Welcome your about step into the world of open source free software the linux operating system. I have been running linux operating systems for a few years now around five years and found linux to be faster and far more trouble free than a windows based system I run no anti virus and with the fast development of linux in the last few years it has libra office witch is as good as any MSFT office firefox browsers all kinds of utilities Mint linux wis what im currently running and its been the most popular and best for windows jumpers what you will find is one of the best operating systems out there light weight and fast i installed mint on 340 gb hard drive and it took up 2% left 98 percent of the dive empty and free best distrobutions for newbees Mint , Ubuntu ,Kubuntu ,fedora
will take a look at installing a linux os next post