I have been using Linus for a couple of years now, moving from
Mandrake to Mepis and most recently to Ubuntu after a brief flirtation
with Kubuntu. I am becoming more familiar with the desktop and miss
KDE less and less.

Recently I had a hard drive die on me in my old PC. It was the primary
drive containing Win2000 and an old Linux partition. I replaced the
drive and spent a week getting Win2000 usable, but Ubuntu on the
second partition of the new drive was usable from the start.

I have also acquired a USB drive that had to be formatted. Although
both of the machines and all of the operating systems could see the
drive, none of them could do anything with it. I finally removed it
from the case and temporarily connected it to the secondary IDE
controller. After an hour of searching the various Ubuntu menus with
no luck, I booted into the Mepis partition and used qtparted to set up
the drive. How could this have been done in Ubuntu?