Calling all linux users

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Originally posted by crazihouse
Benefits of Linux:
-No known viruses (unless im really uninformed)

There are a few, I think like 5. But Windows has 1600 new ones every month

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-Stable
-Secure
-Open source

Downside:
-Compatibility

Benefits of Windows:
-Compatibility
-I guess more user friendly

Linux' user-friendlieness is quite good if you take a newbie-friendly distro.

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Downside:
-Viruses every 5 minutes

That's true. If you want to reinstall a Windows PC (which you have to every few months), you'll first have to download ~50 updates

so if there's something like blaster going on, you'll be infected before you have downloaded the patches

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-Many vulnerability defects

Yes, and then you can't click on links anymore for your safety.

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Do not click any hyperlinks that you do not trust. Type them in the Address bar yourself.

User friendly?

And a lot of Microsoft's programs are in the top-10 most insecure Windows programs list made by SANS.

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Top Vulnerabilities to Windows Systems
# W1 Internet Information Services (IIS)
# W2 Microsoft SQL Server (MSSQL)
# W3 Windows Authentication
# W4 Internet Explorer (IE)
# W5 Windows Remote Access Services
# W6 Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC)
# W7 Windows Scripting Host (WSH)
# W8 Microsoft Outlook Outlook Express
# W9 Windows Peer to Peer File Sharing (P2P)
# W10 Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP)

This list is made by the FBI.

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Three years ago, the SANS Institute and the National Infrastructure Protection Center (NIPC) at the FBI released a document summarizing the Ten Most Critical Internet Security Vulnerabilities. Thousands of organizations used that list, and the expanded Top Twenty lists that followed one and two years later, to prioritize their efforts so they could close the most dangerous holes first. The vulnerable services that led to the examples above Blaster, Slammer, and Code Red, as well as NIMDA worms - are on that list.

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Thats pretty much the way I see it, I don't think it's worth it switching to Linux unless you're a developper/programmer

So basically, you're telling "Windows only has only this one advantage, and I suppose ..." and than the conclusion is "I don't think it's worth it switching to Linux"? Yeah, right

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