Why do people switch to Linux 13500

On Sunday 30 October 2005 19:50, winnotlin stood up and spoke the following words to the mbuttes incomp.os.linux.advocacy...:

None of the drivers I've ever had to install came with a SETUP.EXE. If they had, things would probably have been easier.

I beg your pardon, but Windows is not thoroughly tested at all. The only test Windows really goes through is the Turing-test.

95% of the people I know who have Windows on their machines have already had their machines compromised. The other 5% were most likely not aware of their machine being compromised.

The point is that this should not happen. Additionally, I had to give my NT several pbuttes of the defragger - I had to use Norton's defragging utility for that as an NTFS defragger wasn't included in NT back then.

I've also had to defragvfaton Windows 98 SE, which also required several pbuttes and still left fragmented files behind at each pbutt, albeit that they were always different files than in the previous pbutt.

I found that not everything in the menu structure of Program Files is ordered consistently. You will often find duplicate entries or broken links.

It's also quite beyond my understanding what the logic is behind Microsoft's decision to categorize something as an Accessory or as something else.

The last machine I was asked to do something on was a Windows XP Home machine, and that was two weeks ago.

I was asked to uninstall Kazaa, as my brother's kids had been leeching mp3's to such an extent that my brother overdrew his download quota - he's with the same ISP as I am.

The first attempt to uninstall Kazaa led to the InstallShield Wizard - or whatever its correct name is - crashing, because Kazaa was still running under my nephew's account, although my brother had logged him out.

I couldn't find the Task Manager anywhere in the menu, and it was due to a pure coincidence - my brother's eldest also has an autistic disorder, and as he picked up the word "crash" from our conversation despite that he was doing his homework, he said "Control-Alt-Delete" - that I remembered from NT that this combination indeed calls up the Task Manager.

I had to kill the process from there, as I didn't want to log out again from my brother's account - it's set up with Administrator privileges; don't look at me, I didn't set it up that way ;-) - and log back into the boy's account just to terminate a process, and then log back out of that account and into my brother's account to uninstall the damn thing.

terminates the processes the user has started, unless the user has specifically started them with the intent of them surviving a logout, e.g. through ascreensession or by daemonizing the process.

GUI applications do not survive a logout, with the word "survive" in this context meaning that they keep on running after the user has logged out from the system. And this is how it should be, unless you're talking of a VNC session, which is quite a different thing.

the time, but they really are daemons, i.e. systemwide "services", such as the Apache webserver, a ProFTPd server, an intrusion detector,syslogd,et al.

-- With kind regards,

*Aragorn* (Registered GNU-Linux user #223157)