Also If you don't particularly care for gnome, try Kubuntu. I've been using Kubuntu Gutsy Alphas for about a month now and it is rock solid and greater than what even windows vista was meant to be

IBM/Lotus has a winning word processor in Lotus WordPro -- a far better word processor than even the very fine Word 2007. WordPro is easier to use and understand, faster, more productive -- very close to being a desktop publishing program in part because it makes using styles (paragraph, frame, page, table) far easier than any other word processor. I hope IBM had the good sense to adapt a lot of WordPro's productivity tools like its InfoBox into Symphony. (And didn't Lotus once produce a product called Symphony long ago?)