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RE: Switch to Linux- no more viruses and your system won't crash so much

" I need an OS which I can rely upon for the forseeable future."

Actually just about any of them. I got versions that will boot right off the CD, and drive the video right and even most sound cards. Some audiophiles have external DA convertors so you don't even have to worry about that, though you would have to learn to stream your online or ondisk music to USB.

Windows is going to stop working because of browser problems and whatot, like the vulnerabilities. I have long held the opinion that it is possible that companies like Norton and McAffe write some viruses. I am starting to suspect that Microsoft does it to attack older versions. They are in business to make money. (Windows is like a virus in many ways)

Think about this, if you are a software engineer and are privvy to the backdoors and whatever and can do all sorts of things with a PC, don't you have a job or something ?

Yes, but when you go home at night, before wrestling with the kids you do a little bit of coding on your little virus project and figure out how to propagate it and then show up at work at McAffe in the morning and figure out a fix for it, which is much easier when you wrote the thing.

Job security. And if you have that job that means the suits don't know what you're doing, otherwise they would have done it themselves to save money. So you take your fifty grand a year home and they make millions.



Edits: 10/20/16

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