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OMGUbuntu: 'Why Use Linux?' Answered in 3 Short Words (omgubuntu.co.uk)
Linux-focused blog OMGUbuntu's Joey-Elijah Sneddon shared a post today in which he is trying to explain why people should Linux. He stumbled upon the question when he typed "Why use" and Google suggested Linux as one of the most frequent questions. From the article: The question posed is not one that I sincerely ask myself very often. The answer has, over the years, become complicated. It's grown into a bloated ball of elastic bands, each reason stretched around and now reliant on another. But I wanted to answer. Helpfully, my brain began to spit out all the predictable nouns: "Why use Linux? Because of security! Because of control! Because of privacy, community, and a general sense of purpose! Because it's fast! Because it's virus free! Because I'm dang-well used to it now! Because, heck, I can shape it to look like pretty much anything I want it to using themes and widgets and CSS and extensions and blingy little desktop trinkets!"
A) if you're on bleeding edge alpha, things will break
B) if you're running 4.7 and don't know how to fix your own damn wifi, it's your own fault
C) your wifi adapter sucks, get a good one
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Horrible advice? More like a horrible post from an AC.
Phishing is one of the biggest security concerns and what system you're on has no impact on its ability to damage your personal files.
What are you talking about? How does phishing damage the personal files on your computer? Agreed, phishing is system independent, but it tricks you into revealing information, and doesn't attack your file system.
Sure, it's harder to gain admin rights on a Linux system than Windows, but no home users care about that. A screwed up OS is the easiest thing to fix, 'just' reinstall it. The users' data files are what's important and they are equally exposed on all systems unless you've taken the steps to setup advanced security measures which no home users do.
"Just" reinstall Windows, right. And that type of user likely doesn't have a backup, so what then? And user data files are NOT equally exposed on all systems.
No home user cares if their computers are part of a bot net, they still function fine for them.
Come to think of it, I can see why you post as an AC; you don't want to embarrass yourself.