Why use Windows when Linux is free (or cheap), bulletproof and SO cool?

So many questions on here are caused by Windows being a lame operating system. There is an alternative - at least for surfing and e-mail - Linux, which is totally immune to Windows viruses, malware, spyware and all the rest. In fact, Linux is so secure that it's 100% safe to run it without ANY security software apart from a firewall. Your PC will also run faster as it is not being slowed down by Norton/McAfee etc.

The new distributions, such as Mandriva, are excellent and easy to use. In Mandriva I watch DVD movies with perfect quality and sound, listen to my fave MP3s and CDs, upload with built-in FTP, surf safely and securely in Firefox 1.5

Linux is much faster to install than Windows. Does Linux have problems? Yes - mainly with hardware compatibility, but only because hardware manufacturers haven't written Linux drivers. So have a box running Windows if you like, but NEVER let it connect to the web. Get a dedicated Linux box for the web - it's like surfing in a tank!

DC:)

Why use Windows when Linux is free (or cheap), bulletproof and SO cool?suzuki

Well, I am a genuine Linux Advocate, since 1997. I LOVE Linux.

But, it comes in some 800 versions! Can be confusing to a noob!

And, face it, a lot of the actual users of Microsoft products don't have a clue about the slowness, or the viruses, or the crashing, because they are data entry, or clerk typists, at huge mega corporations, and the IT department does all the heavy lifting!