[Leaplist] Linux Advocasy: What they'll miss

[Damien McKenna]

On May 8, 2008, at 4:42 AM, Fred Moore wrote:
> How can everyone else enter your world?  I contend the problem *is*
> windows itself.

That's only part of the problem.

> No matter how crappy any application is if it can
> corrupt the OS then that is the underlying problem.

I've had Firefox take down a Ubuntu machine, completely locked it up  
and a forced reboot was required to get it working again.

> You should be able to click any web site out there safely.   As for  
> stupid
> people who install crap from all over the place again.. an OS that out
> of the box has no security to stop this crap is broken.    A friend  
> is a
> perfect example.  He and his wife never install anything.   But I
> constantly assist him as his kids trash it..


Then it is the parents' fault for giving their children such wide  
access on the machines.  Even with Windows you can set limits on what  
different user accounts can do, though I will say the restrictions are  
easier to manage on OSX.

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