I hope you're doing this to get flamed. Here goes:
You mention the extremely high cost of linux. You can get very low cost distros from places like cheapbytes, or have a friend download and burn the isos.
Linux requires lots of maintenance?? I have two servers running bind, apache, qmail, proftpd, etc, and they have both been up for almost 150 days, with no end in sight.
I have had a few crashes on my home linux box (mostly due to x), and I have never had data loss. NEVER.
As to crashes in linux, and nobody knowing what caused them, this is an outright lie! Linux is extremely stable. I mentioned server uptimes; those servers that I mentioned are not running on top of the line hardware either.
I can't disagree about the learning curve. But users have been using microsoft's point and click wizards for every last task conceivable, so of course the curve is steep for them.
"badly coded tools which have low performance, mangle data seemingly at random..."
Come on! Never have I had, or heard of, any linux tools mangling data.
Are you an idiot, or did you just have a bad experience typing rm -rf/! I have never seen so many blatantly false statements in my life.
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I hope you're doing this to get flamed. Here goes: You mention the extremely high cost of linux. You can get very low cost distros from places like cheapbytes, or have a friend download and burn the isos. Linux requires lots of maintenance?? I have two servers running bind, apache, qmail, proftpd, etc, and they have both been up for almost 150 days, with no end in sight. I have had a few crashes on my home linux box (mostly due to x), and I have never had data loss. NEVER. As to crashes in linux, and nobody knowing what caused them, this is an outright lie! Linux is extremely stable. I mentioned server uptimes; those servers that I mentioned are not running on top of the line hardware either. I can't disagree about the learning curve. But users have been using microsoft's point and click wizards for every last task conceivable, so of course the curve is steep for them. "badly coded tools which have low performance, mangle data seemingly at random..." Come on! Never have I had, or heard of, any linux tools mangling data. Are you an idiot, or did you just have a bad experience typing rm -rf /! I have never seen so many blatantly false statements in my life.