Bluestealth
Minmatar
Star Scream Inc.
Tactical Narcotics Team
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Posted - 2007.01.19 17:16:00 -
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 Originally by: BustyBounty
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I am sick and tired of people treating an OS being insecure. It's not the OS that is insecure these days it's the users just trusting everything and installing toolbars here and there.
you can hardly blame buffer overflow exploits and such on the user.
there was a jpeg exploit not so long ago right? you can hardly blame the user for IE having a flaw.
you cant expect everyone to use there computer without being on an account with admin rights either
I absolutely hate windows, but I have to agree that if you run as a limited rights user, revoke a few of the stupid privileges they give you (for ex. the ability to write files almost anywhere on the drive), and don't use IE, you will probably never get a virus. There are so many annoying quirks with windows that make me hate it, but viruses and security are only a minor annoyance with XP/Vista if setup correctly.
I do believe that Microsoft is completely to blame for giving out Administrator rights, they should have stopped that with NT4, instead they are fixing it with Vista. I am also still not convinced how well they have implemented a locked down user and will have to wait for a copy of Vista to check just how "low rights" it really is.
To the poster who said an OS should get out of your way and not be complex, well Linux IS. If you choose one of the distributions targeted at average users you can easily install it and get going quickly. I doubt there are many people who couldn't sit down and start using it to do everyday computing, except for some initial shell shock from seeing something different. I would say it is about as complex as going from Windows to Mac, except its harder to buy preinstalled.
However, if you want to do more with the OS and customize it into exactly what you want it to be, go ahead all the code and tools are there for you, otherwise its just an OS, and UI and basic system tools are all you will need.
The reason that my desktop is Windows XP and not Linux at this time is lack of hardware support by Creative. There are times that I have felt like kicking my XP box because it frustrated me that much, but its still on there, it survived the kill switch last time when I realized it would be difficult to get my X-Fi with 7.1 audio working. Also I am completely reliant on BeyondTV for watching TV, and my crappy ATI TV Tuner Elite(I know it has the best picture quality, but it seems like a huge paperweight) has no linux drivers (Woe be me, should have got the hauppauge).
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