I have been using windows on and off since 3.1 and Linux since red hat 5.5. I use Ubuntu and Debian exclusively now. I use windows only when I absolutely need too. Linux is freedom. You are free to change every aspect about the OS all the way down to the kernel code. Windows just contains too much bloat nowadays. We spend years getting use to windows and then Microsoft changes things up and tells us its for our own good. Companies/businesses have to retrain and work is slowed and/or lost because of it. The best, fastest version of windows I ever used (before viruses took it over) was windows 2000. It had low memory/cpu requirements, a simple ui, and could really move. Cant say that about windows 7. Windows is bad for the environment because Microsoft forces everyone to upgrade(if they want support) which forces some people to have to buy new computers and throw away their old ones which still work perfectly fine. How is office 2007 better, productivity wise than office 97? office 97 starts up in less than a second on my machine and is quick and very responsive. I can't say the same about office 2007. In the real world if something ain't broke then it should not be fixed. Microsoft has to keep releasing software to fool people into buying it just because its new. That's BS. This is why I prefer Linux. Linux/Ubuntu will work on my 10 year old computer and run faster than windows 7 on my modern computer. That's just stupid.