For a long time, I really wanted to get into Linux. I wanted it to be my operating system of choice and I wanted to support the ideals that open source software stood for. But frankly, at the time every major distribution didn't make it practical enough for me to do. It seemed like spread out between all of them were the necessary features for any useful PC user, and despite so many of them working toward the same thing, all of them lacked some basic things expected from any viable desktop OS.