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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*bitter laughter* Odd how this topic keeps coming up so much of late.

I really, really *want* to like Linux, you know? I'm always, ideologically, rooting for the underdog in the tech world. Linux. Mac. Nintendo. The guys who are *different*, who don't follow the monolithic corporate groupthink of Microsoft and Sony.

"If you can get it to work, Linux works beautifully." Well, so far, I haven't gotten past the first clause of that sentence. Once I do, I'm sure I'll rejoice and never look back.