Both softwares have their own place in the huge spectrum of users, needs and purposes we have with the computers. Favoring one over the other simply shows the n

Both softwares have their own place in the huge spectrum of users, needs and purposes we have with the computers. Favoring one over the other simply shows the narrow-minded approach. Linux is great in so many ways and still is the backbone of most servers serving The Internet. Microsoft's Windows platform was built and marketed as a productivity software and from the very beginning (think inception of UI based interface) attempted to abstract the gory details that make computers work. For those of us with a degree in computer science and can speak (so-to-speak) in C, we are happy to see through the registers, loops and logic, and for the rest of the humanity, it just looks like the screen from The Matrix. As far as trying to move towards one vs the other, my opinion is that it purely depends on what the user's short term and long term motivations are. Just my 2 cents...