1. KDE

2. XFCE

3. Alternatives Microsoft Office -> OpenOffice
Microsoft Paint -> KolourPaint
iTunes -> Banshee, Amarok, XMMS, or Rhythmbox
iTunes Music Store -> Rhapsody Music Store Online or Amazon Music Store Online
Winrar -> XArchive or File Roller
Internet Explorer -> Internet Explorer 4?
Running Windows Applications -> Wine?
Blackberry Desktop Manager -> BarryBackup/OpenSync

4. Alternatives (Continued)
Microsoft Visual Studio -> MonoDevelop, code::blocks, or Anjuta DevStudio
ViceVersa -> Backup PC
Microsoft SharePoint -> Alfresco
Adobe Acrobat -> PDFEdit
Adobe Photoshop -> GIMP
ACDSee -> Picasa
Internet Explorer -> Firefox
Final Cut Pro -> Cinelerra, Avidemux, or Kino

5. Alternatives (Continued)
Windows Media Player -> VLC Media Player, Totem, Kaffeine, Xine, or Mplayer
Music Editing -> Audacity
Microsoft SQL -> MySQL
Microsoft Outlook -> Thunderbird or Zimbra Desktop
Yahoo! Messenger -> Gyach
MSN Messenger -> KMess
Multi-Instant Messaging -> Pidgin or Psi

6. Alternatives (Continued)
Using USB Drives, Windows-Compatible Devices -> NTFS
Limewire -> Frostwire
Torrenting -> Vuze

7. Alternative Gaming Warcraft-like Gaming -> Battle of Wesnoth
First-Person Shooter -> Nexuiz, Enemy-Territory: Quake Wars or Tremulous
Army Gaming -> America’s Army
Racing/Mario-Kart-Like Racing -> Tux Racer
Adventure -> World of Padman or Uplink
MMORPG -> Vendetta
RPG -> Savage 2
Online Gaming -> Second Life

8. Personal Preference How I partition is with using an ext4 filesystem
I prefer Mandriva Powerpack 2010 personally with a GNOME GUI environment
Some applications I like include:
-OpenOffice, Thunderbird
-Banshee, Totem, Audacity, GIMP, Picasa
-Vuze
-Battle of Wesnoth, Uplink, Tux Racer
-NTFS, MonoDevelop, MySQL, Eclipse, Xarchive

9. Partitioning for Linux
Some distributions will allow for installing on NTFS filesystems, so if your planning on dual-booting Windows and Linux, I would recommend keeping with partitioning with this type of filesystem
If your looking to switch to Linux fully or just use Linux on that particular computer, I would recommend partitioning that particular drive with the (newer) ext4 filesystem, or if you feel safer using the ext3 filesystem

10. Benefits to Using the ext4 Filesystem
Backwards compatible with previous filesystems
Can support disk sizes of up to 1 Exbibyte
Can check filesystem more quickly than other filesystems
Can contain 64,000 Subdirectories in one Directory
Uses checksums to improve reliability

11. The Full Switch
When switching fully to Linux here are some things to keep in mind: -Make sure you have time to play around with it before or when first getting used to it (in other words if you don’t know what your doing and need the computer for class, work, etc. it may be best to hold off on what your doing or to play with it in a virtual machine using a program such as Virtualbox or VMWare before official switching to Linux)

12. The Full Switch (Continued)
-If you don’t know exactly if you will have every application you will need, virtualize or dual-boot your system. Linux also offers Virtualbox and VMWare, so you can virtualize a Windows system from within your Linux system or vice versa. -Although alternative applications may even be better than some paid Microsoft applications, you need to make sure extensions of files match, especially when your planning on swapping files back and forth in the office with Windows/Mac OSX users

13. Now for a Demonstration And Then Questions