Un article que j'ai trouvé très important a lire !!!! quelqu'un peut m'aider pour répondre svp ??

[Bouanani Meher]

<http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/window-on-windows/?p=760>

   - *Date* : August 18th, 2008 *Date:* 18ème août, 2008
   - *Author* : Mark Kaelin *Auteur:* Mark Kaelin**
   - *Source link* : *
   http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/window-on-windows/?p=762*


*                                                  Why would anyone choose
Linux when they already have Windows?*


       I know there is a great debate taking place about which operating
system is better. Jack Wallen, host of the Linux and Open Source
blog<http://blogs.techrepublic.com.com/opensource/?p=256>,
started a lengthy discussion asking the question: Why would you choose
Windows over Linux? I thought that was kind of funny, because recently I
have been asking myself the opposite question: Who would choose to switch to
Linux?I could go through a litany of complaints I have about Linux. I could
complain about the confusing number of
distributions<http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=major>.
I could complain about the propensity of Linux proponents to cause
unnecessary confusion by abbreviating or using
acronyms<http://www.bellevuelinux.org/acronym_list.html>for Linux-only
functions. I could complain about the silly
confusing names <http://www.vim.org/> they give applications.I could
complain about cryptic command lines, nonexistent instructions, obscure
references, and septic responses from the "open source community" to novices
and their questions. I could reiterate that a multi-step process that takes
an hour to work through to get Linux to put music on to my iPod is not EASY.
I could point out that I receive security patch notices almost weekly for
SUSE Linux, which indicates that as an operating system Linux is not anymore
safe than Windows.

But all of that is not addressing the correct issue, is it?
Digging deeper

The debate about operating systems is a senseless debate about something
that, in the long run, makes no difference. An operating system exists only
to create an environment for applications; nothing more, nothing less. Most
people sit down at a computer and just start using it without worrying about
what operating system it is running.I have no knowledge of the operating
system that runs my microwave oven. I don't have to install the popcorn
application — it is already there, and it works just fine. I don't care who
made it, I don't care if it is open source, and I don't spend time on
PopcornRepublic discussing the merits of one popcorn application over
another. It doesn't matter — what matters is that I get a good bag of
popcorn.What matters in a personal computer is that I can run the
applications that I want to run without having to worry about whether I have
the *correct* operating system. You can argue that we are not quite there
yet, but I think outside of the information technology industry, at the user
and consumer level, they are there already. Consumers buy a personal
computer for the applications; they know what they want a computer for. Much
of the time, the operating system is Windows, but do you really think they
care?
Why Windows?

Jack wanted to know why Windows and not Linux. At the base level the answer
is simple: Because that is what came with my PC when I bought it and there
is ABSOLUTELY NO COMPELLING REASON to go through the trouble of switching
operating systems just so I can run applications that are similar (or even
identical) to the applications I already have.The whole mythology that Linux
is perfectly safe and never crashes is just wishful thinking. I have seen
Linux crash — I've watched John
Sheesley<http://search.techrepublic.com.com/index.php?q=John+Sheesley&t=1>crash
Linux over and over again. Viruses and worms exist that take advantage
of Linux bugs and security lapses just like Windows. Those kinds of problems
are not exclusive to any one operating system.The real security weakness
lies with users and their willingness to click on a link, any link, just to
see where it leads. The nefarious among us take advantage of this aspect of
human behavior — that has nothing to do with the operating system.
Why not?

So why Windows — why not? That is what the user knows and, so far, no one
has offered any compelling reason for them to change their operating system.
For the part of the population not engaged in the raging operating system
debate, the question is meaningless — they just want to run applications.
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