I use both .NET and the LAMP stack everyday. I love .NET and C# is a beautiful language. But I have to use Windows to use .NET. There is nothing wrong with Wind

I use both .NET and the LAMP stack everyday. I love .NET and C# is a beautiful language. But I have to use Windows to use .NET. There is nothing wrong with Windows, except it doesn't have a very good shell; it doesn't come with the GNU user land; I can't just grep and sed and awk on one line to solve problems and answer questions; when I google for help with stuff like mysql I don't find near as many answers that would apply to windows; I can't just type "apt-get install ..." somewhere to try out a new programming language or other large program for free; I can't solve problems with SSH. All of these problems can be solved to a large extent, but not in a well known, well documented and Free way. Maybe that's just a matter of culture, but until the not-artificially-limited version of Windows can be downloaded for free, I can't give it a fair try.