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Discussion on: 5 Reasons to Use Ubuntu Instead of Windows

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Toomas Jaska • Edited

Firstly, Windows is much slower;

I can kind of give you that. When I wanted to get decent web browsing experience on a potato, I uninstalled Win8 (it was preinstalled, yikes) and installed some light linux distribution. Yes, it was faster. But this is again totally use case dependent. I didn't get a full desktop experience from that distro, it just catered to my specific needs.

if you had no any issues with security on Windows, it doesn't mean that there's no security gaps.

I think your regular user will have a more secure experience out of the box with Win10 than with any Linux distro that they can potentionally sudo brick. But this is the meat of the issue here: linux users tend to be more technically aware/competent than Windows users, on average. Because they would have to be to use linux effectively, what with all the hardware and software compatibility issues they will face.

you don't need to download additional utilities which will track your network usage or clear your RAM

I'm not clear about the point you're making with the first part. Wasn't preinstalled software a bad thing in your article? If you're serious about tracking network activity you'll most likely install some third party software like TCPView. Depending on your linux distro, you may have to do that as well. Network usage is in Windows task manager out of the box.

The second point - I've never installed a RAM cleaner on windows. Windows is smart enough managing it. I have, however, configured linux swap files - but that's more to do with hardware limitations.