{"id":2746,"date":"2008-12-18T21:41:32","date_gmt":"2008-12-18T19:41:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/?p=2746"},"modified":"2008-12-18T21:41:32","modified_gmt":"2008-12-18T19:41:32","slug":"10-things-linux-does-better-than-windows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/2008\/12\/18\/10-things-linux-does-better-than-windows\/","title":{"rendered":"10 things Linux does better than Windows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I found this nice article of the same title (&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.techrepublic.com.com\/10things\/?p=415\">10 things Linux does better than Windows<\/a>&#8220;) on TechRepublic.com. I found it interesting because I could not really find all 10 of them. Will you be able to list all of them?<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>TCO (Total Cost of Ownership)<\/strong>: Linux is less expensive in an enterprise because of the high cost of per-seat licenses.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Desktop<\/strong>: Nowadays, Linux is as easy as Windows for most entry-level users.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Server<\/strong>: So many servers are now running on Linux.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Security<\/strong>: Windows progressed a lot recently, but is still the target of a lot of malware, virus, Trojans, etc. that Linux has avoided by immunity through faster problem fixes.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Flexibility<\/strong>: Linux is amazingly able to adapt itself to various applications and environments.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Package management<\/strong>: Installation of new applications in Linux is years ahead of the dinosaur Install-Software solution of Microsoft.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Community<\/strong>: Not that the Linux community would be larger, but it is so much more active and willing to support all kinds of users.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Interoperability<\/strong>: Windows works well with Windows. For the rest, just go to Linux if you want to interoperate with Apple OS X, various Unix systems, various Linux distributions, OS\/2, PlayStations, PDAs, and&#8230; Windows.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Command line<\/strong>: You may not need to use it, but when times come for it, Linux command line is worlds better than Microsoft mock-up.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Evolution<\/strong>: Do you remember the feel of going from XP to Vista? Do you remember how many times Microsoft forced you to upgrade machines? Linux is much more adaptable and provides a proven smooth path to newer, better versions.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this nice article of the same title (&#8220;10 things Linux does better than Windows&#8220;) on TechRepublic.com. I found it interesting because I could not really find all 10 of them. Will you be able to list all of them? TCO (Total Cost of Ownership): Linux is less expensive in an enterprise because of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21,24,43,10,34,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2746","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-apple","category-computers","category-enterprise","category-linux","category-tech","category-vista"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2746\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roumazeilles.net\/news\/en\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}