* Scott Leighton (helphand@pacbell.net) [040612 12:47]:
At any given time there are a million zombie XP machines spitting out spam and viruses because their non-technical users simply did what Microsoft Told them to do.
You are changing the subject. The author of the article wasn't comparing security, he was talking about user experience.
Nope. It's exactly on subject. After one has to setup virus checkers, spyware blockers, 3rd party firewalls and everything else one needs to be able to use the machine without it catching a cold and becoming unusable.. XP requires just as much configuring as Linux does with other things. So if it's not one thing or another being configured on XP, Linux or OSX.. it's another. They are all bloody the same. And if you think they aren't then you are fooling yourself. They all have their issues and to say one is easier then the other is just bullshite. Even the Powerbook that I'm typing this from has issues that have had to be fixed or configured.. and if you don't believe that then I could delete the softlink from /etc -> /private/etc and reboot the machine.. let a Mac user try to figure out what it takes to fix that. Or let me rename vga.sys in XP for the Windows user to figure out. They won't. So these two "easy" end user systems become unusable. Please don't show your newbie mentality by saying that all these oranges aren't orange.. because they are. They are all the same .. with maybe just different thickness in skin. They just have different issues that need to be addressed. /end rant -- "There is no need to teach that stars can fall out of the sky and land on a flat Earth in order to defend religious faith."