Dear Linuxfags

Dear Linuxfags,
Why Linux? That is all.

Because I am thin and Asian.

>>2

>> Because I am poor and its free

fix'd

>>3
> >>

Learn to quote, dumbass. Maybe if you used Linux you'd be a little more code-savvy.
*sigh*

>>4
God damn it, I failquoted too.
So as an honest, rational Linux user I now have to take that back.
I apologize for ignorantly jumping upon your ignorance.

What are the advantages though? Apart from actually being able to fix your computer...

Well, it's more secure, and NOT because it's used less. even if some virus had infected say, firefox... It wouldn't be able to do much harm because nearly everyone who uses linux does NOT use a root/administrator account, which means that the virus can only do damage to files that are directly controlled by whatever account they infiltrated...

It generally runs faster than windows, due to various things, such as not having unused drivers to clog things up, and unnecessary background processes, unless you did something stupid and added them yourself...

It's much more customizable. Sure, you could replace explorer.exe with some other shell in windows, but many of the shells for windows are either incomplete, buggy, or simply don't provide as much customizability as most linux shells. There's just overall more options with linux.

Linux is easier to code for than windows, meaning that if you're smart enough to do a bit of coding, you can easily make small utilities for yourself quicker and easier than a windows user could.

In that same vein, shell scripting in linux is extremely powerful and useful. You can extract data from various applications' output with relative ease, and do all sorts of crazy things. Sure, it's possible to replicate most of that in windows, but it's much harder for the most part.

You can compile your kernel to only support what you actually need, meaning that your system won't have drivers you don't need clogging things and slowing it down. And linux has support for a lot of hardware that windows doesn't, thanks to the fact that it runs on so many different platforms.

Also, instead of being stuck running on x86 or x64 systems, you can use damn near any processor you want, so if you feel like making some really custom system, you can actually run linux on it.

I know many of these don't apply to the average computer user, but they ARE advantages of linux.

>>1
fuck you and your questions.

>>8
Fuck you and your trolling

>>7
This.

I couldn't have said it better even if I tried.

say, if you wanna run it on an obscure processor endorsed by PRC government.... wouldn't you need to port the compiler for that processor, first? so, how will you port it?

>>11
From the Linux kernel archives Web site:
Linux is easily portable to most general-purpose 32- or 64-bit architectures as long as they have a paged memory management unit (PMMU) and a port of the GNU C compiler (gcc) (part of The GNU Compiler Collection, GCC). Linux has also been ported to a number of architectures without a PMMU, although functionality is then obviously somewhat limited. See the µClinux project for more info.
www.kernel.org

So it would need a working port of GCC first, and this hypothetical obscure processor would need a PMMU. I suppose it's possible to compile Linux using a compiler other than GCC, though GCC is usually the standard on Linux systems.

most of linux utilities are open source... so, if u can code, u can modify some existing software to get something better/faster/more customizable and create more powerful tools