Now why on earth would you want that?

get rid of Vista its hopeless, as is XP(although the best windows version atm).

Get a good linux distro (preferably a debian based one) and you will never look back and its FREE! also you can make it look 'cool' and 'flash' (or gay as i call it) like vista :

Compiz Fusion Welcome

I recommend Ubuntu for the linux newbies:
Ubuntu Home Page | Ubuntu

As for editors, linux has a whole host of them, i personally use VI, but its kinda complicated for people used to notepad++ etc, there is emacs which is good to but like VI difficult to master.

for simplish editors i recommend Kate:
Kate | Get an Edge in Editing

or there is bluefish, which someone i work with uses and sings its praises but i can't personally understand why:
Bluefish Editor : Home

all can be installed very easily using 'Advanced Package Tool' on a debian distro (like ubuntu, to be entered into a terminal window,):
you may need to be root in order to use apt, in ubuntu you use 'sudo' (super user do) as the root password is disabled by defualt in ubuntu:
there are more editors but i cant currently remember them off the top of my head.

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