Hello folks,
By way of background, my first system was a Leading Edge XT with a full meg of ram and an upgrade 20 meg HD running some version of MS-DOS. Ah the good old days. Use most of the MS windows versions up through XP but became dis-enchanted over the years with the constant hassle of update/upgrade and $ outlay for various products such as office. With the asvent of Open Office and Firefox, I started shifting away from MS and finally have installed Umbutu on a AMD64. Love it.

There are many thing I've got to adjust to with the transition and hope I can find guidance in the forum.

BTW from my perspective the killer app in Linux is the Update Manager.

Hi and welcome to LQ, linux does have the effect of growing on you