Tim,
I'm running Mandrake Linux on my machine now and my biggest question is a word processor. I have to write documents that other people can open using MS Word and so I have to use my wife's (windows) computer to get it done. Is there a legitemate option to do this in Word? The two word processors installed (OpenOffice and KWord) don't export to MS Word format very well. I'd really like to give Linux a chance, but if I can't do what I need to I'm going to have to re-install windows (which would really stink as I've gotten use to a few of the nice features in KDE).