Comment Re:Games (Score 1) 1365
You make some good points. Personally, I use both. It really depends on what your tasks are, and where the software you need is.
If you just want to do e-mail and browse the web, your underlying OS almost does not matter. If you are doing a lot of scripting, customization, and learning of fundamental computer science then you could succeed either way, but I find the open source nature of Linux and the Linux community is very supportive of trying to learn those fundamentals. And for a lot of people, specific applications they need will almost force them to one or the other.
As I said, I use both, and I like both for different things, but I will say that for the majority of my friends that come to me for advice, I would set them up with Windows. For a lot of others, I recommend doing both side by side (whether or recommend virtualization or dual boot depends entirely on how strong their hardware is). But there are very few people I know that I would comfortably recommend a Linux only setup.
If you just want to do e-mail and browse the web, your underlying OS almost does not matter. If you are doing a lot of scripting, customization, and learning of fundamental computer science then you could succeed either way, but I find the open source nature of Linux and the Linux community is very supportive of trying to learn those fundamentals. And for a lot of people, specific applications they need will almost force them to one or the other.
As I said, I use both, and I like both for different things, but I will say that for the majority of my friends that come to me for advice, I would set them up with Windows. For a lot of others, I recommend doing both side by side (whether or recommend virtualization or dual boot depends entirely on how strong their hardware is). But there are very few people I know that I would comfortably recommend a Linux only setup.