Question 2 Besides the desire to game, why wouldn't a typical home user want a linux based system? Heck all of the apps seem free, its graphical, even supports my camera out of the box. I mean for just word processing, surfing the internet and looking at pics and playing some mp3's is there a valid reason for them 'wanting' Windows?
Multimedia, particular video, TV recording, editing, ...and of course proprietary business software that the vast majority of small business relies on.
