I would have recommended slackware or ubuntu, but it looks like you already got it =D
It's a great OS to learn, and as I'm sure you'll notice, you can run programs MUCH faster on a machine with linux instead of windows. You need just about twice the ammount of ram to simply "idle" in windows than you do with most linux dist.'s
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