Why NOT linux?

[bicostp]

I mean you have to defrag the hard drive, clean up the disk,

You don't have to, and it does defrag in the background when the system is idle. (I don't think any file system is completely fragment-proof.) Besides, it's not a constant thing; I only defrag a couple times a year and don't have any problems. As for cleaning up the hard disk, I only do that a couple times a year as well. Again, no problems. As the temporary folders fill up, it deletes old stuff. Besides, what's the harm in leaving a gig or so of files sitting around?

really don't get me started on talking about the registry,

Makes more sense to me than a million folders full of a million 1k text files.

and all the background programs

Here's a screenshot of all the processes currently running on my computer:
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Not many, and Firefox is using up about as much memory as all the rest combined.

(what the hell do you need a DHCP server for?!)

XP doesn't run a DHCP server, just a DHCP client. I think the only time it does anything like that is when it can't find a DHCP server on the network and works out what 169 address to use.

If temp files were just that, temporary and once you reboot the system their gone, I'd have a lot few complaints.

That's probably easy to do with a batch file and a scheduled task.

Really do you need the system to save stupid crap like the image files from sites you visit? NO!

It makes the pages load faster, especially for sites you go to a lot. (This forum, for example.) And liek the text files, in the grand scheme of things it uses a minuscule amount of drive space (a couple hundred megs at the most), so what's the harm? (I have IE set to 10 MB, even though I never use it, and Firefox set to 200.)

Do you need shortcuts made to files/programs you use? NO!

Wait, what? You don't need shortcuts to programs you use? So every time I want to start Word I should open C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office10\winword.exe ?

[soundwave]

Well, I know a lot of people here don't like to use linux... and a few do... I'm running a live disc of Ubuntu as we speak, and was wondering why exactly people don't like it. Its faster than XP, It picked up my internet right away, it has great programs... So: Why Not?

It doesn't run WoW and I'm too lazy to learn Bash.
Plain and simple.

[gamer2]

I need more Ram, You can never have enough ram. I have 3 gigs total in ram.....and 896mb that I can use in 5 sticks. I currently have 512 in my current tower in SD ram. I have another type of ram sitting in a box here with only 1 notch in it rather than the 2 on SDram

[Sparkfist]

Well, I know a lot of people here don't like to use linux... and a few do... I'm running a live disc of Ubuntu as we speak, and was wondering why exactly people don't like it. Its faster than XP, It picked up my internet right away, it has great programs... So: Why Not?

It doesn't run WoW and I'm too lazy to learn Bash.
Plain and simple.

Again using Wine you can get WoW to work, just requires a little trial and error process. And for basic use you don't need to know bash, it helps if you want to automate things or when you go to configure some of the system's services.

Distributions like Ubuntu are very user friendly. It's not like you're picking up *BSD, Slackware, Gentoo, or something like Darwin. Much like most people don't have to learn batch scripting or much of the other things you can do under Windows, Ubuntu is the same.