And don't forget ...
... talking a non-sysadmin (/me raises hand) though a week of pain with a badly out-of-date machine. No contact but jabber, on the Debian box when I could, on the Windows box when I broke something. But this ancient machine is now running Gnome2.2, sub-pixel anti-aliasing and all. And it's FAST. Really, it is.
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Implicitly condoning stupidity since 2001.