why some people prefer one operating system over another??? I dont know
Bill Gates says that O/S should be so simple that a penguin can use it (ok, that sounds wrong, why the penguins) I guess thats why you are using windows right now, it looks nice and easy to operate. Linus Torvolds (the guy who 1st designed Linux, in case you dont know) says that people should have the freedom to do whatever they want with no restriction, therefore its interface can look as ugly as hell and people have to use command lines. Its hard to operate at first, because who wants to type command when you can just drag and click (well, that was the old days, thanks to red hat and ubuntu, its the same now) Linux is not just a thing, its more like an ideal. It gives its users the power to do whatever they want. But you see, the problems is that newbies dont have any knowledge to even operate the thing, let alone appreciate the beauty of an open source O/S. They get frustrated and sometimes become too lazy to search for relevant knowledge to help themselves. Yes, in windows, people just grab an application and go and in linux sometimes you have to build your applications from source. It is important to be self-sufficient and read manuals and solves problems independently and that takes time. OK, I should stop rambling nonsense now
and one last word, like linus once said "software is like sex, its best when its free"