The reason why I tell others of the benefits of the superior open-source software over Micro$oft is because I'm sick and tired of people complaining about the endless errors. Errors, vulnerabilities, and other such issues in open-surce software is pretty much always fixed before the user even hears that there's a problem.
Sure. Free is cool. It's also open-source, which means you're free to verify that the source is valid. There can exist no bug in open source software that can't, or won't, be resolved, and history has proven that these bugs are resolved amazingly quickly.
What's the alternative? Windows automatic update? They release huge bundles of updates fairly rarely. And, look at SP2. Two out of the only three privately owned Windows computers I've seen in the last year were brought completely to their knees, utterly crippled by Service Pack 2. One of the updates in SP2 took up to 96% of the processor, according to Task Manager, and took forever to identify.
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The reason why I tell others of the benefits of the superior open-source software over Micro$oft is because I'm sick and tired of people complaining about the endless errors. Errors, vulnerabilities, and other such issues in open-surce software is pretty much always fixed before the user even hears that there's a problem.
Sure. Free is cool. It's also open-source, which means you're free to verify that the source is valid. There can exist no bug in open source software that can't, or won't, be resolved, and history has proven that these bugs are resolved amazingly quickly. What's the alternative? Windows automatic update? They release huge bundles of updates fairly rarely. And, look at SP2. Two out of the only three privately owned Windows computers I've seen in the last year were brought completely to their knees, utterly crippled by Service Pack 2. One of the updates in SP2 took up to 96% of the processor, according to Task Manager, and took forever to identify.