I do end up using it for about
And space is no excuse. IE8 takes up marginally more space than IE6/7 and with the cheap cost-per-gigabyte there's no reason to worry about running out of room for all your pron!
"this doesn't seem like such a bad limitation"
Maybe not, but it means I'm never, ever going to buy a netbook with Windows 7 on it. Or recommend anyone else do so either.
You can tell most Open Source advocates have never had to make costing decisions in large businesses.
That may very well be true. But MSoft doesn't supply solely to businesses. So, while you may have a point, it does not negate the sentiment most people on here have (and will be) expressing.
I personally find getting almost anything done on Linux much more time consuming than either OS X or Windows...
I don't doubt you. But it's because you have a bias in your training/experience. I couldn't do very much at all in Ubuntu when I first installed it on my PC, but now (a few months later) I can do so much more than I would have ever imagined. I'm very close to being rid of Windows for good-- at which point, I'm sure I'll begin to consume less time using Linux than I would by using Windows (especially once Windows 7 becomes mainstream seeing as I haven't so much as looked at it yet).
Happiness is twin floppies.