Sixthsense
I Suck Fat Ones
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save a chunk of money if you are willing to only use products that are about 25% as good as commercial alternatives.
eg gimp/etc/etc/etc.
inevitably you end up severely compromising and spending more time convincing yourself it was worth it to make the switch. For me, i use linux everyday at the workplace because it makes sense from the beginning for our jboss applications, email systems, etc etc.
Unless you are really hard on to save 100 bucks then there is no real good reason for an end user consumer to use linux over windows.
Not taking infrastructure into account. Google corporate seems to be doing fine not using Windows for desktop. I do agree on your point on GIMP and what not being a poor alternative compared to Adobe's Photoshop. Who knows if they are using in house alternatives to replace applications commonly used within the Windows platform.