I now have Ubuntu running on 5 of the 7 machines on the property, and have introduced several friends to the OS.
They are as amazed as I am.
With that, I'd get a kick outta seeing some of your desktops (shrunk down to something reasonable, say 800x600).
Here's my uncluttered Ubuntu 9.04 desktop on my main computer ... background is a pic of a sunrise over the Atlantic Ocean
as viewed from Hatteras Island a couple of years ago. I really like some of the applets that you can run on the taskbars. On
the top, I am using the hardware sensors applet to monitor my CPU & MB temps, and the processor cooling fan speed:
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