Linux is a fun OS for a hobbyist. Windows 7 Professional 64 bit is the best OS for real work.
#6 The Linux user base who still haven’t worked out that harangues and insults aren’t the best way forward in convincing the rest of the world to switch their OS.
In my (limited) experience, the biggest problem Linux has to overcome is the ease with which new software can be added. I’ve been very pleased with how well plug-and-play works even on older hardware running the CD-ROM based trial distributions, but feel like I’m wandering around blind through obscure directories trying to figure out how to unzip and install something I’ve downloaded. I have found some to be better than others in this regard. Also have run into the lack of drivers, as noted. The other big reason I stay with Windows is the ability to find virtually any kind of utility as freeware, easily installed when needed.
But I really do like Linux!
My toaster haz dem.
I’m still waiting for the mythical open source Exchange killer.
Microsoft complains about Linux and public domain, but Linux came out of Bell Labs more than a basement dweller in Finland, and Bell Labs was a Microsoft like company in many many key respects. Bell was fiercer and more successful than Microsoft on maintaining it’s monopoly for generations! It’s tech labs were laid-back campuses back in the fifties.
Microsoft dominated the PC age like Bell dominated the phone age. And today ... a new age is starting.
We are no longer in the phone age or the PC age.