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Re:South Korean government to switch to Linux: ministry by rakoo on Saturday May 18, 2019 @11:20AM (#19947884)
Same for me, although it might be because I also switched to Linux in parallel. XP was just perfect and there was no reason to change, yet 7 came along and if you want the best protection you need to be up to date. While 7 didn't bring anything for me beyond different skins, it did its job.

Windows 10? Man I feel like I'm on an ad-infested website and I need to be careful of where I click. But I'm definitely not objective here.

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Re:South Korean government to switch to Linux: ministry by toyg on Saturday May 18, 2019 @01:10PM (#19948479)
> XP was just perfect and there was no reason to change

Lolz, I heard that already... with Windows 2000. So many (me included) spent serious time trying to strip XP of all the crap, because "Win2000 was just perfect".

In reality, XP (like 2000) was just another pile of shit. They patched the hell out of it with SP2, and still it would get owned and owned.

Vista and Windows 7 have made using Windows much safer, and Win 7 refined the interface enough to be a substantial improvement over XP. Win 7 was probably the pinnacle of pre-touch/pre-cloud Microsoft.

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Re:South Korean government to switch to Linux: ministry by codedokode on Saturday May 18, 2019 @02:06PM (#19948800)
Windows 7 also had lot of exploits. It runs many services like network file systems (NetBIOS) in kernel which makes it easier to gain access to it.
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