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Top 5 reasons you should replace Windows and Mac OS X with GNU

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 7, 2013

GNU is a stable, powerful, flexible operating system that respects users’ privacy and promotes freedom. As any web administrator can tell you, the overwhelming majority of PCs run some version of the Microsoft Windows operating system, with Apple’s Mac OS X (the Mac isn’t usually referred to as a “PC” but it is) coming in a distant second, and all other OSes trailing far behind it.

Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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