[rspassey]

Wowzers, that certainly looks amazing. Thanks for the advice, I will certainly install and use that.

I find it weird though that I will have to manually uninstall some of those applications, such as the file sharing applications.

I also heard some good stuff about The GIMP for photo editing. I think I will give it a spin too.

I just initiated the download for Ubuntu, it will finish soon, but this might be a project I will tackle tomorrow (with fear that if I start tonight, I will never end up sleeping).

PS: I am thinking about maybe making an Ubuntu Notebook kind of thing and write into it all the things I start to learn about it incase I need to check them for reference. (took years to get to where I am with Windows to be able to do what I know how to do and I hope this idea will make adapting to Linux quicker) I assume the Ubuntu forums would be the best place to start when I run into issues - or is there another community which offers better support?

Thanks again.