Friday, February 04, 2005

Why Does Windows Still Suck? / Why do PC users put up with so many viruses and worms? Why isn't everyone on a Mac?

Why Does Windows Still Suck? / Why do PC users put up with so many viruses and worms? Why isn't everyone on a Mac?:

"My SO, she is not alone. This exact same scenario, with only slight variation, is happening throughout the nation, right now. Are you using a PC? You probably have spyware. The McAfee site claims a whopping 91 percent of PCs are infected. As every Windows user knows, PCs are ever waging a losing battle with a stunningly vicious array of malware and worms and viruses, all aimed at exploiting one of about ten thousand security flaws and holes in Microsoft Windows."


I hate the fact that the article says that if you have a PC you can do nothing. It leaves the impression that on the PC there is no alternative other than Windows. There are alternatives, and they are called FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, Redhat, SuSE, Mandrake, Debian, Gentoo..... on and on and on. Linux is my primary OS. Only Windows for games.

Mozilla and hypocrisy

Right, but what about the experiences that Mozilla chooses to default for users like switching to  Yahoo and making that the default upon ...