I never let the kids use Windows
Harsh dude, windows is the most kid friendly os around.
They're really missing out.
A gross misperception. It wasn't until they were prolly 17 or so that their cousin told them it wasn't Windows. and, the only downside he was able to point out to is that he couldn't hack it. he liked to show off how easily he could hack windows, telling stories of how he got porn to pop up on all the computers in the class at the same time. He had the nerve to ask me if he could download an illegal copy of windows and install it so he could hack it! LOL
BTW, separately, when he was telling them how he did a FB phishing attack with a fake login, he told them I was the only one who didn't fall for it.
Linux is at least as kid friendly. You click on Firefox and it opens! lol. Facebook and Youtube look the same.
I loved hearing the kids explain to other kids how it is "just like windows" and how you can do all the same things. When people make false statements about Linux, I know they have little to no experience using it, because that's the only possible explanation. Linux is super kid friendly. It even has special versions for very young kids.
Wait a minute, if your children are 18 or above, why would you stop them from using any OS? More So if they can buy their own gadgets. Linux is actually a kernel, but the rest of the OS is what is usually crappy. Bad UI layout, a ton of people set on making CLI for the rest of their lives, not enough love for the GUI.
The argument I love to use is, just like mining, if there is no money involved(and a job) people just don't do very good. I mean look at Windows's UI(Not W8's Metro thingy), we have Aero, bunch of cool stuff like that.
Who's stopping them. They just only use Linux on my computers. They can buy and use whatever they want. But, if you knew them, you'd realize they don't have a preference. They use the same apps on both.
There is a lot of money behind Linux. A TON. IBM alone sinks over $1 billion a year on it. There's RedHat. Heck, Microsoft has become a top contributor to the kernel now. Over 95% of the world's top 500 supercomputers run it. It runs Android and Chrome OS. It is in many of the hardware devices you use, like blu ray players, media players, etc,...
As for Aero, Linux had that first. People were shocked at all the kool things my windows could do in Linux, like wabble when you dragged them. Then Aero came out -- which was understandably the first introduction to kool desktop graphics for Windows users.
I use Windows over 90% of the time for work, running Win 7 VMs inside of Win 7 on i7s, and hosting eBusiness solutions on Win 2008 servers, in addition to AIX, in DCs. I personally run all my servers on Centos, though.
