[pataprogramming]

And Windows is free if you your time is worthless and you pretend you didn't fork over a wodge of cash. Can we kill this meme already?

[frozenport]

On one hand Windows is free because it came with my laptop, on the other hand a day of my time lost on Linux is worth more than the $200 Windows license.

Although this is very much about Linux on desktops.

[ionised]

Your laptop costs more because it comes with Windows. It's not free.

[BetaCygni]

Windows: easy things are easy, normal things require some googling, hard things are impossible.

Linux: easy things are easy, normal things require some googling, hard things are hard.

[cm2187]

Well, from my short experience with linux, easy things require googling on linux. I was trying to open a port to make remote desktop work. I classify that as easy.

[BetaCygni]

You may be right, googling doesn't take much time though. A Linux system without internet is indeed barely usable. Thos man pages are absolutely unreadable.

[vetinari]

I've lost orders of magnitude more time on windows, than on linux. (Embedded linux devices included in the math).