our OSes.