Five reasons to use Linux on your Netbook
If you have a NetBook and does not have any installed Linux distribution on it. Here are five specific reasons to install it and start to use.
1. Security
Personally, I believe that to have Windows with an Antivirus in a Netbook is to reduce the yield of the equipment, especially in a Netbook with a SSD disc. With Linux, simply you do not have to think about installing Antivirus software for your machine. Linux is robust, secure and has several options to encrypt your private information and is generally much more difficult to trap than other operating systems.
2. Graphical Interface
A NetBook has a small screen. Right? Instead of installing Windows XP on a NetBook, it is better to employ a system that is optimized for these screen sizes? Probably not what they used to use but a Linux distribution that is optimized for Netbooks is clean, fast and user friendly (Moblin, Ubuntu NetBook Remix are good examples). The idea is to get the juice to those few pixels you have available in the screen of your NetBook.
3. Speed
With Linux, you’ll gain speed, not only because you don’t have an Antivirus, Anti-Malware or Anti-Spyware installed, but the applications in Linux are fast, because in most cases are optimized for the architecture which will run. Innovation in Linux is constant and many distributions release a new version every 4 to 6 months.
4. Support
Many people with Windows XP Netbooks, dream to install Windows 7. And I ask them, do you think it will work? Would there any NetBook with Windows 7 or Vista installed? Windows XP inevitably face an end. And when that happens, Windows 7 no longer supports your hardware and you want to continue using your NetBook, what you will do?
Using a Netbook with Linux, you no need to fear because for end of support or have poor performance. It just works. And if something doesn’t work, certainly in any Forum, there would be any way to fix it and the community will take care of that and will release a patch, package or tutorial to fix this problem.
5. Linux + NetBook = Productivity
When I try to convince my friends, who are Windows XP or Vista users, to use Linux in their laptop machines, the argument that many give me is that I can not play X or Y game on Linux.
There are hundreds of programs you won’t be able to use in your NetBook with Windows (3D modeling softwares, CAD, high performance and advanced graphics, games etc) because Netbooks are designed with one purpose in mind that you connect to Internet.
Linux is an excellent OS to work. Consumes little space on your hard disk and carries well with other operating systems. And if you insist on playing, there are many free and good games running pretty well in NetBooks.
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