The new faces of Linux – Who Do I Yell At?

[ Thanks to An Anonymous
Reader for this link. ]

“So Rick Singerman, being what he would refer to as a
“typical home user”, lived the typical Windows Experience. He
resigned himself to doing steady backups and wiping his computer
clean every six months to restore the speed and snappiness
experienced by a new install. He got the maintenance religion after
having to do these installs every 6 months. Since he downloaded
programs constantly and installed/uninstalled applications daily,
his system was subject to becoming unstable much sooner than the
normal Windows install. Rick provides us with advice given to him
by the local shop that did his computer repair for him:

“…Make sure you defrag the hard drive monthly, scan for
viruses/spyware on a tri-weekly basis (if not more), run a registry
cleaner at the very least monthly and do a disk cleanup at least
once a week. We recommend you stay away from the free virus tools
and use the ones that we recommend on our website. (I would guess a
reseller fee here – h) Also be aware that there are programs we
recommend that can automate many of these tasks for you and you can
find them on our website as well. If you do not have the time we
will be happy to set up a maintenance plan on a quarterly basis to
do this for you.””

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