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Or for Ubuntu, try AWN or Gnome-dock .

Also, I have 6 gigs of ram on that PC, it just only supports 3.5 or so (Windows XP 32-bit that is).

Oh nice job mate

Whats the point of having it if you can only have like 3 GB?

Thats windows itself, applications are a different story.

Not really if you have a 32 bit operating system no matter what you can't use more then 3 GB Ram unless I have read and been told completely wrong

Yeah chances are I'm wrong
eh who knows.

Because I'm upgrading to 64-bit once Windows 7 comes out.

Bleh windows 7 is gunna bomb harder then vista did

I dunno, Im waiting for Vista to crash so I can install Ubuntu.

Why do you need it to crash to install ubuntu?

Talk my mom into it, Ive made sure there is no restore disk, and Im not buying one for 60 bucks from Acer.

Have you even tried it? It's incredible. Vista threw the ball into the ground so hard that the earth shook, but Windows 7 is nothing like Vista. Do some research before you make claims about Windows 7 with your prejudices, bro! It's actually pretty great on memory usage, has increased organization... upgrades to formerly craptacular programs, too. I can see where you'd get the idea it will suck from, but I honestly really liked the beta. Go torrent it, now. LOL!

Nah I'll stick with Ubuntu and XP for now

Heh, okay. Take a look at a screenshot, though?

Oh I don't care how it looks I want performance and its something windows can't offer.

LOL, aesthetics are a huge show of performance. If the look of an OS is streamlined and organized, there's obviously going to be a boost in productivity. As to memory usage and speed, Windows 7 is better on that than Ubuntu is in my opinion. Ubuntu is the worst distro of Linux ever made, it's more like Vista with a new GUI.

Ubuntu has shown itself in my eyes to be bloated, but that explains a lot of the good compatibilities with certain things.

I can guarantee unless you compile it yourself, the kernel will have every function built in, or as modules.

And being a bit bloated doesn't effect performance much, just hard drive space... if you remove the easy-to-uninstall crap from the Install/Uninstall menu after a fresh format, the bloat is a pretty minimal cost for the compatibility fixes for upgrades you might end up getting later.

I guess I was angry that day, I've run Ubuntu before... it's not horrid, just--as you stated so eloquently--a bit bloated.

Indeed After all, with some toning down, Ubuntu will use no more ram then an average KDE or Gnome / GTK System upon boot up

But I must say, booting with using a little under 80mb of ram sure is sexy....(gentoo)

Linux is better