Comment Linux is SOOO much better. (Score 0) 984
If you expect an OS to be released and have absolutely no vulnerabilities from day one, then I would love to have some of what you are smoking.
Even Linux has its problems with security flaws. The only problem with Linux is you have to know a hell of a lot more about the system and be willing to invest more time in protecting it.
What did I have to do to protect my WinXP Pro machine? Visit Windows update every so often, usually once a week, download the updates and have a firewall. Things everyone using Windows should do, and if you exclude step one, things everyone should do.
The constant witching about MS is getting to be annoying, no one is perfect, but at least it is easy and painless to install updates if you install them when they are released, not when all the other idiots that waited until a virus is spreading are installing them.
I tried Linux, I have it dual booting on my machine, I don't like it. Sure if it had come out back when I was a kid I might have a different opinion of it, if I had more time to spend learning about it. But it didn't and I don't. No one is paying me to use it and so far no one has required that I know it. So I'm not wasting my time.
Even Linux has its problems with security flaws. The only problem with Linux is you have to know a hell of a lot more about the system and be willing to invest more time in protecting it.
What did I have to do to protect my WinXP Pro machine? Visit Windows update every so often, usually once a week, download the updates and have a firewall. Things everyone using Windows should do, and if you exclude step one, things everyone should do.
The constant witching about MS is getting to be annoying, no one is perfect, but at least it is easy and painless to install updates if you install them when they are released, not when all the other idiots that waited until a virus is spreading are installing them.
I tried Linux, I have it dual booting on my machine, I don't like it. Sure if it had come out back when I was a kid I might have a different opinion of it, if I had more time to spend learning about it. But it didn't and I don't. No one is paying me to use it and so far no one has required that I know it. So I'm not wasting my time.
