Windows is a proprietary operating
system which is running on many computers in the world. Now-a-days
open-source operating systems are also being used widely even
by normal (non-geeky) users.
Windows requires a lot of
maintenance: You must clean up your drive, defragment it, and update
your windows and the most irritating part: updating your anti-virus
and running scans for viruses regularly. And let’s not forget clean
your registry and defragment it too! Even though a lot of maintenance
is required most users still prefer using windows (and most of them
are home users who play games and do some work in ‘office’.
Now let’s take a look on Linux:
Linux was originally developed from
UNIX. In 1991
Linus Torvalds, a university student from
Finland called the users from internet to collaborate for building an
‘open source’ operating system. In 1994, the version ‘1.0’
was released. Linux is now used in many PDA’s, watches, Pc’s,
consumer electronics, servers and supercomputers. Linux is
technically an OS kernel. Some communities are now developing and
releasing Linux in the form of various distributions
like Ubuntu,
Fedora,Redhat,linux mandrake, Linux mint etc. these distributions
come with a variety of utilities, desktop shells, networking suites,
file systems.
The upside of Linux is that it is
open source. Linux is said to be virus-proof but some Linux viruses
exist. But they can’t harm your computer if you keep your Linux
patched by updating it. You don’t need to defragment it because it
uses more advanced ext4 file system. You can still install an
antivirus in your Linux to scan your windows drives so that you can
prevent yourself from spreading viruses (they can’t harm your
computer but you might spread viruses by sharing infected files!).
Linux is customizable to a large extent and now it is developing
really fast and finally it’s free!
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