Unfortunate, but not unexpected.

With the power of *nix on the desktop comes as many pitfalls as benefits.

As I've been reading a lot of buzz about Linux breaking into the desktop market (and amazingly enough Linspire/Lin----/Lindows, whatever it's name is now, being sold prebundled with machines at WalMart of all forsaken places) and the high availability of broadband connections, I fear we are going to see a lot more of this happening.

After all, we have to figure that as John Q. Public starts migrating over to Linux, the people with a propensity for naughtiness are going to follow suite. And as much badness as can be launched from a Windows machine, Linux puts a lot more tools at the jerks disposal.

It is unfortunate, but we are moving into a world where no machine should be free of a "Virus" scanner, and with the complexity of *nix the scanner will have to be able to spot a wide variety of malware yet still allow any dummass to hit "Update" and then "Scan" rather than jumping through hoops to find a possible rootkit.

This will make Linux admin's jobs easier as they'll get a lot of handy point and click tools, but it is going to have the unfortunate side effect of making us less geeky. Soon every young teenie-bopper si going to sit down infront of a Linux machine and issue those unfortunate words from Jurassic Park --"This is Unix, I know this"...

Atleast we'll be able to replenish our geek factor with Gentoo, Slackware, and the various BSDs...

Could home-user *nix be the end of geek?!?!?!

Enough of my ramble,
Dhej