Personal opinion, really. What do you like most in an Operating System? Everybody varies.

Evildave, your right. The only problem I see is that if you say "Ubuntu is better." You are being short sited. Yes it's free and yes it is an awesome stable operating system that looks great. As for support for Windows costing money, well thank goodness it does because I would not have a job that I love if it was free. If you are a home user or at least someone that does not have to use Windows only software than great. It's just that the IT world does not run on home users it runs on busses. Now if you own a company and something goes very wrong with your server what are you going to do. Your IT staff has been over every possible solution and your server is still down. Now since your server has gone down let's say that you started lousing $2,000 a hour. Trust me that is by no means an out of the question amount in fact it could be a lot more. If you are in that situation haveing the possibility of calling Microsoft and haveing a tech from Microsoft all the way up to an Architect able to login and fix your server is invaluable and ultimately you save money. I guess the way I am looking at the question is what makes the operating system better and for me it has a lot less to do with how much I like to use it as it does what can ultimately be done with it. I am not saying you can't run a busness totaly Windows free, however difficult that might be. I am just saying that you can't do it for free. There is no way to run a busness of a hundred or so people that all use computers for no money and as for haveing people fix their own problems, heheheheheh, lol. I don't know your skill set Evildave but even without knowing it I can tell you that your knowledge of computers is far and away higher than a large majority of busness end users.(if not all of them) The way that I know this is, I am sure that you know what the word driver means, I would be willing to bet that if you logged in to a Windows PC everyday for 5 years and I asked you what your user name was you would not say, "I don't have one." I would even go so far as to say that if I asked you ware do you store your images on this computer that you would not say, "oh there in Kodak Easy Share." So anyway I guess what I am trying to say is that your savvy I am sure that you can build a computer, that you know what all the parts are, ware they are and what they do and this stuff is no doubt easy for you. That is just not true of the rest of the world and if it was not for Windows those people would have to learn how to use computers for real and to tell you the truth I am not sure that they can learn. I am not saying that your tyipical end user is stupid. My mom is one of these people, they all need Windows even though they have no idea what windows is. Me: What version of Windows are you using? User:"I am not useing Windows." He was using XP, no joke.