After trying out their liveCD, I have made a switch to Ubuntu Linux at home as well as on my office desktop. Installation was pretty simple. I was already familiar with the system (thanks to the liveCD) and was right at home. After installing gstreamer-mad package for mp3, I went for totem-xine and all the movie codec. I am very very impressed by their GUI to apt-get, Synaptec.
Ubuntu "looks" a lot better than my earlier FC3 desktop. Fonts look sleek and had unicode support out of the box. For the first time in last ten years I am finally using GUI instead of shell. It just works. GNOME was kind of slow on my office desktop so I installed XFCE and it works fine.
In 1995, I had started with Slackware. After that there was SuSE and then for last 3-4 years I was loyal to Redhat/FEDORA. This is my first Debian based distro and I think I am going to like it a lot.
Yours Sincerely,
