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All my things were on Windows once. My solution was to dual boot (menu on startup) for a while as a transitionary period. Boot into Windows for things you need Windows for, then boot into Linux when you're ready to try things a different way. Chances are, you'll get the same stuff working on Linux as you have on Windows. Your documents, images, everything -- they're all cross-compatible. And you'd still have Windows to fall back on in a crunch.
If you're not even ready to dual boot yet, Linux has an amazing innovation called a live CD that you may actually want to consider. With a live CD, you simply burn a selected Linux distribution's live CD (freely downloaded off their web site) onto a CD, then place that CD into your drive and restart your computer. When it boots, it will boot off the CD and load the entire operating system, fully functional, into your computer's memory. You can do anything with that as you would the real thing, but it doesn't touch your computer's hard drive at all. Once you're done, simply reboot the computer again, eject the CD, and everything's back to the way it was before.
You might want to consider that, as it would let you see the immense progress Linux has made and even experience it first hand without making any changes at all to your computer.
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