Thanks for the feedback Jo,

Sounds like it is mostly preference and perhaps some compatibility. Good to know that Ubuntu has high compatibility as I've got a DVD with that (don't need to download ).

Interesting about the web pages not loading smoothly. That won't matter much for my purposes, but it's quite curious that it's distro- (and not browser-) related. Perhaps something flaky to the default network configuration. I guess I will look into that when the time comes.

waves