Windesperation

“As I was browsing the Web, I read this comment of a user who
considered that Windows is a necessary OS “to get things done”. He
said this in the context of his disappointment with Linux because
of the need of the command line (it was actually Ubuntu that he
meant, but people very often fail to understand that Canonical’s
distro does not represent accurately all other Linux
distributions).

“At home, I have a dual-boot desktop PC that starts by default
with Mandriva Linux 2010 Spring (PowerPack). The other OS is
Windows XP SP3, which I had not used for more than three months
until today. After I read the comment, and since I hadn’t used
Windows at home for quite a long time, I thought that it would be
fun to boot my desktop in XP to finish installing all the software
that was pending after my last formatting, so I restarted the
system in Windows “to get things done” and this is what
happened:

“The First Woe: Fear the Curse of Fear

“The PC greeted me with the long-forgotten warning: “Your
Antivirus is outdated. Click here to update it”. After enjoying
antivirus-free Web browsing with Mandriva, one quickly forgets that
this warning is the second display of affection that you obtain in
Windows after not using it for a while.”

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