From what I hear, Linux is just a different version of Windows? Except its free and has more style?
Not really, in fact they are quite different. Read above, there are differences listed up there. Also, like I said above, there are live-cd's which allow you to get a feel for Linux before you put it on your computer. And why was this removed from the reviews section anyway? I pretty much consider this a minimal review of the two OSs.