Linux is a pretty cool operating system. You can customize it in a variety of ways, it’s a stable operating system, and you never have to worry about having to get someone’s permission (or mess around with a fancy license) in order to use Linux. Using Linux, an older computer can be made useful again because there are no memory leaks, or the other annoyances that creep in over time with the other kinds of operating systems (including that poser that rhymes with “sin doze”). And if that weren’t enough, people who use Linux don’t need to get unlimited cell phone plans, just to call some useless excuse for a tech support line that’s based in a foreign country.

Linux is the kind of operating system that assumes you are smart, and that you want your computer to just work. There is no garbage involved with a Linux distribution, because it wasn’t made by some huge company that just wants to sell you a bunch of crap. The people who developed (and continue to work on) Linux are programmers who have a passion for a well made, highly functional operating system. The fact is, you won’t get the same kind of attention to the positive details out of a company whose main goal is to give you a flawed product, just so that you’ll eventually get frustrated enough to go buy a new computer… even though the computer isn’t even the problem!

Basically, Linux is the option that people who know what they’re doing take, just by default. And if you’ve never used Linux, it’s no big deal. At one point, you’d never tried your favorite kind of food – there is a first time for everything, after all. And if you don’t like an operating system that doesn’t think that you’re an idiot, you can just uninstall it, without ever having wasted any money.

You live in a very bi-polar computer world. If you were to poll everyone in your family and all of your friends they would tell you that there are two types of computers: the Mac and the PC. They would also tell you that there are two types of operating systems: the MAC OS and Windows. Now most of the world runs on Windows and the rest of the world seems to run on Mac but did you know there is a third operating system for PC’s? That’s right it’s the Linux system.

It would seem like the world, with its Mac and Windows obsession would have no use for such things as a Linux model but what you might not know is that Linux makes its market share elsewhere. Its found on many a servers like the same serves that host the site Offers.com. This operating system has had twenty to forty percent of the market share for the last couple of years. So why is Linux around if it owns so little of the market share? The answer is that people, programmers in particular, love the Linux system because it is an open source sharing system.

What this means is that the technology is available to anyone so that you can learn how they make it and that way you can learn how they use it and even manipulate it. This is great but with so many great minds working on the system there are advancements everyday.

The down side to Linux is that it is unlikely to gain more popularity. The Windows and MAC OS have quite the market share and since most people and businesses have most of their computers networked through it, you are not likely to see many Linux operating systems unless you are online.