Is that why Windows has only 30 in-the-wild viruses, few exploits beyond quickly-fixed 0-day exploits, and a nearly-impenetrable access control system available for its open source kernel?

Oh wait, that’s Linux, not Windows. Anyone who says Windows is higher quality than Linux doesn’t know what the f*ck they’re talking about. Sorry Dwindle, have you even USED Linux before, or are you just talking out of your a*ss?

Linux is not just “geek cred.” Outside the desktop, Linux is KILLING Windows, and absolutely dominating just about anything else.

And on the desktop, while Linux hasn’t taken the market, I can SAFELY say Linux is way ahead of Windows on the desktop, usability and quality-wise. More flexible, better usability features, can fit any user like a glove. Also, there’s NOTHING in Windows 7 Ultimate you can’t get in even Ubuntu for free, and more, and Ubuntu is probably the least well-maintained Linux distribution out there.

Linux is also far speedier and nowhere NEAR as bloated as Windows is. True story: I did a comparison of Windows 7 without any extras and Arch Linux with ALL my software installed. Windows 7 “barebones” was still a whopping 12 GiB, whereas Arch with loads of extra software didn’t even clear 3 GiB.

And Linux is an OS with software that beats out Windows in features and quality for most software, and they STILL manage to keep things slim.

Let’s not even bother arguing the fact Linux supports way more hardware out-of-the-box than Windows (Try installing a RETAIL copy of Windows. The reason Windows works “out-of-the-box” on PCs is because OEMs do the legwork of putting drivers in for you. If you install Windows yourself you can expect next to nothing actually WORKING properly, if at all.), has a significantly larger driver base, can run on more than three CPU architectures.

The only thing Linux doesn’t have going for it is gaming, and its not for a lack of technology. With OpenGL/OpenAL/OpenCL support up the wazoo (All three of which have been proven time and time again to actually be far more technically sound and more powerful than anything DirectX has to offer yet.) and no less than THREE different gaming APIs (Allegro, SDL, and SFML.), all of which outperform and outpower DirectX, Linux could be a veritable monster on a gaming machine if game developers would stop buying into the DirectX marketing. Just ask John Carmack how well his dedication to OpenGL has been working out for him.

Lets also point out the fact that open source has been shown to drastically improve the security, stability, and quality of its software. Linux is open source. Windows is not.

Linux is less quality than Windows, my a*ss.

I have worked with Windows operating systems for 13 years and i can safely say that its a pile of cack. I have never used anything else TBH but feel Microsoft has never fixed serious issues like memory seepage or listened to its customer base. My attitude is don’t fix/break something that isn’t broken, XP was MS’s best effort. All Microsoft seem interested in is reinventing the same old package at the customers expense with a couple of extra gimics. Lets change classic view that 90% of the population of the world use without issue to some unfriendly view that makes harder work. How many staff all over the world groan at the idea that MS will yet again bring out another OS that has no relevance to the everyday user or business!!!!!