I’m a nurse now.... got out of IT for a reason. ;-)
I totally understand.. I got my first "PC" back in 1980.. was addicted to them up until I went to Uni to be a programmer.. finished half of my BBA before I realized that the darn addiction to PCs changed my attitude (no patience at all :p).. Changed to Business and took a 6 month break (painful :p) and my friends and family saw a change quickly. Since then, I have kept it a hobby (although, if I would have stuck with it, I would probably be rich now ;)). Only small regret I didn't stick with it.. friends and family are most important (to me at least). (Still kicking myself in the butt that I didn't at least keep up with the ever-changing programming and technology :/ .. last GOOD programs I wrote were in Pascal :p).
Yup. That is my plan too. Cut the Win partition off and do may basics with Linux.
I was never much of a programmer.... although I can do a lot with ksh scripts and sql calls ;-). I was more of a hardware/os/network type.
I’ve tried to keep relatively current, as a hobbiest, but I don’t really have time to babysit a buggy or unstable OS. I get downright ILL when winblows screws me over, as it has of late. I really need to wipe/reinstall my win7 system, but think I’d rather leave it alone and just go to Linux.