Comments on: 5 Things to Remember When Using Linux http://www.pcmech.com/article/5-things-to-remember-when-using-linux/ Tech Powered Life... Simplified Tue, 14 May 2013 18:56:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: richtea http://www.pcmech.com/article/5-things-to-remember-when-using-linux/#comment-89023 richtea Thu, 31 Jan 2013 12:32:15 +0000 http://www.pcmech.com/?p=17635#comment-89023 Having used Ubuntu for years, there has been not a single incident of infection. Still, ClamAV is excellent and to be recommended to anyone for occasional use. If there are minor security issues on Linux, they invariably happen via browsers with loose settings. Running Firefox or Chromium in private mode keeps the system clean.
Those who want top-notch security by default will install OpenBSD.

]]> By: gordintoronto http://www.pcmech.com/article/5-things-to-remember-when-using-linux/#comment-88887 gordintoronto Wed, 30 Jan 2013 22:00:28 +0000 http://www.pcmech.com/?p=17635#comment-88887 “Command line all the way”???? Not with Ubuntu or Mint, or any of the other popular distros. If I’m helping someone, I might suggest they use a command, but usually it’s because I can say, “paste this command” instead of “run this program, click here, select this tab, click some more, type something, select an option, click on OK, etc, etc.”

Here’s the two big barriers to using Linux: a person has to figure out how to boot from something other than the hard drive, and they need to understand partitions at some level. I suspect most PCMech users can handle both issues. For anyone who yearns for Windows XP, Linux Mint with Cinnamon is a modern, supported alternative.

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