*nix is great, but M$ works for Joe Average (Score 0, Offtopic)

I love how *nix people are passionate about thier OS's. I'm sure Solaris or Red Hat are great. But not for the average computer user who just wants to get the job done. Microsoft gets a lot of blame and some of it is deserved, I'm sure, but here is what they are up against: They make an OS that the average jerk like me can get work done with and not get hacked (millions of examples to the contrary will now be posted).

I've run three *nix boxes and any number of M$ boxes. All three *nix boxes were hacked, and yes, I'm sure it was because I "wasn't a good admin" and "didn't do the first thing I should have." Two were Red Hat and one was Solaris. For the Solaris box, I hired a professional *nix herder with years of experience on Solaris, a guy who worked for a major stock broker, and the box STILL got hacked... maybe because of this issue.

At the same time, I was running Personal Web Server on my '98 box at the office without a firewall of any kind. No problems, no hacking, no worries. It just worked. Yes, yes... I'm sure I was just lucky. My servers today are all M$, all behind professional firewalls, and all run like clockwork.

Despite how it sounds, I'm not trying to slam *nix here or send additional $$$ to M$. I'm just trying to point out that until *nix gets work done out of the box with defaults that assume the operator is a bonehead, M$ will still have a place in the world. I'm sure if you all tried, you would be able to do a better job than they do of making a secure out of the box FOSS OS.

Keep trying guys.