I think flashy desktops are just useless. I'd rather go back to the command line at that point. Trillian on my desktop uses 9 megs of ram. Out of 1024 total on the computer I am not too worried... But really I have two comptuers on a kvm and I run Trillian on the server computer while I play games on the more powerful pc.
As for changing things in linux, of course there is a lot you can do. Really I was asking you what you wanted to change in windows that you were unable to. That would be interesting to know.
I don't compare how programs physically work, I compare their ease of use, and efficiency. What burning program do you use for linux? I have always had trouble with them. = Open office is still trash in my opinion compared to Microsoft office.
As for security, here is an Excerpt from an artical at Techworld.com:
"Windows XP Professional saw 46 advisories in 2003-2004, with 48 percent of vulnerabilities allowing remote attacks and 46 percent enabling system access, Secunia said.
Suse Linux Enterprise Server (SLES) 8 had 48 advisories in the same period, with 58 percent of the holes exploitable remotely and 37 percent enabling system access. Red Hat's Advanced Server 3 had 50 advisories in the same period - despite the fact that counting only began in November of last year. Sixty-six percent of the vulnerabilities were remotely exploitable, with 25 granting system access.
Mac OS X doesn't stand out as particularly more secure than the competition, according to Secunia. Of the 36 advisories issued in 2003-2004, 61 percent could be exploited across the Internet and 32 percent enabled attackers to take over the system. The proportion of critical bugs was also comparable with other software: 33 percent of the OS X vulnerabilities were "highly" or "extremely" critical by Secunia's reckoning, compared with 30 percent for XP Professional and 27 percent for SLES 8 and just 12 percent for Advanced Server 3. OS X had the highest proportion of "extremely critical" bugs at 19 percent.
As for the old guard, Sun's Solaris 9 saw its share of problems, with 60 advisories in 2003-2004, 20 percent of which were "highly" or "extremely" critical, Secunia said. "
http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?newsid=1798I think its safe to say windows has a lot of vulnerabilities, but is also the one being scrutinized the most. The only real reason you are so secure in linux is because nobody bothers to try hacking it as it just isn't popular enough and a lot of the hackers have a vendetta against microsoft. And of course security analists focus their efforts on windows as well.
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