I don't THINK so.

I guess there are two main reasons for my insistance on making the switch.  The first reason has already been stated.  Windoze is not the savior of the computing world.  Or any other world for that matter.  I am somewhat of a Power User and often run 8 or 10 programs at a time.  It's a lot easier than opening and closing them all the time.  I have DSL, so I always have at least one web browser going at a time.  I keep my computer on all the time and have a much more secure feeling running Linux than running Windoze.   When I used to run Windows I all too often got the "Blue Screen of Death".   You know, "Fatal Execption Error" stuff.  My only question is "Why do you people put up with it???"

The second reason gets a lot more to the meat of it for me.  The Microsoft business model  (i.e. "I'm the biggest and meanest son of a bitch in the Valley, so Bow to Me!!!") is against every moral principle I have.  Microsoft was there between 1990 and 2001 when the incredible boom in personal computers took place.  In the early years they were the only player that the new computer users ever saw so they made unbelievable amounts of money on their monopoly of the Operating System market.  Then they began to realize something.  Computers last a long time and would only need one operating system.  So from the beginning they would "upgrade" Windoze and Microsoft Office every 2 years with more and more bells and whistles (that worked less and less well).  When Bill Gates premiered the Windoze 98 Edition it crashed in front of every major trade journalist in the world.  But by that time the company had a complete monopoly and didn't care if they were putting out a product worth the money or not.

They twisted the arm of the computer manufacturers and forced them to put the newest version on all their new systems by theatening to not supply them with fWindoze if they refused.  They also made their products "backwards compatible", which means a document written in Word  97 could be read by Word 2000.  Unfortunatly a document written in Word 2000 could not be read by Word 97.  The upshot of this for business is that if someone you do business with upgrades, you have to also. 
Another problem with this system is the ownership of the source code.  Source code is the words the programmer actually wrote when he/she wrote the program.  Here is a short example of a complete computer program in the C++ language;