I have acquired a new hard drive and burned a DVD with Ubuntu on it. I am now plucking up courage to install same to see if I can rid myself iof the curse of being obliged to upgrade my Microsoft OS. I have Win 7 on the computer on which I am writing this and, for some reason, I cannot get it to reliably store the cookie I need to store my Pprune settings.... and all sorts of other problems. UGH! I just hope Ubuntu will eventually enable me to use my machines like I used to in the days when XP was the current OS.
P.P.