Linux here. If you need stupid reasons to use The Greatest OS ever Invented, here's one: It makes you look smarter. Example: You walk to some nerds and say ''I just downloaded Linux Mdk 9.1 and the 2.6Kernel, Mdk comes with Kernel 2.4.21-0.13mdk so I had to do a bit of recompile.'' Boy will they think you are smart. And say ''EMMM-DAEAEA-KAAAA'' not Mandrake.