I think this is very stupid on Hulu's part as many people use them as an alternative to satellite and cable. So why pay for their service if you already have cable?

I had to buy new hardware such as scanners and web cams when I moved to windows 7.

True Linux has won the embedded war it's even inside spacecraft and rockets now.

True it's dumping Microsoft is no where near as difficult as many uninformed people make it out to be. Over the transition is no more difficult then going from Windows 98 to XP or XP to Windows 8. Heck back in the 70 to 90s companies often would transition to completely different platforms and had to hire programmers to make conversion apps. It seems many IT people today have gotten lazy and soft.

Web developers who make sites that only work with IE should be given a pink slip.

Unity is probably the biggest mistake the Ubuntu devs made though there is also Mint,Fedora,Debian,and SUSE. The best thing they can do with Unity is exactly what Microsoft needs to do with Metro deselect it as the default UI or better yet give it the old Yeller treatment and pretend it never happened.

Games are probably the primary reason I still even run windows.

This is true I don't have to track down drivers to run Ubuntu for windows you pretty much have to find drivers for nearly everything or use the bloat ware infested restore media and then remove the oem trashware that's if the manufacture had the decency to include it.

It's still uncomfortable like the Windows 8 metro interface. The best thing they can do with Unity is give it the old Yeller treatment.

Most people do not know there is an alternative to windows or that it's as good as windows. Other issues confusion and people trying to fix things that are not broken such as completely redoing gnome in gnome 3 or brain dead things like Unity in Ubuntu which cause Mint to over take it as the most downloaded distro. Android is a good example of what can happen when people are exposed to an alternative OS. It's now the number 1 smart phone OS and Windows phone is more or less a flop.