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Originally Posted by HayZee518
Is there any advantage to use the LINUX operating system? Microsoft says it has plans to remove Windows XP off dealer shelves by June 30th 2008. New computers are bundled with windows Vista now. I read that the commands for linux are very different than msdos based programs. Their operating code is freely available online. They say that linux is presently the base for many video games. What about compatibility with windows programs? Excel spreadsheets, word processors, finance tools etc. MAC computers is unique in that its OS is completely different than an msdos based program. Will Linux be just as complicated?
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well it all depends on what you want to do and what kind of hardware you have.
now i will say the BASH shell is pretty different then MS-DOS so if your big on shell commands and scripts you'll probably have to learn a new scripting language.
personally i find that linux is more secure in nature.
probably one of the most popular distros of linux, Ubuntu comes with an office suite called open office, but if that isn't good enough for you you can run an emulation environment called WINE (btw just about anything for linux is free) anyway WINE lets you run windows programs in linux
the way linux writes to the file system, you never need to defragment.
i myself have both windows vista and ubuntu 9.04 dual booted on my main computer. and will say at first it is culture shock, but once you play with it, the GUI is very minuverable, i find more so then windows