Poor misunderstood Linux. We will always love you better than those video editing Mac hippies. But just because we love you doesn't mean we'll actually use you most of the time...

"I don't really like games" -- proprietary game designers don't like linux, but I play tremulous all the time. and half-life engines apparently runs fine under wine.
edit movies : many professional grade movie edit/render packages run on unix, some are even free(as in speech) or have free derivatives.
excel spreadsheets: ??? I only have 3 apps that do this.

I think the tux, the fact that he is pale, the ridicule, and that he crashes the other two, are funny commentaries, but since ubuntu, the "only servers" claims are no longer true. Linux personified would not take that crap.

Computers do suck! Not as much as this video tho...

Poor linux. I've been using linux for a number of years now and am really impressed with what it can do. It's largest flaw is that it is free. You heard me. If it's free, people assume it's not as "valuable" as an OS you usually have to pay hundreds for.

As far as games go, there are a lot of great commercial and free games that are ported to linux (not through wine). One great example is NeverWinter Nights and it's sequel. For a a list of games that run on linux, check http://www.icculus.org/lgfaq/gamelist.php?license=free .

And for video editing? The problem here is not the linux shell. The problem here is that the commercial grade programs for video editing are not written in or ported to linux. Because linux has less overhead resources than Mac's or Windows (configured properly of course), video editing could be as much or more effective on linux than the other operating systems. It's also worth mentioning that many 3D rendering farms (the masses of computers that render animations for studios like Pixar) often run linux.

Excel Spreadsheets? Really? openoffice.org people. Even on windows, as good as MS Office and $200 less.

Conclusion:
Use linux. It's very good and everything you've been assuming about linux is probably wrong. With the addition of Wine, linux can be very effective for gaming and there is almost no function that can be preformed in Windows or Mac OS that cannot be performed in linux. I dare you to at least try it.

http://www.ubuntu.com/
http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php<-- these are OS's that run right off the CD.

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