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Correction on a couple points
My Linux boxes don't slow down over time.
Neither do my Windows boxes. That has more to do with the user than the OS.

No increase in lag while 50,000 applications startup at boot.
Linux can start up 50,000 applications with no lag? Doubtful. Regardless, if a user has installed 50,000 applications to run on startup, this is a user problem, not an OS problem.

It's astonishing to me that some people have just come to accept reinstalling the software every so often as the price of using Windows.
What am I doing wrong then? I must not be experiencing the true joys of running Windows because since leaving the W9X era, I don't think I've had to reinstall an application to get it working.

And it never bothers them to pay for an antivirus subscription on top of what they paid for the OS.
There are great, free anti-virus tools. That, plus a little common sense goes a long way. Again, it boils down to users, not the OS.

The number one thing a Windows user can do to avoid ANY of this is to install and use Firefox. Spyware installation comes in 2 forms: drive-by and piggybacked. Avoid drive-by by avoiding IE. Avoiding piggybacked spyware is trickier but if the software has the words FREE!!!!!! anywhere in its documentation, it probably isn't. Oh, and if there were enough home Linux users out there to make it worthwhile, Linux absolutely cannot be made immune to piggybacked spyware without taking away a user's ability to install software... a step also possible with Windows.
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Bwahaha!! Microtrash at it again!  Jeff Spicoli | 01/20/05
OMG!  Roger Ramjet | 01/20/05
Our guys estimate 50% reduction  Chad_z | 01/20/05
Correction on a couple points  NonZealot | 01/20/05
Correction on my correction!  NonZealot | 01/20/05
Correct on correction  Sunny Jalolly | 01/20/05
Incorrect correction  Roger Ramjet | 01/20/05
Correction on incorrect correction  NonZealot | 01/20/05
Questionable correction on incorrect correction  toomuchgreeatea@... | 01/20/05
Good question  NonZealot | 01/20/05
Re: Good question  toomuchgreeatea@... | 01/20/05
Correction: Re: Good Question  toomuchgreeatea@... | 01/20/05
Server answer  NonZealot | 01/20/05
Yeah  Jeff Spicoli | 01/20/05
Civil penalty  jsjag1 | 01/20/05
Um..  Patrick Jones | 01/20/05
Most spyware never give the choice  voska | 01/20/05
Pop up window  jsjag1 | 01/20/05
I NEVER click on ANY buttons  Jeff Spicoli | 01/20/05
Gator..  Patrick Jones | 01/20/05
RE "Civil penalty"  ajapierce | 01/20/05
You said it!  Roger Ramjet | 01/20/05
What "are" you talking about  jsjag1 | 01/20/05
MICROSUCKS should be sued big time !!!  realitycheck101 | 01/20/05
How about this.  Scubajrr | 01/20/05
Mercenary Hackers  Roger Ramjet | 01/20/05
The sky is falling -- NOT  Sunny Jalolly | 01/20/05

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