Quote Originally Posted by chrisdavis
Yes but Synaptic is a GUI interface. It seems to me that Ubuntu is really trying to be a desktop OS. I have Ubuntu on a partition and it is my first real experience with Linux. I would be inclined to ditch Windows altogether if my games and a few other programs would run on Linux.
Just run Wine, you can run Windows programs with it. As George said, a lot of Linux distros will have you spending a ton of time @ the command line setting things up. I'm lazy and don't do too much stuff with my computer anymore and Windows XP gives me no problems (the PC itself is another matter lol).