Well, I must admit, I'm at the in between stage - I used to be 100% on Windows for desktop, but am now 70% on Linux. I tried SuSe a while ago, but really like Mandrake 8.2 now.

If you have a spare machine, I'd start gradually, learning one desktop app at a time as you need to. The order I learnt them in was:

• konqueror & kmail (browser and e-mail)
• bash shell & SSH
• gFTP
• bluefish (but I dropped that, since I don't do much HTML these days)
• kate - great GUI editor
• gimp
• vim

If you try and do everything at once, I think you might get a little overwhelmed - so start gradually if you can.

You'll probably need to keep a Windows box in some form to test web pages in IE, whatever you do...

Just my .02

cLive ;-)

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