Pros/Cons of Windows and Linux

Which is what I've been trying to explain. And, for the record, there should be a hyphen there.

This post has been edited by RetroXYZ on Oct 21 2009, 08:28 PM

Speaking of Linux, my Sister's Vista laptop had to go back to Dell for repairs, so I offered to lend her my laptop for the week. The catch, of course, is it had Fedora installed on it. Actually she's made it further than I expected although there's definitely been some rough spots.

Oh, and she will be happy to refute anyone's claim that Linux as a modern desktop OS runs fast on old hardware. It does not. Without tweaking, anyway.

This post has been edited by Retriever II on Oct 21 2009, 10:38 PM

depends on the desktop environment being used. XFCE is a perfect balance of usability and performance for, say, my mother's pentium 3

XFCE is also in my opinion not appropriate for a newbie left high and dry.

like I said, it depends on what you run. Just like running a newer version of windows on an older computer, you shouldn't run like KDE on an older one. What software you run should depend on your hardware's capabilities- you're an idiot if you think everything is going to work with an ancient PC

I'm taking a jab at OniLink's list.

I'm still having an issue with your "thousands of viruses are written every day" line.

It still seems to imply that a thousand new viruses are written every day, and not simply that thousands are mutating, whether you've stated that it includes mutations or not.

You should restate it to: "New viruses are written on a daily basis, but upwards of hundreds, even thousands, can be mutated from already existing ones."

This post has been edited by Chippermonkey on Oct 22 2009, 11:25 AM

One of the reasons I think causes confusion about Linux is the wide variety of distros and companies that make them. People are complaining about how Windows has 6 versions or whatever, but Linux has 100s of distros made by different companies. Unlike Windows, Linux distros don't all have the same preinstalled desktop, software, drivers, etc.