Funny this thread shows up just as I am testing out my first linux laptop.

Funny story, I was screwing around with SliTaz linux early this morning and I accidentally nuked my Windows 7 partition!

I was really pissed off at first, but I'm ok now because I backed all of my files up that I wanted and now I am running Ubuntu 12.04. I am surprised that it hogs my resources quite a bit (3 1/2 year old laptop).

The only thing I will miss is MS Word, Excel, and Powerpoint, they are far superior to their linux counterparts.