This article won’t endeavor to advocate the utilization of Linux over Windows or the other way around. I will attempt to introduce the distinctions and likenesses among Linux and Windows in a fair way.
Outline:
Both Linux and Windows (2000, NT, XP, Vista) are working frameworks. Linux was enlivened from Unix, while Windows was propelled from VMS.
While no single organization “claims” Linux, Windows is possessed by Microsoft. Different circulations (frequently alluded to as “distros”) of Linux come from various organizations (for example Red Hat, Novell SuSE, Mandrake and so forth), while all Windows flavors (95, 98, 2000, XP, Vista) come from Microsoft.
Both Linux and Windows come in Desktop and Server versions.
Cost:
Taking everything into account, Linux is extremely modest or free. I utilized “extremely modest” for big business clients. While anyone can download, introduce and utilize Linux, the conveyance organizations ordinarily charge for technical help.
Windows is expensive. You first compensation for the duplicate of the software and afterward again for the technical help on the off chance that you at any point need it.
There is another catch however; Windows upholds you to utilize a solitary duplicate on a solitary PC. This isn’t true with Linux however, when you buy Linux, you can run it on a limitless number of PCs.
GUI:
The two Windows and Linux are GUI based working frameworks.
I’m apprehensive at the same time, Windows has preferred GUI over Linux and it will improve with the impending Windows Vista discharge. Linux has two GUIs: Gnome and KDE. Linux is quick getting up to speed and is advancing from a server working framework to a work area working framework.
Order Line:
The two Windows and Linux accompanies order line interface. Windows considers it the “DOS brief”, while Linux alludes to it as the “shell”. Linux’s shell is definitely more unrivaled than Window’s DOS brief. It can do a ton of things that are impractical in Windows. Linux support different order line shells, for example, BASH, Bourne, Korn, C shell and numerous other.
Outsider Application Software Availability:
The two Windows and Linux run outsider applications. Windows, contrasted with Linux, has far more noteworthy number of outsider applications accessible for use. A program composed for Windows won’t run under Linux (in spite of the fact that it tends to be made to imitate, yet it will be exceptionally irritating and thus not recommened).
Linux’s application base is, nonetheless, expanding triple. On an all the more close assessment, the normal PC client utilizes the accompanying applications 90% of the time: Word Processor (Office suite), E-mail client, Web program, Media software, and Instant Messenger. Linux has this large number of uses and indeed has many flavors for each.
Like Linux, all outsider applications are extremely modest or free. While, Windows applications can cost a leg and an appendage.
Security:
Just put it thusly, Windows isn’t secure. On the off chance that you are utilizing Windows and don’t have Antivirus, Anti Spyware, and firewall (memory and asset eating applications), your PC can get impacted by an infection in under 10 minutes. I reestablished a new duplicate of Windows XP on my Toshiba A40 note pad. I was perusing the Internet with Microsoft Internet Explorer and my machine got contaminated with heaps of spyware in under 15 minutes!
Microsoft concocted Firewall and Anti Spyware items, yet these projects run behind the scenes and gobble up your PC’s valuable memory.
Linux, then again, doesn’t have these issues. I’m not mindful of any spywares for Linux. One can securely run a Linux distro while never stressing over introducing Anitvirus or Anti-Spywares.
Windows additionally has more security defects than Linux. By security imperfection, I mean a programmer can think twice about Windows working framework and break into your machine and annihilate your records. In any case, imperfections on Windows are immediately fixed and fixes are frequently made accessible quickly after the defect is accounted for.