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I'm an IT professional working with Microsoft product since DOS 4.0 and I consider windows xp as good OS (don't talk about Vista I hate it). That said, over the years I explored 10s of OS included the short lived but great BeOS and many linux distro. Who need linux? 1) Someone who don't like monopoly. 2) Curious persons that like to go out of main stream. 3) Technically incline persons that like the idea of opensource and to participate to it. His linux there to stick? Surely and web apps are not an impediment to that on the contrary as those only require a browser an Java. Switching from IE to Firefox is an eazy one, in fact around the world 20% users have already done the switch. Ubuntu is as easy to to as windows. As an IT supporting windows users, I can tell you that most call I receive are not real problems but ignorance of end users. The only reason windwows persist i because it is main stream and most peoples fills more confortable staying main stream. But things are changing slowly and in a few years the market share of linux will surpass that of MacOS X.