The landscape of Operating System is a battle zone with so many opponents in the scenario. The users have so many choices to select from Windows Vista, Leopard and various distributions of Linux.

It is been approximately two years since Vista is out in market but it still do not enjoy the market share what XP used to. Installing it and working with it puts an extra pressure on your pocket. But with so many cheap (almost free) distributions of Linux you can better choose it against Vista. The article will list various reasons:

Updates at Single Click: To make the latest security patches and fix the flaws one has to look multiple places for software and hardware update. To update the Windows operating system, Microsoft update is a good solution. But it is not a complete package. To update Adobe suite, user have to visit Adobe web site. Also to update the drivers, one has to visit hardware vendors. Contrast to this, update process of Linux is simple. The update package includes everything -the operating system, applications, support libraries, hardware drivers. All new versions are looked for and updated at one go.

Also the Linux update process is more efficient than Microsoft update.

Sit Back and Enjoy PC: With Windows your PC can not look after itself. You have to always worry about its efficiency and take those extra pains to make it run efficiently and more smoothly. But Linux is really a boon at this worth cribbing stage. With Linux you do not have to worry for defragmentation of your PC. In crux, you can lay back and enjoy the smooth computing experience of your machine with Linux.

Windows try to locate files nearer to hard drive, which create gaps when users edit those files. When new files are created they fit themselves into those vacant gaps thus get fragmented. As this process goes on the performance of the PC degrades, thus making user to feel the need of defragmenting the PC. Contrary to this, Linux is designed for multi tasking thus addressing this problem at very initial stage.

Cost free PC: Using proprietary software means paying a hell lot of amount. If using pirated copies you are breaking law. But originals are so costly that one would love to cheat rather than paying for the efforts of developers. If you are using Linux, then you do not have to worry about any such issues. You can use a full PC with no costs. With paid software you can not install it without paying for the additional machine but while using Linux this is not the case. You can create as many copies of the operating system and install it on any number of machine without thinking even twice or complaining for any cost issue. Even products like Open Office (rival to MS-Office), image editing programs like the GIMP are available for free. The free programs are by no means a compromise to quality.

No anti virus required: Linux is the safest operating system. No doubt Windows marketed Vista as the most secure operating system but it has many loopholes. Linux is the operating system that allows your PC not to cripple and worry for any anti virus. The reason behind Windows getting frequently affected by virus is the feature that allows users to log in through administrative privileges. Where as in Linux, every user works under a regular user account thus not allowing rogue programs to cause damage.

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