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Users? What do you suppose will happen to machines of users who rely on just the default software for "simple things like red eye removal"? Of course, I'm not
by lake99 14y ago
Users? What do you suppose will happen to machines of users who rely on just the default software for "simple things like red eye removal"?
Of course, I'm not partial to Linux in this case. BSD and Mac users don't have the virus and trojan troubles that most Windows users are plagued with.
- klibertp 14y ago> What do you suppose will happen to machines of users who rely on just the default software for "simple things like red eye removal"? Um, they won't get infected with viruses or trojans? But what do you count as default? Random, preinstalled crapware from HP, Dell and others or Windows components? If the former, then I saw similarly bloated and useless versions of these for Linux, too. I'm a FreeBSD user and I love it. I can't imagine my grandmother using my system for longer than five minutes. She certainly wouldn't get a virus, because she would be completely unable to install anything. But, she now has Windows XP installed and, she has no problems with viruses or trojans. It took me awhile to convince her NOT to click on anything that has the word "free" in it, but I managed. She does not want to watch porn either. This eliminates both most common ways people get 'infected'. And she's got not one virus or trojan, for four years now and counting.
- lake99 14y agoI don't use *ubuntu myself, but this is what I install on friends' PCs (Ubuntu earlier, Xubuntu now). By "simple things like red eye removal", I was referring to something the original author wrote. I then teach them how to add/remove software themselves, and to click on the occasional software update notifications. Life becomes a lot easier for me after that. I have seen disk space problems on Macs though.