Hey, On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, Bob Tanner wrote: > My perspective is Linux is much cheaper then Windows. Even if you pay for a > distro you are starting out ahead. Add the virus resistence, stability, > reliability, and security out of the box. Linux should be have a better TOC then > Win2k. It's more than that. Think about this: I've been using computers for, well, a long long time. I've been adminning UNIX professionally for almost a decade. I've always had a machine with some degree of Windows on it, mostly for games and stuff. At my current job, for the first time in my professional life, I'm forced to use Win2K as my desktop OS. It's not that I can't make heads or tails of it, but it's just so damn hard to handle. So many things about it are just WRONG. Not to _mention_ Outlook! How can anyone be productive at ALL using that software? I cannot even start to count the HOURS of my time that are lost due to that piece of software. I've seen people who are Outlook _experts_ use the thing and they weren't doing a lot better than I was - and I could run circles around them using Pine. And if we'd use a lot of PHP/Web based tools rather than 50 different proprietary database access tools... Anyway, before I start ranting TOO much, the TOC Windows always ignores is how much productivity is lost just by the damn thing being hard to use. And imagine how much worse it is for us people who actually computer literate! Bah, I need sleep now. -Yaron --