I am running Linux ubuntu 6.10, although I am entirely new to this stuff I am
finding it possibly as easy as windows There seems to be extensive things in
here to use for many things I am currently not interested in using. Although the
learning curve is steep i think it would be steeper to learn windows, and I am
told that once I understand the basics of this I can choose to move on to a
different distribution that would support my needs better. As far as I know most
Linux distributions are free although there are some closed source distributions
in Linux which may also be free. I know i have a spreadsheet in here (under
office) and since Linux is not programed to crash it is more reliable. i have
heard the argument that there is not as much streamlined technical support,
there is still as much technical support because there are so many different
ways of doing things, and everybody is going to have a somewhat different answer
(presumably) but the fact that we control how
and what works in the system is probably the sweetest thing.