| Ive used windows for years.. and have never had to shell out a penny for it....  Magical thing them torrents. Well maybe thats not 100% true, I did buy Vista, but only because I needed it for my job and didnt feel like dealing with the security or the pirated version.
 
 Im curious, most people who I know who have swapped to linux are
 
 1. Power *nix users.
 or
 2. Normal users who just feed into the anti microsoft hype of which I say I would be alot more worried about google taking over the world at this point...
 or
 3. People who just want something different. In which case I dont really buy it because a gui is a gui, and most gui's at least resemble windows.
 
 What was the cause for your switches? Because unless your building a machine from scratch, the cost for windows on a new machine is somewhat negligible IMO..
 
 I need to build a development machine sooner or later to work on PHP stuff. Ill prolly toss ubuntu on it, but linux is still not ready for prime time... Unless your not a gamer.. for email/web browsing/documents its fine..... Unless WoW or AoC put out linux clients which I dont see happening.
 
 
 and yes.. I am biased being a gamer and a .Net developer.
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