I don't know about keyboard shortcuts, and I miss them from Windows. Your entry is locked, but I'd love to see it.

I'm reasonably geeky, but I do find the "easy instructions" for a lot of Linux activities to be rather daunting. The lines of code, and the dearth of step-by-step instructions on what to do with them, can be really frustrating.

All the same, I AM learning, and I like Ubuntu a lot. I did the dualboot thing too, but it only lasted about two weeks before Vista crashed and made my decision for me--this was a month or so ago. So I'm a real newbie.