Really dude. You don't treat your computer well, and your complaining because you have problems with it because you treat it like crap? Thats the stupidest thing i have ever heard. You really need to learn what your talking about before you come on here making failed attempts to sound smart.
if you don't unplug your flash drive properly with linux, you can still destory the flash drive. its not an OS thing. its a "if the flash drive is being accessed while you disconnect it from both, the source of the accessing, and the its power supply" that will destroy the flash drive.
Also if your on a website that your nerves about getting viruses from, then your doing it wrong. I have been using windows since windows 95, and i have only had a virus problem ONCE. All i had to do was use system restore, to bring the system to a point before i got the virus, and BOOM virus is gone and everything was fixed. Seriously took 5 minutes. It is just retarded to complain about being nerves about viruses. If you have the brain power of a 5 year old, then you should be able to avoid them by using MSE (which i use and it has never slowed my computer down, and it keeps itself updated in the background, and it still never has slowed down my computer)
What is funny is I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 right now while writing this. I do love linux since i started using it back in march, because my instructor of my CIT class suggested i should learn how to use it for my education. Linux is great. I love how i can make everything pretty. But from what i have seen is that is all it can do. I only play SWTOR, and some very small, f2p games. Now I'm not a linux expert, so i can't get swtor to work. There are alot of stuff that i have researched, and it doesn't really make since to me on how to get this game to work. Also i believe that it is kinda retarded, that i need to be a linux expert, to get a game to work.
When i got this laptop, it came with Vista, and i honestly don't see everyone's problem with it. The only thing that annoyed me at first, was the UAC, but i do know how to use Windows, so i disabled UAC, and problem was solved. Vista never crashed on me, and i never had the problems that everyone complained about. My only real problem with Vista was it did use alot of resources. It may be just because i know how to take care of my computer.
I am not a supporter of windows 8. In my CIT class, we downloaded the developer beta release of Windows 8, and i can't stand it. If they give me back my taskbar, and my start menu back then i will give Windows 8 another try, but from what i have seen, the Metro menu is SO not built for desktops, and if they don't add the start menu back to windows 8, then i do agree that it will be a epic failure. But i do love Windows 7. It works very well, even on my 3 year old laptop. I have Ubuntu 12.04 dual-booted with Windows 7, and on my laptop, they both boot up very fast. And Windows 7 seems to have an easier time running videos and graphic based stuff. I only got 4GB of ram, yet in Windows 7, i can have 2 pdf's running, 5 web browsers running, and a excel spreadsheet running, and i see no lose in response times. Just today, i was on a facebook game while using Ubuntu, and it was not running no were near as smooth as it does when i run it on Windows 7, so i have to get the edge on Windows 7.
But that is my personal experience with both OS's side-by-side. If i was a linux expert, i might be able to make Linux run so godly awesome that i would feel like bowing down to the OS log-in screen everytime it came up, but I'm not. So my opinion is, at least i believe, the point of view of the average Windows user, that trys out Ubuntu. Yes its pretty, and with compiz fusion, i can make it do some really neat stuff, but it just doesn't seem to be able to preform as well as Windows 7 to me.
