[Svartalfiar]

If it weren’t for a couple of must have programs that don’t have a Linux version I could see making the switch from windows.

Have you thought about setting up a dual-boot system? Unless your hard drive is crazy full, you can set it up to run either Windows or Linux every time you start up.

[circlecity]

"Have you thought about setting up a dual-boot system? Unless your hard drive is crazy full, you can set it up to run either Windows or Linux every time you start up."

Yes, I've tried that and I've also had Linux on a disk or thumb drive where you could just run it from the disk instead of installing. It just became more of a pain than it was worth shifting back and forth between the OSes. I remember the last time I had my box set up as a dual-boot system once I decided to delete Linux it corrupted the boot sector of my drive and I had to reinstall everything to get back up and running.