Linux-based OSs

What are your guys' thoughts on Linux-based OSs? Their advantages over Windows, Mac OS X, and other commercial OSs, and their downside.

Also, what do you think is the best distribution of Linux?

Linux advantages
- price
- speed, stability, security, customizability (but most of this does not matter for casual use)
- lots of choices in almost every aspect of the os
- lots of quality legally free software

Linux disadvantages
- vi (it's good, but for newbies it'll make you want to gouge your eyes out)
- games
- xterm/bash will become your friend whether you like it or not
- inconsistent interface designs and interoperability of programs and system components requires low-level tweaking sometimes
- new hardware not always supported

Windows advantages
- games
- lots of quality software if you are a pirate
- hardware support

Windows disadvantages
- price (and your low IQ if you actually buy it)
- lots of specific stupid and unchangeable design flaws like wga, registry, drive letters, explorer.exe, iexplore.exe, security center, upnp, active desktop, windows media player can't make mp3's above 56kmpbs without you paying for it, driver cache taking up to 1gb on windows installation, artificial tcp/ip half-open connection limit (or some kind of connection limit), wma format, wmv format, etc.
- historical security weaknesses and Microsoft's historical inability to deal with them quickly/effectively
- resource consumption of programs is typically larger
- Win32 API
- having more programs installed makes system slower due to unecessary integration of system components
- tends to do things behind your back (autostarting programs, calling home, etc.)