Why?

I am starting off a new company with a number of business partners and we will have to re-implement a lot of code so as to make it work on Linux. So I have dared to take the big step and am moving away from Windows, which has been my platform of choice. I poked around and the choice is ubuntu. I will be posing here some of my findings and what it feels like. This is mostly for myself and tracking what I have done, but maybe somebody else will find this interesting.