These are just a few of the reasons that people switch to Linux:

• Linux is very stable; very seldom does a Linux user encounter the equivalent of a "blue-screen-of-death." This means no lost work and no class time lost to the reboot process.
• There are a vast number of very useful, full-featured, free software titles available for Linux. There are also a large number of software titles which are not free but are more economical than the typical software licenses for Windows programs.
• Linux systems are secure. For example, most of the viruses described in the news simply will not affect a Linux system.
• Linux has outstanding performance. The minimal overhead involved in running the Linux OS allows those programs that you are actually using, your word processor or mathematical modeler, to utilize your system resources, rather than tying them up in running the windowing system.