I have the best little electronic toy. It is a very small laptop that is honestly portable and can still run the programs I want!
Yay!
The thing is that I'm a windows user, but it was $300 more to get an eee with windows, so I opted for the linux option. The eee comes with the Xandros distro and a modified version of KDE.
I've mucked about with ubuntu-gnome linux in a virtual machine for a bit, just enough to get a taste of the commitment it takes to be a linux user. So far I've just learnt some of the basics. Like that there are many different distributions of linux. That linux really only refers to the kernel. what a kernel is. That Gnome and KDE are desktop environments (and I'm vaguely aware of the significance of this). - I'm sooo clever.
There are some problems with the default installation on the eee, it is not multi-user, there aren't many applications available for installation, and enabling wpa2 (I don't know what that is I just know that it has to be there to connect to my school's wireless network) requires a lot of effort. -So I'm thinking of doing something that will require even more effort, installing a different distribution of linux, since there are a number of distributions customised for the eee.
And that is the end of the story of how the windows girl was converted to linux.