I not meant to insult you, but your question shows that you are not ready to "turn to linux".
do some simple research, about what linux actually, and how it works.
You may start with multiboot first. Try to avoid ubuntu as it try to be as close to windows in term of simplicity thus you may not get much input from it, but dont blindly jump into slackware or genntoo, or you'll ended up learning nothing .'intermediate' distros such as openSUSE and Fedora, or debian if you want 'ubuntu-ish' enviroment will do; these distros will provide good platform for beginner to learn.

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Added on March 5, 2010, 1:37 amNo, it was your GC that crappy enough to make compizfusion won't run on your machine.
Or you are ignorant enough for not even try to learn how to tweak your GUI.

unlike windows that designed with home and office user in mind, or mac that obviously for eye candy and so-called stability(because there are nothing to tweak to begin with); Linux is developed primarily to power the servers in first place (who the retard that want flashy server interface?). Linux as desktop OS's is not well established as its server counterpart, but with skillful yet creative tweaks it will lure Steve Job's fans out from its darkness captive.

This post has been edited by failed.hashcheck: Mar 5 2010, 11:53 AM