switching to linux from vista

I am switching to Linux finally! I could use any advice anyone has to offer.

Get to know the environment and learn all of the commands. Best thing to do is just explore and test imo. And from Vista -> Linux, you're upgrading.

Use. Man. Pages.

Also, distro?

get a few live cds and see what works I suggest trying Slax, Madriva, Open SUSE, Knoppix and Kubuntu (I dont like Gnome) and to be honest if your going for live distros get a copy of open solaris

Get a copy of slax no matter what you do and have it live on a usb key I have it on a 4gb sd card in the front of my laptop just in case I need a linux distro

http://opensolaris.org/index.html http://www.kubuntu.org/ http://www.opensuse.org/ http://www.knoppix.org/ http://www.mandriva.com/ http://www.slax.org/

*edit Just realized the "in front of laptop makes no sense unless you know I have an SD slot in the front of my lappy

If you want to learn how stuff works, install Debian.

I did, and so far, learned A LOT.

/me thanks HBH irc.

i'll second spyware on installing Debian teaching you lots, and while i'm on that i'll thank the #hbh.

allright if you wanna learn stuff go here:

debian.org/doc and also http://tldp.org/

then go to /usr/share/doc and read read read. you can use zless to read gzipped stuff (and for bz2 use bzless)

then do $ man man $ man grep $ man <other shit> replace <other shit> for whatever program you want to learn more about