ok i have the reason no questions will ask, if you switch to linux youll make friends and everyone will like you

I just realized that I haven't cussed at my machine since moving up to Linux.

Then I'll be the first...

I don't own windows AT ALL. My only OS is Slackware 9.1. I did my entire university dissertation on linux - not because I'm a masochist but because I found it far more preductive. Mine was a computer science degree and I found the integration of compilers, linkers, make, etc in Linux to be far superior to that of windows. Vi is STILL the best programmer's text editor (ok, so there's emacs too...) which I used to edit all my project's source code (java, urgh!). I ran my project on a windows machine in the lab and the performance was laughable - it would hang for minutes on the press of a button. Turned out to be that windows needed me to specify a priority for the threads I had created OK, so no biggy.

Why else do I use linux? Well my project also had to have documentation. It's a toss-up between MS Word ($129.99) or OpenOffice (free - that's $0). As it happens I use AbiWord because it's cute but that's besides the point.

Above all else I got fed up with my computer freezing for no good reason, I got fed up with the 21 new viruses my virus scanner would detect every week, and I got fed up with Microsoft expecting me to pay for a new operating system every few years just so I could run the software I wanted to run.

I REALLY think this post shouldn't be in this forum...

So listen, our improper-english-speaking-friend-from-greece-who-asks-misplaced-questions, Linux is better than Windows AND THAT'S IT!

I wonder what'll happen to your enforced WinXP activation you do after a new installation. After 3 or 4 years, you won't be able to use WinXP because there's no one to receive your activation thingie. They want you to get a new Windows version. That's legal, and I find it a possible serious antitrust problem (threat) if I move to XP. So it's my current Win98 or moving to Linux 100% someday. Linux doesn't go out-of-date like my Win98 has.

Linux security has convinced me. 40 viruses, few active. No spyware.

Linux is a OS made by users for other users.

Linux belongs to me when it's installed on my computer, and not to Microsoft Corporation or any other software giant. Read the GNU GPL.

Linux software (and also free as in freedom Windows software) allowes me to take part to it's development.

Linux is friendly for my hardware even though I'm still using a 5 year-old PC. Something the guys at school can't understand.

Microsoft Windows is not user friendly, but it's Microsoft friendly.

I'm not angry to Microsoft but these are just facts.

Regards,
Bamse

..and the debate goes on..

Yes, well this debate will never end. Ever. It is some sort of weird disease that there are either physcos for linux or haters of linux. I think there are like, what, a whole 10 of us on LQ who DONT hate microsoft? The rest are either lovers or people who hate it and curse at and flame anyone who actually says they like it.

windows XP is very friendly,U can use it without knowing how it runs,but to me,it is not a good idea!
so I use Linux,in fact,I use it for studying more than application.
If I want to finish my work ,I use windows more.

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Thetargos: That was art! Needs to be rated post of the night!

that's perfect example why windoze crash all the time, used up all the memory and no fine working garbage collection to clear up the memory.

Well for me personally I never saw a need to bash Microsoft in order to show that Linux is superior. The record pretty much speaks for itself. With an Operating System as good as Linux, verbally bashing the competition is not necessary.
If you want a good juke box and online porno streamer and you don't mind the occasional denial of service attack then, by all means, load Windows XP and have at it. Just don't get too comfortable after downloading those 37 critical updates because you are no more safe than you were out of the box. I believe service pack 1 actually has several of it's own service packs now. It's a perfect example of, "Let's sell it now and build it as we go."

Amen! Let the product die from its own disease!

Bashing the other guy just weakens you in the eyes of an observer.