I don’t usually get involved in debating Operating Systems as I simply don’t know enough yet, but since you linked…

I have to say that it was Vista that pushed me onto Linux on the home desktop actually, after being raised in the Microsoft Matrix for years.

You’re American right? Just one thing about the sense of entitlement issue with Silverfox. Unlike you Yanks, us Brits are forced to pay a tax (called a licence) for the privilege of watching TV. When your taxed, it becomes an entitlement, otherwise I wouldn’t give a shit because I mostly bittorrent.

I know enough to know there is so much FUD in your article though..

“Compare that to at least once a week some critical Linux system gets hacked” - I’d like to see some stats to back that up.

I didn’t use a firewall for a good deal of time when I ran my first home system, compared to running Windows for the same amount of time my experience has been that Windows would not cope for long without one.

Still, I guess next time someone asks me to fix their Windows box because their PC is infected or because they don’t know how to install/setup things like networking I’ll just go “boohoo”.