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So, after browsing through all five pages of threads here and not finding one regarding this topic, I decided to go ahead and create it, especially with what I've been working on for the past couple of days.

More or less, I have been working to turn my external hard drive into a bootable drive to operate a full version of a Linux distribution known as Ubuntu. It's a fairly straight-forward version and really require no more effort on the user's part (overall) than Windows does. Simple, efficient and one hell of a fast boot that becomes most notable when going from Vista to Ubuntu on reboots.

Quite literally, once I am done typing up this post, I will be rebooting for the second time today to see about installing Ubuntu on, as I already mentioned, my external hard drive. The drive is already re-formated and ready to go, so hopefully there shouldn't be any real issues with it. I'm also hoping that it doesn't take very long- especially considering that Ubuntu contains far less, as far as I'm aware, than half of the coding that most any Windows version contains.

So, my fellow Disciples, what operating system (or systems) do you run on your computer(s)? Do you have any dual-boot systems, or extended experience with multiple operating systems? Tell us of your technically savvy here, or ask for help if you need it!

Well, it doesn't surprise me that whichever version of the Mac OS you're using isn't giving you as many problems as Windows can; both Mac and the many versions of Linux available are typically far more stable than Windows for the simple fact that they use many times less coding to run. It's a proven fact that the more lines of coding used to produce something, the more likely you're going to run into bugs, stalls and crashes than a similar program with fewer lines of coding. It's like machines with more versus fewer parts, to much the same effect.

Ubuntu has, overall, proven to be both far faster and less prone to the various hangs that I get with Windows, and I would earnestly like to switch entirely over; the only thing that really has me hesitating to do so is that I have yet been unable to get the games that I like playing on the computer to run in Ubuntu just yet. Hopefully I'll get it running soon, but that may take a while.

If anyone here is familiar with Ubuntu or other versions of Linux and has an idea on how to get OpenGL working properly, I would appreciate any help you could offer. It appears I may have spoken too soon with this (which is a good thing); one of the very programs that I was talking about not being able to run before is loading and seems to be working fine for the moment. Hopefully it stays this way, and I will be able to remain using Ubuntu unless necessary to switch back to Windows.

Minor Update: Apparently, Wine (the Windows emulator I'm using) is having a bit of a rough time with running said program for very long. The refresh rate appears to be asynchronous with my monitor, and I have little to no way of fixing that, at least at the moment. Hopefully, however, I will be able to figure something out that will work.