Speaking of operating systems.
I run about a dozen PCs in my house for various reasons.
Owning a few dedicated machines doesn't have the same problems as trying to load everything onto a single swiss army computer and keep it secure. You can keep them clean and fast. My spouse uses 3 in a private consulting business. Each is dedicated to a specific client VPN and keeps everybody's data physically separate. One is offline 99% of the time because it is only used in talking to the bank accounts (Ubuntu, GPG, Tor & TrueCrypt on that one.) Not much is more secure than an air gap.
BTW they're essentially free if you buy a couple of generations back.
I've got two W98SE machines currently up. One runs a small CNC mill in the basement and the other runs a large format printer in the spare bedroom. You'd be surprised how fast an old leaner OS runs on a multi GHz machine compared to a new fat one.
I run about a dozen PCs in my house for various reasons.
Owning a few dedicated machines doesn't have the same problems as trying to load everything onto a single swiss army computer and keep it secure. You can keep them clean and fast. My spouse uses 3 in a private consulting business. Each is dedicated to a specific client VPN and keeps everybody's data physically separate. One is offline 99% of the time because it is only used in talking to the bank accounts (Ubuntu, GPG, Tor & TrueCrypt on that one.) Not much is more secure than an air gap.
BTW they're essentially free if you buy a couple of generations back.
I've got two W98SE machines currently up. One runs a small CNC mill in the basement and the other runs a large format printer in the spare bedroom. You'd be surprised how fast an old leaner OS runs on a multi GHz machine compared to a new fat one.
So how, exactly, does God know that She's NOT a brain in a vat? 
