Well, i've kind of decided to try oput SuSe and Umbuntu and see what happens
As far as tweaking goes I love getting things working, I remember mixing SCSI and IDE a few years ago and getting that to boot of the proper devices was, uhh, "fun".
Hence if i get on with linux and actually learn the shell commands properly (i could never be arsed with them at college, hence never really got to grips with unix as well as I should have)
As for sound cards, I seriously doubt that Echo has a linux driver for the Gina24 card, so what's the deal with hardware that doesn't have a driver in Linux? Does it just ignore it during install? I don't want to have to unplug a PCI card every time i boot up
And with partition Magic, is the free version adequate?