Going To University Leave Linux Home! It's Not Supported! 4564

Josh

Although I graduated in computer science 30 years ago, I can give you several reasons. There is a steep learning curve, to be sure, but then there is a steep learning curve for just about anything worth learning.

Windows is simply not capable of doing *most* of the things that I want to do on the computer. Twenty years back, I was able to run my own server, complete with email, newsgroups, file trading, etc. etc. I have been unable to do that since DOS. The net was pretty well taken over by commercial interests back somewhere in the 90's, largely as a result of windows. We did all those things with shared software. simply by connecting our own computers by phone lines.

You can do all those things on a PC, but not with windows. To do it with MS software at all, you have to spend huge amounts of money. You also have to subscribe to security services, which you pay for on a day by day basis, and if you stop, you are pretty well shut down almost immediately. Even if you are willing to spend the money to buy the softawre required, it is obsolete in a few years, and you are faced with the same problem all over again.

With Linux, I can do it all again, and now that I am getting conversant with it, I am finding it easier and easier to get set up and working.

If you simply want a super fax-email-record player, and are willing to pay on a subscription basis for reasonable protection of your computer, then windows can do what you want. If you want to use it as a general purpose computer, then it cannot.

Donald