This article is deeply flawed. People do pay for linux, and sometimes more than other OS's. So yes, you do get what you pay for. Most commercial applications

This article is deeply flawed. People do pay for linux, and sometimes more than other OS's. So yes, you do get what you pay for. Most commercial applications run just fine on linux. This is because most commercial applications are written for the web these days. Most of these web applications work fine on linux. You can't compare the 20,000+ included, and free applications that linux comes with out of the box to a bunch of crappy legacy windows commercial desktop applications. "Linux supports more different types of devices than any other operating system ever has in the history of computing." -- Microsoft even agrees with this statement, and MS research confirmed it. Linux has way more drivers than windows. Out of the box, it includes many more drivers... and going forward, many of the drivers will still be available in 2-5 years than with windows. You often don't need to search random websites for your drivers either... they come with linux.