A few reasons why I'm migrating from MS to Linux...

[Soccerman]

"If you have some hardware that has only 9x drivers out for it and wanted to use the same hardware in linux enviroment and there were no linux drivers for it, could you like use the 9x drivers in WINE so that it could work in Linux?"

about that WINE question, sorry, but you DO need linux support for the hardware. WINE is good for translating programs, but drivers are a different story..

THIS is why we need more and more people to join the Linux community, so that more and more hardware companies are forced to give out linux drivers.

 

[Michael]

Leo V -All of Linux is under heavy development. Because the source code is available, there is endless tinkering going on. Both GNOME and KDE are not "beta", they both have had "stable" releases for quite a while.

Microsoft products are also under heavy development. Service packs are one sign of this. The migration from 3.1 to 95 to 98 to ME is another sign (without counting all the point releases in between).

Michael

btw - check out http://www.newplanetsoftware.com for a decent development environment.