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Originally Posted by debtboy
AWhy don't you ask the average trained technician
to help with your Linux problem and take notice of the look you'll get (Ha! Ha!)
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Unix and other systems existed long before Windows, and there are still a large number of trained technicians for such systems. I don't know how old you are, but judging by what you write, I was servicing and programming Unix and other systems on a whole range of computers before you were born, and long before PC's even existed.
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Trained technicians are also trained not to waste time, and if they are unable to solve a problem quickly, to escalate it properly.
I can't ask any "average" technicians such questions, all mine were well above average, that's why they worked for me in the first place.
There are fundamental differences in the approach to problems by various users and technicians.
Professional technicians are trained to save time and money. For what a top technician costs for two hours work, you can buy a new top class PC.
Some users are interested in the "nuts and bolts" of their machines, the vast majority are not. There is nothing fundamentally wrong with any of these approaches, but they result in different viewpoints.
Clicking on an e-mail, or indeed anything else, when you don't know what it is, is operator error. It has nothing at all to do with the security of the operating system.
In professional networks, people are often simply prevented from clicking on various things. The administrator ( who knows what he is doing),sets things up so that they can not do so. There are also a large number of other security protocols used in professional networks.
On PC's, especially those with direct internet connections, there are no such safeguards.
That does not mean that a particular system is unsafe, ( although it is often interpreted in such a fashion), merely that those using the system don't know how to use it properly.
Anybody with sufficient know-how can shut down any system in existence with a single click. Lots of people with very little know-how also do it constantly.
Linux is inherently "safer" on PC's for a variety of reasons, not the least of which because it is simply not worth a hacker`s trouble to target it. It also has a great many inherent disadvantages. Even after all this time the hardware and periphery support is miserable, again because it is not worthwhile for software/hardware suppliers to target it either.
QUOTE"Mike it's a good debate, but as usual a Windows user looks at Linux
with a Windows mind-frame. Linux is structured very differently and I
sometimes attack and provoke to bring out some solid facts.UNQUOTE
I use lots of systems, some you probably have never even heard of, I don't have a particular "mind-frame" in regard to any specific system.
"Attacking and provoking", however one does it, merely causes aggression, and rarely brings out any facts, "solid" or otherwise.