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psyjax:
feh, you should do what I did.

I have win98SE, which I use only to play games. It get's online, but only using Mozilla. Then I have Linux installed on another partition. I use Linux for everything else, I feel safer, it's more stable, and a hell of alot more fun.

Then again, you could get the ultimate upgrade and get a Mac running OSX!

OS X is the best OS in the world IMHO. It can run pretty much all linux applications, UNIX applications, Mac Applications, Windows applications (slowly thrugh an emulator), and it gets native support from many big named Apps. M$ Office (yech!), Adobe, Macromedia, etc.

The Mac is the best platform in the world. There are NO viruses, and the securety is top notch. That is my REAL suggestion, get a Mac  :D


hehhe.... but if you don't. Get Linux at least.

Kupotek:
Some people actually install Linux on macs but I don't mind darwin.

M51DPS:
It usually makes sense to install Linux only on Macs that don't support OS X. That's what I'm trying to do right now . . .

agentzmith:
Yeah,thanx for that,guys.Anyway I`ve heard somebody`s trying to revive BeOS.What did you think of that?

Calum:
it will take a very long time for them to do it, and IF they can get a stable kernel going, then it will be an incredible system. For the foreseeable future though OpenBeOS is the best vapourware to not come out in the 21st century so far.

a note about linux' security. Linux has excellent security by default (and none of the major distros have any spyware in them whatsoever) but of course no system is ever totally secure. You will still need to keep your system up to date, mandrake and red hat (among others) make this quite easy in various ways, and of course updates for linux tend to come out much sooner after a vulnerability is discovered than updates for windows.

So what i am saying is, moving to linux will make your computer much more secure, and will keep microsoft from spying on you in two ways 1) it will no longer be legal for them to spy on you and 2) you will no longer be running any microsoft software.

You'll probably still want to read up on *ix security at your leisure once you have got used to using linux though. there's always room for some improvement in your security configuration.

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