I realize that I'm (as usual) a perfect guinea pig for playing with the new ADO.NET Orcas stuff, whether it's LINQ for SQL or working with the entities.
Why?
Because I'm a blank slate and more like most developers than those that have been very deep into ORM.
I have never used ORM tools before. I don't work with serious methodologies that will be strongly impacted by shifting some of my data access to the new model. Questions like the ones Scott Bellware asks on the ADO.NET Orcas forums (his question starts in the middle) scare me. :-)
My learning curve will be similar to the bulk of people who will eventually adopt and use these tools. My questions, the things that confuse or confound me, will be the same things that are bumps in the road for other developers.
The ORM experienced people have been digging into this for a while, but my questions don't make sense to them. This is totally udnerstandable as we are coming from wholly different perspectives.
So my plan as I learn this stuff is to remember what did confuse and confound me because those will be the best lessons I can pass on to other developers!