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Don't judge Linux solely on your experience with Ubuntu and its respective community.
Why not? At that time when I did my research, I was under impression that Ubuntu was the most user friendly distro out there. After all, my judgement was based on user-friendlyness in the most technical sense.

Seriously, try to forgive my impatient attitude. There are so many distros/resources out there that there is always the chance I will pick one that doesn't suit me. Of course when I do that I expect to be told where to go (as you did), not have my intelligence demeaned.
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Both. I use Mandrake, FreeBSD, and Windows XP as my three primary systems. I also occasionally find myself working with HP-UX, various other versions of Windows, SUSE, Solaris, and MacOS.
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I use a system built on BSD. More commonly know as OS X Leopard.
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Why not? At that time when I did my research, I was under impression that Ubuntu was the most user friendly distro out there.
Though people claim it is user friendly, ubuntu isn't technically sound nor the least bit consistent. It makes things more complicated (and therefore more prone to breakage) by adding bloated features and user interfaces. I think you'll find distros that adhere to the KISS principle a lot more stable and a lot easier to work with.
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I use Mac OS X, Windows XP, and FreeBSD. Occasionally I will use Gentoo, Debian or Slackware.
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I prefer MS-DOS over any of the current systems.

What I DON'T need is the multitasking/timesharing. It prevents certain kinds of scientific research.
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Windows just becasue more software is compatible with it.
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I kind of want to see what Leopard is like. Do any of you like it?
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I kind of want to see what Leopard is like. Do any of you like it?
If you read the thread then you'd notice my above post, where I mention it...
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