Comment Re:Competitive advantage (Score 1) 442
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We all have our preferences/biases. Yours is quite clear when you mention that installation on Linux is a pain for unexperienced users, then turn around and say it's easy to secure Windows for any experienced user who knows what he's doing. So you've pointed out that doing stuff is easy on any system you're experienced on. Insightful, thank you.
My take? Use what you like best, and what works, in that order. I used Linux and choose to put up with Wine, VMs etc. to get some things done. You've chosen to put up with the constant security maintenance of Windows. It's no big deal to you, you're used to it.
But here's (one reason) why we Linux zelots dislike Microsoft; their monopoly has perpetuated the idea that all non-Apple systems are Windows; so many people don't get to even make the choice that you and I have made. And to me that's sad.
Hate to fall in to the stereotype, but when someone says "Help! KDE is throwing too many options at me!" I say "Gnome". Right-click your files, click "send to". Besides entering the mail recipient, right there you have the option to "send packed in" and choose the compression type.
Even if you weren't aware that "send to" had compression options, the context menu has "Create archive" with a simple dialog, and the encryption options are hidden under a "advanced options" section. Same functionality, simple presentation.
Your "problem" is a matter of choice of DE (or file manager). If you want to say "well most average users don't know how to choose" then you see why consumer-oriented distros like Ubuntu default to Gnome.
"When the going gets tough, the tough get empirical." -- Jon Carroll