phantom3D: That stuff about Linux being hard to learn is old news. Just get the latest Ubuntu release and you're good to go. That said, if your computer does mainly 3d graphics stuff, you'd probably be better off sticking with Windows. There are hardly any 3d applications out there that have genuine Linux versions, and getting things to run smoothly under Wine can be a pain in the arse, if not plainly impossible.

One of the reasons I chose Wings3d as my modeler is the fact that it runs under Linux. So does Blender, by the way; but as far as I'm aware, that's pretty much it.

-- I'm not mad at you, just Westphalian.