[bryanthompson]

I had to format all of my drives and throw out all windows cds... that's the only way I could stick with Linux. It's so easy to get stuck on some small problem and think, "damn, this is so much easier in windows." After you get to know more, it gets easier... but for me it was cold turkey or I found myself on windows again.

If you're doing Linux for the free software, cool... I did it becuase it was the best for doing Java work & server things, but there's a ton of crazy OpenSource stuff. One of my favorite Linux apps is Blender3d (blender3d.org). take a look at what some of them have created with blender... it's amazing stuff. I wouldn't have thought a free program could do all of that.