Well done jazzben,
Success to your endeavours.
Just keep at it, and if you experience any cock up's, don't get dis-heartened, I still dual boot. Partly because my "er indoors", won't use/learn linux and also because of "cock up induced cowardice"!
Virtually, everything you'll want to do, can be done with linux, it's just that occassionally some thing's either take a bit of configuring, or take a bit of learning (as in to do thing's "the linux way"). I'd imagine that the only stuff you may want to do/try, is some of the gaming stuff that is only available under window's
Still, good luck with your system
regards
John