Surviving Windows
I have recently converted all but one of my personal computers to Ubuntu. To be more specific I am now using Ubuntu 9.10 on two desktops and one Netbook. Windows XP is only surviving on my laptop for support reasons and handling accounting backups on a program that only works in Windows. That conversion is also in development and sometime soon I have a very good feeling Windows XP will die on my notebook and Ubuntu will rise. Wait, I am being too harsh in my descriptive passage. Windows XP meant a lot to me over the years and it was truly great! But it is time to move on. It has been a gamble but so far so good.
Speed wise the experience has been only revealing with Ubuntu definitely feeling a lot faster than Windows. I have been able to do everything on it that I would normally do on a Windows system. I can view websites just fine without any limitations that I could discover. My plug-ins for Firefox even work without a hitch. All the usual communication software also run. Google Talk and Skype work like a charm. Video calling on Skype is something I however have not confirmed yet.
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