Linux

So. I tried Linux a few months ago. I was suggested Ubuntu as the most user friendly one. So yeah, I install it.

Bam. Slower than windows fucking Vista. Windows FUCKING VISTA. Sound doesn't work. It takes 2-3 days to find out how to install FireFox. Adobe was a lost cause. File system was confusing(But that was probably with my inexperience using that style of filesystem, I'll admit) the colors were ugly, and the other colors to change the theme to were equally ugly. All guides for Ubuntu were outdated, and all the help forums I tried were empty.

In the end I never did get my sound to work, it made even the simplest tasks over complicated, and while I will admit some were due to my own inexperience with Linux, But some tasks seemed complicated just for the sake of being complicated, and most of all, time consuming. I've heard Linux being touted as a OS for programmers, but that's retarded. You'd spend more effort on it's time consuming tasks than with programming.

Not a troll, just wondering. Why should I use Linux?

Are you saying that this linux can run on a computer without windows underneath it, at all ? As in, without a boot disk, without any drivers, and without any services ?

That sounds preposterous to me.

If it were true (and I doubt it), then companies would be selling computers without a windows. This clearly is not happening, so there must be some error in your calculations. I hope you realise that windows is more than just Office ? Its a whole system that runs the computer from start to finish, and that is a very difficult thing to acheive. A lot of people dont realise this.

Microsoft just spent $9 billion and many years to create Vista, so it does not sound reasonable that some new alternative could just snap into existence overnight like that. It would take billions of dollars and a massive effort to achieve. IBM tried, and spent a huge amount of money developing OS/2 but could never keep up with Windows. Apple tried to create their own system for years, but finally gave up recently and moved to Intel and Microsoft.

Its just not possible that a freeware like the Linux could be extended to the point where it runs the entire computer fron start to finish, without using some of the more critical parts of windows. Not possible.

I think you need to re-examine your assumptions.