What would Microsoft do if people didn't pirate its products? They would have NO alternative but to use Linux, and Linux is already a great enough threat overseas. They don't want the ambitious up-and-coming geeks in the Developing World to be working on Open Source.

I do this in Ubuntu's terminal (It's an option in GNOME and I believe KDE). I'm in Terminal alot (mainly because I like to cut to the chase and dispense with graphical installers) and it makes me feel like a non-robot when I use a nice font and transparent background.

Dropbox has always been problematic for me. It likes to open (and then not close) a copy of itself whenever I give myself root powers and has just stopped coming up at all (despite running in the system monitor).

I take Media Studies at my high school and I'll use this for my summative task. My teacher is convinced that the internet will obliterate print. This will be proof that even a teenager can get published on the internet, giving everybody a voice.

VOTE: Ubuntu Live CD. I know this isn't exactly what you're looking for but every time Windows has messed up I just pop a Live CD in and let Ubuntu handle it. I guess any Linux Live Distro with NTFS drivers would do.

Just like to remind people that - at least last time I checked - Mint only supported USA banks - Not even American banks run out of Canada (Toronto-Dominion Ameribank, Royal Bank of Canada/ RBC America, Bank of Nova Scotia America, etc)

Mark Shuttleworth

This is my first year as a registered taxpayer to the Canadian Federal Government... between Registered Education Savings Plans and my R. Retirement SPs and various grants I ended up with a rebate of $0.77 CAD, which RevenueCanada is refusing to pay. Cheapos.

VOTE: Ubuntu Netbook Remix 9.04. It's more netbook/USB friendly than a default Ubuntu installation.

I've had my own official Gmail setup for my own site (PLUG: www.snoopyonskittles.com) for quite some time.

This can only mean that a Linux beta is on the way. The Alpha Alpha Alpha Alpha is incredibly fast despite its having the features of IE6...

Kudos to Lifehacker for plugging Canada's national coffee/doughnut-shop, Timmy's! ^_^

Note to Moderator: your picture of the bootscreen in Jaunty is no longer correct; it was updated mid-alpha to a newer more streamlined one that gets rid of that style of orange bar (as it used to be like Ubuntu's default progress bar but that was no longer the case in Intrepid and certainly is not the case in Jaunty)

@Rolcol: Me too. When I voted FF was in first and Chrome was in second, with IE8 taking up the distant, distant, distant last.

@dchall8: Nice! Ditto previous poster.

Impressive. I've tried it and while it is an incredibly incomplete and slightly buggy alpha it is certainly beautiful (except for that logo, which looks weird in my panel)...

These don't include any GNOME/KDE iconsets (which can just be plopped into the theme manager)

@jthatch: And this is pretty much the same reason you Americans don't use Metric...

First the Chromium for Linux PPA and now this? Chrome is on a roll.

Love this! Must try it. Google Chrome is very impressive on Vista and I've had to completely minimize Firefox to get the same kind of experience.