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Not anymore.
Just getting a Windows computer to stay functional is now in many ways more complicated than maintaining an enterprise Linux server. I can say this, since I do both professionally.
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I had to spend a great deal of time fixing these worms, installing a firewall, and updating his system in order to get his system back up. Much of this was highly technical work.
My friend just wants to run photoshop and flash. I run these programs with no trouble at all on WINE. Why should he have to worry about this crap? All the major Linux distros have had firewalls in place by default for YEARS. Let us not forget that Linux ACTUALLY HAS A SECURITY SYSTEM THAT WORKS2.
2: Everybody agrees that COM is broken. What makes COM really bad is that there is very little auditing to prove that COM objects are safe when they claim to be, and that the system is brutally complicated. What is really scary though, is that Windows is effectively built upon the shifting sands of COM objects.
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