Moving from a Macbook Pro laptop to a Linux PC. The beggining of a journey.

I remember it was the early 2000s when I was reading on the web that this year is going to be the year of the linux on the desktop. Suffice to say that this year kept coming and coming time and again. For me the first interaction with Linux was with Redhat Linux sometime in 1998. A person I was talking on IRC sent me a CD that I installed on my PC....