Hmmm, no . I'll explain why.
1) Even tough it's better than a few years ago, the hardware support is still terrible. I've run Linux on several machines, and even tough the pc's where fast enough, linux felt slow. Graphic drivers are even worse. nVidia is on the right way, but AMD has a long way ahead.

2) Software, it's still hard to find linux alternatives for every program I use. Yes, I could use wine, but wine doesn't not always work, wine can't perform miracles, wake up ! The next problem is that I need some windows-only programs for school (mostly simulation) and I don't want to switch between linux and windows everytime I need to work for school.

3) Too hard, the learning curve of linux is too steep. I must say I like the command line, but it's just to hard for everyday usage. This is the major problem with linux, most programs still require you to use the command line and that has to change before linux can become popular. If one would make GUIs for every command line tool I'd be more eager to switch.

4) Dual boot, it's nice, it's handy, but it's a b*tch too. Dual boot means 2 environments where you can change your data. That means I'll have be able to synchronise my data. Since linux can't safely write NTFS (especialy Vista-NTFS) and Windows can't safely write EXT3, that means I'll have to make a FAT32 partition, this means a terrible loss of space. On a single partition, empty space can be used by anything, on a seperated partition, the unused space can only be used for data ...

5) Too much time. Getting linux up and running the way you want it takes a lot of time, especialy because of 3).

This is of course a view from someone who used Windows for a very long time and linux for a much smaller amount of time, I guess the more linux view would be completely the opposite of what I've just said . Still, most linux users are too arrogant, they seem to live in their own world and don't want to admit their linux world isn't perfect and they do that by shitting on microsoft. I prefer to stay in the middle, linux has it's advantages (powerfull, advanced, cheap to get and safe) but so does windows (easy, safe (if configured well) and wide spread (=great software + best driver support)).

So this is my view on linux vs. windows. Maybe on day I'll switch, but definately not today.

1. Windows has the largest user base.
2. Windows has the most, and most useful (OVERALL) software.
3. It is not that hard to develop in, considering I use Win32 Assembly, C/C++, Object Pascal, Visual Basic + the standard web development affair, and concerning desktop level programming, cannot live a day without using the Win32 API, I think I know a thing or two.

The Win32 API has bugs (guess what so does linux's backbone *shock horror*).

Define ease of use? Go look at the sales/use of corporate MS software, and the use of practically no-cost linux and you tell me LOL.

People still pirate windows (but why, they could have linux? or others).

I personally hate the command line interface, when I can click buttons, when I want to pick something up I use my pointer (hand), not write or call out jibberish to have it come to me .

And yes I suppose I vote for Windows, there's nothing I feel can beat it *overall*. I guess some people don't always want to re-invent the wheel or use a different wheel, when the old wheel is still working.

Although I like Linux alot (though mostly only fedora) i still use windows as my mane operating system.
Linux just doesn't provide what I need and most things on Linux are a hassle. But most of those things on windows are made easy.
So for now i think ill stick with my windows operating system. Linux is ok but yeah.
Ill vote for windows.

I have Ubuntu linux on my laptop and desktop PCs, and I dual boot with Windows XP Pro. Even though I love the fact that Ubuntu is free and will always remain free, I can't stop using windows. I don't know what about the windows OS that keeps me in it, but it seems like everything works on it. I think that if I had more patience and technical knowledge, I would be able to run linux for more than a few hours at a time.
There are so many drivers available for Windows that aren't for linux, but I love the fact that I can't ever get a virus or never have to reinstall or spend hours upon hours trying to remove a virus or even reformatting...

but yeah... windows is for me, for now.