Now we've obviously heard before about the common debate Mac or PC, but there is an even older
argument between
Linux and
Windows I mean this goes back centuries and even back when the Egyptians were building the pyramids
They were trying to figure out what operating system to run on them. It was crazy anyway
That's what we're gonna talk about today
Which is better Linux or Windows?
Because a lot of people especially a lot of tech
enthusiasts who use Linux swear by it and say that it is better than Windows and
We'll talk about maybe situations where they're right and maybe not always now
I don't think this video is going to be for like advanced computer users because those of you probably can
Figure out for yourself whether or not you want to use Linux
But this is probably gonna be mostly for like an average user who kind of knows their way around Windows
You know they're not afraid of the command-line because you definitely need to be able to use it at least
So definitely not for people who can barely boot up windows and I guess I should point out as a disclaimer
I have used Windows once or twice in the past so might be a little bit biased so first
We're going to go over the advantages of Linux
And then the disadvantage is and then we could talk about some of the overall thoughts and we can start off with the most
Obvious advantage the cost of ownership and that is that you can get Linux for free doesn't cost you anything
Unlike Windows where you got to pay for a new license if you want to install it on a new computer you built
Or if you want to upgrade to a new version of Windows the exception being the most recent update with Windows 10
Which they did allow you to upgrade for free?
But that is no longer the case now obviously if this is going to be for your main computer that you use every day
Cost is probably not going to be the deciding factor
But maybe if you do want to build a server or something or just as a fun hobby
Then it might be wise to just install Linux on it if it can get the job done
instead of paying
hundreds of dollars for a
License of Windows also another advantage having to do with cost is most of the software at least the major stuff
You'd expect like word processors and all that is going to be free most of the software is open-source
Although that can sort of be a disadvantage that we'll get into later all right now next this is definitely one of the more major
Vantage's that is really easy to understand for most people and that is that Linux is pretty much in arguably more
Secure than Windows and that's for a lot of reasons first of all it's open-source
It's viewable by a lot of different people who work on it, or just are interested in looking at it
so they can spot bugs security flaws and
Also, there's not as many people who use Linux so that means it's a much smaller target vector so if someone
Is going to make a virus then it would make a lot more sense to develop it for windows or even Mac
Where there are way more users and a lot less tech-savvy?
Users than it would be for Linux
Where generally if you're running a Linux software then you're probably a little bit more advanced
So you know how to lock down a computer?
And there's just so few of them that even if you did infect some people it probably would not be nearly worth your time
That's not to say that there are no viruses for Linux because there are a lot of non desktop or user environments for Linux
I mean there's tons and tons of servers around the world that do run on Linux, but for like a
Consumer targeted buyers probably not gonna happen, but that's not to say that Linux
Isn't actually more inherently secure because it is and one of the reasons for that is unlike Windows which basically gives all its users
Admin access the Linux runs by default in a lower
Privileged mode so even if a virus does infect you it can't really do any damage
Because it can't access a lot of other parts of the system
And it doesn't require
a lot of
Access to like install programs and all that so with Windows typically if you do want to install something especially for all users you're gonna
Have to run that as an admin and a virus would have no problem taking advantage of that whereas Linux
It's gonna be a lot harder for a virus to even do damage even though it does infect one of the fewer people it can
alright
So next up this advantage has to do with ease of
Installing programs and keeping things up to date and that is that with Linux is a much
Different system for installing software. They typically use what's called a repository
Which means that somewhere on the internet or?
