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Number 1 Got to be kidding me here again. I know many hardware combination that doom windows. Its only that vendors filter your hardware you don’t hit them more often.

Number 2 Pritty is in the eye of the holder. Lot of distributions are. Nothing special here.

Number 3 “It includeds software that works as good as the OSX and Windows defaults” Ok nice grey area. Like windows media player not knowing what to do with many files. Out box Linux media players play more. And out box windows does not come with Office suite. There are closed source office suites for Linux by the way.

Number 4 about the only current advantage MS has. No problem deals are being setup with nokia and the like.

Number 5. Prep work is under way for this. fanotify go look it up.

Number 6. Is why windows is secuirty screwed. Allow everyone includes allowing malware into the system.

Number 7. See Nokia with QT.

Number 8. Repair windows some time please. I perfer Linux config file diving to windows registry diving.

Number 9. Linux runs on lower hardware than windows. Now please look at 2.6.33 Linux is getting compressed swap/memory to it runs better on low memory hardware.

Number 10 It is super easy to update got to be kidding me. Compare to windows all Linux distributions are a dream. Too much fragmentation in the windows update system covering third parties.

Number 11 is not important.

Problem is you disregarded Meego. Meego follows LSB standard. So any application built for Meego can operate on all LSB supporting distributions. Ie that is most of them in one hit.

Ubuntu will integrate Meego in time. Meego is funded by Intel and Nokia so is not going to fail.

Biggest issue here is critical mass. Once Linux cross that development speeds up a lot.

OS X even fails a lot of your list.