Re: [newbie] Dumbest test I've ever seen

[Tom & Karen Pino]

Kaj Haulrich wrote: Don't bother looking here : http://www.choice.com.au/viewArticle.aspx?id=104575&catId=100276&tid=100008&p=1 And here I thought the Aussies were bright :-( Stephen and Franki : don't you have asylums down under ? Kaj Haulrich. I had to look into this "bad test". I am sorry, but as a disgruntled MS user I see nothing wrong with this test. I recently had to use IE to get a boarding pass for Karen (learned why folks want to counterfeit using IE).  Removing the "mining" cookies with Ad Aware really screwed up both Windoze and my Netscape 7.1.  Took me 3 weeks to straighten out every thing. What does this have to do with this test?  There are a lot of us out here that are not happy the the wonderful features of MS.  The reason that most got MS is because it is easy to get.  We got it because that was the platform that had the features that we needed.  In 98 linux did not have what we need in anywhere near the easy use that we need.  Did not have, do not have, the time to get that deep into comp sci, nor the interest. Judging by this test, MAC sounds great (it was my preference in 98 but just didn't meet our needs).  MS sounds like it has the advantage of costing the most and very little else. To us, ignorant consumers, it boils down to how much time are we spending on the learning curve and maintaining the system.  Looks to me like the Linux systems come out pretty damned good in this test. It would be nice if the folks doing the tests knew more about how the linux systems work in relation to security.  I think it is unreasonable to expect it though.  Linus is an "underground, radical and possibly communist" system.  It is not mass marketed compared to MS or even MAC.  To expect writers to know anything about linux is asking too much.  I am impressed that linux was included and I think you should be too. I have found, this is my observation and oppinion, that linux users are rightfully sarcastic about MS and, for no reason that I can see, awfully defensive about linux. When somewhere in the area of 472 percent of computers use MS, it seems to me that linux is doing real well.  It is improving.  This is something that no one, except MS, claims about Windoze. This "test" is just some bunch of well meaning folks that are suprised to fine that linux is competitive.  Give them a break and they may come around. Tom ____________________________________________________ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Join the Club : http://www.mandrakeclub.com ____________________________________________________