Peter's Blog

I was going to Twitter this but realized it would need more than two sentences.

I've realized recently that my perception of windows has hardened into a feeling that windows and apps for it are only developed to exploit people. I put this down to two things:

• using lots of good free linux software, some of it so lovely it puts me in awe.
• this year most of the time I have spent in windows seems to gave been disinfecting other peoples pcs. They seem to get infected with Trojans and viruses that impersonate windows anti-virus, drive enhancers and similar crap that has left me with a deep distrust of anything other than sophos's disinfecting procedure.

I still wouldn't recommend anyone to move to Linux for anything more than a platform to run firefox. Openoffice for example is definitely not compatible enough if you have to deal commercially with clients who use microsoft word: ooo WILL bugger up the formatting of their word documents.

What conclusion can I draw? It's this, the current state of software is imperfect.

I'm tempted to buy a mac.