They come with the KDE desktop. You ned to include KDE during installation. I myself am learning Emacs because it is extremely powerful. It is true that it is much different than most of us are used to, however it is classic and it is available for nearly every platform.
It is very difficult to have Microsoft and Linux on the same hard drive because Microsoft in very inflexible. They do not want you to use Linux. Personally I have two hard drives. One for Linux, and one for Windows. It is a duel boot setup. I could tell you how to set yours up like that as long as you have two separate hard disks and Win2k professional as the Microsoft OS. I actually have two computers both duel boot Linux and Win2k.
