cartographer

You are making the right choice . I have to warn you though that eventually you will become such a power user of linux that you will only run windows in a VM when you need it and strive to get your laptop to cold boot to desktop in under 10 seconds for no reason other than you can (note: I spent more time than I'd like to admit on that, haha). Learning your way around a linux environment is a huge plus when it comes to anyone who wants to go into software development as well. The only words of warning I have for people who want to make the switch is that you might have some issues if you have a laptop with switchable graphics (e.g. one that can either use a discrete card or cpu-integrated graphics), but it shouldn't be terribly hard to figure that out if you install a user-friendly distro like ubuntu.

Bug/Crash report here. Image: http://i.imgur.com/55Zhc7x.jpg Log: http://s000.tinyupload.com/index.php?file_id=63537421523359981502 Mods installed are FAR, Kethane, B9, and Part Catalog (but its pretty obvious that its from to FAR). Long and short of it is that the static AoA sweeper-thing crashes KSP if you set the view range upper bound to 90 when analyzing a craft that has the center of lift much farther behind the center of mass (or so it appears). Easiest way to recreate would be just stick some wings on the back of two orange tanks in the SPH. The lines in the analyzer also split and do some crazy things before 90 (reminds me of the sort of splitting/chaos you see in nonlinear diff. equations, which makes sense in hindsight, given the whole aerodynamics thing).