Bill Vlahos wrote:
"Other than not being "Signed by Microsoft" (unless I go through the
certification/payment process), is there anything wrong with what I'm
suggesting?"
Having spent most of last night "bu**ering around" with a friend's PC which
sported 5 Trojan horses (1 of them even claimed to be "Signed by Microsoft")
and all sorts of jolly bent cookies, viruses and so forth, I can't help but
view "Signed by Microsoft" as neither an endorsement or anything else of any
great significance.
I would even go so far as to say that I would feel far more comfortable with a
Windows program that made no such claim; then when it turned out to be
something awful I wouldn't feel so cheesed-off!
Well; good things sometimes arise out of misfortune; my friends have asked me
to scrub their PC and pop Ubuntu on it + WINE: nothing could give me greater
pleasure. These friends run a notary's office and have 5 PCs which got badly
bashed by some Ransomware about 2 years ago; I scrubbed their Windows and they
have been running Ubuntu + Open Office Org with no crashes, no demands from
Russian crooks for money, and no Trojans or viruses; so they are already well
aware of the advantages of well-installed Linux (and I use "well-installed"
advisedly, as simply bunging a distro on a PC can sometimes produce negative
results). The only problem these folk have to face is telling their 10 year old
that he will lose all his computer games (a thing for which I have no sympathy
at all as, as far as I am concerned, 90% of computer games serve no purpose
except to numb the brain); will introduce the "poor little mite" to Wesnoth.
sincerely, Richmond Mathewson.
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