"You may want to try the computer buzzword of the decade, Linux, for yourself, but you may not feel ready to try and back up your computer, abandon your $200 copy of Windows, and throw on the wild and unfamiliar Linux. One could compare this to changing cars from an automatic transmission to a stick shift without learning how to drive a stick shift. That can be scary. There are other, less potentially-catastophic alternatives to changing your operating system.
"People are looking to move from the 'bad' Microsoft and expensive software. For the average user, however, changing their operating system from the ever-popular and comfortable Windows to something that appears Greek is quite daunting..."
