My Thoughts on Linux

The following is just my thoughts on Linux. I have already covered on which Linux distro is best for beginners but I would like to put more emphasis on why in this post.

Linux is a free and open source Operating System (OS) which can be considered as an alternative to Other operating systems like Windows 10 by Microsoft and OSX by Apple. This makes sense as not many  can afford the high quality products manufactured by these companies such as MacBook, Microsoft Surface Pro, Microsoft Surface Studio etc.. And for those who can afford it there is not much customization possible as both companies  impose restrictions on the users from utilizing the devices full potential to suite individual needs. Peoples requirements can be form basic office use and media consumption like browser, video/audio player, word documents excel sheets, presentation  to  high level of scientific computations and play computationally intense games. For all of these requirements Linux can be a possible solution for everyone. To know the origins of why Linux was started have a look at Revolution OS  and understand what was in the minds of Richard Stallman, Linus Torvalds, Eric Raymond and many others who have contributed to the idea which is a reality today.

As there are many different people with different opinions, there are different Linux based operating systems to suite different needs. Why are there so many distributions of Linux? "Because we can" would be the closest answer to this question as per the GPL license through which Linux is distributed. The basic gist is that anyone can take the source code (which is open source) modify and do with it as they please and redistribute it. Which is why there are many distros like Debian, Ubuntu, Linux Mint, Fedora, CentOS, openSuse, elementry OS, Arch Linux, Kali Linux, puppy Linux, etc.. to have a brief idea about these various distros have a look at Distrowatch