That's a screenshot (and it's linked to the full size shot) of my desktop as of right now. It's Ubuntu 10.04 - and I'm not running a dual boot setup. My machine's all Linux, all the time.

My attempts to move to full-time Linux have been chronicled here for years, and are the stuff of legend. ;) There's always been something that sent me running back to Windows, though. But, this time, since I'm not seriously playing anything, I just went and did it. No dual boot, no comfortable fall-back to Windows. I installed Linux as the only O/S.

And I'm very happy I did! STO runs under Linux (via WINE) as do many other games. Of course all the utility and productivity stuff you need is available. It's only been games that stopped me before and as time goes by, more and more games work under WINE.

Install was fast. I didn't time it, but I'm the most impatient person in the world, and I didn't even take note of the time. I spent a few hours, of course, configuring the desktop the way I wanted. Got a good background from Digital Blasphemy. Installed conky for the info window you see over on the right. And of course avant-window-manager for the nice dock you see on the bottom.