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Five Reasons to Use Linux

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Christine Hall
May 28, 2015

Quite simply, most of us use desktop Linux because it’s superior to all other brands, including Windows and OS X – even including Unix and the BSDs. This is a fact, not an opinion. There are reasons why Linux runs a majority of the worlds servers and powers most big enterprises, and in an example of where the trickle down theory actually works, those reasons trickle down (or up – depending on your viewpoint) to the desktop.

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