"Something to do, innit?"
I realised what I did in Windows, I could probably do in Linux.
Although I've had quite a lot of command line linux experience, desktop experience was minimal. I wanted to try something new and different.
So I cleared up my hard drive a bit (~40Gb is a bit right?
) and installed it in the hope that this time it would be my main OS, whereas before it was just something to experiment with when I felt like it.
I don't have much hatred for Windows OSes. Nor did I enter the Linux desktop world like a lot of people do - in the hope that they'll get Windows. I knew that I'd need to find new software to use, and I have for the most part.
Windows things I still use through Wine:
Trillian - I never liked the AIM Interface which GAIM has inherited. Also I had many years using ICQ, where I had new messages flashing in the tray rather than taking the foreground.
mIRC - Used this for most of my Internet Life, I grew attached to it, so I've had no reason to change, tried it in wine and did everything I wanted it to, so still no real reason to change