As an aside- if the Linux world could get better at providing documentation with the programs (and perhaps it has, I haven't messed with it in a couple of years) it would be a lot more accessable. The thing that turned me off it was downloading a program and finding that it had no manual or installation instructions. Fine for basic stuff, I'm sure, but a lot of them wanted specific extensions when untarring, etc. Without any documentation, there was a lot of frustration involved in what should have been very simple tasks. Probably second nature to a Unix guy, but a steep learning curve that requires a lot of arcane knowledge for the average end-user.
If that was straightened out, I might consider using linux on one of my machines- but for now, windows is just fine.