up i'm a moderately computer savvy guy. i started using vi in 1990. i recently decided to try linux as my everyday at-home workstation OS. versus windows. i installed Ubuntu 5.04, and have put reasonable but not massive effort into configuring the OS, as frankly i've got better things to do. here's a list of things which i have to reboot in windows (xp) to do. have to do it in windows xp have to do it in linux 20050818 - burn a CD it continuously says my system ain't fast enough, which windows has no such qualm.   20050818 - burn a DVD does Ulead exist for linux ?   20050818 - play a DVD actually i haven't checked this since i installed the mp3 libs.   20050818 - build a static HTML photo gallery   20050818 - do a lot of photo editing   20050818 - use a scanner     20050818 - Run apache and php4 w/ confidence. Actually i have all the confidence i need in the windows apache & php, but it's true i've got even more in the linux version.