Well, I made the switch, again, for now. I installed
Ubuntu Linux yesterday and have been very pleased with the results so far. I won't go into detail here as I have already
blogged about it, so read that if you are interested. I plan on running dual boot for a while to get used to it and to not lose what I had (Windows) in case an emergency comes up (like I have to play a game). But for now it is going very well minus a couple of insignificant non-issues. Eventually I hope to shrink my Windows partition down just big enough to play a couple of games I can't live without and for
testing apps on more than 1 platform.