are you practically forced to use
windows environment?
certainly not.
i had tried unbutu fiesty dawn (got it from shipit ) ,fedora core , suse.found it to be quite decent.i use linux mainly for programming.
but there was one software that i badly needed adobe photoshop,adobe dreaweaver which is not available in linux.
adobe photoshop has more features than GIMP.the day linux has a good repalcement for adobe photoshop i will happily shift to linux.
more over i dont find linux so userfriendly as windows.
both linux and windows have thier own advantages and disadvantages .finally it is upto the end user to decide which one is the best for him.
i guess u are irked by the fact i use pirated software.
i know you are going to disagree with me ; but i have my own reasons for prefering windows over linux.
ps: right now i am dual booting win xp professional and suse v10.