What exactly is a must have win something i guess this is where you lose me. I own a computer business and whenever i go out on the job i never see a need for windows. I to have a couple dual boot machines when i go out and set up a small office with a dataserver and file server. I always use linux only because i don't get complaints about the machine needing a restart because it had to be updated.. The only time i restart a lin machine is when i update a kernel. The people that use the systems that i set up also use samba and they use it as a webserver, If i set up a win machine to perform these task all on one it would lag and has the server load on a win machine was much greater then a lin machine.
Not only does it run smoother but there is no real need for antivirus on a linux machine, Windows may be better for the average joe that does not mind rebooting and ridding them selves of unwanted spyware and virus software. The biggest problem with windows is it is expensive, If you get a distro like cent, deb, slax, slackware etc etc the there is no real cost. I for one believe that the stability of a linux machine is far better then a windows machine. I have had windows since win 95 and had nothing good come from it, Yes i still use win this is only because there is software that i like from win. When they port this over to lin then i will free up valuable space and rid it of unnecessary software.
Even the desktop enviroment is more stable then windows i use KDE and Gnome, There is linux os that is very good a detecting hardware (Suse, Mandrivia, linspire etc etc) that even the average windows user can load this up.
I do not see any thing good to compare lin to win i think it is written in windows code to fail. update, restart, update, restart, this goes on forever, Why do this when you can update, upgrade and play no restart no mess. another thing with win, when you load software its a big mess lin has directory for what it needs and when you need to find something its in the directory it is expected to be. to remove something its much easier then win.
I guess i am talking on the side of a linux fan and i know a few things of this software being more single minded then open at this point but i am seriously tired of windows.
I don't see any pros in win only cons. The only thing i use it for is Mobile Phone Tools and a couple other choice programs this totals about three.
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