@ Crate:
yeah, and there are those who've been using Linux in dual-boot during years...not exactly newbies on Linux hey
and had a million times the opportunity to compare how things work in the two OS'es: Linux is a million light years behind Windows, if you don't see it get yourself a pair of glasses:
firewall (nice piece of software...shorewall etc...no configuration interface)
network configuration (have fun connecting a Linux PC to a Windows one) edit: +
thousands and thousands of users having wifi not working or unstable.
file browsing...yeah, win 1.0 good old times...
graphics drivers behavior >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> BSOD = black screen of death in Linux ...
when changing the screen resolution can crash the X serverscanner and printer interfaces
software...thousands and thousands of crappy programs found in the repos...
hundreds of useless programs pre-installed
GNOME...that's the worse
bad updates (corrupted repos and bad signatures)
no standards (hey, *.exe!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, know what I mean
) ...welcome to the world of debians and rpms, enjoy!
no serious drive encryption...people find they can't access their encrypted /home partition anymore after a new install.
ridiculous equivalents of device manager, where most stuff (modules) is in the kernel, and drivers are not updatable, nor controllable...where your web cam is listed as a network adapter or a graphics card
wanna hear more
power management disaster...
sleep mode and hibernation don't work for most users
OUTDATED SOFTWARE: people who don't know how to run Firefox from a mozilla tarball can wait two or three months before they get an update from the repos this is sooooooooooooo...cool
...ever spent half an hour getting all the needed dependencies for an extracted tarball to run
Security and stability myth: Linux is more secure because it's not targeted (not enough users, not worth it), and not because of the way executables run, malware can break that. Stability: just the kernel is stable, Linux itself won't crash yeah, but apps will, often, and the X server will, so your freaking desktop will crash.
...one last thing: LINUX FONTS ...pathetic
....
It's just a matter of honesty, and how good you are at testing operating system features. Wondering what you're doing on a Windows security software forum
your only argument:
(BTW, I'm typing this from Debian Squeeze (testing), and you can read it, just as if I was using Windows. Cool, eh? Smiley)
...that's all you got