A fuller explanation of the differences can be found here on Paul Thuurot's site:

http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase...p_home_pro.asp

i just want to state that anyone who sais that linux is by far more secure, has no idea what they are saying. Security in any operating system is a myth. there are by far more windows users than linux, so people spend more time trying to crack through windows because they can affect a larger target group. One thing about hackers (and i use that term loosely) is that they (again this is a generalization and not a everyone is this way) want to be known in that everyone is worried about some new virus, but they dont know WHO or HOW its getting around. if someone launched a massive linux virus...well the public wouldnt care because of how little it would affect....


it would be like...blow up small building in remote town in the middle of nowhere, or blow up a large building in the middle of a large city.

The fact of the matter is, that if any one "hacker" sat down and spent time at an OS, they could crack and abuse the hell out of it, but the reason they pick windows is because they know it will get more attention, and there is already a larger group of people working against windows because most of the good virus writers understand what i am talking about.

About the nobody cares about the Send an Error Report...in actuallity microsoft dedicates time to reading those and finding out what happend and how it was caused, but patches to things like that aren't released in small patches that you get, those are for any new security hole or any hole that was found but not exploited yet.

And most of the time, when a problem goes wrong with an OS, its the users fault and not the PC's. I have been using windows for my entire life and the only problems i have had with my PC were my own fault.

I have also setup a few linux machines and run them. Linux is alot of fun yes, but its more for the person that is more in touch with how a computer works, and how a DOS prompt in windows would work. (linux is heavy text based, and even the new UI and GUI in linux require heavy typing to install and use things).




Linux is for those that need it, linux is not like windows, as windows is both a want and a need. People want windows because it can play music and do all the fun things like games and internet and all that jazz. Most people NEED linux because they want to run a server or do somthing that the general public would not do with a common machine.

Its evident that linux is built for those in mind that want to run on the technical end. shoot there text based editor comes with a built editor for many different languages. Linux even comes with packages for doing programming and server work. which is not somthing that comes on windows, because thats not somthing the general public is interested in.


They want the content deliverd to them, they dont want to have to make it.

windows xp is the best

you can also play music and video, internet, messaging, ... in Linux. Linux have a great desktop very user fredly. Linux is no more only for run servers.
and is more secure just because there is much less virus that runs on linux.

I always use linux in my home for all things. I only use winXP to play Pro Evolution Soccer 4

did you even read what i said about the viruses and such? its not more secure, it just has a smaller user base so the number of viruses are thus alot smaller.


its still plain and obvious that linux is more for the tech oriented people that are looking to do things that most dont.

and its still very obvious that linux was not made for games as it has almost no games out for it, and the only way to get a storebought brand name game to play is with the use of a windows emulator.