Gosh. Technology

[andrewducker]

So I downloaded VMWare Player and the Ubuntu image.

And I booted up Linux, running under Windows on my computer.

Gosh, I though, I'm running Linux.

And I have access to all sorts of programs, like a web browser, and a text editor, and a paint program.

Um.  Um.  Now what?

I can't think of a single good reason to switch to running it generally.  I haven't had a virus in about 8 years (and I've only ever had one, that having been caught from accidentally booting off a floppy someone had handed me).  I don't have any spyware (at least not that my spyware detectors can detect).  I have numerous bits of software that only run on Windows.

Anyone?  Someone?  Anyone?

(And the first person to suggest that Linux is inherently more moral than Windows will get a kicking)

Comments

[andrewducker]

There are wikis that run under Windows perfectly well, but I wanted one I could get to all the time, so I put it on my domain.

You can install different shells in Windows too, should you want to. It's just that very few people do.

I'm not at all convinced that the Linux way is better, although it certainly has advantages. If I was a sysadmin I could probably be tempted (although sysadminning a Windows network wasn't actually hard for me when I did that), but for day-to-day usage it does everything I want pretty much instantly.