Most of us are familiar with Windows and Mac OSes, and a growing number for Linux based distros.

The sheer ease of use, customizability, and security has led mostly geeks to use Linux based distros.

When Windows 10 came out, most of us believe is higher levels of security in comparison to its past releases. However, even Windows 10  had its flaws, and was never free of viruses or spyware even with its enhanced security features. Mac OSes, OS X, based on UNIX is secure compared to Windows, but comes with expensive hardware and is closed source. Linux distros, however, has all the advantages of UNIX based OSes and is open source with a large number of contributors around the world, including software engineers in major tech firms.

There are various distros with a specific application like Scientific Linux developed by CERN for physic and other scientific research.

Linux is also highly customizable that we can use a stripped down version for own use and which is specific for our purposes. Most of the today’s closed source application also have their Linux variants, like Skype, which makes it suitable for use for our day to day use.

Moi linux desktop from Fayaz Rasheed on Vimeo.