Average FUD spreading TMO user yesterday: "OMG, no Linux on Nokia netbook?!? LINUX IS OVER!!!"
Average FUD spreading TMO user today: "Nokia's putting out a what? Netbook... wha? Who cares? N900 baby!"

Go ahead. Give it a try :-)

LOL... I have to assume your needs are dramatically different than mine.

Actually they are religions: there's no other explanation people keep using windows

Sure there is: Inertia. Investment. Not to mention all of my professional needs still unmet on other alternatives...

Funny, I thought that the fact that 90% of my corp apps are Windows based would be an explanation...

///thanks!!

Well, I dumped Linux on the computer I'm typing on, and am just running Win 7 here. BUT... there is sort of a moral dimension to running operating systems that aren't proprietary. Proprietary software makes the world a big mystery; you can't change it and its object is to hide from you how it works.

So, if you like a world that is alienating and mostly owned by someone else, support proprietary operating systems. If you want something that you can tinker with and understand, support non-proprietary.

It's a religious imperative.

I support both.

It's a democratic imperative.

That, or I'm confident that all of your tasks are satisfied by applications, and not operating systems. The application being the "tool" that is "the right tool for the job". Not the operating system.