your points are pretty poor lol. trust me im no microsoft fan boy or anything, dont get me wrong, there is plenty i dont like about microsoft. but none of your points are anywhere near a "good enough reason"...
nightmorph wrote:1. Because I don't want to spend over a hundred bucks on a shitty operating system.
you could always steal it, it would take at most 30min to find and download a copy of windows xp lol...but im not "encouraging" such activity lol
nightmorph wrote:2. Because I don't want to spend more money on another hard drive to hold it.
you wouldn't need one if you had extra space on your primay, but even with that, if you did buy a second hard drive. they are absolutely DIRT cheap, you could easily pick up 300-500gb for around $50. and it would be a HELL of alot cheaper than trying to upgrade your video card yet again, OR buying a entire gaming system like xbox. plus with an additional hard drive you could use it for extra space for random crap and not just windows.
nightmorph wrote:3. Because I don't want to have to maintain it nor purchase lots of antivirus software and keep it up to date and nurse and cajole and pet it, begging it not to pick up viruses, trojans, and malware simply because I plugged in the ethernet cable.
free virus scanners, free spyware scanners...very easy, self automated no work involved.
nightmorph wrote:4. Because it has nothing I need; the only thing I'd run is COD4, and that works in Wine on Linux just fine.
actually on the contrary, it has alot you need if your a gamer. 99.9% of games run better in a windows based OS than any other plain and simple fact. so if you ran all your games off it, not only would it benefit your COD4, it would benefit any game you decide to play now or in the future.
nightmorph wrote:5. Because while the occasional driver issue on Linux pops up every few months, dealing with games and drivers on Windows is a constant nightmare.
are you serious? in the past 12 months, i have updated my drivers a total of 1 time. it is no nightmare lol
nightmorph wrote:6. Because I refuse to support an enterprise that is actively hostile to my choices and freedoms. (Which is why I'm probably not picking up an Xbox 360 now, either. ;))
if it was stolen you wouldn't be supporting anything...again not like im encouraging such behavior lol. but as im sure you also realize even considering bying xbox 360 will be "supporting Microsoft" WAY more than purchasing or stealing windows lol. the price comparison isn't even close, especially since once you get your xbox your going to probably be buying controllers and gadgets for it, all supporting Microsoft, and then im sure you will be purchasing such big hits like gears if war only supporting Microsoft even more. so dont make your decision on "support of an os" when the other alternative is even worse lol
nightmorph wrote:7. Because ew.
i didnt say you had to like windows, or use it as your daily os, just when your gaming...think of it this way anyway, if you get xbox, it will have Microsoft os on it anyway, so either way your using a Microsoft based os lol.