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Well, you know you way around, while i am not that concerned with MS seeing things my PC does, as maybe it will help them to turn to Christ!

I am much a “power user” on Windows, and always found Linux to be come short in certain equivalents i really like, or ease of getting things to work, but it is useful. Plus i would have to purchase some media codecs to be legal as i live in the US.

Yet W/8 actually requires you to purchase ($10) Media Center for that! I got it for free as part of the early bird promo.

What mainly makes Linux somewhat viable for me is that you can use Firefox and OpenOffice (or LibreOffice). FF is working on a FF OS i heard. More competition is coming, but the Desktops are being marginalized somewhat.

I think one thing that has lots of potential is speech to text, which is still in its infancy i think, despite the price Dragon charges (i have 11.5).

It's not so much that I care about what MS sees on the systems/machines I have. Crikey, as many derogatory comments as I post about TheW0n, let alone posting on FR to begin with, I am already well-certain that I am on some No-Such-Agency -type's Barky-loving radar. It's the fact that no one really knows what type of info MS gleans off of their "registration" and "validation" programs. Let alone their "updates"

It was only a few years ago I think that the 'Nix crowd found over thirty different security flaws with the latest 'doze update within one week. The security consultants and the coders were quick to post the discovered problems and were on it night and day publishing fix after fix to resolve the issues.

Microsoft? They ignored the problems at first, but after some time had passed they began to grudgingly post one "official" fix after another. I believe if memory serves correctly that at most they acknowledged under ten total "updates", which everyone else knew were in actuality fixes for the security faults discovered.

So, I will use the 'doze OS when there is no other choice, but I keep hoping to someday see when the programs I need most can work within Linux. Running Wine if necessary, but I take heart that more OEMs are starting to realize that there is a real demand for Linux ports.