[wfjackson]

I'll bite the troll in the off chance you're serious.

Wait, Open Source is magically free of bloatware? OpenOffice, Firefox, KDE?

Try running a modern Linux desktop distro like Ubuntu on a 10 year old machine or a 5 year old netbook. Open ten tabs with sites like Gmail, YouTube etc. in Firefox on that machine and then get back to us.

And since Windows 7, the minimum requirements have been steady and boot time has been pretty fast.

http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000020.html