Businesses should dump Windows for the Linux desktop
Last Updated on October 5, 2023 by David Both
Here is an interesting article by Steven J. Vaughan-Nichols at “The Register.”
https://www.theregister.com/2022/08/10/opinion_column_drop_windows_for_linux
Some of the highlights
- Businesses should dump Windows for the Linux desktop.
- …Windows’ security mess has never been just because Windows is more popular. I’d argue Windows is insecure by design.
- It [Windows] was never, ever meant to work in a networked world. So, security holes that existed back in the day of Windows for Workgroups, 1991, are still with us today in 2022 and Windows 11.
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