what is the diffreent using microsoft and linux?

3 Comments

1. Tony says:

   28. March 2010 at 22:01

   Linux gives you freedom of choice. Being open-source you can modify the entire operating system to your needs.
   This does not mean just changing the way your desktop or screen-saver looks but deeper where you can adjust the entire system to work the way YOU want it to work. And it’s free to download and install.

   Windows on the other hand is more of a commercial product already built by Microsoft and is limited to what Microsoft has programmed into it. And it’s licensed so you have to buy it.

   Both systems are pretty good. I personally use Linux and I like it because I can tweek it to my requirements and am not restricted unlike Windows.
2. T J says:

   28. March 2010 at 22:01

   Well, they’re very different. Microsoft is a mature consumer product, where you never have to go near a command line, and a well-established user interface.

   Linux is much faster (and stable) at the command line, and has some decently developed graphical interfaces by now, but still quite rough by consumer standards, and also there’s much less regular consumer software available for Linux.
3. Henry says:

   28. March 2010 at 22:01

   I think you meant to ask what is the difference between Windows and Linux. Microsoft is the company that makes Windows, far and away the most common computer operating system in the world.

   Linux is a non-copyrighted operating system. Unlike Windows, which is closed-ended and protected by copyright, Linux is open-ended and not copyrighted. That is, it can be distributed freely, and modified by users and the modifications made freely available. There are commercially available versions available for a fee, but the product can, literally, be downloaded from the Internet and run as is.

   One big downside with Linux is that peripherals that would work with either MS or Apple machines might not work with Linux because the binaries. The software available for Linux machines is limited as well.