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imehesz · 08-24-2006

simple.
1.-
Open source. Obviously, if you are not a developer, you don't care.

2.-
Much much much better community. Which I actually understand. I worked for a MS company for couple of months and what MS doing so called tech support is unbelievable! (it was not like this before, though). You have to pay money for their techsupport... I just didn't get it. I already paid $3000 for the software... why should I pay for more tech support?

okay, let's say I paid $250 for some stupid setup. And somebody asks me how did I do it? Am I gonna tell the person a "secret" which cost me $250??? probably NOT!

The other thing is that Linux is not necessarily cheaper or free (as free program)

I picked Linux simply because I don't have to wait bugfixes for months and I can run my the newest distrib on my 600MHz laptop with 128Mb RAM. (try this with a WinXP or Vista ;) ) hehe

08-24-2006	#2 (permalink)
imehesz Senior Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Age: 30 Posts: 258	Re: Benfit to using Linux? simple. 1.- Open source. Obviously, if you are not a developer, you don't care. 2.- Much much much better community. Which I actually understand. I worked for a MS company for couple of months and what MS doing so called tech support is unbelievable! (it was not like this before, though). You have to pay money for their techsupport... I just didn't get it. I already paid $3000 for the software... why should I pay for more tech support? okay, let's say I paid $250 for some stupid setup. And somebody asks me how did I do it? Am I gonna tell the person a "secret" which cost me $250??? probably NOT! The other thing is that Linux is not necessarily cheaper or free (as free program) I picked Linux simply because I don't have to wait bugfixes for months and I can run my the newest distrib on my 600MHz laptop with 128Mb RAM. (try this with a WinXP or Vista ;) ) hehe __________________ -- iM