Linux?!

good luck def!

maybe this http://ubuntuforums.org/

I can give you Pros & contras of Windows and Linux lol:

Windows:
+ Can connect with other windows machines in the network (wow!)
+ Can use windows only software

- buggy
- even buggier
- buggiest O/S ever
- Spys you through windows updates
- User unfriendly if it comes to the real important things
- Quite impossible to set an idividual configuration, apart from visual styles
- Shits your processor and memory with quite useless, but capacity consuming tasks and processes

Linux:
+ Not buggy
+ uses way less Hardware then Windows
+ Highly configurable to your personal needs
+ Active and nice community providing you nice UPDATES for your distro, not just bugfixes.
+ Huge ammount of free/opensource Software, most of the time even better then the windows pendants.

- Sometimes Problems with network (only in case of servers n stuff, bcus of ms anti-open-source-coding.)
- Some software isent aviliable for linux and there is no equal worthy linux prog.
- Takes time to get into it (but hey, its linux!)

Windows == easy
Linux == complicated

http://www.whylinuxisbetter.net

Of course it's biased though, and you should probably note:

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The few cases where you should stick to Windows (for now):
- There is proprietary software you can't live without
- You're a hardcore gamer
- You work in the book/printing industry
- Your hardware is not yet supported

It's possible to run ET on a Linux distribution along with several other games, but if you want to be on the forefront of playing new games, you might think twice about doing a complete transition to a Linux distribution. If you are curious about how a Linux distro compares to the operating system you are currently using, you can either try booting one from a live CD, or you can just go ahead and install one if you have enough free space to do so (i.e. set up a dual boot solution). You can find a large collection of Linux distributions here, all of which are free to download to my knowledge.

www.linuxquestions.org - good place for beginners and naablers -,-

People above me already pointed out important things, so I'll just give you a few examples. I'm using debian so these maybe don't apply for all distros out there.

Installing linux vs installing windows
You bought a windows cd and every time you install it, you are setup with outdated software and in most cases exploitable OS.

Some linux distros have 'netinst' - when installing it, it downloads all the needed files directly from internet and thus you get fully updated OS on first run.

Upgrading your OS and installed software
Windows does have 'Windows update' service, but it is _nothing_ compared to what linux offers you. Why? Simply because windows updater cares only about updates relevant to Windows - not about all the applications you installed.

The linux distro I use, debian, has APT (Advanced Packaging Tool). Every piece of software I ever installed on debian was through APT. Want to check for updates? Nothing simpler:
apt-get update
apt-get upgrade

And.. well, yeah, that is all you need to do. It will check for updates for all installed programs on your linux system and if it finds any, it will update it to the latest version.

Do I have to mention that all the software is free? That you don't have to spend time searching for cracks and serials on websites which are a possible threat to your Windows system due to many existing exploits?

Plus it is extremely customizable, you can change everything in linux.

EDIT
Just to repeat something PetriP-TNT mentioned: You don't have to reboot your computer after every shit your install, which seems to be a must-do on windows. Install firewal, reboot, install antivirus, reboot, install audio drivers, reboot. On linux you don't even have to reboot computer after installing video drivers, just restart X server.

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And windows programmer's they work with stress if they don't finish there job, they have to stay till it's done. Which means lots of programmer's are like ohh I want to go home maybe I can tell my boss nothing about the bug.

funny thing is, I watched a documentary once about microsoft programers while they were coding winxp; they mostly mess around and play games and do nothing, then about 3-4 months before schedule they start working and do it all quickly, so basically that's why it's full of bugs cos after 2 years of doing mostly nothing they have to finish everything in 2-3-4 months

Could some give me an step by step guide to get older ventrilo version work on linux.

check out this
http://www.getautomatix.com/

Thanks to everyone for the helpful answers!