Updated: IMHO, Why Linux wins over Windows - fourteen reasons why

Updated: IMHO, Why Linux wins over Windows - fourteen reasons why


  • Most Linux flavors are free. Free as in Free Beer, but also so much more like Free Speech or Free to use.
  • All Linux flavors come with about 500 or more free AKA Open Source software programs WITH the option to download THOUSANDS more FREE
  • You can do anything on Linux that you can do on Windows, except some Windows games and software might not work well with WINE which runs Windows Programs on Linux.
  • You can put home movies or any video you download on DVD with devedeng and handbrake and avidemux3
  • You can create audio files from videos or edit audio files easily with Audacity
  • Most science is done on Unix or Linux and there is a science based flavor of Linux
  • Linux has been lucky that not many people at all hack viruses for Linux so for now you don't have to worry about Viruses on Linux AND the way Linux's security works, it makes it that much harder for the hacker to code a virus for Linux.
  • On many Linux flavors, there is a much more secure lock down of an entire system. There is even a flavor or two that specializes in security and locking down your system.
  • You can encrypt your hard drive with most flavors of Linux.
  • You can use the latest gadgets with Linux - connect your USB cell phone, USB or Wifi printer/scanner, USB flash drive, USB camera, etc.
  • You can browse the internet, check your email, play online games, print almost anything, Facebook, Twitter, Gmail. You can install Mycroft AI on most Linux OSes
  • There are thousands of free Linux ported games, BUT with WINE, you can play most Windows games as well.
  • With almost all Linux flavors, you can choose to boot into Windows, or Linux if you JUST can't let go of Windows just yet
  • From Linux you can view, edit, copy, delete to and from your Windows partition/Hard Drive

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