@Sui (mostly)

[Nibsosaurus]

#1) Miss you <3
#2) I want to start goofing off with linux, how familiar are you with it? Any particular builds(?) you would recommend?

[Sui]

A few years ago I toyed with fedora and at the time would have suggested it.  Currently I'm using ubuntu and think it is a little more user friendly.  Some think ubuntu has a little to much bloat but compared to windows you'll probably think it is stream lined :p  You do not really need to know linux to use either.   Ubuntu, and probably fedora, has managers that will still programs for you but you can still do it manually when you want.

http://www.ubuntu.com/
http://fedoraproject.org/en/get-fedora

I'm duel booting win7 and ubuntu.  I let grub do my boot up instead of windows but that is simply preference.  If you want to run linux from usb look at unetbootin.  It is slower but being able to carry it with you has its advantages.

http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/

[Nibsosaurus]

From what I understand, wouldn't bloat be fairly easy to cut out on a linux system?

[Nibsosaurus]

Also, I need to buckle down and upgrade to 7 on my main harddrive and stop running it off my super super old HD, and reorganize alot of stuff...just feeling lazy lately t.t

[Sui]

I've never found bloat to be an issue with linux.   It isn't worth cutting out unless you are limited space.