Posted on 10/04/2012 11:01:13 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
OK. I use Linux every day. At work. In a Windows desktop environment. The Office products available to me a perfectly compatible with the Windows machines around me--including Exchange, Word and Excel.
I get more work accomplished than any other person on my team. I am less vulnerable to virii and trojans. I know that if I leave my desk, my laptop is safe from intrusion due to my disk encryption. Unlike my teammates, I do not have to connect to our linux servers through a third-party program, like PuTTy, which makes me much more efficient.
I don't have to worry about "patch Tuesday" or other zero-day exploits. I know whether the kernel, or program I'm using is currently vulnerable to some kind of attack, and don't have to wait on some nebulous corp to assure me one way or the other.
No Microsoft Office, and I’m sorry but the free Office alternatives for Linux are all crap.
When was the last time you used one of these alternatives? Were you trying to do something that MS has decided you need to do? I have never been in an environment where you needed half the features of Office Bloatware--unless the user was a showoff, trying to impress his co-workers. Excel spreadsheets work just fine, as do document templates in Word. I connect to Exchange 2010 directly with no issues and can send/receive mail.
Just because they look and feel slightly different does not make them "crap."
The moment you connected your computer to the Internet, you exposed yourself to that risk.
And also consider all those government, corporate and medical databases that are also connected. Good security can lock things down, but no one can be 100% sure.
My point is, we're already there. The "cloud" began when people started putting content on the Internet, and others started connecting to it.
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