Jus curios of how popular Linux has gotton. I personally use a windows xp pro, w/ windows vista beta on a duel boot. But i have used Linux SUSU, which I think its awesome especailly because its open source, and theirs bascily 0 viruses for it, while windows has what a million? (I did guess, its not an accurate number). But its down fall is getting software you may want to use to work for this type of OS.

i have recently gotten a copy of redhat linux 9 but i havent insatalled it yet
my mate tells me it is 100% better than windows and you can edit the menu etc to your own preference

i used it for a while and personally it was never a match made in heaven i cant seem to get on with it

see both have its own benifits and drawbacks.you will get so many viruses for windows due to its popularity.see anybody who is creating a virus that buddy will not do it for some users they want that most of the users should suffer because of them ,most of users are using windows so you will get no of viruses.if you have good antivirus,antispyware,firewall and you are updating windows regularly then need not to worry about virus.windows is good for end users it is too user friendly and unix and linux is good for administration part or we can say for server role.

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Anand D

Danand has raised a point the reason why infact windows is always smothered in virus's and people who own MACs say how secure they are ...yadda yadda yadda is because the statistics are something like 90% pc's in the world against 10% macs, so it is really not worth a virus creator desinging a virus that will be 10% effective.

I have been trying a couple of linux freeware o/s , i found them very intresting and made a change from xp etc, but i do not seem clever enough to set up a internet conection as there does not apear to be any wizards etc to help am i thick or what, there is a lot to be said for microsoft they are always there to help the not so clever like me , but linux realy is atractive i am one of these people who loves multi boot systems as many as four os on my old pc, hope i have not gon on to much but i am enjoying ths forum thing:
alan

I've been using Linux distros for about 6 months now, Ubuntu, Granular are the ones I have the most experience with and neither of them gave me any problem getting online,they detected and set up everything automatically. I'm using Granular and windows XP pro on my computer right now, The only reason I am using XP at all is because I just can not find a couple Linux versions of programs I use in XP.

If you want to try a Linux I highly recommend Granular, it like most Linux versions is free to download. One draw back with Linux is that they are always releasing new versions and when a new one is out there are bugs that need to be worked out so I suggest you try a "stable" version, this is not a testing one.