Windows 7 won't kill Linux on the desktop or anywhere else for that matter. Linux is a brilliant OS for everything its good at (low fragmentation, excellent memory handling, brilliant server reliability), I've always had a copy of Linux installed on my laptop - Fedora,Ubuntu,CentOS. I have also played with Mac OS X, All the major OS players have there pros and cons (for example Mac OS X - you have to by mac hardware)
One of windows' major con - reliability. I constantly see laptops filled with adware/spyware, with fragmentation levels through the roof.
Trying to get a workable system out of these laptops (without formatting) is a tough and lengthy challenge, So I tend to do what everyone does with windows... format it and start again.
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posted by Mark Willis
