I was clicking through random pages with StumbleUpon and I came across this list of 50 reasons to dump Windows. Some of them are quite good and some are not so good. Here are a couple of my favourites.

Windows is Expensive.

Duh! Everything that costs money is expensive compared to that which is free. However, Why pay money when you can get the same functionality with better support for free?

You won't have to upgrade your computer hardware in order to switch to the newer version of linux.

and

Linux hardware requirement is so minimum you can run most current popular linux distro on a ten year old hardware, try that with windows vista.

These are a very important points.

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