Hi :) Different OSes have different strengths. I would say that Windows greatest strength is that it "just works" and gives users freedom from choices such as which DE they use, which file-browser and so on. It is possible for true Windows-geeks to change some of those things with some difficulty. It's not the most stable and secure platform but so what? You can buy anti-virus and add security and take precautions that mostly work quite well and you can always take it back to a shop if something really bad happens. Plus when you buy a machine from a shop it's already installed so you don't have to worry about geeky stuff. There are a lot of good reasons to use Windows. Regards from Tom :) ________________________________ From: David <dgboles@gmail.com> To: users@global.libreoffice.org Sent: Sat, 3 September, 2011 21:11:30 Subject: Re: [libreoffice-users] Re: JRE older installs - Windows - nowonline- no need for Oracleaccount On 9/3/2011 4:02 PM, planas wrote: BIG <snip>
In Windows you have the situation where users range from extremely knowledgeable to total incompetence, compound this with there is essentially a single OS for each version of Window. This allows crackers a wealth of very similar targets with less effort. Add that some the users are utterly clueless about computer security and you have a situation were attacks will be successful enough for the crackers to justify their efforts.
All of which is OT here but this shows Linux elitism. Security by obscurity. So few people use Linux that Linux is not significant enough to be of value to the 'bad guys' out there. Should Linux ever become common enough that more than about 50 million people, [1] in a world of 5 Billion people, use it - then it might become *worth the effort*. What do you think? [1] "Linux Counter Summary Report" <http://counter.li.org/reports/short.php> -- David -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+help@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted -- For unsubscribe instructions e-mail to: users+help@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/users/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted