I finally took the plunge and bought a laptop with Linux installed on it. Specifically, I have the Ubuntu version. I'm off work today so I've been able to play around with it a bit, and it's been pretty interesting. I thought I'd have to download drivers for all my peripherals, but not so. Everything was plug and play, easy as pie. So far so good.

BUT, I have one issue that I'm hoping VS's geek squad can help me with. I've noticed that Flash video quality isn't delivering the same quality I had on my Windows PC. Specifically, video playback is a little choppy and unsmooth (edit - I guess what I'm describing in video terms is called "stutter."). Now this PC has a dual core 2.4 GHz processor and an nVidia 256 MB video card, both of which are an improvement when compared to my old PC, so I doubt it's a hardware issue.

So can any of you, my sifting brethren, help me fix this? I should mention that I'm not a very tech savvy person, so please word your responses as though you were talking to a child. A retarded child. Who regularly eats lead paint chips.