Brittany, might I suggest that you grab a distro or two [...]
I'll take that one step further: grab a Knoppix CD which boots live so you can get an idea of how things look like, then go straight to Fedora Core 1. I've tried the other distros and it's my opinion that this one is superior, so I have no problem with recommending it to you.
Or, as mentioned before, dual-boot your machine so you have both Fedora Core and WinXP available to you for now (one at a time, of course). If/when you decide that you definitely prefer Linux to Windows, you can later reformat the Windows partition and use it for Linux.
Also, ladies and gentlemen, could y'all please trim unnecessary text from your replies? I had to shave about three pages of cruft to make this reply, and that bandwidth is wasted for 4,000 people...
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