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Wow O_O I've never had this happen to me on windows Lol. Guess i must be lucky? Steam is in not so many words cloud gaming in a sense. You buy games from it download them ??? profit. My specs are: i5 overclocked to 3.8 Ghz 16 Gb of Ram 6700 Raedon Ati Video card 1TB HDD 32 gb SSD Cooling kit And even with that unity sucks for me. Could be because i need proprietary drivers for my video card? Not too sure.

I just tried it out so i could see as a POC (Proof of concept). Ubuntu 12.04 LTS running with MATE it works fairly well considering that for what ever reason My pc hates Unity. Hate meaning that i can run say a high end game and get no lag but unity will lag hard. The reason i said that for 3d rendering is more of a gut feeling. Say you wanted to do a ton of video editing i would recommend Mac os x. I would think that Windows would work best for it because of the 100% driver support for any video card where linux can be hit and miss even with proprietary drivers. For as far as it goes with games for linux in a recent news post Gabe newell said that they are looking for Steam to come to Linux (I'm thinking mainly Ubuntu). Reasoning was that Windows 8 is horrible and i can honestly say that it really is crap. I defended Vista for a long time before i was like "Oh they are right..." but no I'm not even giving Windows 8 anything at all. I'm surprised you had so much happen with dual booting Windows and Linux. I currently am multi booting Arch BT5 Windows 7 and Mac os X (hackintosh).

Aw. Wine kinda sucks for some applications so unstable sometimes but what do you expect lol? Personally i like LXDE11 but you said that you don't like XFCE so I don't think you'll like it. I just don't care for the unity in scheme at all but another fairly good one is Mate. In my opinion it feels like KDE (kinda). Pentesting is what i do for a living also its just a ton of fun. Especially if you find a 0-day. Oh when that happens my day just got 1000000000x better lol. I love the whole Linux GPL "thing" but for 3d rendering i would suggest Windows. I know i might get flack for that but honestly it will make it easier for you to dual boot because as you said your echolink program might not have a linux variant. Compiz when i was using it for xfce got under my skin. Every time i would go to edit it something would happen either i royal messed it up or its not as stable as i thought.

The specs look fairly good to me. Do you plan on doing any Pen testing or is this just for doing HAM Radio related things? Also what flavor of Ubuntu are you going to use? The stock Unity (ew, Sorry)? And again are you doing stright up Ubuntu or are you doing a multi-boot since you have 1TB? All questions no answers. Sorry :X

Hey Raccoon. Mubix pretty much hit the nail on the head when it comes to phishing tools. SET http://www.social-engineer.org/framework/Computer_Based_Social_Engineering_Tools:_Social_Engineer_Toolkit_(SET) Mainly for doing phishing attacks you need to get use to what tools you are using (Like anything else). So there's no easy mode 1 click with this (Or haven't found one yet...) Also FBpwn's link http://code.google.com/p/fbpwn/ Enjoy mate.