InfoWorld"s "Save XP" petition asking Microsoft to keep Windows XP available indefinitely, not end most sales on June 30 as currently planned, has prompted many readers to suggest that maybe the best answer for those who don"t like Vista is to switch to another operating system completely.
"Don"t be afraid. Just switch to Linux and become a member of a really free society," wrote Carlos Raul Gutierrez. "Windows Vista was the reason I bought a Mac mini. I didn"t want my only choices to be an operating system that would soon be obsolete (XP) or one that was buggy and would break much existing hardware (Vista), and I"m not enough of a geek to use Linux (do things from the command line? Puhleeze...)," wrote "Jack."