I've done it. I've moved my computer over to Linux, the Ubuntu distribution to be exact. While there are hurldes to face, I'm working on getting over them. The process will go much faster once I get my wireless card working a la ndiswrapper. After that I have to figure out how to get digital sound output for my speakers and then get nvidia's linux driver. Once all that gets done I should be in pretty good shape. Of course, now I can't install VS '05 for my computer graphics class... but I'll burn that bridge when I get to it. For now, I have happily left Windows behind. If anybody else wants to try installing Ubuntu I have my CD and a lot of freshly gained experience with common configuration problems.