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Originally Posted by rcentros
Stability. Ease of maintenance. No malware issues. No constant anti-malware application maintenance. No Registry corruption. Sensible file structure. No Blue/Black Screens of Death. NO REGISTRY CORRUPTION. No built-in obsolescence. Almost all programs load (and update) from a single repository, with a single (universal) update command. No Registry corruption. Choice of many desktops -- not stuck with Microsoft's newest desktop dictates (like no Start Menu). Can use much less powerful hardware. No Registry corruption. Choice. Lots of choice. And, in case I missed it, no Registry corruption.
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Originally Posted by rcentros
...And I'm not a zealot...
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I am afraid you have fully qualified yourself as a "zealot" as what you have to say about supposed Window's issues is gross exaggeration, and what you have to say about Linux on PC's in a non professional or in other than an enthusiast's environment is grossly glorified.
I have been a user of Windows or involved with both business and industrial applications (including managing their development) of it throughout its history (of course, Linux is used properly in a well justified manner in those professional environments also). Those have included the likes of SCADA and Remote Monitoring and Maintenance Systems in Windows environments in critical industrial applications where failure has severe consequences and system stability is paramount. Your claims are grossly exaggerated and are frankly a load of rubbish and in my opinion making them illustrates foolishness. As with all OSs some users will experience problems, but the frequency of user problems has to be seen against the context of the statistics.
As JSWolf has pointed out problems experienced with Calibre by Linux users far outnumbers those experienced by Windows users. I also follow closely two other complex applications which are available for both Linux and Apple, as well as Windows platforms (and like Calibre the developer's platforms are Linux) and for both of those Linux users experience far more problems than Windows users do; in fact for those other two applications they experience the very large majority of the problems (I do not know the exact statistics for Calibre). Most of the problems are related to the user's difficulties arising out of their use of Linux itself, not the fault of the application itself. Furthermore, that is even though all three applications I mention are developed in Linux by Linux developers.
To put that in context it is estimated that 90-95% (the figure depending on whose you read) of all PC OS installations are MSWindows. The remaining 5-10% are in the main Linux and Apple. So the installed Linux base is at best of order 5%, yet from that small base comes the majority of user problems in the cases of applications available in both Windows and Linux. To ignore that fact is silly and the message is clear as to what is the best OS for most users who just want an easy to use, generally problem free environment (I have ignored Apple here but it would seem to me that the statistics also favour Apple over Linux).
Now I am not knocking Linux at all, it is a fine and long lived OS for professionally managed systems and for specialised ones. In fact the original poster's needs may be a low level of specialisation if the need is targeted to a few applications on a platform unable to otherwise support the application of most importance to him. But it is not those things I am addressing here but your misinformed claims as to problems with Windows and the propensity of amateur Linux zealots to promote Linux to all and sundry as being the best operating system.
Average users do not want to have the "fun" of tweaking and playing with their operating system, nor wanting to have the challenges of a much higher frequency of problems within such an environment. The fact is that for average users Windows (and Apple) are the wise choices and in general it is both a disservice and illustrative of a non appreciation of the real world to recommend otherwise.
Linux has its place of superiority only with its fiddling fanboys and fangirls small scale PC environments (who comprise a minute percentage of total users) and in some specialist and some professional situations (for which I include professional ITs in their home environment as well as their workplace).