Misconception on Linux

Linux is hard to learn. Well rethink again. When you are born into this world, is it hard for you to learn how to walk, jump and run? No doubt everybody is born to be empty. What make you who you are today is what you willing to learn, endure and change. If you think learning Linux is hard then it will be forever hard. If you follow through the development of Linux when it first launch, you will be suprised how easy it is now to learn Linux compare to 90's era. Where no Graphic User Interface (GUI) available for Linux, you need to type and type and forever typing.

Same goes to Windows. Early Windows 3.1 is based on MS DOS. You need to type a lot of things to install MS DOS into the computer then only you start to install Windows. Isn't that difficult?

Now Linux come with a nice Gnome or KDE interface, you just need to learn how to use the mouse to point and click. You cannot expect Linux to run things like Windows. Just like asking cow to climb trees like monkey. Both of them is different thing but still able to get the same result. You play video and music in Windows Media Player, you should not expect Windows Media Player available in Linux. In Linux a program call Totem which do the same thing like Windows Media Player.

Linux is based on UNIX system. It is the well known system in the world. Father of all operating system. If you compare Linux with Windows, Linux stability is far superior than Windows. No doubt Windows have improve dramatically over the years but Linux use less resources and maintain multi-user environment at all time. Try the new Windows Vista with 512MB memory, you will feel the pain of lagness. Try that again on Linux and you will be suprise how smooth it is. Why Linux able to support old system and perform normally and Windows could not?

When comes to customisation, Windows only offer the API and you are bound to that. Linux is open source, opportunities is limitless where think out of the box happen easily. Won't you want to be free?

A lot of FREE softwares available to Linux compare with Windows. Abundant is better than you have no choice. Take a look at http://www.sourceforge.net and you will find a lot of Linux free software lying around asking you to try them. Why can't Windows developer do the same? Isn't giving free things in life make you wonderful?

Linux come in original full form package. You have no restriction to add more things to it or minus things off it. Take a look at Windows, it comes in many edition like Home, Professional, Business, Ultimate and many more. Windows Home edition have less features compare with Professional edition. This definitely won't happen in Linux. Linux can be upgrade and downgrade whenever you want. That's what I call freedom. Can you do that in Windows?

Final words, Linux is free and capable to do more than Windows.