am I like you?

I'd say that I am mildly intelligent. I got a degree in engineering and even spent some of that time studying computer science. I currently do some amount of programming almost every day and I work on a huge datawarehouse for a big-ass company. Point being: I should be able to follow simple instructions and get a system working with little trouble. Didn't I mention I wasn't able to follow simple instructions and get a system working with little trouble twice before? Yeah.

Here's my OS experience
my first computer was a 286 around 1990.
It ran windows 3.0.
Since then I've exclusively used Microsoft Windows OSes. Let's see, 3.0, 3.11 then the magical Windows 95. My next PC ran a pirated copy of Windows 98. Finally XP came out and I loved it (aside from that search function...) through different PCs and my laptop I've hit most the flavors of XP, Home, Pro and for the last six months, MCE (the savior of all my entertainment needs.. more on that later).. ah yes, and at work I used an NT box.
The point being aside from moving the turtle thing around in grade school on a apple IIe, a short affair with a Mac (2 weeks?) while doing some design work and the previously mentioned two previous Linux attempts. I am a windows boy. Do you think I can be a Linux boy?