mattglet - 11:48 am on Aug 28, 2008 (gmt 0)

1. I've never been able to be completely satisfied with Firefox. Not exactly sure what it is. All I know is that a few years ago I decided to try out Opera instead of IE, and have been hooked ever since. I truly believe it's the best browser available... but I don't want to hijack this thread about that.

2. Running XP virtually is taking care of everything. It really is idiot-proof. To me, firing up VirtualBox to run Visual Studio/SQL Server is just another program I'm running.

Have you an idea for what Linux distro you're going to use? If not, I truly recommend Ubuntu 8.04. It's been pretty easy to get into, and there is a ton of documentation for it online.