Biased or not, the OS/platform arguments always need a context. I agree that Linux/Unix is better for me but I would not uninstall my mother's copy of Windows 8

Biased or not, the OS/platform arguments always need a context. I agree that Linux/Unix is better for me but I would not uninstall my mother's copy of Windows 8 and slap Ubuntu on there. The stability, flexibility, etc. actually feels like overhead when you don't need it to be there. The same thing goes for iOS vs. Android, in my opinion. It's not even a matter of saying "oh well let's just dumb down the interface and call it friendly." In my experience, the heuristic I use for any device is "how much obstacle is there between me and what I want to get done?" If I want to run some development VM's or do full-stack web programming, I would hands down choose OSX or Linux because of their native support for that kind of stuff. If I wanted to log in to a computer, get a quick survey of pending emails, messages, and other generic consumer content, I have to say that Windows 8 did a decent job of delivering that kind of experience. Sure, there aren't many viruses for Linux or OSX but it's partly because the writers of the viruses have a statistically better opportunity right now to target Windows. There have been plenty of OSX and cross-platform exploits. Most of the famous hacking stories are a person getting a rootkit to let the ssh into a backdoor on some Linux webserver. As in most things, context matters.