I use one distro only: Ubuntu...well, except for DSL and Puppy on old Pentium 1 machines (and no, I didn't dump my nice PC for them, I just added to my collection
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I took about 10 minutes installing Wine the first time, these days it takes me about a minute (sudo apt-get install wine anyone?) and on my nVidia card, it actually IMPROVED framerate, sometimes by 300 percent on my old geForce4.
I'm writing a book report right now for school. Guess what? It's MS DOC format, and I'm editing it perfectly fine in OpenOffice. I also use OpenOffice almost daily for schoolwork: .doc, .xls, .ppt, and other formats open without a problem.
#10: like I had athletic abilities to begin with? Windows or Linux, I'll be on the computer.
#9: good idea, but wasting $200 a week on Windows discs is quite a waste
#8: Linux don't run on a P133 Laptop with 640x480 screen and 16MB RAM (least not with GUI), so I highly question the truth of that.
#7: Umm...yeah..."beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeer"...Linux doesn't make you drunk though.
#3: Gentoo? lol...Ubuntu distributes binary packages so no more stupid recompiling
I seriously just switched from Windows 2000 (laptop) and Windows XP Home (desktop) as my main OS to Ubuntu 7.04 on both (dual boot). I haven't used Windows for a week and I have no intentions of going back. I can play my Windows games in Wine without the slightest problem, listen to music on a great media player (VLC), enjoy seemingly better soundcard drivers (idk why, but bass response seems better in Linux than Windows), and use the awesome Beryl effects ($200 for Vista?...that's insane, considering it doesn't work). I know Windows (at least XP and 2000, not Vista) are quality products, and for years I was anti-Linux. One day I happened upon a website
Ubuntu Home Page | Ubuntu, liked the interface, tried the LiveCD, and now I'm never leaving Ubuntu out of my latest PC. Meanwhile, Microsoft lowers quality from XP, which ran apps great, to Vista, which crashes on quite a few of my games and apps.