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Originally Posted by Daffy Duck  Tons of people use Linux, often without even knowing. Ya know those tiny $300 laptops? A lot of them have Linux installed. |
I've used one of those. I'm not sure which version of Linux that had on it (it was an
Asus Eee), but I quite liked it. It did everything it needed to do as a mini-PC.
At the moment the PC I use is a laptop with Windows Vista (if I had my way, it'd have XP on it), mostly because I desire the flexibility that comes with a Windows PC (a Mac would be nice, but they were a bit expensive relative to the type of PC I could buy with the same amount of cash at the time).
I have a friend who's an eletrical engineer. I spoke to him quite often last year and in the years before that, and he was always telling me he was "switching to a different OS" (i.e. from Linux to Windows. He was switching so we could play a game together, not because he thought Linus sucked. He did a fair bit of programming from what I know, and I think he used it quite often).
I've even considered installing Linux, but I haven't felt a need to yet. Lots of people give Windows flack (sometimes for good reason), but the flexibility (i.e. most programs are designed to run on it; there's lots you can do on a windows PC) and user-friendliness (gasp! I just said "Windows" and "user-friendliness" in the same sentence) are quite nice.
Neither my friend or myself are Windows or Linux finatics. For us, I think preference and functionality are more important. Okay, my friend was a computer science student who knew his stuff, and I'm also pretty tech savvy (in certain areas, at least... I have some areas where I know squat, heh), but we definitely don't fall into the "fanatic" category.