Ok, for the techies in here. What desktop OS do you run? Why do you run them?
Personally on my desktop I currently have Fedora Core 3 installed and running just because I am doing some remote syslog testing, but on my laptop which is my primary pc I run Windows 2000 & Mandrake 10.1 the only reson that I am not running a Fedora is because without a kernel recompile you don't get native encrypted drives on a laptop. That is one thing I would stress highly is that everyone has encypted drives on their laptops incase they get stolen.