Linked by Andrew Davis on Mon 22nd Nov 2004 20:12 UTC
I admit that I'm a geek. I use Linux. I use Solaris. I use FreeBSD. At times, I use Windows. And without a doubt, I download and try almost every Linux distribution when they come out. Over the last few years, I've tried all of the RedHat/Fedora releases, 2 different Lindows/Linspire releases, Mandrake, Gentoo, Xandros, Suse, Ubuntu, and the list goes on.
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Ha,in this article the author raises again the argument of free software, bundled with os, but what's the point, if anyone can freely download and use OO, mozilla/FireFox/Thunderbird, even AbiWord, or, for true perverts, vi on Windows? And almost any app is available - so using Windows one's getting best of both worlds - high quality software, both commercial and open-source/gnu/whatever.
And there's one more thing, if one's regularly buying/upgrading his distro, he/she pays not less than he/she would for Windows - suse isn't free, upgrades too, and they come out at least two or three times a year, xandros isn't free either as well as RHEL - service packs for Windows are free b.t.w. And if one choose to use free distro, one would pay with his time - learning/tweaking and so on.
And, finally, viruses - I believe, that if Linux (or whatever os) is going to get 90-95 of desktop os marketshare, there would be plenty of them.