You also fail to mention that the same people who run Administrator on Windows are likely to run root on GNU/Linux.

This is exactly why common sense as a security technique should be spread.

Common sense and a bit of education and a layered defence are needed. GNU/Linux is a better layer for the OS than that other OS which has priorities created by salesmen and not engineers.

If by better layer, you mean:

 • Lack of widespread malware
 • Lack of anti-malware software

Then yeah, that’s (not even) okay (with me).

Nice try Pog, but you know exactly what I mean by “state of the art” Windows XP is a now 2 generations obsolete version of the windows OS. Windows XP is simply there at this point on a population of computers that has yet to age out and be replaced. We went through the same cycle a decade ago with windows 9x, which is still running on something like 2% of the computers in the world and is “state of the art” for those computers, but it is NOT state of the art.

Don’t talk to me about obsolete OS running on the junk pile that you worked with.

I would suggest that you shouldn’t presume to pass judgment on what is available commercially currently on windows until you are actually in a situation where you are managing current applications running on windows vista or windows 7 on properly provisioned hardware with properly provisioned network connectivity,

“APT is much smoother and far more reliable.”

Irrelevant. You removed their choice and left them with no way to run anything but FOSS on Linux. THis may worked because you don’t seem to have had have anyone who was a heavy enough computer user to cause you problems, but I guarantee you that were you to go outside of the environment that you work in you might have a very different experience as you attempted to pave over users existing applications, all because it is easier for YOU.

State of the art? Do you call crashes and malware and slowing down state of the art? My users appreciate that GNU/Linux keeps on ticking. All the bloatware in the world is useless if the PC is lagging.

Not to be blunt, but if you are in a supporting situation, your opinions on what is “bloatware” are irrelevant. If the knowledge workers who you service have demonstrated certain productivity levels using commercial software on windows based desktops, then that is what you support.

As far as the avalanche of updates is concerned,even on the now obsolete windows XP running on up to date hardware the update process is pretty seamless, and Vista and Windows 7 are, as far as I have seen and experienced, even smoother.

“Many organizations find the cost of migration recovered in a few months to a year in reduced labour and the return continues indefinitely with lower licensing costs.”

Reduced labor for whom, Pog? – technicians like your self, Probably. But in many cases the people who actually have to get the work done, get to scramble to regain their lost productivity, especially as the commercial software acquires more useful features that the knowledge workers can take advantage of becasuse the FOSS applications that have been stuck with in the name ofcsaving a few bucks don’t keep up with the state of the art.