[garrettej8]

I started with slackware back in the day but my favorite distro was gentoo, it was phenomenal. I tried a bunch of different linux distributions, almost all of them. I also tried OpenBSD for a while but couldn't get x86 to run with my graphics card because of no driver support. I may get back into the swing of things eventually. I haven't used linux for at least 3 years now so I'd be a little rusty. I used to know all the commands so I'd have to refresh my memory a bit.

I'm actually working on getting one of my 4gb usb drives to run linux from bootup. You could always try the alternative to wiping your hard drive completely clean and try a knoppix style linux distribution. How knoppix works is you burn the image to a CD and boot from it and basically get familar with how linux works. You'll be presented with an environment similar to windows but that's not actually the underlining of linux, which is all the commands and such.