On Saturday 26 February 2005 10:47 am, Randall R Schulz wrote: <snipped>
Yeah, and when the Swiss-cheese-like security of their XP box causes them to lose their family photo album, their kids' homework, or worse, their credit card numbers and / or allows their PC to become part of some black-hat's unholy digital army of the night, they and / or we pay the price.
It's entirely up to you how secure you want to be. If you want to be secure in a cyber world then learn a real OS - Linux / BSD and such. If you don't care then be ignorant. I don't feel sorry or that I'm paying anything when some Win lamers lose their photo album or their kids' homework, or their Win boxes are participating in some hackers' attacks. It was their choice, not mine, what system to run. My entire family including my parents and my kids is running different flavors of Linux and BSD.
Quality matters, whether you're a guru programmer or a casual Web surfer. If anything, it matters more for the latter.
You have to pay something for quality things. You're paying with your time and brain power when you're learning to use Linux / BSD. And you're just praying when you're using Winblows. To each its own. Alex