Would someone explain the differences between Microsoft and Linux – in understandable language? Thanks!?
Friday, July 30th, 2010 at
12:26
Pros and cons of each?
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Windows and Linux (Linspire) are two completely different operating systems that will both run on IBM compatible PCs. Both have a GUI (Graphical User Interface), or Windows-like feel to them. Linux-based systems, UNDERNEATH IT ALL, use the UNIX operating system, which has a powerful command-line interface (like DOS).
The thing about Linux based systems is that they’re "open source", which means we can all work on them, fix them or make new variations of them, rather than relying on Microsoft to fix the problems. Microsoft’s stuff is hugely complicated and virtually impossible to change but that’s not true with Linux and Linspire.
In my opinion, all of Microsoft’s stuff is doomed to be forever bug ridden since newer versions of their stuff is written by "patching" the older versions. It’s apparent from the way it runs and what kinds of boneheaded problems come up. They do a lot of things "backwards" and in kludgey ways, and some of the stupid ways things are done have been around since the beginning and don’t show any hope of being corrected.
With Linux, there’s hope of creating systems that will someday work properly but right now the support for Windows-based systems is just too huge. There are thousands of device drivers and application programs and each of these need a counterpart for Linux.
http://www.michaelhorowitz.com/Linux.vs.Windows.html