Linked by Thom "Slakje" Holwerda on Fri 25th Jul 2003 19:42 UTC
To me, it's a miracle how every tiny article on OSNews.com, or any other tech-site, ends up in people shouting all sorts of nonsense at each other like "Linux is gonna bring back Elvis", "Windows shot president Kennedy", "Linux kept the cold war cold" or "Bill Gates wants to buy the moon and charge people for looking at it". Do these people really know what they are saying, or are they just going with the Open-Source flow? Update: Rebuttal article here.
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Windows is not without its bad points.
For one, you bring up windows updating, windows update is a lot simpler to use than most Linux distro update programs, but the updates themselfs are known to break things, and having to click through an EULA every so often for an update sucks.
Linux will not unify its desktop as you suggested, one of the wonderful things about Linux is the choice, and a standard distro by Suse/SCO/others was created - United Linux.
Sorry if this comes off as a troll, I use both OS's every day so i'm not saying one sucks and the others gonna save the world or anything.
PS. My slackware-9 setup boots to a gdm prompt in a comparable time it takes windows to get to its login prompt.