And polish them up.

I live in Minnesota, and would like to go camping sometimes.

Would you want one with an IP address?
Not me, thank you.

Linux is most definitely ready for the Desktop, I've been using it
as such at work for over 10 years. I run KDE and have 8 virtual desktops for various work situations. I typically have approximately 20 shell windows open, with 4-5 in my main work desktop. I subscribe to about 35 mainstream mailing lists, about 20 of which are "active" - including linux-kernel. I keep 90 days worth of email for each, so that I can go back and see if others have encountered problems that I come across. I certainly don't read all this email, nor do I manually filter it. I'd guess that I get about a thousand emails a day, about 20-30 of which actually end up in my inbox. I do my own spam filtering on my desktop machine as well.

If I try to think of a windows machine handling my work load, I laugh. Occasionally, I've tried some things. Email. Outlook exchange or whatever it is called - it simply cannot open an email
folder with 13000 emails in it, let alone search it. Virtual desktops? I've never noticed that windows could do something like that...
20-30 shell windows? Forget it. Windows is a toy system.

Games. When I want to play a game - I use a gaming system, I have several at home - my kids really like them. A couple of them are windows systems. That is about the only use I have for windows - to play games on. It is incapable of handling the way that I work.

Other people work differently, and there are many people in our office here that depend solely on windows systems. They are effective and get their work done. I could not work that way though. And they do complain a lot about 15 minute boot times...