First of all I really hate Vista and I'll prolly start using Linux in the future if I'll get Starcraft up and running on it (with emulation).

I've always hated Microsoft so much and since Vista became an even more fiasco than imagined, I seized to learn C#, which I had read a few pages on "C# Station". I looked at VB.NET too and thought it was hideous with its syntax and hiding of the code. It relies too much on its program, Visual Studio.

So my question: Which language should I begin with? I'd love to be able to make 2D RPG games or something in the future. I think C++ can be a little too hard. Not sure but I think so. How's Java? It sucks up alot of memory atleast, the JRE is fat as hell (over 120Mb) and with Firefox the applets are killers (you browse away from a site where the applet was launched and still Firefox is taking something like 100k memory). Python sounds OK, but it's not as used, especially on windows I know 0 people using it, I mean having its runtime.

Please help me with this pick...