The cord's not cut yet...
...but I've put a nick in it. Installed Ubuntu on my newest machine alongside Vista just this morning.
I'm excited. It'll be my first real experience with Linux. There's a python interpreter installed by default, but to my surprise, apparently no C++ compiler. Oh well, no big deal (I hope). I've just downloaded Intel's community C++ compiler and will install it...then Ruby...then Tk...then a rdbms, probably MySQL...is this what they mean by "no rest for the wicked?"
Yo Balmer, ya out there buddy? Hope you put my money to good use, you could be seeing a lot less of it in years to come...