Reasons Linux is superior to Windows:
1. Standards. When you save something on Linux, you know it's going to be accessible 5 years down the road. When you open up a browser, you know it follows real standards rather than making it's own. You also know that there are no proprietary protocols (MS removed a step from normal TCP/IP communications).
2. No EOL! You never have to worry about some greedy monopolist corporation EOL'ing your product, forcing you into their upgrade cycle against your will. Ever tried running a DOS program in Windows XP? My point is proven. You'll always be able to run Linux programs on Linux.
3. Stability. I've crashed Linux once, and it was done on purpose... and it took a considerable amount of effort, too.
4. Security. I don't recall the last time I had a virus, a trojan, or spyware on my Linux box. I don't recall being hacked. In fact, all of these are foreign terms to me, and I laugh when I read on sites that there's a critical Windows flaw being exploited, or a virus floating around.
5. Control. I have control over my computer, not some company, and not some asshole who exploits holes in my browser to install spyware and adware.
6. It looks a whole lot better. Windows is years behind. I don't recall Windows having SVG icons, and I don't recall it having antialiased fonts that don't make you feel like you're visually impaired.
7. It's free in both ways (freedom and price).
8. It comes with a compiler. Why should I have to wait for some asshole to release a binary, when I can just pull the same asshole's code from CVS and compile it myself? I love CVS.
9. Speed. I can choke Windows up to the point that the mouse is unresponsive (and this is on my high-end computer) rather easily. I can use up 100% of my resources on Linux and still use the mouse, and never worry about my music skipping.
10. Internet is faster. I don't have any benchmarks to prove it, but internet is a lot faster... even faster yet on FreeBSD though. It's noticably faster.
There is absolutely no excuse for people to not migrate to Linux. If my mom can use it, anyone can.
More points:
11. Windows doesn't come with a PDF viewer.
12. Windows doesn't come with a dictionary.
13. Windows doesn't come with a Hex editor.
14. Windows doesn't come with a tetris clone.
15. Windows doesn't come with a worthwhile image manipulation tool.
16. You can't optimize your kernel in Windows.
I suggest everyone use Slackware.
http://www.slackware.com