Locally we're not going to get in the that
There is a repository or like a big database or storage center for all
Sorts of different software that developers will upload their program to so anytime you want to install software
instead of having to go over to the website of the software you can typically just go into the command line or the
repository GUI that the software has and just
find that software and
Download it and it will also download anything else required by it
So it's kind of like a big App Store and because this is the way that all the Linux operating systems install software
Then that's where everything is available
There's very few where it's not available on a repository that you would have to manually go and download the the specific
installer file there are
Situations like that and there are multiple repositories
That you can set up so even if it's not available on the main of boon to one you can get it available elsewhere
Now if it isn't available on a repository, or you don't have an internet connection can be a very big disadvantage but again
We'll get to that later
I know next advantage is a pretty big one that you might not thought of and this is if you need an operating system not
necessarily
For a desktop environment, maybe you built a computer like a small box that you want to use as a firewall well obviously
We've kind of not make sense to use Windows on a firewall system
It makes a lot more sense to install a server version of Ubuntu for example
And here's the thing another advantage of Linux
Is there's so many different distros which are called distributions which are like different flavors of Linux all with many many different?
Advantages and purposes for example. There are some distros which are very specific to running a firewall or something like that
There's also distros for running a Naas like a backup server
Or a web server things like that so if you do specifically need a purpose-built computer
It's very versatile and there's gonna be a way you can set it up much more specific than just
downloading an entire version of Windows Server
And then only using a little bit of software on but even if you do want to use a desktop environment
There's plenty of different distros for a lot of different purposes
There are some that are good for people who want like the the cutting edge of
latest updates and technology like fedora
And then there's other that are very specific for running on like ancient computers that have almost no
Resources available if you only have less than a gigabyte of RAM like a few hundred megabytes
There's a distro you could download and run that off it so Linux is definitely a lot more versatile and even when I say Linux
It's not very specific someone says they run Linux. Well you really have to ask which distro
Do you use because there's so many out there?
And they're so very different another advantage of Linux is kind of tying in to the previous one. I just talked about which is
customization and themes so yeah, there's a lot of different distros
And they actually do use different themes that may look completely different
But even if you do use a specific distro
You can download other themes they may look like Windows you can get something look like Windows some that look
Completely different than anything else you may have used so you really get it to look the way you want
Whereas on Windows you can't really do much besides
Changing the color of the theme and that's about it alright now moving on the next advantage is that linux is definitely a lot more
Reliable than Windows maybe not a lot more reliable than Mac because it's kind of tied in with the hardware
We're not going to get into that but Linux is definitely very reliable crashes are extremely uncommon
They do happen obviously it's not impossible for it to crash
But it's very rare and also it's reliable in the sense that you don't really have to restart every time you do
Anything on it. You know the windows if you don't restart the computer after installing software sometimes
It doesn't behave right it'll be weird you can mess things up
Potentially, but with Linux. You don't have to do that you don't have to restart
It just works all right now the final advantage that I'm going to talk about in this video at least is privacy Linux is
Definitely a lot better for people who are very privacy conscious because you know with Windows and Microsoft
They are definitely collecting tons of information about you
And I don't even think there's a default way to disable all
collection called telemetry in Windows if you want to do that you really have to
Dig down into the registry and do that it's kind of crazy with Linux. It's open-source, and there's no like
For-profit company behind it trying to collect data on you and all that sort of stuff
Yeah, you might be able to volunteer to send anonymous data
But you can easily disable that unlike with Windows where you really can't disable it at all
And they really hide it deep down to the settings. I mean there's even a setting in Windows
I've discussed that like literally gives you a
Advertising ID that tracks you and then advertise to you. It's really nuts now obviously
This is not a totally exhaustive list of advantages
these are just ones that I think would be like most relevant to the typical user who might be watching this video and now we
can get into the
Disadvantages though compared to Windows now the first disadvantage is a major one and possibly the biggest one and that is compatibility
There's just so much less software
Available in Linux that is compared to what's available on Windows. I mean, it makes sense because if you're a developer
Obviously you want more people to download your software if you're gonna focus on one operating system. It's gonna be for Windows
It's gonna be for Mac so unless a piece of software is extremely
Popular and made by like a massive company that can afford to develop on all
Operating systems or just a developer who is willing to take the time to develop it for all operating systems
Which there are a lot of those but for the most part? You're really gonna have to get like a free alternative or open-source alternative
For a lot of software and a lot of times. It's really amateur. It's definitely not as good as the
Official version you would be used to on Windows for example
Adobe Creative Suite like Photoshop Premiere Pro not available on Linux
I mean there's software like GIMP. Which is a photo editor, but believe me?
