Cheers for that.
Must admit when I install Fedora it worked with zero fiddling. Gnome looks like what i was used to on Solaris and Irix so I really can't be bothered looking at KDE even though I could. I have found fedora to go beyond the call of duty with hardware. Just swap a drive/boot using a liveOS dongle and away you go with no issues. Find some new toy to stick in a USB port and it just works.
The software is absolutely amazing for what you get for free.
GIMP by far out strips any other graphics/photo editing tool you get on the PC.
Openoffice more than required for my usage. In fact someway's its better than MSOffice because its not full of features which I will never use.
"vi" doesn't seem to have changed either.