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MrWizard wrote:
for some people, in the long run, you are correct about less problems TOTAL

but installing a new OS, learning to use this OS, finding installing programs to replace those you know, and learning to use them

is not quicker or easier for Most people

for most dealing with the occasional malware or virus is easier than starting over

powderman426 wrote:

drsteve wrote:
powderman426, many people on this forum don't know the difference between a downloaded file and a drive partition. Asking them to install and run Linux, even with the user-friendly distros available today, is unrealistic.

I can appreciate your thoughts on the matter, but installing a new operating system is much easier than trying to deal with anti-malware or anti-virus installation or use especially when having to make modifications to the registry which is often necessary after being infected. If anyone has questions about how to make the transition, I will be happy to help where I can, and point them to a more knoweledgable source when I can't. To continually deal with having to cleanup your system everytime you get hit is much harder than correcting the problem at the source.:B

You make a VERY IMPORTANT point that folks like powderman like to gloss over or ignore and that is all the things that go along with installing a less supported OS system like Linux. It's all the software programs like databases, word processing, tax programs, scanners and printers that may or may not have 100% compatibity with a different OS than what an OP is currently using that can reek havoc with blindly going down that not often traveled road that someone like powderman is quickly recommending be take. That's why IMO blanket recommendations like powderman made w/o knowing or acknowledging these potential side issues seem far fetched to me. Nothing is 100% and some work arounds or fixes are going to be needed whatever one might use and in this case the issues were solved and the OP satisified so taking such alternative actions such as powderman chimed in to consider were not called for or needed.

I guess I could also suggest for the OP to just throw away what he has and get an Apple also:E

Larry