Why I still use Windows

Published on July 4, 2008 in Linux and OpenSource, Multimedia and Gaming and Software and Programming. 5,180 Comments Tags: , , , , , .

By now, looking at my posts under the linux tag, most of you must have guessed that I am a 1337 linux user. And yes I am. I use linux almost exclusively, whatever be the purpose. From playing games to work, from viewing multimedia to browsing the internet, from office work to multimedia studio applications, from desktop publishing to web designing, from programing to customising, I am always satisfied and I can never have enough of this wonderful system, GNU/Linux.

Despite all this, I still need to keep windows. There are a variety of reasons, none of them my fault, due to which I still need to keep an inferior, insecure, featureless platform with me all the time, and though its rarely booted into, windows is still an important software I need to install…

Why ? Its quite simple. My family needs windows. My parents are both used to using windows. They don’t know how to use other OSes. My sister is fast learning how to live with linux, but windows is still needed. When windows was in trouble, it was linux which came to my rescue. Then, everyone had to use only linux. But it was not well received at all.

Moving on, windows is still needed if I need to game. I am no more a gamer, but I still have the old familiar gaming pangs from my gaming days once in a while. And yes, gaming is a way I entertain guests. So without windows, I wouldn’t be able to do that either. IF you are wondering why I am not using the windows emulator, Wine, then my answer is that I simply can’t. My computer is just too weak for that.

Finally, windows is needed for Security. Not the virus/internet protection type, linux does a much better job there (isn’t it obvious ?), but I need software security. If I need to get some work done on my system for which I am given a windows software to start off with and I get a deadline thats too short, the last thing I can do is search for a way to get it onto linux.

But I have absolutely no usability related reasons, which many people find surprising. I transformed from a windows power user to a linux power user easily, and I find the keyboard shortcuts and some tricks in linux better and more comfortable than windows. Infact, I am starting to hate having to use windows now due to which I never boot it, but thats an entirely different story.

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