shifting from windows to *nix programming platform

Question

How to migrate to *nix platform after spending more than 10 years on windows? Which flavor will be easy to handle to make me more comfortable and then maybe I can switch ove

Answer 1

Get a macbook pro. OSX is the smoothest flavour of unix and the laptop should give you the push you need.

Then when you're feeling more confident, you can decide whether or not you want to spend most of your time configuring your soundcard, running ./autoconfigure && make, and debugging package manager screwups.