OT: Windows Optimization?

[Arkcon]

AgentZero said:
BTW, Arkcon, can I ask a really stupid question. What does Linux acutally LOOK like? I've been looking into maybe making the switch & maybe just keeping a stripped-down Version of WinXP for gaming, but everything I've read about it seems to suggest a command line-driven interface. Which in theory I don't really have a problem with, having grown up with DOS, but practically speaking I don't have the time to learn a new operating system, and would thus be purely interested in something with a GUI of one type or another.

Well, I use the Redhat Fedora Core 2 flavor of Linux. It's default desktop GUI is called Gnome, and its pretty identical to the new Win XP style desktop. Icons on the side, menu bar at the bottom. I just decided to abandon all my graphical games (Starcraft, Aliens vs Predator, Diablo). There are instructions in these forums to get SE4 to work under WinE.

I mostly used my computer to browse the internet, and I also write some letters and crunch some spreadsheet numbers occasionally. Thing is, I stopped using IE long ago, and switched to Mozilla. I lost my registration card for Microsoft Office so I switched to Open Office. I hated Windows Media player, even before the evilness that was Versions 7 and 9. So it just occured to me, why am I keeping the OS around?