This will not surprise anyone who knows about computer

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How in the name of Hell and of every variety of evil did Norton Antivirus ever become the best-selling commercial protection software? The damned thing is as damaging as the viruses it's supposed to fight. It has just caused me the most elaborate and unmanageable computer crash I have ever seen, which even led to me being physically injured (as I was removing the battery and the power cable, the only way I could see to shut the machine down, it fell over straight on my ankle, where it cut right into the flesh). To misquote the old song, Norton is a moron.

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[dirigibletrance.livejournal.com]

Bleh on Linux! As much as I love the idea of open-source computing concptually... I have yet to get Linux to *actually work* when I've tried to use it. Even the supposedly ultra-friendly Ubuntu, which even a non-savvy person is supposed to be able to set up and get going with right away.

The day that I can can Linux to function as easily and painlessly as Windows does most of the time, then I'll jump on the bandwagon with you. But that day hasn't come yet.

[guarani]

I'd been using it since the late 90's and had never had any problem deploying it either in a corporate network or in personal computers. Now I'm not using it just because the only PC I have access to belongs to the company that hires me, and Linux is not an option for it. But I'm planning to mount my own notebook, which will run Linux (and maybe have a WIN partition to be used with VMWare, for the few programs that I cannot get to run under WINE).

That being said, I understand that the choice to use of a given system comes always from a combination of factors, and I'm not aware of yours (except for the ease of use that you mention). All systems have their pros and cons, and this is by no means some sort of "evangelizing" crusade.