I'm pleasantly surprised that I could get two people on this forum to try Linux so quickly
I will be rooting for you, hoping that it will be easy enough and pleasant to use Linux.

If any of you try Puppy Linux and get a few Windows games working in Wine, I will clean up my config file for JWM (the window manager in Puppy), and my script for generating a launch menu for all your exe files. So you can have a quick-launch menu, much like in XP.