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Windows is bad because it's not free software.

https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/

The difference might not be all that obvious to an average user, but in the grand scheme of things it's extremely important for the software to be truly free, i.e. serve the users, and not serve the developers who just want to make money off of the users.

For a recent prime example of the dangers of non-free software, see e.g.:
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If you can, it would be most beneficial for the future for you to use a fully free GNU distribution such as gNewSense or Trisquel, though it's also fine to settle for something like Debian or Fedora.

It might also prove beneficial to you, because these systems have much much lower risk of being targeted by surveillance organizations such as the NSA and GCHQ.

Hopefully we will eventually have a super high-secure GNU system, namely Guix System Distribution, which uses purely functional package management as well as reproducible builds, all bootstrapped with a fixed point (see "trusting trust"), such that we can be 100% sure of source-code to binary-program correspondence.