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Nice, thanks for the link; I'll give it a peruse after work. (It's easy to forget Ubuntu, I don't know what it is!)

I meant I've not tried Linux as a whole, everyone seems ('everyone' = forum lunatics via google) to have varying opinions on where/how to even begin...for example, references in this thread lead me to believe that Mint works in Ubuntu which works in Linux. That could be wrong of course!

I've yet to even try it if I'm honest, I like to at least slightly understand what I'm doing (and why) before I start to mess around. Unfortunately, a lot of forums etc. aren't overly easy for the Linux layman to understand, usually more through assuming that everyone already has a certain...

Ah ok, so it's more a security thing? I always assumed there must be something more to it than that. Either way, an informative read, thank you!

Without baffling me with tech talk (I know enough to be comfortable but in no way an expert), what are the benefits of using Linux over Window? I hear 'stability' used as a reason a lot but Windows (for me at least) is hardly a constantly collapsing mess, so I've never really looked into it.