Linux comes of age - finally!

I've messed around with Linux before - and always ended up frustrated and angry, but this time I'm excited and happy!
Getting increasingly unhappy with the slow start up, and sluggish performance of my Windows 7 system, I decided to take the bull by the horns and try a dual boot system with Linux on my pen-drive. The distribution I've heard most about was Ubuntu, so this one it was - using (eventually) PenDriveLinux.com to install it onto my 8gb pen drive was straightforward - although I did need to learn a little about 'persistence'. Success - the PC played nicely. So, quickly reading a bit more about 'dual booting' I decided it was safe to install Ubuntu side-by-side with my Windows system - again this all worked splendidly - and now I get to choose which operating system to use each time I do a restart.
Bouyed up by this success, I decided to try to do the same with the Netbook version of Ubuntu on my Acer Aspire One netbook - this was less successful - I think I might have got a corrupted version of Ubuntu to do this, because I ended up completely reformatting the Netbook and installing Ubuntu Netbook Remix over the top of the Linpus Lite system, which had always been unsatisfactory.
Running Ubuntu is a dream - it's fast (and free), there's no worrying about the bl**dy 'Terminal Windo' and you can forget about the wierd and wonderful language of Linux (distros, dependencies, grub, wotever) - although you are left gurgling at the names of the versions - Loopy Leopard, Mouldy Mandrake, Nutty Narwhal, and so on - why can't they just use something obvious - or is to keep the rest of us outside their world.
Software is quickly and easily installed from the Ubuntu Software Centre and even my printer installed first time.
My file synch service - Syncplicity - which has served me well for a long time, does not offer Linux support, so I've moved over to ZumoDrive which looks to be a good alternative.
The only things that are still an issue for me are my Belkin USB Hub - which will not work with Linux at all ever. and I need to look at how my Garmin 605 might play along - I'd really like to get Sportracks to work under Ubuntu, and there doesn't seem to be an alternative - shame.
Goodbye Windows!