[japaget]

The problem isn't execution speed, it is the time you have to spend getting thinks to work properly. Linux doesn't necessarily work straight out of the box, and you may have to spend hours getting it to work properly with your hardware setup.

[eitland]

Ubuntu has worked more or less out of the box since its first release.

Windows routinely would take hours to install, -and that would be a "pre-installed" image from the vendor.

Lately things have gotten a lot better but I have never chosen Linux because of freedom but rather always because of simplicity and usability .

Then again, usability is in they eye of the beholder it seems.

[khedoros1]

I'm not talking about execution speed. Out of the box, it takes me a lot longer to make a Windows system usable than a Linux system.