[Off Topic] Re: Linux security

[Michael T. Richter]

On Wed, 2006-03-05 at 15:18 +0200, Florian Diesch wrote:

> > For all its myriad flaws, Windows still kicks ass on any Linux distribution --
> > even Ubuntu, so far the easiest distro I've found in terms of the end-user
> > experience -- for ease of use.



> I don't think so. 


Millions disagree.


> There are some things that are more easy to do with
> Windows, but others are much more difficult. 


The difference is that day-to-day affairs are simpler under Windows for
the most part.


> Think of all the programs
> you have to install until you can work with windows (and you first have
> to buy them!); 


You can work with Windows out of the box.  To do the kind of work most
people need a computer for you install one extra program: Microsoft
Office (or equivalent).  How can I be sure of this?  Looking around my
place of work -- a campus with approximately 10,000 units installed,
that's what 80% of the machines have running: Windows XP + Microsoft
Office XP.

Exaggeration doesn't help your case any. 


> and all that viruses, worm, trojan horses and the like;


The viruses, worms and trojans that haven't impacted my life at all
since my DOS days, you mean?  That not a single member of my family nor
a single friend have ever had a problem with?  Those viruses?

Idiots are idiots no matter what operating system they run.

(And why is it that nobody recalls that the first destructive Internet
worm was one that infected UNIX systems?)


> and all the things you have to configure to have a usable working
> environment (hidden file extensions are kind of a bad joke, right?).


Usable to whom?  Hidden file extensions work just fine for the average
end-user -- and, indeed, are probably preferable to remembering the
bizarre codes that get built in to them by geeks with no clue what an
end-user wants to see/do.


> IMHO for most end-users Ubuntu is much more easy to use unless they have
> badly supported hardware or need specials software that's not available
> for Linux.


By "badly supported hardware" of course is meant "most new hardware --
and about half of hardware related to multimedia".  And Bluetooth.  And
"specialist software" also often means "software with a user interface
that doesn't suck".  (The GIMP being a perfect example for the last
kind.)

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