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Linux Unanticipated
by Andrew McCaskey
The John Dvorak column in PC magazine might just hold out one of the most significant stories of the decade.
Recently a family dinner brought up the subject of one of the recent XP overnight reboot upgrades that effectively broke every machine in the house. My brother – who’s business depends on the computer for much of the day was once again the unwilling IT technician.
The problem turned out to be that the XP upgrade broke something in Zone Alarm, and there was no clear path other than to continually roll back the system to before the Windows Update.
The vision that an instant on system into Linux, with Firefox available immediately, wifi and apps such as Google and Zoho will insure that he would seldom if ever boot into WIndows would sell him on a system upgrade in a hot second.
As a matter of fact, it would sell me as well, given our direct family experience with Vista and Windows machines in general.
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