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Linux vs Windows a real life comparison
piratePenguin:
--- Quote from: toadlife ---Who here is in love with Windows?
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Who here is in love with iptables?
Kat:
Software Installation
Windows: Most applications use an installer. Fairly easy provided that the program doesn't break something.
Linux: One word: Dependencies
Preformance
Windows: After a few hours of disuse, Windows will choke and sputter for about two minutes upon resuming. Then function continues normally.
Linux: Starts right up like it had never been idle
Management
Windows: DLL Hell. Installations will "age" with the addition and removal of programs
Linux: Does not have that problem.
Security
Microsoft: Has dangerous defaults like CD auto-run and hiding extensions for known filetypes. Additionally, if you disable CD auto-run, you may not be able to play one CD after another unless you reboot first.
Linux: Does not auto-run CDs nor does it come with things like file extension hiding by default.
Programs
Windows: Comes with default programs that cannot be removed or others that are only removed with a third-party program or registry hack.
Linux: Fully customizable.
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Of course not to mention the annoying things turned on by default in XP like program highlighting and that dumb dog search assistant.
And to add that their help files are on the Internet. That doesn't help when you are trying to troubleshoot an Internet connection. Additionally, Microsoft help files can be a chore to wade through.
Furthermore, why should you have to give Explorer Internet rights just to use the "Show Desktop" function?!
While Linux isn't perfect, it sure beats the hell out of Windows.
cymon:
--- Quote ---Linux: One word: Dependencies
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You do realize that is really a non issue, right? Debian has had APT since the 90s, Gentoo has portage, and of course the 10000000000000000000000000 distros based off them use the same packages. The only package manager that has dependancy issues that I can think of, right now, is RPM. But then you have apt4rpm and such.
H_TeXMeX_H:
--- Quote from: Dark_Me ---Well, you are a shill for Microsoft.
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you read my mind ... toadlife sure does seem to love M$ ...
--- Quote from: toadlife ---
It's not a firewall's job to find worms, it's job is to filter traffic. Those worms on your system did come into your system on their own through your firewall - you brought them in yourself, either by downloading some software and running it or some exploit. There is no case of anyone discovering how to bypass the windows firewall from outside of the computer.
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... so you are getting at the "fact" that if you use a restricted user account an a Window$ machine the Window$ firewall will be able to stop worms effectively ? but wait ... how can you install programs using a restricted user account ? You can't ... at least not most programs ... so basically I would need to know which programs contain malware and which ones don't so that I can make sure they don't in any way alter the precious Window$ firewall and maxe it let in all the worms. Well then the problem seems to be malware not the firewall ... but wait how do we get rid of that ... I have tried myself ... I've gotten programs to do it ... but there were still worms and trojans on my machine because Gates is in with malware companies and it would be bad business to eliminate them all ... just the ones he doesn't own ... as for McAfee and Norton and many other anti-virus companies live on the fact that Window$ is so vulnerable to malware and viruses. If all malware were eliminated then they would go bankrupt ... especially since their firewalls are also pretty lame and exploit ridden
H_TeXMeX_H:
--- Quote from: cymon ---You do realize that is really a non issue, right? Debian has had APT since the 90s, Gentoo has portage, and of course the 10000000000000000000000000 distros based off them use the same packages. The only package manager that has dependancy issues that I can think of, right now, is RPM. But then you have apt4rpm and such.
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I use rpms a lot and the dependencies are not as much a problem if you use something that manages them like yum ... it installs the dependencies for you ...
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