++ [ originally posted by Alex
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Oh you got a Ctrl+Alt+Dell...
I heard they have the worst support but their stuff rarely crashes.
"swappable"??? Did you really buy into that ad or what??
That's like saying you can have different resolutions by plugging in different CRT monitors
First of all, Linux is free. 1-0
Otherwise it certainly *is* lacking in software but it's coming along, over the past 3-4 years it's really come a long long way. And if you look hard enough you will find everything you need in Linux, although it should be noted not all apps are as good and user friendly as they could be [yet].
One of the fun things about Linux is that you can make a lot of the decisions, how it's supposed to look, what goes where, basically it's all in your hands. In M$ Win you're stuck with the friggin My Documents, stuff that's integrated into the OS some of which I really hate (like the msn client). Now it is possible to work around this but I just can't be bothered to dig up workarounds for all the annoying stuff in every new version of Win. Linux doesn't impose that kind of thing on you, freedom of choice.
But then Linux (apart from RedHat and Mandrake) isn't ready to use out of the box, it takes some doing [and learning] to get it working.