Why do you use Linux?

[Bakedgoods]

Why do you use Linux and what distro do you use?

It's been quite a long time since i've used Linux (Slackware 8 I think) and i'm thinking about playing around with it again.

Rather than jumping back in at the deep end i'm thinking about going for something like Ubuntu, does that sound sensible?

I really can't remember the commands for compiling and so on so it's probably not sensible to do anything other than what i've got in mind.

 

[Bakedgoods]

I'm going to save this in a file one day..

Gentoo.

Free.
Open source. If I don't like something, I can change it.
Full control of my system.
Safer (in terms of virii)
Better communities.
No "hidden" features.
Stability and efficiency. (It's not perfect, but a darn sight better)
I don't like Microsoft.

All very valid points, how has the usability come along? That was probably the main issue when I did dabble a while ago, I only knew what size to use for paticular partitions because I had a friend who is experienced telling me.

Ubuntu sound fine or would you suggest something else?

There's no chance i'm going anywhere near Gentoo, I once tried to install that with a Speedtouch USB Modem, it wasn't pretty.