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Sure Sync will come in handy, but I specifically wanna use 3.5 on my old old desktop plus all the add-ons, like firebug, nosquint, dta, etc for webdev and so on. Then Adblock is cool and all that but it does not block the ads on the server side but on my side, the client, this makes Adblock a lot more slower than using a HOSTS file where the connection attempt is directly looped to my machine. At least this is what I think it does. Since I use a HOSTS file I surf like 80% faster and only see the site's content and none other, I have come so used to this that when using a foreign machine just for over than 10 min I edit the HOSTS file, lol. Oh an Noscript is essential as well. Never tried FF4 so no idea if that is all intergated. So hope Ubunutu has something similar up its sleeve.

Yes I guess a dual boot will be essential. I have got my XP on 20GB ntfs primary partition, what does Ubuntu need? ntfs and primary partition as well or can it actually be in the same partition as XP?

Got all my data etc external or on other hard drive, learned it the hard way many time, nothing else on my OS partition except the OS, FF and TB are great for that (firefox.exe -p) so that I can keep those profile on another drive to not get thing mucked up.

Lol, I DONT USE MSOFFICE, hello!!! OO all the way, hehe, but yeah for PS and soundbooth I might check out playonlinux, but since I gotten so used to it on XP I might stick with it for now.

Hey this is first of all a starting point for trying rtmpsrv on linux.

So how do I get my m-audio 2496 card installed on linux as well as ma nvidia video card? will the drivers with .exe file name extention work? don't think so.. Lots to learn.

Where do I find out about dualboot? I am also active in reboot.pro, so guess the answers might be there or in some ubuntu forum, if you have some tips, let me know, no need to present the solution on a silver dish, love fiddling with things and learning in the wake of events.