Topic: anyone here use linux?

I'm using Ubuntu Karmic Koala Netbook Remix on my ASUS EEE with (gasp) a Flash drive! It works fine. It won't "harm" your computer. When flash drives came out there was some early concern that repeated writes would wear out the drive. By that logic, running Windows XP on a flash-based system will also "destroy" your computer due to the pagefile. And heaven help you if you set the drive to automatically defragment.

Later tests have shown that it takes a LOT of transactions before you'll wear out the drive - you'll outgrow your netbook before you wear out the drive. And, at the price of netbooks, if you back up your data on an alternate drive, you'll be fine.

To the original poster, I love linux. It would be different if I wanted to play PC games, but as I prefer games on my DSi, linux is a perfect choice for me.

I use AIX, Ubuntu, and Windows XP, and Windows Server 2000 at work.
I use Windows 7 at home.

If you actually want good software compatibility, using anything other than Windows is pretty dumb imo.
I definitely prefer doing development work in linux, however. vi is awesome. And cd, mv, cp, mkdir, grep, etc. are all better than Windows alternatives for fast work.

I was just talking about regular old Ubuntu. Netbook remix is fine
I'm not an expert on flash drives, far from it. But I've seen the warning posted often enough even from OS developers so I decided to be extra careful.

I'm also not interested on testing your theory, to be honest: I'm not getting another netbook that soon No offense intended, of course.

Sorry about that warning, I didn't even express my opinion:
I have ubuntu on all my PCs, except for my gaming rig. Notice I don't say dual boot, because I simply don't need windows anymore on my other computers, Linux is my working OS.

For me window's only use is as a media center (sadly, most hardware for that only works on windows) and gaming. Once in a while I still have to fix up windows and that's when Linux really shines: I can just boot up a whole operating system from a cd-rom and copy any important files before formating a drive.

Another awesome thing is: I was considering throwing out an old webcam since it only worked on Windows XP (and the manufacturer had simply stopped existing). It works on all my linux boxes.

Wow...I didn't realize anybody still used Linux, let alone so many people here. Weird.

Well, it's more useful now more than ever (seriously, the old distros from the early 2000s are annoying).

Anyways, like I said before, I use the most usable distro/OS around right now, Ubuntu with KDE packages.

I have Fedora on my laptop.