I love Linux. I just love it. I've been using Kubuntu for several months now, and I wish I didn't have to boot XP. I wish Softwrap didn't exist and that Lexmark would get with the program and write Linux drivers; they are the only things keeping me tied to XP.

Linux is so much better by design. If you want to install an app, you just use your package manager to automagically install/uninstall it. No InstallSheild/NIS/Inno or anything like that. It's all standardized and easy.

Also, Linux doesn't have a registry, which is wonderful. At last, no more huge, bloated, binary registry hives. No more viruses, o more svchost.exe, and on and on.

Things just work in Linux, and WINE works fairly well for Window's apps. Except for Softwrap. Incompetent people…

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Well, SJF, I have to admit that windows has a better driver model that Linux, but what else? Kubuntu is microscopic compared to XP, it runs much faster, crashing apps (at least in my experience) never take the whole system with them, and it uses file headers instead of file extensions to determine filetypes. Even the clock is better.

Please start naming specific things that make Windows better.

E-Magination, to provide a centralized location for the OS to store its settings. But it's gone horribly wrong. And try repairing the registry with a text editor from a command line. And it's not Linux's responsibility to ensure compatibility with Windows. WINE doesn't run Softwrap because Softwrap uses some nasty tricks to try and make sure it's running on a certain piece of hardware. Games that try to modify the NT kernel with their copy protection also don't work.