Linux Or Windows

pevicasi, Which linux distro are you trying out ? Try to get your hands on a copy of ubuntu, which installs effortlessly and have a very standard desktop, which is almost similar to the normal windows interface. You won't be feeling much alienated in Ubuntu :)

I use Micro$oft Windows on my PC, and Linux/Ubuntu on my laptop. Windows is very user friendly, it work fine, more or less...even if I have, usually, a lot of crash system. It is quite unstable...but, If you wanna play Final Fantasy, STALKER and so on, you have to use Micro$oft. Linux is free, is stable, you don't need any anti-virus, you can find any kind of application/software you want...for free. By the way, is not so simple to use Linux. In the End, if you have to choose between those systems, you have to consider what you really need it for. If you use your PC to play, or to work with programs like Photoshop, Premiere and other software linux-not supproted, you must choose Windows...or, at least, intsall a dual boot system Win/Linux, so, you can choose what use every time you want.

out of all the advantages you said on where windows beats out linux, the only true one is gaming due to the fact that most developers only support windows. Linux is equal to or greater than windows when it comes to video and sound editing. If you are going to be doing hard core image editing use a mac, as the only advantage windows has to linux is that photoshop exists on windows, but for 95% of users the gimp is just as good if not better than photoshop if they are willing to bypass the fact that it is not photoshop. I can't comment on flash as flash is completely proprietary and development in it is limited to whatever adobe decides to make IDE's for it in. In case I didn't make it clear by those statements I fully support linux, and currently run Debian sid on my laptop and only resort to using windows when I game (solely for the fact that mupen64 is not as good as 1964 or project64 as all of the other games I play are either based on the Quake3 engine, or are opensource/multi-platform).

I prefer Windows XP. I am starting to use Linux, some 30 days and I am still not very pratical in it. With time who knows if I go in prefer the Linux. have a good day.