Moving to Open Source OS

Discovering about Open Source vs Closed Source, now we'll be heading towards OS and again the distinguishing points will be focusing on Open vs Closed Source.
Many of the Operating Systems available in the market are Windows, Mac OS and Linux and are further distributed into many depending upon their Versions and Flavors few of them are mentioned below.
  • Windows
    • Windows XP
    • Windows 7
    • Windows 8.1
  • Linux
    • Ubuntu
    • RHEL
    • CENT OS
  • Mac OS X
    • OS X 10.8 (Mountain Lion)
    • OS X 10.9 (Mavericks)
    • OS X 10.11 (El Captian)
Most of them are already known to you.

     So now we have two categories for OS and those are
  • Open Source OS
    • Linux
  • Closed Source OS
    • Mac OS X
    • Windows
Here is some data analysis of market share of each OS done by Net Applications

People in terms of Desktop OS are more attracted to Windows as compared to any other OS but talking of Developers they are more focused  on Linux and when moving to the world of Mobile devices more than 48% of the devices run on android and people are moving to open source.

On personal taste I also recommend Linux for Desktop Environment because

  • It's Free
  • Open Source
  • Better UI then Windows
  • Kernel Modification is possible
  • Better CLI
  • Direct Availability of Software
  • Regular Updates
  • Manual Selection of Updates
  • Faster then Windows
  • Requires less processing power and memory
  • More Efficient 
  • Security
    • With number of developers working on Linux are more than any other product so any bug faced by the OS is removed really quick and compromises made to the OS are really less.
I guess these points are more then enough to make you shift to Linux and preferably Ubuntu.
Ubuntu is a Debian Based Operating System and moreover Ubuntu uses Unity Desktop Environment.
Detailed Explanation of Ubuntu will be there in further posts, do wait for them and request some topics if you want to.

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