I am sure many of you have seen stories like this about some business switching to Ubuntu and saving a ton of money, but the reason why this got my attention is that I have been noticing recently that Ubuntu really seems smoother then other Linux distros. I am sure many of you will disagree, but I now see why everyone calls it the best distro for newbies. Granted, there are many other newbie-friendly distros, but Ubuntu really seems to just work. Some things that really stand out to me (not that I am saying these features are specific to Ubuntu) are the Add/Remove programs application being the obvious package manager and the more advanced version which controls individual packages hidden in the System menu, the restricted drivers manager making it easy to use non-free drivers easily, and just generally the hardware support.

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