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Originally Posted by Shades
Personally I think variation is a good thing. People can choose the OS that they want instead of choosing one that someone else decided was perfect for everyone.
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I agree also. The fact that there are so many different Linux distributions and several different package systems and many different repositories, makes it hard to write malware for Linux. It's a bonus of "fragmentation."
As an aside, there is a learning curve with Linux. But what people seem to forget is that there was a learning curve with DOS and Windows also. They just don't remember that. If you write right-handed it's become automatic by now. If you break your right arm, and have to write with your left-hand for a while, it's frustrating because you know what you have to do and what it should look like, but your left-hand has to be trained (just like your right hand was trained for handwriting long ago). I kind of look at Linux like this. It "looks" like it should work like Windows, but it doesn't. So there is some learning necessary. The problem is it doesn't come soon enough for most folks. They want to be up and running without learning anything. When I realized that I finally quit going back to Windows every time Linux became too much of a challenge. Only when you work through the challenges do you actually learn Linux. And it really doesn't take that long, you just have to stick with it. It's now automatic for me and Windows now seems convoluted and stilted.