Quote - I can recomend ubuntu as a distro......

I have tried Ubuntu recently and must agree that it is a good distro - though I don't get on too well with the Gnome desktop. I know they do a version with the KDE desktop which I really must get around to trying out as I have preferred KDE since I first flirted with Linux a few years back.

For some reason, Suse never seems to like my PC. I can only presume it's a motherboard thing.

I am, currently, trying out some of the tutorials on the Blender site but I think it will be some time before I produce anything of my own - time is always too limited. And I will certainly seek assistance on the Blender forum should I get hopelessly stuck.

Thanks for the heads-up about WINE. I will certainly need that for my Tomb Raider level editing. :-)