I hardly think that's a well thought out argument. With the billions saved each year from Corporations, ISPs, banks, credit card companies, financing companies, investment agencies, or even just regular companies that offer hosting, online services, we would be much better off. There's no way that you can argue that vulnerabilities in security can be considered positive for financial growth. Also, it's never the OS that has security vulnerabilities, really. It's applications and users. You can run any OS you like, but if someone wanted to hack it, one is no easier than the other. In fact, should someone desire to infect a system with a virus, a Linux distro or OSX would by far be the easiest. Users are extremely lax on their security awareness (the c0cky idiots just assume they can click any email attatchment they like), and there is far less 3rd party security options available. Hell, even Vista's Windows Firewall ain't bad at all. More than enough to stop 99% of all attacks/threats.
on the "You shouldn't have to have extra applications to protect your system", you shouldnt have to indtall extra software to run what you can on windows with reduced stability, and in the case of games, much lower fps
I'm assuming you're talking about Wine type applications? In which case, most apps that are supported don't tend to have performance drops or stability issues. It's not like regular platform emulation. For me, what's keeping me from using something like Debian as my main OS is the lack of Photoshop support. I'm surprised that Adobe hasn't factored in Linux support, especially give that the port wouldn't be that complex since they have native OSX versions.
Vista is a pretty decent OS, and basically all kiddies who heard their papa saying it's oh so wrong pretty much suck.
Vista is the OS, and people just don't understand that. It now beats out XP in every respect that made it strong. It supports DirectX, it has good driver support, good device support, superior memory management, one of the nices and most intuitive interfaces (bar OSX, however as far as intuitiveness goes it really depends on what level you use the OS), and it doesn't really cost all that much. That's why I find it hilarious when people spend weeks skinning their XP to look like Vista, and somehow claim that theirs is superior, and that the GUI is the only thing that Vista supercedes XP with.
I don't want to get involved in your little fights over which OS is dominant, but Windows XP or Vista both are #1 for me and Mac is in the Top 99's on my list with Windows being from 1 to 98 Zain
PclinuxOS I didnt like it that much. Im currently using Ubuntu but I would rather use Mint but I had too many issues when trying to install it but Windows is still my 1st choice
