I am seriously considering switching to Linux in one of its flavours (don't ask which one yet), but the serious question of how to disentangle oneself from the MS web comes up. One question that comes up is whether the freeware DVD duplication tools will run under a Linux/Unix environment. Since I have upgraded my hardware, the burning or encoding is no longer problematic or even particularly time-consuming. During the burning, however, I am finding that Windoze is wildly accessing my hard drive, often to the detriment of burning speed (the cache keeps wildly cycling up and down, too).

Does anyone else here run under a Unix/Linux environment? Does it work in terms of balancing office work with DVD burning? How steep is the learning curve?