2007-03-11 22:37:32 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Computers & Internet ➔ Programming & Design
UBUNTU (or XUBUNTU if your computer has less than 256MB of RAM).
It's a free, reliable and up to date operating system.
You can explore it from the "LIVE CD".
It's easy to install and use. You can dual boot it with other operating systems.
Once you have it installed, you gain access to thousands of free programs created by the open source community. There is excellent support - see the WIKI starter guide, and the Linux forums.
Always back up your data before making changes to your computer.
2007-03-12 09:19:12 · answer #1 · answered by hitechsleuth 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
windows advantages = runs most commercial software and most games without too many problems, relatively easy to understand
windows disadvantages = costs a lot of money, attracts lots of viruses and such
other OS's advantages = makes other people think you are a computer expert, can be free, possibly less virus problems
other OS's disadvantages = usually not as easy to use or learn to use and difficult or impossible to run popular commercial software on it.
oh, and of course there's mac but as far as I know to run MacOS you need Mac hardware so it's not a really a choice unless you have or are getting the hardware to go along with it...
I don't agree with windows crashing more than other operating systems... this may have been true in the windows95/98 era but hasn't been tru since windows 2000 and is definitely not true about windows XP
2007-03-11 22:51:27 · answer #2 · answered by Vince has left the building... 5 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Advantage of Operating Systems: allow you to use your computer
Disadvantage of Operating Systems: people ask questions like this on Yahoo! Answers
2007-03-12 15:35:47 · answer #3 · answered by icnintel 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Mac OS is easy, runs seamlessly, is less vulnerable to viruses, and is beautiful.
Linux can be free, it's open-source, you configure it however you want (it can have a beautiful graphical environment or be text-only)
Windows is expensive, restrictive, but will run most commercial software. It crashes all the time and is very vulnerable to viruses.
2007-03-11 23:10:31 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
mac os = easy, has everything you need, stable, less viruses etc., and can run other OS's, even windows.
Actually I am currently typing on a mac but am running parallels xp pro in full screen =oP
disadvantages: none that I can think of...
2007-03-11 22:57:31 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