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aerialscribe sez that when he jumped over from a Windows box to a Mac he had to reformat his iPod. So it's sounding like I probably should go ahead and convert the device. :)

I only really need it to talk to computers I'm specifically using, anyway--any other computer on the house network can see my library in iTunes if I share it out. So I could in theory, if the Mac is on, fire up a Linux desktop and launch something to play stuff across the network from there. Any file transferring needs can generally be addressed by my iPaq or by the thumb drive.

And yeah, my iPod does have a full hard drive. My music collection tends to stay pretty stable over wide stretches of time; I don't often add or delete stuff. But I do a lot of hits on the hard drive with random play, either by the iPod randomly selecting stuff for me or just by jumping around myself from playlist to playlist.

And yay for shared squee! I've got plenty to go around. ;)