I've been running Red Hat since version 7 the learning curve is steep from Windows but I find the OS to be quite capable I'm doing everything I used to do in XP on my Fedora core system I don't even have XP as the default now. I rarely run XP it's mostly for a few games I like. The first thing that I did was join a user's group or a LUG there everywhere and you can find help from guys who have a lot of experience. Also grab some books from your local library and start reading. I found a couple of books on the web. One called Rute user's tutorial and exposition by Paul Sheer is very good and every newbie should get the tarball or html and give it a good read of course it has taken me months and I'm still not finished. Anyway I think it's going to get a bigger share among PC and definitely corporate users because it's more secure it's cheaper GPL and it's always being developed by people who use it and want to see it improve.
