"> I've never in my life had a single issue dealing with windows DRM provided I had a key. Doesn't mean it doesn't happen, and when it does it generally means you have to call Microsoft. > If you have trouble every 6-8 months, you need to look at your hardware. For most people it's their computer habits, not knowing how to avoid malware or maintain it in general. Win7 is better than previous editions though. We're not typical users though. > Gaming isn't quite there yet on Linux. I've already said this. > User friendliness goes out the window as soon as you need something that doesn't live in your package manager, and you find yourself neck deep in tweaking make files to get the thing to install. Not really. Generally a binary is provided, just like on Windows. And compiling comes with instructions that almost always work unless you're missing dependencies which is an easy fix. This is not a typical scenario though. Most Linux users wouldn't need anything that's not available in their..." - Tanath