Here is one! Well, okay, it wasn’t that particular bug that made me ditch MS for good but Vista was. The instability and too many annoyances (minor and major), well let’s just say that MS got in the way of what I wanted to use the computer for one time too many.

I’ve used Linux in the past (a few years ago though), and at that time I thought it was a great server-OS that wasn’t ready for the desktop. That has changed big-time (for instance, Kubuntu recognizes more of my hardware out-of-the-box than either XP or Vista, not to mention has sensible defaults for everything and all of the most important software available straight away).

For most users (not counting the hard-core gamers), there isn’t really much that absolutely requires Windows. For some specialist usage it may be (I have one piece of linguistic software available only for Windows that I need, but since it runs fine under wine that’s what I’ll do).

It’s still early days for my own Linux-only computer-use but I don’t see myself going back.

My goal is not to make the Windows user feel stupid, but let them see just how stupid and silly Microsoft really is. See, I started this Linux adventure sometime in 1994 while in the military (had super fast internet, so I could download and burn as needed), now if I was to still hold the mentality I had back then about Microsoft and Apple, I would be all over the good ol’ STFU NOOB! RTFM!

OK, here goes the cat out of the bag, I worked for that stupid company within the past couple of years, and just so you know, they think all of their users are stupid, that is why it has become so dumbed down in their camp. Granted they are hitting the young and the old who are new to technology, but they are forgetting about all of their power users. Vista doesn’t have a “power user” persay, now it has either beginners or gamers. That is it, no user control whatsoever, it is all system control. Microsoft makes the users do what Microsoft wants, and the silly manufacturers feed right into it as well. I know it is impossible for everyone to have the wool over their eyes (manufacturers), as they are being controlled and manipulated by Microsoft was well, but I guess they really have to in order to meet their bottom lines, cover their overhead, and send their employees on lavish all-expenses paid vacations to anywhere in the world they want to go.

I believe this could be of interest to your other readers, as a complement of information. Steve Gibson just publish a special Netcast on exactly that subject.
You can find it at
http://www.twit.tv/ under Security Now,

it’s Security Now Special Edition: The Animated Cursor Vulnerability

And well. Microsoft do bash Linux a lot.