[Leaplist] Linux Advocasy: What they'll miss

[Derek Konigsberg]

On Tue, 6 May 2008, Damien McKenna wrote:
> On May 6, 2008, at 10:11 AM, patrick wrote:
>> Tons of new folks are attending install fests after some horrific
>> experiences with Microsoft, bad things like not knowing they need to
>> defrag often, fully format and re-install at least 3 times each year,
>> and the constant barrage of adware bots, exploits, trojans, worms.
>
> I tend to reinstall my wife's machine every 18 months, it just gets too 
> gunked up with the different software I test out on it, not too bad really. 
> And we don't have problems with adware, exploits, trojans or worms either.

What's with this?  Every rabit Linux advocate *assumes beyond the shadow 
of a doubt* that *every* Windows machine *must* have horrible problems of 
being gunked up with all that crap.

However, I have *never*, I repeat, *never*, had those problems on *any* of 
the Windows machines I've regularly used.

I seriously think the problem is *not* Windows itself.  Rather, I think 
the problem is careless "clicking on every stupid thing" and "installing 
every stupid add-on" through the app known as MS Internet Explorer.  Its 
the only browser that practically self-infects itself, and makes it very 
easy for a dumb user (not us) to crap up their systems by browsing to 
shady websites.  Oh, and MS Outlook, to some extent as well.  (though I've 
never had problems with MS Outlook in a business environment, which is the 
only place I've ever actually used it.)

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Derek Konigsberg
octo at logicprobe.org
http://hecgeek.blogspot.com
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