windows 7 is nice but trust m ubuntu 9.10 is so much better...if you are not a gamer 90% of your all your applications can be found on linux...my everyday usage includes bittorrent client, firefox, zimbra suite, and skype all being cross platform, music is over banshee and movies over vlc media player...so for an everyday usage ubuntu rocks with only some speacial activies (khof iphone khof) i log into windows barring that linux all the way