Will Linux ever overtake Microsoft in the future?
Wednesday, January 26th, 2011 at
19:37
Linux is free and doesn’t get viruses
Linux is not a company like Microsoft. It literally is the people’s operating system as it is developed by volunteers around the world.
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Its very difficult For Linux to Overtake MS Windows In spite of being a free one but if you talk about MAC I will Definitely says the Future is of Mac.
I hope so =)
I think both have their own fan followings. Linux is virus free because virus makers are not interested in making viruses for Linux (Most of the PCs run on windows).
yes it will
wrong – only community linux is mostly free, commercial linux is paid (eg redhat = upto $5000)
wrong – linux does get virus’s, but its very hard
wrong – it may be the peoples operating system but its still designed and supported by companies,
(eg canonical make ubuntu, mandriva SA make mandriva) the programmers get paid
No it will not. sadly.
1. the power of slick ads on popular media is very powerful and will keep windows ahead of linux.
2. Linux is different and a large number of people will not want to learn to use a new OS. Even if the GUI is as good as windows.
3. It will not be able to run windows games as well as windows.
4. Many people (software companies, antivirus and anitmalware makers, software vendors, media that run windows ads, and many more) all make tons of money from windows and would lose out if linux takes over.
Linux may be free but… Hey, it isn’t as widely known by the populace of the world. Most people know about Apple and Microsoft because there is so much Media exposure and their products have large libraries of software that can be utilized. Of course Microsoft is seemingly the top dog since they have the attention of not only day to day users but from small businesses to large coporations. I went to schools that had Macs, and I’ve gone to schools that had Windows systems for use. I’ll tell you this, I used the Windows School Computers more often than I ever used the Macs.
What OS have I used for the past several years? Windows XP, and before that I briefly used Windows 2000, and before that Windows 98. Once I learned to take preventive steps (anti spyware/adware/virus software, updates the OS and all that jazz) and also kept better tabs on what links I was clicking on, I go to the point where I rarely if ever get issues with viruses and nowadays it’s pretty simple to get rid of em. I play games and I have taken steps to ensure that I back those games up to avoid issues when I may need to reformat the master drive. My Tech Knowledge has increased tenfold since I first owned my own computer.
Overall a Linux based platform can certainly perform most of the tasks equally as well as a Windows based platform using the likes of Ubuntu and its derivative distros. (with the exception of a few applications and gaming). For example on one of my Hard Drives I Dual Boot with XP as it is vastly superior when it comes to playback of Blu-ray movies so I keep an XP partition specifically for that purpose
http://apcmag.com/how_to_dual_boot_windows_xp_and_linux_xp_installed_first.htm
Microsoft it would seem is sitting up and taking notice of the Linux based platform and so they should given that the use of Linux in the last five years has risen a healthy 1% most notably more and more companies around the world are introducing Linux based servers
Microsoft Acknowledges Linux Threat to Windows Client
http://www.pcworld.com/businesscenter/article/169619/microsoft_acknowledges_linux_threat_to_windows_client.html
At this point it should be noted that although more secure than Windows Linux is NOT immune to viruses however surfing the net reponsibly there is little chance of problems
http://www.linux.com/learn/tutorials/284124-myth-busting-is-linux-immune-to-viruses
The future who knows but given the current rate of growth it will take many years if at all. I am a Linux User but at the same time realistic
Currently running Multiple installations
Linux Mint 9
http://www.linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=52
Linux Mint 10
http://www.linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=67
with the following enhancements
Nvidia 260.19 Driver sourced from a third party repository
http://www.webupd8.org/2010/06/how-to-install-nvidia-25635-display.html
Kernel 2.6.37 and Firefox 4.0b9 sourced from the Ubuntu 11.04 (Natty Narwhal) Daily Build repositories
http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/daily-live/current/
Compiz 0.8.6* sourced from a third party repository (Linux Mint 9)
http://www.webupd8.org/2010/06/upgrade-to-compiz-086-in-ubuntu-1004.html
Compiz 0.9.2.1* compiled in C++
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?p=9826034#post9826034
LUg.