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As a Linux desktop user himself, system administrator Chris Spencer did not relish having to clean up his wife's infected Windows PC after it had become compromised. By the time he'd solved the immediate problem, Chris Spencer had become so fed up with spyware, trojans, viruses, and spam, that he decided it was time to write a letter to the world. And its message is simple: It's time to switch from Windows to Linux.
To give you an idea, that Chris' letter is not just the usual troll-like "Linux-is-better-than-Windows"-blahblah and really is worth a read, I quoted the letter's first paragraph:
Recently I was reading an article from Wired magazine talking about the Windows spyware problem [1]. It was unbelievable to me that people would choose to use programs that they know make all their personal information available to companies. It turns out that 80% of Windows users suffer from spyware [2]. I read many articles like these but always thought that these people have problems just because they aren't careful. Maybe they don't run anti-virus, they don't use a firewall, or they browse seedy sites and download applications for seedy activities. It turns out though that is not the case.
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