Think of it this way. Your an incredibly gifted individual capable of doing extraordinary things. So when others who are either trying to be good at athletics or academia don't do as well as you they get frustrated. Especially when you're able to excel in multiple things, where as they feel that they are falling short in there one area of interest.
We had one kid like you at my high school who was incredibly gifted, but unlike some other individuals who posses his skill set he was respectful and humble. I always looked up to the kid as a person to strive to be like, but sometimes would catch myself being jealous of him and the life that he lived.
But this was only evidence of my own short comings. No matter how anybody ever felt about the kid he was still an outstanding athlete, scholar, and a great person in general.
And also who needs to feel in place. Just enjoy life and be happy, because as my grandma always says. Be happy because life is to short.

Sorry for not making this clear earlier. I want microsoft off my computer. And I tried the legacy enabled boot disabled thing on the bios screen as well as rearranging to boot order of things so that a cd would take first priority. And I'm still without luck.
It could be that I'm screwing up during the process, but after having done it a couple of times, I don't know where my error would be occurring. 

Thanks for all the good advice.
I've decided for now to use Fedora as my primary operating system, and from time to time I'll probably dual boot Debian from a live CD.
Thanks again.

First off I would like to state that I am not trying to start an OS war.
I have just gotten a new computer and I am trying to figure out which operating system would best fit the needs that I have.
I have been reading articles all day explaining the pro's and cons of each operating system. And so far I haven't found the information that would help me find the operating system that best serves my needs.
Since it is safe to say that you guys use the computer in a similar way that I do, would anybody be willing to offer up any advice for me?

After becoming decent in c++ c and java(that is not to say that I don't have lots more to learn in those languages) I found out that I will need to learn Perl for school. So in my eagerness I looked at one of the free tutorials that perl had to offer, and jumped right in. It's different to say the least.
I know with logical programming languages such as haskell you have to think about programming differently. Is the same true with perl? Because right now I feel like I'm trying to shove a square(which in this case is my knowledge of object-oriented programming) into a cricle(procedural programming). Is there any good advice that can be offered before I continue on this long exciting journey?