Robert Pogson

It is not really fun. It is a scam when you pay money for hardware and software and get malware running the show instead. That is what I see repeatedly on forums like Craigslist/Computers. “My PC has slowed to a crawl. What do I do now?”. Out comes all kinds of advice about adware, malware, scanners, editors, etc. Lather, rinse, repeat. A whole industry has arisen supplying the needs created by the poor design of that other OS.

Why do people put up with the down-time and wasted time with this stuff? A good backup and restore would in some cases be faster and more sure than anything that can be done after the fact. New malware is coming out every day. The best the “anti” industry can do is be a week or two behind. That is a huge window of opportunity, 1000 million PCs surfing hours daily.

In nine years of using GNU/Linux on hundreds of PCs and some decent sized LANs, I have never seen anything like the horrors of malware on that other OS. They are still fixing bugs that were introduced in the days of 3.1 and retained because of the need for some backwards-compatibility, just enough to retain users. M$ still wants to sell new systems so they add more features giving more malware more points to attack… The Wintel treadmill is the greatest scam ever perpetrated. I think it will soon end. You cannot fool all of the people all of the time and Vista showed we have enough features. Enter GNU/Linux, stage left.