I agree with you 100% on the malware part. If Linux got a share of, say, 30% on the desktop, things would start looking quite different, I am sure. Updates...

I agree with you 100% on the malware part. If Linux got a share of, say, 30% on the desktop, things would start looking quite different, I am sure. Updates... well, there's updates and there's upgrades. On Debian and CentOS, I have never encountered any trouble with updates. You pay the price by using software that is usually rather dated, but in my experience, once it works, it keeps working. On rolling-release systems, where there is no clear distinction between updates and upgrades, I have encountered plenty of trouble on Gentoo and openSUSE Tumbleweed. Arch Linux, I'm told, is rock-solid, but I guess once you manage to actually install it, nothing scares you anymore. ;-) (Just kidding, I know that Arch has an actual installer by now. But until fairly recently, installing Arch made the OpenBSD installer look almost decadent.) (Also, to be fair, I was on Gentoo's unstable branch, so in a way, I was kind of asking for trouble.)