XP - Crashed

[Spoo]

I'm more of an "advanced user". If I was an expert, I'd run Linux.

[Instar]

Spoo said:
I'm more of an "advanced user". If I was an expert, I'd run Linux.

hahahahahahahahahhahaah

I'm an "expert" and I'd run both if I had a spare machine (no dual boot for me). XP is more productive for me, by far. I'm planning on using Linux for my firewall/NAT box if I need to build one. I *might* build a Linux DB box, but then again, I can get SQL Server just as easily... (and its better than some pqsql stuff)

[parabolize]

Spoo said:
I'm more of an "advanced user". If I was an expert, I'd run Linux.

I think the opposite of this. If you are starting to use a computer and all your using it for is office, email and web surfing linux or mac is what to use. Ubuntu or Knoppix is easier to get working than windows. Less people attack it, it comes with a security system and no activex. I think the ONLY hard thing to do when installing Ubuntu is using and remembering a complex user password. Everything else is the enter key. If you want to play all the games in the world you have to learn how to keep windows working or get them running in emulators.

[Aiken]

parabolize said:

I think the opposite of this. If you are starting to use a computer and all your using it for is office, email and web surfing linux or mac is what to use. Ubuntu or Knoppix is easier to get working than windows. Less people attack it, it comes with a security system and no activex. I think the ONLY hard thing to do when installing Ubuntu is using and remembering a complex user password. Everything else is the enter key. If you want to play all the games in the world you have to learn how to keep windows working or get them running in emulators.

Sure, Apache, Oracle, MySQL, SAP, Samba/LDAP, etc are easy to use apps for newbies who can't get windoze to run properly

[parabolize]

Why would they? Most people don't you know? Most people use computers for really simple stuff.
Edit: samba is easy to set up these days.
Edit#2: I get it, you think I ment using it at work when I listed office. I meant office suit like Microsoft Office or Open Office or KOffice. Linux sometimes is a good idea for a company but usually changing is to hard (so I hear anyway).

[Aiken]

parabolize said:
Edit: samba is easy to set up these days.

Unless you want to integrate it to MS Active Directory domain, and use non-US charsets for user folders/profiles.

Actually I meant that passwords memorization is not the most complex task in *nix OS. Of course most Users don't need apps, I've mentioned. But even moron-friendly distros like Linspire or Xandros need manual optimizations, else they would be horribly slow compared to winxp, cause default installation is overbloated with redundant stuff.

[Instar]

Linux distros vary widely. I've used Red Hat, and it is decent, but can't hold a candle to better UIs. KDE I hear is good.
Even for hard core development, I work on Windows. That is my target platform (Windows on x32 or x64). Linux is more like a "utility belt" or something. I will use it for very specific tasks that I don't need to do much else.

[Atrocities]

Windows = Almost any one can use.
OS9 = Only for yuppies and fanatics
Lynux = Only uber smart people and excessive computer nerds.