Today I'm (finally) adding my relatively new 160gb hard drive. I ordered it back in May and I had to wait till all my school stuff was done. Now it's August and I can finally do what I've been waiting three months to do. Adding the hard drive is a big deal because now I can dualboot Windows 2000 and Slackware Linux.
Since you have a lot of choice with Linux, I could choose from dozens of great distros, but I chose Slackware because it's one of the original Linux distros. I know, not a great reason, but anything's better than Windows. I know a few people who run Slackware and they're happy with it. I've tried Ubuntu and it's not for me even if I can switch window managers.
My next choice is which Window Manager to use. I've decided on KDE and FluxBox. KDE for the user-friendly crap so I can show people how easy it is to get going with Linux. FluxBox is the other choice because it's lightweight and would be good for coding I think.
My last choice is which Open Source software to run and what theme to have in KDE. I'm thinking a nice Matrix green-and-black theme. Oh, and for software? OpenOffice, Firefox, etc. and the new ones I've been waiting to try for a while like FreeJ, Jahshaka and Rose Garden.
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