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You seem to have missed the point. It wasn't that multiple music players or disc burners will break the system (they won't, unless they come from the likes of Real Media), it was that the users had no idea what they were doing, and installed everything under the sun. This always includes all sorts of malware apps that are the real culprits for system instability.
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And yet, the music players, antivirus, firewall, and cd/dvd burning programs that are the ones he specifically listed - stuff that generally comes, not from random downloads off the net, but from boxes sold in stores. So I gave a counterexample where the offical stuff doesn't do that.
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It should be noted that the software that comes on a Knoppix CD (itself a pretty piss-poor OS compared to real Debian or K/Ubuntu)
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Sorta. Knoppix is designed primarily for system recovery type applications, or demo disks where you're not sure what system you'll be using for the demo. As such, it's designed to run off the CD. If you actually tell it to install, it gives you a couple of options, and lists Debian as recommended. Which it will then walk you through doing.
I recently installed it on my uncle's computer. I started with attempting to install Ubuntu, but that one ran into an error (related to a missing hardware cable for the clock, I suspect, but I didn't fight with it enough to actually prove that - he basically just uses the box to browse the net) while Knoppix didn't have any issues.
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has been well-tested and vetted before inclusion. The distro makers don't just grab random pieces of software off the net and put them in, as the users that AgentZero is complaining about do.
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And yet of the items he listed, most of them come in boxes from stores, professionally sold.
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If you only install well-made software on a Windows box, you'll have no more trouble than only installing well-made software on a *nix box. If you download and install every random piece of software on a *nix box, you will break it just the same as a Windows box.
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Actually, to break a *nix box, you pretty much have to use the root password at some point (or interrupt the boot sequence in a particular spot to arrange for root permissions without the root password, but most people don't know how to do that). Windows defaults to the only account being an administrative account, which causes issues as basically everything ends up running with administrative-level permissions, so any old program on the box can do mean things to the box.