Linux: Why you should switch

[tiachopvutru]

Legend11 said:

Game_boy said:
- Easy to use
- Fast

Linux may be easy to use but I'd argue that Windows is easier to use, especially for computer novices. And while Linux may be fast I'm sure the time saved by some people is spent trying to track down linux drivers for new (and even old) hardware only to find out the company hasn't made any yet or trying to get a particular Windows program to run under Wine and encountering problems that Windows users never had. It's basically changing one set of problems in Windows for another set in Linux that can be even more time consuming.

I agree with what you say, but it's not Linux's fault. They just get less support... Unless you are saying there are more problems than just those (and there are, but those are the main ones), otherwise you just proved that Linux (or Ubuntu in particular) is just nearly as easy to use as Windows right now if it's in the same position:

 

Anyway, to get to Game_boy's list:

Longer battery life when used on laptop as opposed to Vista (since Ubuntu uses less RAM)

 

EDIT:

I haven't used Ubuntu for long but, perhaps what I like a lot about it is that, if a certain program is in the respository, you can just go to the terminal and type  sudo apt-get install <program-name>   and to update  sudo apt-get update, or when upgrade  sudo apt-get upgrade. (provided that you have Internet connection, which is a pain to setup for wireless device...)