I am now 100% Microsoft free (Except for my OS)

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How so?

So don't use the Windows GUI. I'm running WinXP (although I liked 2k better) but I've got a litestep shell going, so it doesn't look much like windows. The only MS software I use is office, because it works for me. I'm using Opera for a browser now, I've mostly used Firefox and each of those two have benefits/drawbacks compared to each other, but far surpass what IE provides. I use Media Player Classic instead of Windows Media Player, and MPC blows WMP away. I'm using Notetab, haven't tried the other options. Love Notetab. For chat I use Trillian, I don't have problems with it. Thunderbird for e-mail.

I actually hate using Windows, and while I haven't tried Linux, I can't function without software like Photoshop. I've tried Gimp. I won't do it again. And I won't use a Mac. I got an iPod as a gift (surprise, not asked for) and that's bad enough. I hate the software on it, and I won't use iTunes.

So Windows it is. Suck.

Well, I see many reasons for Linux which are not related to freedom (bigger fonts possible!!, aKregator, konqueror, gnu-tools!! (I can't live without sed, only exist), different GUIs, ogg123, irssi, mcabber!!, stability, one software repository...).

And the economy would improve if there was more competition, not less!

Have you tried WINE? I used it to run vice city on a P4 with 512MB of ram and it worked fine on Ubuntu, but it crashes on Kubuntu.
Oh and by the way WINE Is Not an Emulator! (or at least that's what they say)

At many places, the Windows GUI is so ambiguous and unconsistant. The attempts to merge the Unix-y approach of one directory tree with the drive letters and deprecated stuff make it rather hard to store things. You can not change many things in the GUI which annoy me, like... I prefer to have the close-button not next to the maximize button since I tend to hit it by accident on a normal Windows system, you can not increase the default font-size as normal user, in high-contrat mode windows does not show the desktop's background image (or windows just hates rms). The start menu is a really bad idea since every company is vain enough to want its own menu item there (I do not CARE if a program is made by MS or Adobe or the GIMP project, I care about what it DOES!). No virtual desktops, no way to open a folder in a new window or tab in the explorer. Many programs without window decorations (is there any MP3-player WITH window-decorations and changeable window-size at all?).

I use both windows and linux. I honestly hate windows, and microshaft in general, but it's mainly because I've done some programming, my BF is a VERY good programmer, and we look at the coding for windows, and it's just... disgusting. No OS should need nearly 4 gigs to be happy. Honestly.

That and Windows wants you to pay out the arse for it. Same with mac. Unix and unix-based are so much simpler, and they come with the added benefit of being free. Plus, you can hop on any linux forum and find people who ACTUALLY wrote the thing you broke, not just someone who was lucky enough to stumble on the answer.

I really only use windows because, sadly, GIMP has yet to catch up to PS. I mean, come on! Although, I will admit... I bought a drawing tablet, and it specifically said, 'no known linux compatibility'. Well, I plugged it in anyway! And of course it worked Doesn't work worth a poop in windows... caint even interface with PS properly. But it works great in gimp. So I just save everything to a middleman HDD and hop between OS's. Painfully slow, but gets the job done.

I'm hoping the latest release of Ubuntu is stable enough to solve most of those problems. YAY! if it is!

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Your icon scared the crap out of me. I didn't know it would change.

Non of my PC games would work if I got rid of Windows. (The Horror!) I'm sure I'd get so bored with Linux because of that.