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Forbes.com has published a piece by contributor Jason Evangelho entitled "5 Reasons You Should Switch From Windows To Linux Right Now".
When I published the highlights of my journey switching from Windows to Linux on my everyday laptop... it became one of my most viewed pieces this year. From where I'm sitting, that tells me a ton of people are interested -- are at least actively curious -- about ditching Windows and making the jump to Linux.
With that in mind, I wanted to present five reasons that may lead you to consider switching. Know that these are subjective, and they're targeted at the average Windows user and not folks who rely on Windows-exclusive applications for a paycheck.
One thing to know right up front: the modern Linux desktop OS is no longer the obtuse, bewildering and command line driven thing it used to be. Not remotely.
It's nice to see a free operating system getting some love in the mainstream press. Forbes running this article is more the story here than desktop Linux having advantages over Windows.
Be sure to read TFA to find out what the five reasons are. (Or see spoiler, below.)
1: Linux Gets Out Of Your Way
2: You're Not A Slave To The Terminal
3: Installing Software Is Even Easier
4: Updates aren't a headache. They're glorious
5: The Linux Community
(Score: 5, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 24 2018, @07:17PM (17 children)
Finally, 2018 is the year of the Linux desktop.
(Score: 2, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 24 2018, @07:22PM (11 children)
Fuckin' leftist agendas trying to push commie software everywhere! OSS kills business and only socialist hippies use linsux.
(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 24 2018, @07:29PM
Speaking of which, RMS actually walks the *Soylent* talk.
Link to cannibalism:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=I25UeVXrEHQ [youtube.com]
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 24 2018, @07:30PM
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(Score: 2) by Runaway1956 on Tuesday July 24 2018, @07:36PM (5 children)
Die already. Don't make a fuss, just die quietly. If FOSS is truly communist, and it's going to kill business, and businessmen, then just shut up and die. Call me a commie.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 24 2018, @07:41PM
Commie
(Score: 4, Funny) by Thexalon on Tuesday July 24 2018, @07:49PM
Hey, Commie! Runaway1956 wants you for some reason!
The only thing that stops a bad guy with a compiler is a good guy with a compiler.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 24 2018, @07:54PM (2 children)
I've been dead for 26 minutes you asshole.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 24 2018, @08:24PM (1 child)
Why are you sticking around here, then? Off through the tunnel to the light with you! Further in and further up to the summerland!
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 24 2018, @09:10PM
I'm a cuckboy and we call it the Fatherland! I'd better hurry up, the blitzkrieg in heaven is about to start and I don't want to miss out on taking all the virgins from those bastards in Allahville.
(Score: 3, Funny) by srobert on Tuesday July 24 2018, @08:25PM (1 child)
... FreeBSD.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 24 2018, @09:06PM
Maybe. Good point. BSD should be free! Freed from the shackles of its roots as the Beserkley Standard Deviation.
(Score: 1) by DECbot on Tuesday July 24 2018, @08:53PM
I recall OSSv3 ditching the GPL friendly license which harmed the socialist hippies using linux, and that's why there's now ALSA. If anything, OSS is not commie software. Of course, with release of OSSv4 the licensing allows it to exist back in the repos. I actually ran OSSv4 on Ubuntu successfully for several years. The only issue I encountered was trying to easily pipe sound from the desktop speakers to some bluetooth speakers from time to time without using the command line.
cats~$ sudo chown -R us /home/base
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Tuesday July 24 2018, @09:54PM (4 children)
Only a decade after Android made Linux the most used consumer operating system ?
(Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 24 2018, @10:00PM
Linux fanatics claim Android like RMS claims Linux.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Lester on Wednesday July 25 2018, @10:50AM (2 children)
Android has a Linux kernel, but an operating system is much more than the kernel. In fact, an Android device is much more closed than a regular windows PC/Laptop.
Android is far from of OSS Utopia, open source, full control of your device etc... Sorry your wet dreams haven't become not true yet
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Wednesday July 25 2018, @04:27PM (1 child)
Simple questions:
a) Is the most used consumer operating system based on linux ?
b) Did I say anything about open/closed, OSS utopias, open source, or full control Wet Dreams ?
If you answered a) yes and b) no, then how do you justify your reply to my post? Go fight your imaginary wars elsewhere.
(Score: 2) by Pino P on Wednesday July 25 2018, @05:38PM
I'll explain at the fish fry this Friday. The special is red herring.
The fact that Android made Linux the most used consumer kernel doesn't matter much in the context of the featured article by Jason Evangelho, which is about switching from Windows to X11/Linux for purpose of reducing system resource use and increasing user freedom and ease of administration. Allow me to evaluate Android with respect to the five claims that Evangelho makes about X11/Linux: