There is no excuse for people to be punishing themselves with Microsoft garbage.

There is, actually. The software on Linux is very limited when you try to do specialized things. There simply is no replacement for the richness of software available for Windows. And I’ve not had any issues with stability or viruses or any of the other things about which people complain.

I take no joy in that, since I’ve been a Unix head for over 25 years. I still run my main desktop on FreeBSD, as I do my servers, but my next box will run Windows. I simply use too much of that software, and a virtual machine (or Wine — gack!) just is not adequate.

For many routine things, though, *nix is good enough, and has been for quite some time.