After dinner I thought I would check my e-mail, etc...

But my Lenovo won't boot.  I just got through a couple of tests, I'm pretty sure the hard drive is gone.  I'm actually kind of happy about this.  Let me explain.
First, I'm not worried about data loss, the last backup (Crashplan) was about 8PM yesterday. As far as the OS, I have the OEM drive stored  (been running on a clone of it for years). I could swap drives & be back up before midnight. Not to mention at least 100 other ways to try and recover the drive.
 
But I'm NOT going to...

I've been tinkering with Linux since around '06, mainly with under-powered machines & laptops.  I've learned a lot from the community, & I really believe in the opensource movement. But I feel kind of hypocritical because even my old laptop is a dual-boot because I could never figure out the Linux wifi drivers.  So today I'm going to make the "Daily Driver"commitment and make Ubuntu my main machine (my son too, he just doesn't know it yet)