175
Moonlight.com
Linux
| Linux is one of the cooler things I "got into" back in 2007. Linux has come a long way since the late 1990's when I first took a brief look. While I am not ready to recommend that the average computer user should switch from Windows to Linux, anyone who is not afraid to try something new should give it a shot. Personally I like having both OS's around the house. Many tasks work just fine using either operating system. A great site for staying abreast of what is going on in the Linux world is http://www.distrowatch.com |
| For the beginner, it's hard to go wrong with trying out one of the large, popular distributions. The major players that combine a large following, lots of support on the web, and large software repositories are as follows: With all due respect to Debian, which is also a large distribution, it's really not considered as beginner-friendly as the 3 listed above. There's also Linux Mint, which is Ubuntu based and very popular. Historically
Linux has had a reputation for running fast on older hardware, but as
the window managers and desktops have become more sophisticated, none
of the versions above, in my opinion, offer significant speed
advantages
over Windows - with the possible exception of boot and shutdown
time. |
.