It lets me tailor my experience and envirenment. It's interesting. The install doesn't deprecate like Windows, and become slower and slower. I'm learning every day about hardware AND software instead of bogus MS "tools" that "make the job 'easier'"
There's more where that came from.
]]>$200 for the buggy OS and a pain in the heck activation method.
$50 for a DVD playback software.
$70 for a CD burning software.
$60 for antivirus & firewall solution
$400 for a Office Suite to type 2 or 3 letters a year.
Thanks, but no thanks.
]]>No more: How much do you want to crash today?
]]>And with the linux desktop you can edit EVERYTHING 8)
I only using windows for SolidWorks, MathLAB and office (for complex excel sheets)...mmmm and gaming
If you count each worm, virus, trojan, etc, as a hack, then your statement is false. If you do not, then it may indeed be true.
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Well yes, you can get hacked on Linux... But it's probably harder to hack into a "simple" distro like Arch than, say, a complicated "user friendly" one like Mandrake.
And there are some simple rules to adhere to that make it harder for people to hack your system... like, for example, never running stuff as root unless absolutely necessary.
(Some distros, like Linspire, put you right in a root environment at first boot... with X running. And in Linspire's case, not just X but KDE as well, which means an instance of a browser (Konqueror) running... And all sorts of other crap, all as bloody root. Whenever I boot into one of these distros and discover that I and all my applications have been granted full God-mode access privelages, I feel like screaming out loud. Err... Pardon the rant, but I really had to get that off my chest. )
]]>Well of course, but with some thought behind how you set things up things are all good
agree++
]]>Gullible Jones wrote:Because I got rather sick of Windows 98 giving me the BSOD. And because it's designed in a secure fashion, and malware that attacks it is uncommon. And because it's free... etc.
There are more hacked linux-boxes than windows-boxes out there, remember?
Linux is great, but a linuxsystem has a tendency to get hacked
And that's why Arch Linux is so great - due to the simplicity of keeping a system updated, we can easily avoid getting hacked by staying updated
Well of course, but with some thought behind how you set things up things are all good
]]>Because I got rather sick of Windows 98 giving me the BSOD. And because it's designed in a secure fashion, and malware that attacks it is uncommon. And because it's free... etc.
There are more hacked linux-boxes than windows-boxes out there, remember?
Linux is great, but a linuxsystem has a tendency to get hacked
And that's why Arch Linux is so great - due to the simplicity of keeping a system updated, we can easily avoid getting hacked by staying updated
Not to mention, we linux users avoid all this Microsoft Anit-Piracy Crap
]]>... and most professional audio/video software mostly runs best on windows (if on x86). haven't seen a version of Reaktor or Traktor Studio for GNU/LInux yet. ;.;
not mac?
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Bernhard
@nggalai dito. - but I preferred blackbox for windows
I just like linux. The only thing you need windows for is gaming, but since I can't affoard decent hardware, I'm just fine with linux.
... and most professional audio/video software mostly runs best on windows (if on x86). haven't seen a version of Reaktor or Traktor Studio for GNU/LInux yet. ;.;
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