- More freedom, more choice Two key things characterize the Linux experience: freedom and choice.
As a Linux user, you will have great freedom to configure your computer exactly as you wish. You are free to learn as much or as little as you like about how the software on your computer works. You are even free to modify the software and to distribute modified versions to anyone.
With freedom comes choice. As a Linux user, you can choose from thousands of available software packages. You can choose how much time you ‘dlike to spend learning about your computers’ inner workings. You can choose from dozens of different flavors of Linux: some focus on high customizability. Others on ease of use, still others on specialized needs. The choice is yours, and all these choices are typically available at little or no monetary cost.
- Easier installation: You may have heard that Linux is harder to install than windows. But if you’ve ever had to wipe the hard drive of your Windows machine and start with a fresh installation after being affected by a virus or spyware, you know that installing Windows is not easy. First you must install the base system. Then you might need to spend time chasing down device drivers for your printers, network interface card, and other hardware device. Downloading essential Windows security updates can take over an hour. You’ll need to install all the software applications you use and, finally, you must restore all your documents, music, and photos. When I used Windows. I unformately gained a great deal of experience with reinstalling windows. I managed to whittle it down to an eight-hour process.
Installing Linux is easy by comparison. Today’s Linux distributions include all the drivers you will need to run most computers. In addition, all the basic software you will need is already included and can be installed automatically Downloading security updates takes much less time than it does with Windows. Though Windows remains difficult to install, difficult Linux installations are, for the most part, a thing of the past.
Best of all, you don’t need to periodically reinstail Linux to maintain a high-performing system. Unlike with Windows, the performance of a Linux system does not slowly degrade over time. There is no “Registry” that gets clogged with outdated entries. If you must uninstall applications, they almost always may be easily removed without leaving a trace. You get this superior performance without even having to defragment your hard drive. [add link to leter part of document that will discuss defragging issue]
B4. Better software: As a Linux user, you will use software that is superior in quality to most Windows software. Not only is Linux software more secure. But it is also more feature-rich and more usable. Unlike Windows software, most Linux software is available free of charge-and-without annoying pop-up advertisements or spyware. Because you won’t need to spend money updating antivirus subscriptions or purchasing firewalls or spyware purgers, you will also find that maintaining a Linux system is much cheaper than maintaining a Windows system.
- Cost: The most obvious advantage of using Microsoft products are available for a hefty and sometimes recuring fee. Microsoft licenses typically are only allowed to be installed on a single computer, whereas a Linux distribution can be installed on any number of computers, without paying a single dime.
LIMITATIONS OF LINUX: no doubt, Linux is an excellent alternative of Microsoft Windows in terms of Desktop or Server based operating system.
But it has also some limitations like every one have. It is highlighted that Linux is free of cost if you download it from the iso-image of various distributions, or one time investment if you purchase it from the Linux vendors, it is true, but not up to a great extent. The trust is that Linux is not every time free. It is more costly when it is used for the small business, because there is no use of more open source software in their business. They need some extra software that are not included in Linux package. For updating and maintenance, it also require some charges.
Another disadvantage is that Linux has more then three hundred version and all vesion can not be installed in a single computer system.
Linux. For installing a distribution of Linux, it needs a different type of installing criteria, which becomes the reson of problems. Desktop / ThinkPad / Macintosh all sorts of computer have their own different installing Linux procedures. Each distribution has its own installation programming, which is extremely hard to learn for every version proper tutorial materials are also not available for each and every distribution.
