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OMGUbuntu: 'Why Use Linux?' Answered in 3 Short Words (omgubuntu.co.uk)

Posted by msmash on from the question-answered dept.

Linux-focused blog OMGUbuntu's Joey-Elijah Sneddon shared a post today in which he is trying to explain why people should Linux. He stumbled upon the question when he typed "Why use" and Google suggested Linux as one of the most frequent questions. From the article: The question posed is not one that I sincerely ask myself very often. The answer has, over the years, become complicated. It's grown into a bloated ball of elastic bands, each reason stretched around and now reliant on another. But I wanted to answer. Helpfully, my brain began to spit out all the predictable nouns: "Why use Linux? Because of security! Because of control! Because of privacy, community, and a general sense of purpose! Because it's fast! Because it's virus free! Because I'm dang-well used to it now! Because, heck, I can shape it to look like pretty much anything I want it to using themes and widgets and CSS and extensions and blingy little desktop trinkets!"

6 of 269 comments (clear)

  1. Clickbait by Verdatum · · Score: 2, Informative

    Really, Slashdot? Clickbait? "Because it's better". Would that have been so difficult to throw into the Summary? I'm ashamed.

  2. 2016 by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

    2016 and if I upgrade my kernel to 4.7, no wifi...again. Fucking Linux still sucks.

  3. Three words? by Rick+Schumann · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's not Windows.
    It's not spyware.
    It's not Microsoft.
    It respects you.
    It's your computer!
    Try it today!

    1. Re:Three words? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Informative

      It doesn't easily run the games I want to play.

  4. Use FreeBSD Instead by mrun4982 · · Score: 4, Informative

    for servers at least. Sorry, but I'll stick with Windows and OSX for desktop usage for wider software support and both are good enough these days.

  5. Re: Because Windows Sucks by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Informative

    And yet the majority of web servers run Linux... I'm not sure how that's security by obscurity...

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_operating_systems#Public_servers_on_the_Internet