Hello, greetings to all the fellas that share their arguments and ideas here!
This must be the right forum for that:
please you guys, tell me everything you think about your favorite operating system here... yeh, try to include favorite distros, why is it so good that it pulls
windows users to the linux world, time of use and general stuff like that...

I'd grateful, I'm gonna use it in a presentation and nothing better than the users' opinions to cover it.

Lots of Thanks

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I realize your post might be legit, so I'll give you my reason besides the 2 in my signature

It is by far easier to administer a linux server than any Windows server. You might be more comfortable with Windows, but ease of administration is easier with Linux.
Pre Novell/SusE 9.2, Suse offered a desktop environment that finally rivaled MS windows and had all the applications you should ever need in a home or office PC.

Slackware because you could try your hardest to crash it and maybe 1 of 500 times it actaully would crash. If I wanted to, I could crash a Windows computer in seconds.

Perhaphs I'll answer in a different way. Why should I defend my OS of choice? Linux is stable, secure, and free. For these reasons (and many others) it is easy to defend. So, perhaps you can tell me why so many still stick with Windows?

An unpatched windows system will last less than 5 min hooked to the internet before spyware, malware, and the like turn the computer into a zombie. After all these years there are still MAJOR security flaws in Windows so that any 12 year old script kiddie could own the box without even trying that hard. IE hasn't had any significant features added in years and due to its integration with the OS it presents such a security risk that I am schocked when I read that it still has around 90% of the browser market. What is going on here?

Imagine if your car was like your Windows box: runs slow, shuts down randomly, doesn't have effectlive keys so that common theives can use it whenever they want, etc. Would you ever buy that kind of car again?

Now, granted, security is a process it is not a state. Linux is not perfect and neither is MAC, but both are based on a funtementally better design principles so that out of the box (which is really what matters for the home user) both are infinitely superior.

Many Windows users list games/software as their reasons for still keeping Windows. But, I'll tell you what, if people start switching to other OSs, the game ventors will certainly follow. So far as (non-game) software goes, I haven't seen anything on Windows that I can't do beter on Linux--nothing.

Aside from the diatribe, I like Linux because there are no viruses, it has community-tested software, I don't want to contribute to a monopoly which has set the sofware industry back decades, and I like having more than three color choices for my desktop environment.

So far as editors I use Vim.

The best thing about Linux is the fact that supporting open source software supports software that knows no boundaries. If they can get a hold of the hardware, people from any country can freely install as many copies of the Linux OS as they want onto the computers of all in their village, town or city. In the US, poorer neighborhoods don't have to waste money on license fees to have windows on their computers. It is a great equalizer.

In addition to this, Linux encourages people to learn. I have learned a great deal about computers in general as well as how OSes work on a deeper level while trying to fix things in Linux than I learend in my computer science lectures at university.

Finally, OSS allows users to have the knowledge to implement improvements such as Super Karamba on the KDE desktop.

Linux is cool and I don't like buying things from criminals if I can help it.

Hmmm. Maybe that should be my sig.

Ask an MCSE what he uses to recover a crashed hard drive. He will likely say "Knoppix"

no spyware, malware, adware, viruses, trojans, worms

stability, configurability, interoperability

easy, complex

hotness

I love these threads. They start off so innocently and then turn into "linux is better than Windows". I am closing this one - not because of anything the original poster has done, but simply because we already have threads in the General forum absolutely chock a block full of opinions.

Do a search for "why use Linux" and restrict your search to the General forum only - you'll get enough opinions for this presentation and for many many others, plus an encore and Q & A session.