It
was great going with windows when I decided to work with Linux. I had
heard lot of about Linux that its quite good to work, its open source,
no virus problems just like that, And only these things persuaded me to go for Linux. So, I installed Ubuntu 11.04 (a well
known version of Linux OS), and start discovering the things that I
heard about, and you I'm pleased to say that most of the things I found true. Well it's for only a week I'm with Linux but its quite exciting since I got the new
environment to work with. Its not like the windows that has a start
button and task-bar, Linux has completely different GUI than Windows,
moreover you will also find the completely different architecture in
different - different versions of the Linux like Ubuntu, Fedora, Red
Hat, Kubuntu etc.
And,
of course I just forgot about the viruses as I go with Linux. Linux
does not have any problem of viruses because unlike windows, in Linux
everything is a file or a process, and Linux do not allow any exe file
to execute (most of the viruses usually have .exe format). Actually it
does not allow any file to execute without permission, you must grant
the execution rights before execution of any file.
But
few things were there that disappointed me for a while and these
include the installation of a new softwares and USB modem configuration
etc, I searched about modem configuration on Internet & easily found
fix for that but it was really very enraging to install the new
softwares.
And, this is where windows has advantage over Linux while I
was working with windows, it takes me to just double click on a setup
file & follow the instructions but with Linux when I tried to
install the software with an archive file I was about to go insane. Its
really a very tough job for a new user to install the software via
archive file (like zip, tar etc), but don't bother about this because
Linux also has a fix for this, you can install any software on Linux by
its GUI based utility called software center (in Ubuntu its "Ubuntu
Software Center") or you may search for the blogs and forums, where you
can easily get the terminal commands to install the softwares, But it
all want you to be connected via Internet (for big files you must have high speed Internet connectivity).
Although Linux disappointed me at some occasions but its quite interesting to work with Linux.
Good Luck.
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