About three months ago, I started to jump ship from Windows to Linux. I detailed my progress in this blog post. Three months later, what's to add? What's changed? Well, it turns out most of my gripes were just a combination of n00bage, bad luck and misconfiguration. Read on for "The Migration: Revisited"

In the original post I detailed which distro's I tested. I would like to amend some of my remarks;
Mandriva: Installs and works out of the box reasonably well. Dual monitor support was a few clicks away (and that makes it truly unique in distro-land) and sound was a few minutes work. Unfortunately, Mandriva (10-something) was just too buggy and unable to withstand my kludgy and, in retrospect, very fat-fingered attempts at tweaking.
From what I (now) understand, Mandriva was, at the time, a unique distro in the sense that it had idiot-proof configuration wizards for a lot of configuration options. One of my favorites was the harddisk wizard. Still unparalleled IMHO.
Debian: if you're not building a server, why bother.This one makes me cringe; I now use it on an old P2 for serving up stuff. At the time I wasn't aware that Ubuntu was built on it, and as I now use my fully functional webserver I find a new appreciation for the rock solid debian system. As a matter of course, my CLI skills have gone up too! :)

One of the problems I had was dual-monitor support. Apparently, I just had the worst possible combination for working hardware acceleration and config. Nvidia's binary drivers work loads better (though not idiot-proof) and I should be able to get some of the KDE4 eyecandy working on this new computer. Dual-screen is also not needed anymore (I just use two PC's), but should be easier with Nvidia.

Another item was crashing of various programs. Though I have yet to test VMware, the segfaulting has ceased. Apparently I just screwed around too much with the other install. I am a lot more aware what actually can happen if you add custom repos to your sources.list.

Anyway, going Linux has been good fun so far, aside from the sizable time invested. If you're into web development, don't care much for your games and aren't afraid of some arcane configuration, now's the time to switch. Before Vista's shoved down your throat.Still stands! I still use a dual-boot config for games, but spend most of my time devving and browsing in Kubuntu. One problem is that there is no 64 bit flash player, but that may become a thing of the past if I can figure out how to install the 32 bit Firefox.

Webdevving has become a lot more streamlined lately, due to the fact that one can almost seamlessly integrate with ones offsite hosting (most of the competent ones run Linux).

No regrets migrating!