Mandrake disappointment 1758
Ok, let's grant you that you knew that there were more than four distros... it is questionable, but...
For many users XP is just impossible to use - if nothing else the malware and the fear of malware cripples the experience.
I do point my students to reasonable precautions they can take - and do not encourage they leave Windows... I just offer others ideas for those that do want to.
And with the mess of the registry and DLL hell, XP is simply not as easy to trouble shoot as is OS X, at least. Can not say I know enough about Linux to say. Still, other than *maybe* being able to find a pref file to delete, most new users can not trouble shoot OS X much either.
I have an older PC and will put a second "play" drive in it in a few months...
Much of Linux seems to be trying to copy Windows - at least in looks. The screen shots of the new GNOME with several apps was the first time I have seen the type of consistency in Linux that I see daily on OS X... though keep in mind I have only been even semi-seriously looking at Linux for a short time. -- I am one of only .3% of people who have avoided becoming a statistic.
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