I am very new to linux myself, so I will give you the budious benefit of my thinking. You can visit leb.net and start reading some of the how-to files that seem appropriate. Ask geeks in your local area about any local linux users groups. irc.openprojects.net has tons of helpful channels including #blinux. You can go there and beg for help, smile. You can either put linux on your current pc or get another pc to experiment with. I chose the latter; you can get them cheap. I got a perfectly good pentium 200 on ebay for $25 plus shipping. I want to keep the things that work decently in windows. This way I can experiment without worrying about it. www.redhat.com also has a big series of articles on their site. Getting start4ed in linux, I think it is called. Have fun.