operating system survey

[rakedog]

Lord Kalthorn...not that I don't like windows, but how can you be so obssessed with it .... I mean doesn't the fact that it crashes a lot and that hackers can hack it so easily scare you? Personally open-source seems better. (If you know computer language) you can customize your OS.

 

[Lord Kalthorn]

Lord Kalthorn...not that I don't like windows, but how can you be so obssessed with it .... I mean doesn't the fact that it crashes a lot and that hackers can hack it so easily scare you? Personally open-source seems better. (If you know computer language) you can customize your OS.

I doens't crash a lot - in all my Computers I have had no crashes that wasn't a direct result of something I or my family had done to it wrong. I have never been hacked into - and even if I had then not well because nothing has been done. If I have a Virus or a piece of Spyware its because I like Free Programs; and I download stuff - yet none of these things have damaged my computer.

A determinded Programmer against Windows can cause annoyance; a determinded Programmer against Linux can destroy it; for the simple reason on Linux they know the code and therefore how it is built.

You can customize your OS? What do you want to customize on LInux that you can't customize on Windows?

 

[135791]

i can see the porn bit being right
but the other...........

 

[rakedog]

Lord Kalthorn: I do not agree with your facts:
1: Have you noticed that Linux comes with so many programs free (Audacity, OpenOffice, Apache, FTP software, about 4 times as many games (on knoppix)), and a bunch of other software for networking, serving, ect.

2. In windows, you have to reboot after every single minor update, making your server go down. (same applies to games). Not in Linux! You can practically keep up your computer running all year round.

3. You can pretty much rebuild linux to however you want, including remaking your startup menu, security features, programs browser, ect.

4. There are very few known exploits to Linux. (except for default kernal, which no one uses). And if an exploit is found, you can simply get a new kernel in several hours. (think aboout how long it takes for WINDOWS to come up with updates....theyre a couple of months behind on everything).

5. FACTOID: Most windows users mod out their desktop & login screen to look like a Linux.

rakedog

 

[Lord Kalthorn]

Lord Kalthorn: I do not agree with your facts:
1: Have you noticed that Linux comes with so many programs free (Audacity, OpenOffice, Apache, FTP software, about 4 times as many games (on knoppix)), and a bunch of other software for networking, serving, ect.

Did I say it didn't? You just pulled that one out the air. These come with it because they're free anyway - if they weren't they wouldn't just like with Windows. Often Works will come free with Windows (at least you won't notice the difference in price when you buy a PC); however - the programs like Office don't because they are about £200 and they are bloody good programs. I hardly ever play the games on Windows anyway; so four times as many would not bother me in the slightest - they're not good games anyway. In Windows Pro - Networking and Serving is built in.

2. In windows, you have to reboot after every single minor update, making your server go down. (same applies to games). Not in Linux! You can practically keep up your computer running all year round.

You can do with with Windows; very few Minor Updates need a Reboot; and even if it does it is quick. Games do not need reboot often in more recent games. With Linux - you don't update your Computer - nor indeed can you install many games; so it is not noticable. If you were able to do these things - you would need to reboot as much if not more.

3. You can pretty much rebuild linux to however you want, including remaking your startup menu, security features, programs browser, ect.

Nobody needs to do that; and if want to then they should use Linux - I did not say that people who want to do this shouldn't use Linux; you pulled that one out the the hat again

4. There are very few known exploits to Linux. (except for default kernal, which no one uses). And if an exploit is found, you can simply get a new kernel in several hours. (think aboout how long it takes for WINDOWS to come up with updates....theyre a couple of months behind on everything).

Couple of months? Couple of Days more like - and thats only because there are so many damned twits coming up with Viruses. Linux - as I have said - faced with the number of determined Programmers trying to Hack and make Viruses would fall apart. It is numbers Linux cannot understand.

5. FACTOID: Most windows users mod out their desktop & login screen to look like a Linux.

rakedog

That there; is not a fact, however small you claim it to be. I think everybody will agree with me there. If you do not know; Most = >50%, not <1%

EDIT: Funny thing being; you said at the beginning you didn't agree with my facts - but you didn't bring anything I said before into the point.

 

[jackster]

survey

Support: 3
Security: 6
Compatibility: 7
Stability: 10
Virus Protection: 5
Popularity: 2
Programs: 9
Easy of Install: 4
Ability to run Servers: 8

2)
What operating system do you prefer
Windows xp


3) What do you use your computer for?
EX: development

 

[Lord Kalthorn]

Oh, development. Do you have Visual Studio.NET?