Why should I bother with Ubuntu? I’m perfectly happy with the MSFT.
Because these guys fiercely believe in "free software" as trumpeted by leftist radical Richard Stallman (stallman.org). They constantly create these threads pimping anything and everything to do with free software, then when called on it admit there's tons of leftists fanatics behind free software, but then go right back to pushing it. Search for the word "leftist" in halfman's posting history to see what I mean.
Then, you should not.
A good question is:
Why should you bother jumping on this thread when you have never used the product and start to pan it?