1. It's free...legally free.
2. Almost every useful application you would ever want to run on Linux is free.
3. When you want to update to the latest and greatest version, with all the latest and greatest features, you don't need to buy a new version...and if you want to stick with the old, you can.
4. Security. Defaults are much better than Windows. There are so many free options for increased security, SeLinux and Grsecurity just to name a couple.
5. All you need to learn about it is out there somewhere, for free, whether it's online, in a man page, or in a forum or newsgroup somewhere.
6. Performance...Linux almost never forces you to upgrade your hardware, and it always runs better on older hardware than windows.
7. Simplicity. Yes simplicity. Most young people think Windows is easy because that's what they grew up with and had the most exposure to. That's like someone in the US saying english is the simplest language.
8. The choices...the free choices, are endless. What filesystem do you want to use, what do you want installed or not installed on your system, what graphical interface do you want to use and how do you want to configure it, which pdf viewer do you want to use, etc. Windows will never be that flexible.
Sure some people get scared about linux but all it really is when it comes down to it is an operating system that constantly has more distros coming out due to the fact that anyone can update the source code and submit distrobutions.
I love it. And just abot 2 months ago I NEVER thought i would use linux. And for all you naysayors.. look up a linux live cd [google]..all you have to do is download it and burn the iso to a disk then BLAM..pop it in your computer and Linux loads..yup the full OS in about 2 minutes.
It's not that I hate microsoft..i mean i go to microsoft current technologies, so i guess me being taught by them should make me talk highly of them..but honestly...it doesnt. Linux is just smoother and makes more sense.
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It also asks too many questions, sometimes I don't care about file structures. :-)
However, I can see it's benefit and do use Linux every day.
We need a FNF BZFlag Linux only edition.
<--old Debian loyalist.
GTFO
Note bumper sticker on my last car. I miss that car..
I here Ubuntu Linux is pretty easy to use and Cedega will run most games on it.
this is for timtheterrible..
also to anyone who thinks linux has nothing to do with games. If linux can be put on a ps3 I'm pretty sure that's relevant to the gaming community.
It's nice in theory, but I don't like having to mess with the raw guts of an OS unless I can avoid it. Also, Cedega pisses me off to no end. The only way to decently run most games on an open source platform is via a closed source program with subscription fee. Awesome.
the reasonning behind free(as in freedom not as in free beer) software such as *BSD and linux distributions is to guaranty you freedom that most software vendors deny you.
just look at the crappy console DRMs
I still think Ubuntu is awesome, though. It looks pretty, it's fairly easy to get set up for general use even without any knowledge of Linux, and I rarely had issues with it.
It ran very smoothly on my computer and never randomly crapped out on me like Windows does. The way I see it, the only time anything ever goes wrong in Ubuntu is when I didn't do something right. Every issue I had was self-inflicted and could easily be fixed by looking up the problem on the internet (or asking about it on forums).
The only reason I really came back to Windows is because of the lack of support for games and other Windows programs. I messed with Cedega, but not everything ran as well as it would in Windows. I don't play PC games that much, but the small things I couldn't use (my DS's USB Wi-Fi Adapter, my 360 controller adapter, some other random programs) really built up over time.
I love Ubuntu and I had fun learning how to use it, but I'll probably stick with Windows on this hard drive. I would like to get another hard drive in the future so I can dual boot.
Another reason why Linux rocks:
Eee PC ultra portable, 7" laptop. $300.
My home computer is really just used for gaming, web browsing [s]and porn[/s], which Windows does for me with less hassle. The gaming is the deal breaker of course, as running them on Linux requires more work than I frankly care to put in. Windows does it all at least well enough, which is good enough for what I want. :p
I think Linux v. Windows may be a matter of preference. And I have a lot of respect for Linux, even though I use Windows, because a) it's free without pirating, and b) while pretending to be all independent and hardcore and such, like Apple, it, unlike apple, actually is independent and hardcore.
That´s probably the onyl way to make it work well with my system components, because VMWare gives Ubuntu the drivers... most of the times the problems you will find installing Linux are driver related.
I have tried SuSe which is probably the most powerfull Linux distribution, but most of the times as a Virtual machine.
It doesnt make any sense in an office enviroment, not yet, people just wants to make a Power Point and users are familiar with the Windows enviroment. And as they have said: Open Office sucks.
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