Artur Hefczyc

 Have a look at this article about increased DDOS attacks on the services driven by the bot nets. In fact bot nets drive attacks but the real vehicles they drive are millions of Windows machines over the Internet.

Linux might be not the friendlies operating system yet. There are problems with hardware yet which make it difficult to use sometimes. But maybe defending yourselves and others from intruders is worth the extra effort. On the other side I am sure the more of us use the Linux the more hardware vendors add Linux drivers for their hardware.