Movies are not - their is a lot of trouble often to find effective setups for movies.

Eh? mplayer (or a pretty INTEGRATED GUI like kmplayer or gmplayer) works out of the box for ALL of my downloaded videos. I booted into a fresh install of windows and tried to play them: no go. WMP said it could find the codec for it automagically but failed. Then I remembered you have to download your codecs manually in windows so I went and got the Nimo codec pack. It still wouldn't work so I gave up. I understand VLC is the way to go these days? Clearly WMP is harder to get working than say gmplayer.

Burning CDs, as I understand, can be done via click and drag on XP.

And in linux - see k3b and others.

I must also disgree with you on that Linux programs are elegent - I find SOME to be very nicely polished - but the vast majority aren't.

Same can be said for windows programs.

There are valid arguments of why someone should use windows. For some reason they are not often used.