content: Aside from the fact that Windows can't easily do many things that Linux does easily, for free, with the source available, for people who care about better command line tools, user privacy, open source philosophy, etc. Further, Apple doesn't have a "flavor of Linux". It is based on a hybrid Mach/BSD Kernel and BSD based system that is basically an evolved version of NEXTSTEP, which is roughly Unix based with some other technologies like Objective-C and Display Postscript, and was all developed before Linux was ever developed independently, from scratch, a few years later. They are both "Unix-like", but fundamentally very different in many ways. Development, origins, system layout, licensing, code base, etc. Just because you don't understand or care about any of these things doesn't make Windows better. For some use cases I would agree that Windows is better. But for others, Linux. It depends on the person, their ability, their use case, their philosophies on freedom and privacy and other issues, etc. (I've been using both for 20 years. I still have Windows around for Steam games, but have been in Linux full-time for a few years now. I still have the occasional gripe, but I'm much happier in Linux these days on a system that doesn't make me philosophically feel like a self loathing half-witted prostitute.)