These are exactly the reasons why I run Windows on my home machine (Linux at work though, I do need to get stuff done). That said, I was out to lunch this week

These are exactly the reasons why I run Windows on my home machine (Linux at work though, I do need to get stuff done). That said, I was out to lunch this weekend with a friend, and she was frustrated because her new (Windows 8) laptop wouldn't play DVDs - I know it's because Microsoft doesn't ship the codecs anymore, and that I could fix it in 10 minutes by installing VLC, but she's not tech-literate enough to do that, so maybe Windows isn't entirely so far ahead.