It's not nearly as good as Photoshop people say it's as good. It's not you can't argue. It's as good as Photoshop
It's a decent alternative especially considering
It's free, but you got to be aware that a lot of the software you use on Windows isn't gonna be on Linux now
There's alternatives that you can use like wine
It's a piece of software that basically runs Windows virtually or runs Windows software virtually but again
It doesn't always work another major example is a lot of the biggest video games are not compatible with Linux at all
One exception are some valve games which run on Steam does support Linux to some extent?
But a lot of those developers. Just don't even bother
Now this next advantage actually kind of ties into one thing
I've talked about before which is installing software through repositories that I mentioned if you have a connection to the Internet and your software is
Available on the repository which most of it is to be fair
It's very easy to download that software install it
But if it's not if you're offline then installing software is a huge pain in the ass
It really is there's people who say oh, it's not that difficult
It kind of is so normally what you would have to do for example say you want to download a piece of software
You'd have to like put it on a thumb drive and then
Transfer it over to the computer if you want to keep it offline
You'd have to do that with Windows
But unlike Windows where you simply run the Installer and that installs everything with Linux a lot of times
There's like dependencies where you have to install some software
First before you install the regular package that you're installing
mainly and if you install to a repository it does that automatically
But it doesn't do that automatically obviously if you're just running that package so you got to go out and find
Everything it relies on you got an install that first you have to make sure
It's the right version of the dependency
And if it's not and there's just too many dependencies you can find yourself in what is affectionately known as
Dependency hell I mean I've never heard of anything related to that on Windows so just the fact there's a name for such a thing
Can kinda give you an example of how much of a pain? This is and I've had to deal with that myself
There's software that even if it's available on the developer website the download
I just couldn't get it to install and it was just not even worth it. I know there's so many Linux
Fanboys who are gonna say. Oh, you're a idiot
You couldn't figure it out, but you know what I shouldn't have to figure it out
It should just work and that is a major advantage of Windows
Installing software just works. You don't have to worry about dependencies
It's all in one freakin little X to cuticle so next the final disadvantage isn't really having to do with Linux itself
But rather the idea of switching to Linux, which is it does kind of have a steep learning?
Curve especially for someone who has been using Windows all their life
And they're kind of gonna be expecting things to work in a certain way
So it might not inherently be a steep learning curve
But just from the fact that people are so used
To Windows it will be an issue for most people so yes people say that well Linux can do everything that Windows can
These days and that's probably true
But figuring out how to do those things is a totally different story if you're expecting to know how to do it one way
It's completely different
You're still gonna have to look up how to do it so
Overall what would I say is the verdict and of course this is just my opinion?
There's gonna be people who disagree and I would say that still for most average people
Doesn't make sense to switch for Linux mostly because of the compatibility
I mean if you want to download some software a lot of times you just gotta hope it's available freely Linux
You can't just assume
It's available like you can on Windows everything's available in Windows not the case for Linux and also for most people
There's not really an incentive to spend all the time
To switch operating systems for what purpose really? What are you really getting out of it?
I mean if it can do the same stuff that Windows can do why not just stay on Windows
Yes, it does allow a lot more
Fine-tuning for people who are advanced users, but again?
That's a very specific case where you would already know that you want to switch now one
Exception that I would say is if it's someone who really has no idea how do you?
computers
They're completely incompetent with computers like I don't know like a very elderly
Relative or someone who doesn't know how to use a computer anyway?
Then I would definitely say that a Linux operating system is probably the best bet
Just because they aren't used to having it one way, so they wouldn't be missing any super popular software
And they are also going to be able to add a lot less risk at doing something that would result in a malicious
Infection on the computer because it's just so less risky in general so if that's the case then yeah
It's intuitive enough where most people could probably figure it out
Especially if they've not used an operating system before and they're not ingrained in it
But other than that for most people Windows is probably just fine
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