Well put - and something that all Linux users should be aware of.

Windows has had a captive market in the desktop for many years and
this has inevitably resulted in a skewing of the hardware / software
market in its favour. Things are changing slowly but even so there is
no point bemoaning the fact or wishing change would arrive sooner. We
have an excellent product in Ubuntu of all flavours which frees us
from the threat of malware and costs us nothing more than our time and
patience - the niggles we can live with or work around / get help
overcoming