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RE: [split] Ubuntu vs. WinXP
There's always the possibility that you're a sudoer and your child manages to open up a terminal and type sudo rm -rf *, or sudo sh ./shiftydownloadedprogram.sh. But you won't have your email client run scripts for you by default and other completely STUPID things like that.
Bottom line: Agreed. I think that while Windows is a reasonable consumer OS, it needs to disappear. I've got more than enough reasons not to give them my money now that I've looked deeper into the soap opera that is Microsoft customer and corporate relations. While there are still some places Windows has an advantage, I think these will go away as more people adopt Linux or other Unixen. Maybe they won't all go away and we'll still have Windows users ten years from now, but I think the software world will still be a completely different place.
was put impeccably into words at DebianDay for me last Saturday, by Knut Yrvin of Trolltech - adults try something once, fail, and then are like "ffs this doesn't work". Children try, fail, and then try again, and succeed - maybe on the second, or even fifth retry. But the thing is that they keep at it and overcome the problems in the end.
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