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| Newer page: | version 3 | Last edited on Tuesday, April 1, 2003 8:22:44 pm | by JohnMcPherson | Revert |
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-It's [Free].
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It's [Free]. Both senses, gratis and liberty
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+# It's secure. (Well, more secure than MicrosoftWindows). Based on [Unix] concepts, it was designed from the ground up for a multi-user networked environment. Desktop users can't accidentally or deliberately remove or change system files, and viruses targetting the linux desktop are almost unheard of. (And you don't get a default blank administrator password).
+# You can have a user friendly desktop environment. Although people often complain about them, [IMHO] recent versions of both [KDE] and [GNOME] are no harder to learn to use than any MicrosoftWindows or Classic Mac user interfaces, and are more robust.
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Some IssuesWithWindows from a [Slashdot|http://www.slashdot.org] post
