When it comes to the UI, I guess it depends on what you’re used to. The LibreOffice UI is a lot more similar to the UI used by MS Office 2003, so I’ve always been pretty comfortable with it. But Microsoft’s “ribbon” UI which debuted back in 2007 is now old enough to vote, so I can see how there are people out there where that’s all they’ve ever used.

Personally, while I’ve learned to deal with it in Word and Outlook, even after all of these years the ribbon still pisses me off every time I have to use Excel.

That’s not fair. You can make bootable Linux flash drives in Windows too.

Well, at least it’s 1920x1200. The old 10" netbooks mostly had 1024x600 which was terrible even by standards from 15 years ago.

At best, I’ve seen a small discount and whatever is traded in is junked to keep it off the second-hand market.

Generally, Google shows the appropriate name based upon where you are located. So for everyone outside of 'murica, it’s still the Gulf of Mexico.