Hey, Dad...Can I have Linux back? | Linux Today

Hey, Dad…Can I have Linux back?

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 22, 2008

“He still wants a Vista virtual machine since Spore is a pretty
fine game and his Zune probably won’t play nice with Linux.
However, for everyday use, he’s done with Vista. Not only does it
lack the “amusing desktop effects” (which his mother hates, by the
way, on her new Linux desktop), but even running Clamwin and
Windows Defender, he still managed to infect it with a variety of
junk, rendering it useless when he had a term paper to write.”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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