I use Kubuntu! Love it. Gnome is too mac-like in its philosophy. KDE is more Win-7ish in it's design philosophy, and unlike Gnome will still let you tweak everything to your hearts content. I do similar, but I also use Duplicati w/ Backblaze B2 as a backend for offsite. Just in case the building burns down. Yeah, they've got a hobbyist deal. But the limit is you must not make more than $1k from yo