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Robyn, thanks for the additional information you provided on distros and Windows. Maybe, I should have added a section on this article called "How to handle Windows computing tasks". Dual booting Linux with Windows, using Playonlinux/WINE and creating a virtual Windows partition using VirtualBox or VmWare would be the areas covered under that section.
Larry, thanks for sharing with us your experiences in adapting to Linux. This supports one of the points I was trying to make to non-Linux PC users. If more households are using mobile devices more frequently to do most of their at home computing tasks, you will be using the PC for production tasks, which Linux can handle well. By using Linux on your PC, your PC will last longer because not only are you on it less frequently than your mobile devices but you will perform less system administration on it to maintain it at an optimal state than with Windows. You won't have to be paranoid at accidentally catching malware or viruses when web surfing or downloading software because of the inherent security of Linux architecture. Your computer won't slow down due to web surfing or defragmentation. You won't experience a "Blue Screen of Death" forcing you to re-install Windows or buy a new PC, which I've had to do several years ago. More than likely, you will be wearing out your mobile devices faster and replacing them more often than your PC.