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Originally Posted by frabjous
Lately though it's more of a philosophical preference for open source, combined with lack of funds to constantly upgrade stuff that isn't, that's pushing me towards the open source Linux systems.
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FWIW (and I only add this because the issue is often overlooked in Windows vs Linux discussions) there is a ton of open-source software available for Windows. Many Linux advocates try to imply that all Windows software is overpriced/expensive. Off the top of my head I only run two commercial applications on my computers - MS Office being one of them. I could get equivalents for both for free, but I have specific needs that the commercial apps satisfy. And games of course.
Windows also has a lot of shareware, etc, and has the advantage of commercial software for when the open source stuff isn't good enough (e.g. I could not run a computer without MS Word or that didn't enable me to run all my games).
Of course, the OS itself is not open source, but I don't see that as a disadvantage.
As far as dual booting goes (someone suggested it), I really recommend against it. What's the point of running two separate operating systems. Just use 1 OS that does everything you need. And if the OS you're running doesn't do everything you need, you're not running Windows, so install Windows.