> 2) If your aim is to communicate research results, it is very likely that you are going to need to use Office at some point Given that I work in a research d

> 2) If your aim is to communicate research results, it is very likely that you are going to need to use Office at some point Given that I work in a research department, math/scientific research papers are typically written in Latex - Microsoft's support for formulae is pretty bad from what I hear. Also, it's quite likely that your supervisor will have a Mac, those are extremely popular with academics. > 3) Windows does that really well (drivers are primarily developed for it I guess) PowerPoint can really mess that up, you adjust the the screen so it's just right, then hit full screen and PowerPoint changes it a completely different resolution! Also, I've seen tons of people struggle to connect to projectors, this is far from Linux-only problem, typical problems are not knowing the hot key to switch outputs, using the wrong resolution, extend vs. clone and not having an adaptor (typically mac, but not always).