Plus, linux is great if you get into the networking features. I have multiple mpd daemons (one per family member) that can output to any cpu in the house issuing pulse. I have an irc server, so I can send instructions to my kids when they're like.... "how do you do this...." I have a mumble server for voice over ip. I have a kabanboard for keeping track of stuff. Plus my NAS, and using wake-on-lan plus cron to auto-update everything while we're sleeping. And there's rsync, sftp, sshfs.

Windows has samba. Smfh.