Anonymous

USA

Student

"having Windows allows students to take advantage not only of Microsoft's dominant Office suite..."

Ha ha ha.

OpenOffice is more functional, free, and integrated with many other applications, especially on the Linux OS.

Also, don't forget Windows is committed to phasing out Windows XP. So it may be cheap and available today, but it will be expensive and gone tomorrow.

Linux is here to stay, constantly upgraded, and free.

Kubuntu is a wonderful OS, and I am running it on a ($50 used) Dell laptop with 256 Mb RAM.

A full installation, not a stripped down one.

I converted from Windows 2000, which was slow as molasses.

I use this laptop at college, but it certainly is usable for gradeschool kids and foreigners.

It runs with automatic wireless, Bluetooth, and even EVDO wireless (I use a Sprint wireless connection).

I have Open Office, Firefox, games, and lots of educational software for free.

Yes, I liked XP Pro in its day, but after 5 rootkit infections and hardware failures, I made the switch to Kubuntu. Thank god I did.

So how much did my Kubuntu laptop cost? About $50 and a day to install Kubuntu.