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

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: 2) by shipofgold on Wednesday July 25 2018, @12:16AM (1 child)

    by shipofgold (4696) on Wednesday July 25 2018, @12:16AM (#712047)

    Call me skeptical but I am guessing if I have a 6 year old box that I have been happily running Debian Squeeze on, and now need the latest MythTV one it, it won't be a simple download/install. Manjaro isn't even 6 years old, so can't even think whether their rolling releases would be able to handle this scenario. Yes, I know I should update regularly, but if it ain't broke don't fix it. I have updated too many things only to find that functionality has changed in ways that are not positive for me. Security fixes aside, I generally don't "upgrade" when it already works as I need it. If they could separate security fixes from functionality "fixes" I would be much happier.

    We have now touched on another of my gripes on Linux SW management...upgrades of one box may require upgrades of another box.

    I have one computer running Fedora with a MythTV backend. I updated a TV box to Kodi 17 and suddenly the box couldn't talk to the MythTV backend because it was too old. MythTV apparently has protocol versions that are not backwards compatible.

    Here, in order to use the updated Kodi, I needed to update MythTV backend, which required a complete Fedora update because the backend version was not available on my 4 year old SW release. To make matters worse, the new MythTV would not talk to my older Kodi boxes, so they all needed upgrades as well. A couple of them were LibreElec which doesn't upgrade easily...those need downloads and re-install of all add-ons.

    I don't like windows for a lot of reasons, but SW management and "easy upgrades" are still something they do better than any Linux distro I have seen. I can install Kodi 17 on my 7 year old Win7 box running SP1....I can't say the same for my 5 year old Fedora box.

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 25 2018, @07:48AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 25 2018, @07:48AM (#712217)

    I bet latest MythTV doesn't work in DOS either.