In no particular order:

THE CONSOLE!!

I've missed it since I was forced to switch from Windows 3.11 to Windows 98 to be able to run anything new.

/proc.

It's so easy to get hardware info.

/dev.

For easy direct access to hardware.

It works.

Community

A new and better shell is apparently on the way for Windows - I believe it recently went beta. . .

For myself, I think the basic "best thing" about linux is summed up by: Everything's a file, and you can get at all the files

I had a problem with Windows not recognising a USB disk: I plugged it in and nothing happened. I had no idea where to even begin debugging this. With Linux, I've got /dev and /proc and dmesg and /var/log and lsusb and. . .

Being able to use old computers. I love old boxes.
Free programs.
Making fun of people getting viruses (and tell them there 's a way out..)
Best updating online system
Reliable users like here who try to help you and never get bored with
silly questions.

I'm afraid I have to disagree. Linux is not complex, not unless you want it to be. On the kernel level, everything is fairly simple.

It works something like this:

Say you type "$>mkdir bob" in the inner workings of bash, this becomes mkdir(bob). Then, this gets passed to the kernel as sys_mkdir(bob), and the kernel then passes it to the file system, which examines the argument, then asks the kernel to pass a message to the HD driver to spin up the hard disk and write to a specified sector of the disk. The driver then passes a message to the kernel indicate success or failure of the operation, which passes a message to the bash shell, which then indicates to you whether or not the directory was created. if all went well, your directory was created. See. Not complex, it can all be broken down

If anyone sees anything wrong with this ^ please point it out. I've only been working with linux for a year or so, so I'm pretty new

choice!