Comments on: Microsoft buys Sysinternals http://www.p2pnet.net/story/9388 p2pnet.net - reader powered Tue, 24 Nov 2009 08:59:30 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/9388/comment-page-1#comment-66616 Reader's Write Wed, 19 Jul 2006 23:38:32 +0000 #comment-66616 I installed Fedora Core 4 last September as the default OS in a dual-boot (other OS is XP) system. I've only booted to XP about 5 times TOTAL since then for things like filling in the Canada census online and filing my taxes online (and the rare GTA rampage too.) There's tons of games for Linux, and just as many console/arcade emulators as there are for Windows. The best part is, EVERYTHING on my Linux system is FREE and open-source and so-far spyware free. And it is all generally MUCH more secure and bug-free. There's a bit of a learning curve switching to Linux of course, but it's not as hard as you think as long as you are capable of efficiently finding information on the web and newsgroup archives. The newer distros have come a long long way in terms of intuitiveness from those of a few years ago. Microsoft is now a non-entity in my life. I no longer live in fear of the next hole to be discovered and exploited. I no longer have to restart 'explorer' every ten minutes because it got hung up. MS corporate crap just doesn't cut it anymore and I don't trust them to not have backdoors in the OS anyways. I installed Fedora Core 4 last September as the default OS in a dual-boot (other OS is XP) system.

I’ve only booted to XP about 5 times TOTAL since then for things like filling in the Canada census online and filing my taxes online (and the rare GTA rampage too.)

There’s tons of games for Linux, and just as many console/arcade emulators as there are for Windows.

The best part is, EVERYTHING on my Linux system is FREE and open-source and so-far spyware free. And it is all generally MUCH more secure and bug-free.

There’s a bit of a learning curve switching to Linux of course, but it’s not as hard as you think as long as you are capable of efficiently finding information on the web and newsgroup archives. The newer distros have come a long long way in terms of intuitiveness from those of a few years ago.

Microsoft is now a non-entity in my life. I no longer live in fear of the next hole to be discovered and exploited. I no longer have to restart ‘explorer’ every ten minutes because it got hung up. MS corporate crap just doesn’t cut it anymore and I don’t trust them to not have backdoors in the OS anyways.

]]> By: Reader's Write http://www.p2pnet.net/story/9388/comment-page-1#comment-66575 Reader's Write Wed, 19 Jul 2006 19:44:12 +0000 #comment-66575 "Embrace, extend, extinguish". True in M$'s beginning, and now. Following in the footsteps of many notable (certainly not admirable) "Robber 'Barrons'" throughout history. SysInternals shall be _sorely_ missed..... “Embrace, extend, extinguish”. True in M$’s beginning, and now. Following in the footsteps of many notable (certainly not admirable) “Robber ‘Barrons’” throughout history.

SysInternals shall be _sorely_ missed…..

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