Genisis

Irony at its best . You are still behind the Windows. 

Cheesy at it seems, I had been using Windows all my life, but lately I realized how powerful Linux was not only as a development environment but also as a everyday OS. I had always know Linux to be something very weird and tech-savvy monster. Although a few year back I was introduce to GUI versions of Linux, I was still so no-no about using Linux,

[ well once I installed ubuntu (an extremely popular Linux distribution) and I couldn't connect to the Internet as the Beetle 220BX driver could not be installed on it. Of course there are ways of getting it run on any machine in the world,but back  then I lost hope and switched back to windows already there in my HD as a partition. :) ]

With so many distributions available now, I m pretty sure every Linux user a rippling thought in his mind WHY THE HECK THEY USE STUPID WINDOWS. 

Well, all I will be writing about is this. Difference between LINUX and Windows, also MAC OS, being one of non-MS user friendly OS.

____________________________________________________________

Being skeptic but honest Windows has become the most popular OS not because it so-called USER FRIENDLY and most importantly ALL MY DOCS AND FILES RUN ON IT but be are diseased with it. We are so accustomed to it that all we think of a computer in general is Windows. I'm pretty sure most non-technical but computer trained people or Lay-man has no idea about Linux's existence, which does not surprise me, as we Need Linux it does not need us  :).

____________________________________________________________

GNU/Linux or simply Linux refers to the family of Unix-like computer operating systems using the Linux kernel. Linux can be installed on a wide variety of computer hardware, ranging from mobile phones, tablet computers, routers, and video game consoles, to mainframes and supercomputers.Linux is a leading server operating system, and runs the 10 fastest supercomputers in the world.

The development of Linux is one of the most prominent examples of free and open source software collaboration; typically all the underlying source code can be used, freely modified, and redistributed, both commercially and non-commercially, by anyone under licenses such as the GNU General Public License. Typically Linux is packaged in a format known as a Linux distribution for desktop and server use. Some popular mainstream Linux distributions include Debian (and its derivatives such as Ubuntu), Fedora and openSUSE. Linux distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting utilities and libraries to fulfill the distribution's intended use.

A distribution oriented toward desktop use may include the X Window System, the GNOME and KDE Plasma desktop environments. Other distributions may include a less resource intensive desktop such as LXDE or Xfce for use on older or less-powerful computers. A distribution intended to run as a server may omit any graphical environment from the standard install and instead include other software such as the Apache HTTP Server and a SSH server like OpenSSH. Because Linux is freely redistributable, it is possible for anyone to create a distribution for any intended use. Commonly used applications with desktop Linux systems include the Mozilla Firefox web browser, the OpenOffice.org or LibreOffice office application suites, and the GIMP image editor.

The name "Linux" comes from the Linux kernel, originally written in 1991 by Linus Torvalds. The main supporting user space system tools and libraries from the GNU Project (announced in 1983 by Richard Stallman) are the basis for the Free Software Foundation's preferred name GNU/Linux.

-Wikipedia 

So now you get a slight Idea what Linux is all about. 

In further post i will try to bridge the gap between Windows and Linux and discuss some myths about linux. 

regards,

hustlershack

ps.: Please subscribe to be updated :)