Comment Reason number two: Linux is a pain to set up (Score 2) 1070
Well, it may be relatively easy to install a given distribution from scratch on a fresh system. But heaven help you if you need to add a driver for a new printer that wasn't supported by the version of cups/gimp-print/foomatic that shipped with your distro. A quick trip to the source code outlet and a weekend's googling, debugging and cataloguing all the RPMs/DEBs that are now invalid and we're back in action? Pah.
Not to mention good old wireless networking. Thanks to the joys of wireless USB on linux, I'll have to rebuild linux-wlan-ng every time there's a security update to download for my otherwise stock kernel. Ditto nVidea drivers (excellent support, excellent performance. Shame that the kernel module interface is so primitive that I have to rebuild the nVidia module when the inevitable kernel update shows up).
Then there's GNOME: I'd love to try out the latest stable release, but I really don't see why I have to a) install a newer version of my chosen distribution to try it, or b) work my way through a horrid packaging effort to build it. And yes, I tried Garnome as well. Still not nearly as good as KDE for packaging source.
Not to mention good old wireless networking. Thanks to the joys of wireless USB on linux, I'll have to rebuild linux-wlan-ng every time there's a security update to download for my otherwise stock kernel. Ditto nVidea drivers (excellent support, excellent performance. Shame that the kernel module interface is so primitive that I have to rebuild the nVidia module when the inevitable kernel update shows up).
Then there's GNOME: I'd love to try out the latest stable release, but I really don't see why I have to a) install a newer version of my chosen distribution to try it, or b) work my way through a horrid packaging effort to build it. And yes, I tried Garnome as well. Still not nearly as good as KDE for packaging source.
