If Windows was free would you dump Linux?

**Chame_Wizard** · July 3rd, 2010

NO.

I stay with Debian family(Kubuntu in my case).

**doas777** · July 3rd, 2010

on some boxes yes, on others no. I recently purchased a technet std subscription (a good deal btw; 150$ a year for all you can eat MS standard edition products), so I installed win7 for the kids PC (linux was a bit of a limitation for them) and on the familyroom media PC (woohoo netflix), and upgraded the xp dualboot on my workhorse tower/gaming box. all my other boxes however remain ubuntu.

Ubuntu's benefits to me are not really price based (though it was a factor considering the number of PCs we have), but more technological. in the 3 years I've been primarily using linux in personal life, I have learned incredible amounts, not just about linux, but about how all computers function on a lower level, simply because linux does not put all this abstraction in the way. i can "see" all the way down to the kernel if I just keep digging,, whereas windows tries to make it appear that there is nothing under the hood at all; and it works by magic.

**teisho** · July 3rd, 2010

No.

Even if it were just about price, linux has so much cost-less software that takes only one click to install, I think you would still be saving money and time with Ubuntu.

**malspa** · July 3rd, 2010

Originally Posted by Endomancer

I won't go dumping anything, but I might consider dual booting

Same here. At this point, I wouldn't dump Linux for a free Windows or even if someone gave me a brand new, free Mac.

I would probably install Windows on another computer and keep my main computer Linux-only.

**jperez** · July 3rd, 2010

If Windows ever became Open-Source, I'd dual-boot...after community fixes. Since that would never happen, not even if being given away would I use it. I've gotten free versions due to school and I still don't use them.

I'll stick with Ubuntu while trying out new distros to see which ones I really like and dual/triple/quadruple/etc.-boot with them. "Testing distros", thy name is VirtualBox.

Anyway, no. Until it becomes open for people to actually help fix all the things wrong with it and all the slowness, etc., then I'm sticking to Linux. Less headaches, unless you're working with x64.

Jesse~