Bleys, that's why everyone who can't use Linux should get a Mac.

<i>One would spew hate at a table saw, too, if one cut off a thumb or, say, genitals, but the fact is the table saw is only intended to cut, it's not intended to be mommy and daddy.</i> --Bleys

In Windows' case, you need to remove the parts of the saw that come broken or defective out of the box, ignore some of the parts that work but are too dangerous to use, build a solid steel barrier around the saw to protect you from random breakages and shrapnel, disable the remote-control "features" which lets anyone in the world start your saw from their own living room, and replace the saw every 2 years with a saw that's exactly the same, but a different color, and incompatible with your old saw. In the case of Linux, the saw has a million buttons, but as long as you don't press the one of the ones called "self-destruct" it won't. In the case of Mac, the saw is easy to use, but costs $3500 and people will make fun of you for buying one.

BillyBob McAverageuser doesn't understand what a "firewall" does either, or how to tell a virus email from a good email; if it says it's from BillyBob Jr., why not open it? If Windows comes with IE and OE, why not use those? If Windows comes with a firewall, why should someone pay for a different one? When one of Windows patches randomly breaks something on his computer, he's going to be just as lost as if he gets a kernel panic in Linux. When he starts getting random BSoD's, what's he going to do? When a virus gets right past his AV, then what? If you're smart enough to use XP without having it meltdown, I think you're just about smart enough to use, say, Mandrake or Lindows or some newbie-Linux, and you're more than smart enough to use a Mac.

Bad thing about Linux: Everything is complicated. Bad thing about Windows: Many things are complicated, but everything LOOKS easy.