I agree with you about XP,its an old and weathered operating system.I desagree with you where you say that viruses and trojans love windows.I am using windows,XP for a while and then windows seven,since 2008.I've never had problems with viruses.Not even once.I am using my computer almost 10 hours a day,6-7 of them for browsing.If you know where to browse and what you get,you are safe 100% even without an antivirus.If someone hit all the time the messages which are saying you are the great winner,hit here to see what you won(all these silly messages on several sites) or if someone get programes from the first site he see,he can't accuse Micro$ost or Avast etc for anything (i am not speaking personally).I believe that all this hapened,viruses trojans etc,because Windows is more (in fact the most) popular platform.Linux (in fact Linux is the Kernel,ubuntu is the operating sustem) which in my opinion is better and more stable than windows (Micro$oft tryied to change that with seven and i think that achieved it), is more tough to work with and less friendly.Anyway,i am completely off topic.
Ubuntu is one operating system using the linux kernel, there are hundreds really. I've dozens of different ones.
I disagree on the windows, there are at any time tens of millions of them out there acting as zombie spam spewers and so on. any number of even professional shops have been nailed hard over the years. In fact, the feds are considering taking off line around half a million computers running windows on or around march 8th this year, because of a dns spoofer on them that even pros have a hard time getting rid of. Fortune 500 companies, government agencies and private individuals. And these are with highly paid professional IT guys on staff watching over things.
Just because you haven't had any problems, doesn't mean millions haven't, heck it is hundreds of millions if you look globally. Look at all the shops setup to remove viruses and so on, every little city on up to major metro areas has them. It's a huge industry. It's been endemic ever since MS finagled their way to the top, because they just didn't give crap one about security and their software designs proved that for years and years. heck, gates thought the net was a flash in the pan and wouldn't last..... IMO, grade C systems at best, with a caveat I ain't touched any of the newer versions, and have zero inclination to do so. I understand they are better now, but my retort is "about freeking time..."
I started using them back during DOS days, then went GUI with macs (but still repaired MS), then when mac went to a unixy styled system OSX I went heck with it, cheap hardware and linux. And it's OK to just say linux, any nerd knows what you mean.
Anyway, this isn't slashdot or fark or any other geek site so that's about it discussing computer related issues for me, I don't want to go on an offtopic rant, because I know me and that's exactly where it will go. I just *despise* MS and windows. I think the government should have busted MS a long time ago, busted them up into different divisions and jailed a lot of top execs. They are right up in my top ten evile companies I don't like based on past dubious and crooked corporate practices, let alone just rank engineering, selling lemons for big bucks with no warranty and getting away with it, making hundreds of billions..
But, to each their own, people can run what they want. Don't bother me much anymore. It used to, but not anymore.
I'm a nerd but a blue collar outdoors loving type of nerd. I like saws/wood cutting and playing with my critters and gardening and farming and fishing and target shooting, etc, better than dorking around with boxes. I still do it, but it isn't as much fun for me as it used to be...kinda..like tools, I get snap on quality for free running what I run, so I sure ain't gonna pay snap-on prices for like harbor freight quality. They got the vast public faked out this is a good deal, keep making MS richer..I don't think so, not for this boy..
Back to saws, I just found out a neat tip I am going to post.
Now, we gotta get the BP topend back on my 655.
