After using exclusively linux at home during a couple of years, I have bought a laptop to my wife. I wanted to experience windows 8 (new at that time). It was a

After using exclusively linux at home during a couple of years, I have bought a laptop to my wife. I wanted to experience windows 8 (new at that time). It was a complete week of frustration. Almost no application are present by default, the video player complains about all file formats, installation of visual studio express succeeded only at the third try for no obvious reason. The ergonomy was a nightmare (it became usable after discovering many keyboard shortcuts that existed already in win7). Linux is fast to install (when no problem occurs). Software installation (and deinstallation) is a breeze. Everything is available out of the box. I maintain a diary with a list of non default packages to install: apt-get install nfs-common wine gnome-media openssh-server squid curl filezilla curlftpfs ethtool docker.io xtightvncviewer x11vnc tmux whois git wakeonlan youtube-dl npm sshfs Concerning support for old hardware, it was the main reason that made me switch to linux: vista64 had no support for my printer and my scanner.