[LennonCook]

Originally posted by Hivetyrant: I know it has its faults, but I still think people go a little too far, plus I had too deal with yet another person who says these things and yet has absolutly no idea about what he saying, but says it anyway because he obviously thinks its the truth.

People often know more than you think.

If when I ever encounter these so called "security problems" myself, maybe then I will take an interest in open source, but problems or not, I still think the people at Microsoft did some god work and I don't mind shelling out money for something that has always worked for me and makes things easier.

You've never had spyware? Or a virus? Or needed to format because something went wrong?

Either that, or the day I can install Linux onto one of my many machines and have all the hardware succesfully detected and working.

Get Ubuntu. or SuSE. Or even Fedora Core. Get one of those, and notice that everything will work (with the possible exception of some modems and most wifi, but that's about it) without you needing to go anywhere to download and install drivers. And you'll be able to scroll a web page without it jumping everywhere. Try doing that on Windows.