I've seen a lot of posts here advocating Linux advocacy. I'm having a 
hard time with the concept. Sure there are plenty of situations where 
someone wants a new capability and Linux is the obvious answer because 
it's cheap, and will run reliably on hardware they already have. There 
are other people who are driven by curiosity and Linux is the obvious 
choice for those folks as well because they can dig into it as deeply 
as they want.

My problem comes with the notion that somehow we would be doing most 
people a favor if we convinced them to format their drives and install 
Linux/Open Office in place of Windows/MS Office. I just don't get it. 
If you  keep Windows patched and don't install every piece of spy-ware 
that  you can find on the internet it's not so unstable/insecure that 
avoiding those problems will ever compensate most people for the effort 
of leaning a new OS and program suite. Bear in mind that most folks 
simply hate learning new stuff  about their computer.