Why IT graduates should start working with Linux

Because... Linux is faster: get every ounce of your CPU power working for you

Yes. Linux is faster, and there is technical explanation for that. The core thing that make Linux faster than windows is its ‘core’. When I say core, I mean the Kernel. Linux follows a monolithic styled Kernel, that means the critical OS functionality such as driver management, memory management, task scheduler and the file systems, all are available at one place only, that make the communication between them faster. Windows is using Kernel which is micro Kernel. Micro Kernels contain fewer functionality with it. The other aspects are loaded separately in Window’s micro Kernel.

Because... Linux has many flavors: give a purpose to your computer

My professor uses a very good analogy to explain Linux Distributions. Imagine when very first ice cream was invented, how would it look and taste like! Imagine that was a plain vanilla ice cream. That plain vanilla ice cream is Linux. Later on people started adding flavours to their choices, like Chocolate, Strawberry etc. Similarly on top of Linux Kernel, developers added tools and software that are aligned to their profession or purpose. If you’re interested in hacking, there is Kali Linux for you. If you want super security, there is SE Linux (Security-Enhanced) for you. If you are network administrator, then there is CentOS Linux for you. This and that there are hundreds of Linux Distributions available for your purpose of work. To explore the ocean of distros visit www.distrowatch.com

Because... Linux has wide support community / forums / websites / videos: individually we are drop but together we are ocean

Let me tell you an incident. Once I was working on one .NET project, where I encountered serious error (it was not generating .exe file under any circumstances), when I searched on internet regarding the error, there was no gentleman answer for that, in fact what people do to just get clicks was this, they first write rubbish which contain the error in title but inside, they just talk round round, and at last they say, to solve this error visit this link. And when you click to that link another person talk same rubbish, and at last he too put a link to visit. No matter how much you try to catch your tail, you just can’t do it. Well this happens because windows is proprietary OS, this is why they can’t solve our problem without charging nothing from us. On the other hand in Linux it is too good, when you try to search for an error solution, you would literally astonished the way they (community pages and forums) define and get root to the error. This is something you only understand when you start troubleshooting for Linux errors.

Because... Linux is not stalking you: solitude sometimes is the best society

Linux don’t collect user data whereas windows collect all the user details which lead to privacy breach.

Because... Linux is as secure as an English castle: Security is always excessive until it's not enough

On this mother Earth, 87.56% desktop users use Windows as their primary OS, 9.65% uses macOS and 2.15% ‘elite force people’ uses Linux. So it make more sense for hackers to create Virus that target Windows OS. In addition to that Linux architecture is designed the way that makes the job of Virus to break through damn difficult. Getting into detail about architecture is out of the scope here. According to www.top500.org in the year 2019 all top 500 servers/super computers uses Linux operating system as their primary os, this highlight the power of Linux.

Because... Linux offers quality open source software and tools: In fact, the software gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles

There are plenty of open source software available on Linux, and they’re pretty bomb at performing. For an instance, for youtube video download, there is youtube-dl tools, it offers very good functionality such as, it can download entire playlist, it can extract audio from the video and make it mp3, this and many other so many powerful function youtube-dl has. Then there is openSSL tool, it can encrypt any document in almost all type of encryption modes. It works miraculously fine for developer tools like Android Studio, Github, PyCharm, Docker, PHP, JavaScript etc.

Because... Linux unleash the lethal tech geek in you: Linux can do everything Windows can, and figuring out how, is funnn!

Initially problem comes when you newly start working with Linux, because in Linux there is so much commands you need to fire in its terminal. You might blow your mind sometimes, in fact Linux will challenge you on day to day operations. But trust me there is no satisfaction then you solve a Linux problem by throughing its forum or you read book or watch tutorials or anyhow if you nailed it, you will get a sound sleep that night. :)

CAUTION!, once you survived first 6 months with Linux, then there is no chance you getting back to Windows or Mac ever again.