Reasons to prefer Linux over Windows (2014)
I am a sample size of 1. For me, the inconveniences of using linux are far greater than the inconveniences of using windows. This article is targeted at the developer community mostly.As a programmer, I cannot recall being hindered by file name conventions, un-resizeable dialog boxes, bug trackers etc., as much I have been inconvenienced on linux by poor driver support, and regularly dropping to  command line for configuring my system.As a gamer, well, there is no competition for me, really.As your average user, I find the user interface on windows nicer and see more compatible programs.If there is anything I absolutely have to have linux for, I can just use a raspberry pi, a cloud server etc.