I was on various Linuxes for several years and went back to Windows. Why? * Buggy updates. About 1 in 3 kernel upgrades produce a crash or hang on bootup. Abou

I was on various Linuxes for several years and went back to Windows. Why? * Buggy updates. About 1 in 3 kernel upgrades produce a crash or hang on bootup. About a quarter of those that survive booting fail to recognize my network card. A smaller fraction of updates delete features from my desktop, and some give me a broken X that won't load. Then there's the annoyance that the upgrades often spend half a gig of bandwidth; I'm glad I'm not on dial-up anymore, or in a rural area. * Uncancelable fsck. Windows does not randomly keep me off my own computer for an hour at a time when I'm most interested in getting some work done. * Games. I don't even mean mass-market games. Wine for old Win9x games is a crapshoot. The Linux version of Adobe's flash player underperforms and the open source version doesn't perform. On games that are playable, the sound is a half-second off. * Opportunity. Windows came with my new computer. YMMV, but these are my reasons.