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You Should Switch from Windows to Linux Right Now, Says Forbes Contributor

posted by martyb on Tuesday July 24 2018, @06:55PM   Printer-friendly
from the welcome-to-the-party dept.

requerdanos writes:

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

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  • (Score: 3, Touché) by NewNic on Tuesday July 24 2018, @09:27PM (2 children)

    by NewNic (6420) on Tuesday July 24 2018, @09:27PM (#711936) Journal

    Be realistic. Most Windows installations are NEVER upgraded. The average person's upgrade method is to buy a new PC.

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  • (Score: -1, Troll) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 24 2018, @10:34PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday July 24 2018, @10:34PM (#711992)
    The complaint was not about upgrading the OS, but about installing new software. In the Windows world you can install new software onto any supported or recently unsupported (not Win95/Win2k/XP) OS. If necessary, the new software will upgrade .NET or whatever. Doing the same on Linux is much harder.

    • (Score: 2) by tangomargarine on Wednesday July 25 2018, @02:37PM

      by tangomargarine (667) on Wednesday July 25 2018, @02:37PM (#712367)

      GP kind of mixed "updating" and "upgrading" together, which is somewhat fair when you need to update the whole OS to get the libraries in place to run the New Hotness of some program that has a dependency on J Random Lib, which is in the latest GNOME, which means you need to update systemd...

      In the Windows world you can install new software onto any supported or recently unsupported (not Win95/Win2k/XP) OS.

      PFFFFFBAHAHAHAHAHAHAAA Chrome and Firefox don't even support Vista anymore, and you're talking about 9x? Get the fuck out of here.

      Doing the same on Linux is much harder.

      Horseshit.

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