- I despise globalist Microsoft and baby killer Bill Gates
Communism doesn't work. Gates never killed babies. As a matter of fact, Gates is the largest charity donor in the world..
- Linux is free (both as a freedom (you control OS, OS does not control you) and as free of charge)
linux kernel is controlled by a control freak so even his best buddies abandon him ( the guy that did TTy told torvalds to stuff it and walked away. ) Torvalds has 'holy crusades' against 'binary blob's in the kernel.
- Linux is open source (so it doesn't have back door, unlike Windows, for example)
Bullshit. just becasue you have the source doesn't mean you are secure. How much of the source have you read ? understand ? know all the interactions with other modules ? unless you have actually verified every line of code and knows what it does you are just as blind as someone that does not have the code as you need to trust someone else ...
- Linux is more stable (can run for years without need for reinstallation)
linux has more bugfixes on a daily basis than windows has on a monthly basis... almost every day ubuntu and other popular distro's have 'patches'....
I havent reinstalled windows on any of my machines in the last 10 years.
- Linux does not require maintenance (for example ext4 file system does not fragmente so there is no need for defragmentation every week or so)
os <> filesystem ...
protect my computer from viruses they create themselves
here come the tinfoil hats...
- There are more than hundred of OS based on Linux
and that is why it is a pest ! too many flavors , too many forks ,and a nightmare to cross-port all fixes. it's a friggin twit-race. Bang ... and they all take off in a different direction. If all the effort that was spent on the forks was combined to release 1 uniform system then linux would rule the world. now it's just a can of stale spaghetti...
- Practically all software for Linux is free (free as freedom and as free of charge)
and in a perpetual half-finished , undocumented, not usable state ... see the forking problem above...
- There are few desktop environments you can choose for your OS (like unity, xfce, gnome, kde,...)
oh goodie.. here we go again. who gives a rats ass about the color sceme and windowing manager eye candy ? I want applications that work. Any linux forum is stranded in endless gnome <> kde , vi <> emacs and other moot discussions. Besides 'X' is the biggest failure of all time.
- You can customise Linux more than you can Windows
give me a system that doesn't need customisation. So i can be productive. the Os is only there to load applications in memory , handle the hardware and that's it. You use applications, not the operating system. the OS is just a gigantic library that does common menial tasks so the apps programmers don't have to reinvent the wheel every time.
- All your updates are centralised (all you have to do is add a repository for your program once, and Linux automatically updates everything for you)
if they can figure out which installer package they are going to use... this installer works only on ubuntu , that one only on red hat ...
forking problem...
- No messing around with drivers because everything works out of the box (of course, there are so many different hardware so there are exemptions)
got your wifi card working yet ? what about the scanner or fax in a HP all-in-one ? ar any other piece of hardware that needs to rely on 'user-written' drivers. There is very few hardware and peripheral manufacturers out there that support linux. almost none.
- It is completely in my language
if learning english is too much work ...