I’ve been using Linux on my desktop for five days now and I ran into a couple problems last night.  My sound card doesn’t appear to be working which really sucks and the back and forward buttons on my mouse don’t do anything.  I’m having trouble finding where you change the hardware settings in Ubuntu but I only spent ten minutes on it last night so I should be able to find something later.  This weekend I’m going to use the parts from my old computers (big hard drive, video card, sound card, 800 W power supply) to turn this computer into a really sweet machine.  I still need to look into mono but that might wait until spring break.