Hello everyone....
I thought I'd say hello and let you all know that Linux is a big passion of mine and am 95% of the way to eliminating my need for windows anymore. So, I'm going to jump right in here at the CTH support forums and help out where I can.
[UPDATE: this thread gathered soooo much useful information that it should be something that linux newbies will benefit greatly from reading.....so let's make this thread the place where we leave important install and starting out in linux information}