JetScootr's Journal: The Idiot Speaks

Here's a larger scope view on my rants here:
This is a journal of my switch to Linux, and it is much more toxic than I really feel (the journal, not Linux). I am deliberately NOT filtering my rants to save time and get real usability data in usable form, with facts of my experiences. I'm also collecting hardcopies of website helps I get, lists of sites used, etc. I will stick facts and my own opinions, but will collect hard data for anyone interested enough to fix whatever it is I gripe about. Hopefully, at least I can collect it into a useful form afterward.
My personal user history with MS:

• 1979-1981 Apple ][ computer, "Applesoft" basic, didn't like it. LOVED the "sweet-16 interpreter" and Integer Basic.
• 1981-1991 Ms-Dos 2.11 thru wudevver. Win 3.1 thru wudevver. Wudevver.
• Mid-1980s I was getting to dislike Windows not doing things my way. I also distrusted the MS software contract, but didn't really get the bigger freedom picture yet.
• 1991: Linux, and the freshening breeze of hope. I still hate GUIs.
• 1996: Win95, and I almost liked Windows. Visual Basic, and I did. But after this, I increasingly disliked & distrusted MS and Windows.
• 1997: I considered eliminating MS from my home computing setup.
• 1998: I committed to doing so.
• 2008: I swiftly put in motion plans for the switchover.

These rants are my stream-of-consciousness diary of doing so.
I'll be setting up mythTV and the rest of a home entertainment system by year's end. I'll be switching entirely to *some sort* of HDTV for zombiemode entertainment. I'll be finally completely setting up a home network to MY specs, not MS's. This twin-Dell ubuntu process is the first step. What I learn here will be used for the rest of my home.
That's why I'm doing this.