Linux has firefox, open office, games, and runs well.

Why do I use windows?

I play video games and I don't like to reboot to do that. It is my belief that if you know what you are doing you can't 'break' windows. Meaning I don't think windows is designed to slowly deteriorate just because.

But watch:

Windows uptime > 100 hours? Problems will happen.

*sigh*

I support windows 2000 and windows XP environments. For some reason I come across many calls where users tell me the core memory is dumping, stop: inaccessible boot device errors, and all sorts of nonsense which I have NEVER seen on my machines that I have at home ever since windows 98.

And it's not as if these people are using the machine to hell as well. What are they doing to break Windows? It really has to be user error. I cannot explain it any other way.