When browsing del.icio.us/popular today, I found a great article on why you shouldn’t use Linux. My favorite reason is #2: Linux is a pain to set up.
It’s true. After all, with modern Linuxes like Xandros Desktop or SimplyMEPIS, you need to put in a CD or DVD, press the enter button, give your computer a name, and enter a password for the administrator account.
Gosh, that’s hard.
On the other hand, with Windows, all you have to do is put in a CD or DVD, do all the above, and then immediately download all the available patches. After all, Symantec has found that an unpatched Windows PC connected to the Internet will last only a few hours before being compromised.
Unpatched Linux systems? Oh, they last months, but what’s the fun of that?
After spending the last three months setting up Windows for almost a thousand computers, you’d better believe that Windows, too, is a pain in the ass to setup. After installing Windows, it’s update after update. In fact, on the majority of the computer models I’m using, there are more than thirty patches to install after Service Pack 2 is isntalled!
While I had some difficulty setting up Linux on a file server at home, it was nothing compared to what I have to do to setup and patch a Windows box.
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