LOL this guy has no understanding about what spyware does when you talk about switching to linux will beat spyware - you are just plain stu*** 80% are infected ... I say at least 90% but 95% out of those 9x% are infected because of the users sitting in front of the PC ... I mean I hear ppl. saying ... get a firewall to fight worms / viruses c'mon how LOL is that ??? I am online for 3 years now ... this mean 24/7/365 ... I never had any firewall installed not even the MS included and I really NEVER got any malware installed silently the only thing I got was MS blaster since I installed SP2 beta which did not allow to install normal SP1 patches, so I did not have the MSblaster fix till uninstalling SP2 and patching to sp1 + fixes but to say linux means less spyware / trojans or malware in general is just wrong

Non-technically oriented people do not use Linux since its not a no-brainer OS. A no-brainer OS must be constructed in a way where security-risks are greater. If everyone did switch, Linux will be the prime target for attacks. Theese will first strike the inexperienced users, after that the experienced. Think for awhile about the billions and billions of people currently using Microsoft. Remember the people that actually produces theese nifty little applications, and think what will happen once thoose nifty people moves to the Linux platform. When the market uses Linux, it will attract producers of trojans, spyware, viruses and similiar applications. If the market uses Linux, and Linux is therefore rebuilt into a 'no-brainer os', how could it compete with the threat, considering how dis-organized they are. The developers are not payed to work 24h daily and hire new users just to shut every hole previously mentioned people come up with.

Baahahaha! I always have to laugh at this yen and yang philosophy that everyone has some inbred need to show which side they belong too. I guess people need conflict to feel alive. Truth is that if all you do with your PC is browse the web and occasionally write documents and send emails then Open Source is your baby. If you want to play games on your PC (talking real games, not solitare) then M$ is just about your only option (and just to show you I am ahead of you, the console argument fundamentally doesn't apply to the topic at hand). Open Source in the business world is like a free hooker that looks like a ten, especially when you already have talent in-house, which means no external support fees. Linux as a desktop OS just doesn't cut it for me, and while there are apps that do just about everything a Win app can, you have much less of a choice in the open source world. In the linux world you may only have one or two choices, in the Win world you may have a hundred plus. Etc... So basically in a corporate enviroment, open source = yes, for your desktop use 2k or XP unless you are too good for games then by all means try a nice flavour of linux (but be prepared to use a text editor to get it to work). If you use 2k or XP, drop IE and use Maxthon , best browser I have ever used.