On my main box (2.4GHz P4/Radeon X1600/22" LCD Widescreen) there is Cassandra, and XP for games. On my laptop (3GHz P4/GeForce Go5100) there is Cassandra, and its smooth as a baby's ass with Beryl and all. I really love that little machine as long as I don't have to lug it around.
On my secondary box (1.3Ghz Celeron/GeForce 7600) there is Ubuntu. Works like a charm. On my girlfriend's laptop (1.5 GHz Celeron/Radeon M6) there is also Ubuntu. Truth to be told I haven't bothered to get 3D accel working on her machine, she doesn't care for looks anyway, but freaks out if something doesn't work or is too complicated. So Ubuntu is really the only option.
On the server it's Xubuntu. Why not server ed.? Because I couldn't manage to get a decent WM to install on the server ed., and I need GTK for some apps.
I have used about every computing platform available between 1986 and now. IMHO the best platform at ATM are the OS-X Tiger Macs. Of Linuxes I have used most of the larger GNOME-based distros (and quite a few smaller ones) - I really prefer GNOME although it's a tad slow. I have to say that these days Ubuntu is the standard against which all other distros should be measured. Linux Mint seems to be forking away from Ubuntu ATM, and if it continues in the direction laid out by the new betas, it will require it's own repos in a couple of versions. That'll quadruple the workload on the crew, and I'm not going to rely too much on Mint until I see where this path leads.
