I tried Linux and gave it a fair chance. For the serious user Linux is more trouble than it’s worth. You need to have a lot of tinker time set aside.
Interesting viewpoint. When did you try it? I find it to be more useful than Windows in my work.
That was last year...try Mint.
How much time do you spend keeping up with anti-virus, anti-malware, registry cleaners, defragging, and all the other things that soak up your time if you're going to run windows successfully?
I'll admit, I tinker more than is necessary, but then I also live right on the bleeding edge with Fedora builds. For my work desktop though, where it's important to have it fully functional and working for me rather than the other way around, I spend a heck of a lot less time than I'm sure the vast majority of folks do on windows. Additionally, it truely works for me. I keep more stuff open all the time than most people can probably deal with, yet everything has its place. With 8 desktops, my browsers are always in the same place so I can get my work done quickly. My 80+ terminal windows can be opened with a single command, and I always know where my dev, test, and production boxes are. It is remarkably stable, and goes months without a reboot or even an X restart. I also have vmware sessions for testing particular environments safely and efficiently.
I could easily do the same thing at home, and in some ways I do. If I decide to upgrade my box, I can simply back up my /home partition and when I restore it, everything about my desktop is exactly the way it was before I did anything to it right down to my background and the way my file manager displays and deals with my viewing preferences for different directories. The last time I had to rebuild someone's windows box it was a nightmare getting things even close to the way they preferred it.
My time is valuable, so I prefer to spend it where I want to, rather than where Redmond dictates.