I can understand that Windows does the job and why bother about Linux?.But we have to be openminded.May be we are brain washed by MS and we think this is what a computer can do.May be a computer can do something better and may not be possible through windows architecture.Some real experts can throw some light on this topic.
2006-09-06 22:44:23 · 7 answers · asked by indianincredible 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Software
I am no expert, just read it in http://www.reichel.net/opensource/linuxtop10.html
2006-09-06 22:47:00 · answer #1 · answered by N/A 2 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Linux is arguably more stable than Windows and less susceptible to malware. The latter is more due to market share than anything else.
Having worked with both a fair bit, I'd have to say that the stability issue is a wash today. I see a Linux kernel panic about as often as I see a Windows blue screen -- both are pretty rare.
The key issue is support. Linux support is limited to the vendors who bundle various distributions of Linux or to newsgroups and e-mail support. The former is not free; costs are similar to direct support of Windows from Microsoft. The latter is free, but it often will take time to resolve your issue. And there is the issue that much of that support is provided by propeller-heads who tend to be somewhat intolerant of newbies.
Just behind support are the issues of driver support and application compatibility. Most Linux distros will discover your hardware and load the correct drivers most of the time. When the installer gets it wrong, you're in for a fight getting it working though. And while the installers are good at Plug and Play, the OS itself is decidedly NOT. If you're relatively new to Linux, installing a new video card can be a weekend long task assuming that drivers are available. That, and support for wireless NICs is virtually non-existant.
Linux has a place in the datecenter, and has for some time now. However, as a desktop OS, it still has a way to go before the general public can be comfortable with it.
I'm a Windows guru with over a decade of experience. I've toyed with Linux on and off over the years. We're running it in the datacenter and are quite happy with it there. But I'm not ready to relinquish my Windows desktop yet and probably won't be for some time to come. I can manage my Linux servers from my Windows box without any problems, but there's no easy way to manage Active Directory from Linux yet. With an entrenched AD architecture in place, migration to another LDAP service is simply not an option; the costs and disruption of business make it unthinkable at this time.
2006-09-06 23:13:51 · answer #2 · answered by Bostonian In MO 7 · 3⤊ 1⤋
It is not necessarily so. The real reason for the majority is that Linux is free and distrubted widely. Linux does not support al types of programmes, games, hardware. How can it be better for all. It just is not. Wait till Bill Gates releases the windows kernel. It will turn into a MS Linux where everyone pokes at the codes and source programming making their own version which is not user friendly and collapses (crashes) more than Wİn 3.1.
2006-09-06 22:56:08 · answer #3 · answered by KCD 4 · 1⤊ 1⤋
when we are talking about linux, windows, dos, unix, etc etc we are talking about operating systems. operating systems are software that interact with different aprts of pc i.e. disk drives, ports, memory cpu etc etc. to give any instruction to pc we should pass a command in machine language that is a digital electric signal processable and decipherable by pc. To remember and pass commands in machine language is practically not feasible now a days. so the operating system does the job of interpreter for us. we pass command that is recognised by os and converted to machine level and passed on to pc.
now all os be linux or windows or unix , they all perform the above task. Thus there is no job that can be taken up in linux and not in windows.
however the basic difference lies with the fact that linux is free and opensource whereas windows is not.which implies that linux is going to grow with time without we paying for growth, whereas whenever we will find any important growth in windows we may be required by microsoft to buy it.
we cannot argue as to which software is better since some task is handled better in linux and some on windows. however it is true that new evolutions of windows are always beta tested to great extents where as linux being open source everything is not tested.
2006-09-06 23:06:11 · answer #4 · answered by dilipagr_2000 2 · 1⤊ 1⤋
For starters. attempt Ubuntu. you mustn't have a situation with that. its elementary, basic, and speedy. there are various modifications like, linspire, freespire, gentoo, mandrake, redhat, etc. ive been asked this question alot and ive mentioned Ubuntu (ubuntoo) the main, and won compliment for it. Edit, be careful while twin booting with it. opt for a seperate partition, because of the fact Ubuntoo (alongside with ninety% of linux dist. use ETC3/ETC4 report structures. abode windows makes use of NTFS, so in case you overwrite abode windows, it is going to likely be put in, jsut cant get entry to it.) desire it helps
2016-12-15 04:00:04 · answer #5 · answered by ? 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Linux is better than Windows coz it's foundation is based on best of the best of the two OS the "Windows & UNIX"
The main concern only is the support and marketing.
2006-09-06 22:52:22 · answer #6 · answered by happydoods 3 · 1⤊ 2⤋
Linux is an OS made by engineers for engineers.
Windows is an OS made by engineers for consumers.
Mac OS X is a modification to an engineered OS for consumers.
Those are differences I think, there are some amazing things you can do right out in one OS that is designed to be locked out within another OS.
2006-09-06 23:30:55 · answer #7 · answered by Andy T 7 · 2⤊ 2⤋