Decided to test Ubuntu and Kubuntu 5.10 these are my findings

I am not really new to linux. I had been using it on and off for about 1.5 years now. At first it didn't seem ready for use on any of my servers or desktops or workstations.

I also tried it on my desktop and at first little stuff was all I had a problem with, getting the monitor to run at 1024x768@85hz like it does in windows. The system still can't do that. Get it to run flash under dchroot is still not working. And to find some way to be productive with linux, just isn't working. I like writing programs especially since Aurora and a few others started teaching me how to use gcc and them to compile my programs. Its a little more complicated than just using 'visual studio'. But after breaking ubuntu through the use of certain programs and creating a little personal virus that ran on my system, I got rid of it too. And tried SuSE linux and that works outstandlingly. The only with it is that you don't have apt-get or yum to install packages, which is a good thing and a bad thing. Because you have to go and hunt for the packages and then try to get them to work.

All in all Linux has grown alot from a year ago. But for me it still has a long ways to go.

As for the monitor: guessing you never got the official/propietary (nvidia/ati) drivers installed, which isn't too hard most of the time and tons of support for that here.

As for gcc: there are definitely visual studio type programming software out there for linux, but for a lot of people, using vim or xemacs + gcc/make is preferable.

As for Suse: what exactly makes it "work outstandingly"? If it is the fact that you can compile your own software, I understand that has some benefits, and probably fits better under another distros philosophy.

Regards.

But after breaking ubuntu through the use of certain programs and creating a little personal virus that ran on my system, I got rid of it too.

You evaluated a distro by trying to crash your own system with a homemade virus? Maybe if you had used that time to work on your video issue you could have got it resolved.

yeah, breaking my own system and then trying to make it unbreakable is what I do a lot. Especially with linux. I have broke my windows OS XP SP1 and WinME several times but XP SP2 is slightly harder. The work arounds and custom programs I made for XP SP1 work in SP2.

The whole ideal of open source software (OSS) is new to me, I don't like people messing with my own code, so I don't usually mess with others. I think personalizing Ubuntu 5.10 to work on my system is a complicated process.