If you want to be a power user, there is no time to wait, you must switch to linux. Its not a freaky and far away thing. If you are using a computer right now, you have the skills you need to get into Linux Desktop with Ubuntu. To that end, there is a Vancouver Ubuntu Users Group ready to share the skills you will need in order to get started with Ubuntu Linux.
Have some links and go to a meetup:
1) https://wiki.ubuntu.com/CanadianTeam/Vancouver <– the official site
2) http://www.meetup.com/ubuntuvancouver/ <– the membership engine
3) http://identi.ca/ubuntuvancouver <– the news/alerts site
You can do it. So go to it.
