1. Your computer is too old and slow to run a modern OS. Simple as that. Doesn't make linux better than anything else. It just shows it's simpler. 2. Why would there be antivirus available to linux? Fact is, they're no more secure than any other operating system. It's all to do with market share targeting. Otherwise, just ramblings of ignorance. 3. This doesn't make linux 'better' because it's the only thing your bucket can run. 4. Way too many variables to make any kind of point. Either way... have a video of Windows 8 booting in 3 seconds.
5. Get a job! The price reduction by purchasing without windows was only really relevant with Netbooks when they were the in-thing. Manufacturers aren't paying per licence. They've already chucked Redmond a bit of cash for a kajillion licences. It doesn't cost them any extra to not include one in your new laptop. I've used various builds of linux in my time. I've settled with Windows 8, which only cost a meagre £25 on launch, for the simple reason... it works. I like knowing that I can upgrade my hardware and not have to hope and pray someone's made some sketchy driver for it that I've got to go jumping through hoops to find and hope it was developed this side of 2000. Linux is one of those things you really want to work and you'll go to great efforts to make work. And when you get it how you want, it's great... then you realise you're a gamer and start edging back so you can get steam up. I've paid Microsoft so I haven't got go faffing about. And I know you militant linux users will throw your hands up and tell me how easy this and that is and that steam runs on linux and gimp is just as good as photoshop and blah blah blah... but the truth is... they're simply not as good. They're never as good. Free stuff is rarely as good as premium. Steam on linux? Awesome... there're a few neat indie games and some games no one's played in 10 years... but that's all you're going to get. Other programs that "are just as good as..." are great, but they just don't have the premium quality and usability you'll get from a mac or windows application. We all totally understand it works for you. But it only works for you. I'm sure I'm not the only one that got a rubbish cell phone once... I got a Samsung Galaxy Pro once to try and fill my nostalgia for the Nokia E1 I used to have. It was Android with touchscreen AND qwerty keyboard. I thought it was great and I went to great efforts to make it work for ME even though it had the wrong resolution for everything and felt horribly flimsy and didn't have multi-touch but I could get the same thing by holding down the.... oh dear... I'm defending that hunk of junk. Now I have an S3 and bought a Lumia 920 (wp8) because I'm all-grown-up now and just want things to work. So please, by all means, talk about linux and how great it is... but try not to turn this into one of the millions of threads across the internet with the same aggressive "we're better because" things. Because it's all relative. Help each other out, ask linuxy-type questions and find solutions to why you keep having to type "gconftool-2 --shutdown, rm -rf ~/.gconf/apps/panel, pkill gnome-panel" becuase compiz never works properly, or whatever. But... don't turn it into a competition to see who's got the biggest ego problem. (makes you sound like an Apple user) XD Just have fun.