Alot of people are forced to use Windows at their company, but just because windows is on the computer dosn't mean that it has to be used exclusively now does it. Is there anything stopping you from setting up a dual boot. Especially if you have an extra partition on your hard drive (for example a C: drive and a D: drive), setting up a dual boot system can be easy. With Mandrake Linux, it is so easy that you could do it even if you were a 'grandma'. No more freezing, no more spying. Then if you need windows, you can always go back to it. Though, over time you'll find more and more that you actually don't need it. Need windows format documents, use Star-Office, need web browsing, e-mail and stuff, use Mozilla. All set.
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