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Perché Linux?
There are many reason for using Linux instead of another operative system:
1. It is more -- and safier
2. It is open source
3. It is a good way to understand how a computer works
Let's try to understand better every one of this reason.
The first one is clear. The "more" is in comparison to Windows: everybody had experienced how Windows is inaffidable; the computers give problems twice or three times a day. Thi DOESN'T happens with Linux. Moreover, Linux has been created to be used on web linked devices, so it is safier: practically there are no viruses. You can even have fun launching trojans you've received by mails (that are created thinking of Windows), and your device won't be damaged. (Linux simply said that it doesn't know what is that stuff...)
Then Linux is open source. This means that the programms' source (and the operative system's one) is open and available for every user. Even if the whole software is not at all free, the main part is free. It means that, when you need a program, you have simply to connect and download it.
Moreover the open source philosophy (especially when the products are free), seems to be a good alternative to the market's rules: Linux is the demonstraction that it is not only the profit make the world go round. There is a community of people that pass its time, freely, developing softwares and making them available to everyone. Instead of it they use also others products.
Last, the fact that the sources are open makes people acknowledged of what they are doing. With Linux, differently from Windows, you know what the computer do, because the divce do ONLY what you tell it to do. If you have the patience to open the configurations files you can manage all directly, without using Windows' configurations instruments.
Surely it has a fee: Linux needs time. This doesn't means that Linux is hard to use. Linux is often easier than Windows; surely it is more logical. But the time Windows allow us to save, doing all by his own, without giving us the chance to understand and choose, can't be saved with Linux.
To install and run an application you have to understand exactly what you are doing or the application won't run. We are used with a computer that do all by its own; forget the "double click to install". If you are that kind of people who don't know if their car need gasoline or diesel and that call the electrician to change a bulb, it is not worth while doing a Linux experience.
