In the end, to test all this out, a variety of browsers are available including Netscape, Opera, Mozilla and Lynx. The strong point of Linux, as with any other Unix-like OS, is networking. Jumping through hoops is rarely required for connecting to a network. Many services can be hosted off a home Linux box. A mini-server is sitting on your desktop in the guise of a PC running Linux.
Security is always an issue.
One becomes more aware of security because there are so many possible users on this single machine, let alone all those who can access the box when you're online. There is no such thing as a perfectly secure box, but Linux will let you set up certain things so it will be quite secure. Another weak point is the second extended file system, ext2fs. That's how the files are stored on disk. A hard reset is almost never required, however, as Linux is very stable.