Transitioning to Linux
pbhjpbhj: When I got my new computer I tried Gnome, the desktop environment (DE) that is default in UBunutu, for a few weeks. I had been using KDE3 prior and KDE4 had just surfaced and was practically unusable.I tried really hard to like Gnome but I just couldn't get anything done with it. I find it very easy to switch between XP/Vista and KDE4 (which I went to instead of Gnome). YMMV.What app are you using for your PHP development? I've tried about a dozen different ones (Kate, Eclipse, jEdit, Notepad++, Dreamweaver, ...) and am happy at the moment with Quanta. Unfortunately it's now going through the transition to KDE4 and is under resourced with devs so I'm considering moving to KDevelop.