Switched To Ubuntu 9.10 From Vista
I upgraded my machine at work from Vista to Windows 7 a few weeks ago and whilst it is a nice OS, it simply isn't worth the $180 or so when I spend most of my time in a web browser.
With that in mind; I just switched my home machine from Vista to Ubuntu 9.10, now I can easily use tools like rsync, ffmpeg, etc. I'll give this a few months and if things go well then I'll switch the work machine over too. Right now I use Dreamweaver a lot for work, so I can't really jump right into Ubuntu yet.
I've experienced a couple of problems with the GUI freezing when I had the visual effects set to full (even with the Nvidia driver installed), but turning the visual effects off seems to have resolved the problem.
Below is a screenshot of me experimenting with ffmpeg/x.264 on my Core2 Quad:
