[ComputerGuy]

I'm not going to touch this one even if I am hiding behind my firewall.
Cheers

[snowsislander]

These days, I use Linux as my operating system of choice; the BSDs are certainly fine operating systems, but for some reason when I go to put up something new, it's a Linux distribution.

Microsoft, well, I am not sure why I even want to use it except as a means to support a device that I cannot manage to get a Linux or BSD box to handle (a number of manufacturers are still poor at providing Linux device drivers), or if I need an application such as optical character recognition where open source software is weak --- GOCR and OCRAD are just not as good as the PC software out there.

But just for web browsing and email, aesthetically I think Firefox, Thunderbird, and Evolution on X now look better than on Windows, and certainly I find it pleasant to not be worrying about the enormously proliferated malware infecting so much of the Windows world.

[Grut]

I've been using Red Hat 9 (which is a couple of years old) on one computer recently and Firefox is noticably faster on Linux than on W2K. The lack of software is a bother, though, especially something like PhotoShop (GIMP does a lot but is harder to use than PS).

The multiplicity of sources for Linux probably means greater stability of design as there isn't a single source who can change everything at will.

[JoJo Gunn]

ping

[neb52]

I am not a programmer, but you would think if there is a Mac version of PS and Illustrator. That somebody would of ported to other Unix/Linux OSes.

[Casloy]

Why do people switch to Linux?

Because they are too cheap to buy a MAC.

[FLAMING DEATH]

Reason I switched to Linux:

I like my computer to be working, rather than to be working on my computer.

My uptime record is 62 days without a restart, and then, I only had to reboot because of a power failure.