Hi Brittany, I changed from Windows 2000 to Linux after working for 2 years with NT, W2k and XP. Before that I already changed from MS software like IE Explorer, Outlook and MS Office to Mozilla and OpenOffice, which resulted in a considerable improvment to work. My first experience was Knoppix which booted without a problem different PC, at home but also in the office and I liked that without too many problems I was able to use Linux and KDE. That was the moment I decided to switch to Linux. As someone new to Linux I can only advice to install Fedora, Mandrake or SuSe, since those three distributions are very simple to install with the graphical interface. Debian or Gentoo are good distributions but installing them was to complicated (tried both, failed twice but I am happy with fedora). As long as you don't need Windows to run specific programmes like accounting software or games, I guess that you will use only Linux and thus installing a dual boot system is a waste of time and space. Alex
