Why you will soon be using Linux instead of Microsoft products

Why I like Linux:

FREEdom
Lotsa FREE Internet programs...

Not only are they free!
You have many choices!

filesharing choices

• aMule - Easy to use client for ED2K Peer-to-Peer Network based on eMP
• Apollon - KDE filesharing client which uses gift
• WizarDave uses and recommends - BitTorrent - Network file transfer tool + GUI
• CWirc - Plugin for x-chat for transmitting raw morse code
• ftp - The standard UNIX FTP (File Transfer Protocol) client.
• WizarDave uses and recommends - gFTP - A multi-threaded FTP client for the X Window System.
• giFT - Deamon for communicating with filesharing protocols + gnutella + gui
• WizarDave uses and recommends - Gtk-Gnutella - A GUI based Gnutella Client
• Kasablanca - Ftp/fxp client
• KFTPGrabber - Graphical FTP client for the K Desktop Environment.
• LFTP - A sophisticated file transfer program
• mldonkey - A client for peer-to-peer networks. + GUI + Mozilla addon
• GNU Wget - A utility for retrieving files using the HTTP or FTP protocols.
• xMule - Easy to use client for ED2K Peer-to-Peer Network based on eMule

Notes:

• There are lots more FREE Internet programs for Linux.
  I've only listed the ones that are available from my current Apt/Synaptic setup.

On site links
WizarDave uses and recommends

• Mozilla's Firefox browser
• Mozilla's Thunderbird email client / newsreader

Off site links

• BitTorrent
  very fast downloading of even very large files
  WizarDave uses and recommends
  I read recently in Wired magazine, that BitTorrent now is using 1/3 of all Internet bandwidth, that tells of the popularity of this program.
  There's also a gui for Linux...
• cDonkey
  an open and free core client for the eDonkey protocol.
• ed2k-gtk-gui
  A GUI for the eDonkey2000 and Overnet file-sharing programs on GNU/Linux, FreeBSD, Mac OS X and other *nix systems
• Freenet
  free software which lets you publish and obtain information on the Internet without fear of censorship
• giFTcurs
  a cursed frontend to the giFT daemon
• GNUnet
  a framework for secure peer-to-peer networking
  anonymous censorship-resistant file-sharing
• Grapevine
  an anonymizing storage network - a network that resembles the World Wide Web, but is capable of allowing people to publish and retrieve information without fear of censorship or surveillance
• Gtk-Gnutella
  a server/client for Gnutella
  WizarDave uses and recommends
• LimeWire
  Faster than Kazaa, no spyware, no adware, no trojan horse, just pure filesharing
• Lopster
  a Napster Client
• MLdonkey
  a multi-platform multi-networks peer-to-peer client
• Mutella
  a terminal-mode Gnutella client
• PySoulSeek
  a client for SoulSeek filesharing system
• Qtella
  A Linux Gnutella Client
• QuickDC
  a KDE file sharing application for the Direct Connect file sharing network
• Snark
  BitTorrent Application Suite
• The Circle
  an open source scalable decentralized peer to peer application

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It's all about having choices
It's all about FREE stuff!!!
That's the biggest reasons I prefer Linux over Windoze.