Hello,
I tried to convince somebody I know to move to Linux at home and
at work. I am myself an advocate user of Linux at work and at home. He works with a XP at work (a hightech company; however , he is
not a programmer) ,and also XP at home.When listing the main advantages of Linux , the most important one
I had thought of was security ; when you access the internet from a Linux
machine, chances that you get a virus or spyware or someone will intrude
your machine are smaller ; He answered that , when thinking in the long
term (2-3 years) , as more people will use linux as a desktop,
this can be easiy changed; moreover, he claimed that since Linux is an open source,
maybe it is even easier to develop viruses/spyware to it. In this point
I did not know what to answer him. I am not a
security expert; it could be that he is right in this point.
Other Linux benefits that I thought of is that since Linux is open source, all applications he will probably need are handy for download; in winodws you cannot download office ....
He argued that migrating to Linux will takes time because you need to learn many new things; The security solution of XP (the XP firewall) and the free antispyware sw are enough for him; And he isn't convinced that it is worth to inverst time in migating to Linux.
Are there other Linux benefits which I can pose for moving to Linux ? (except the idea of moving to open and free source).
Dan Kaspi
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