Why you will soon be using Linux instead of Microsoft products

Why I like Linux:

Choices

WizarDave's recommended method of:

• keeping your programs up to date
• installing and removing programs

apt - synaptic

Once you have Linux installed,
Here's what you need to do to use apt - synaptic.

Install apt using rpm

• NOTE: you do this in a terminal program
  as root user
• Download here.
• Install it as root with
• NOTE: you do this in a terminal program
  as root user
• su
• enter your root password
• then enter
• rpm -Uvh apt-*

You're now ready to update and install/remove programs.

• APT HowTo from Debian.org
• APT is the defacto updater/installer program for Debian Linux distribution.

But it gets better:

• APT is a terminal based command line program.
  Meaning you have to memorize or write down a bunch of commands to use it. This can at times be tedious work. So like many other Linux programs, "they" (open source programmers) have developed Graphical User Interfaces (GUI) making them much easier to use for the average user.
• Synaptic is the GUI for APT

WizarDave only used command line APT one time:

• to install Synaptic
• I, like most of you, find it much easier to click than type...

Off site links

• DAG apt/yum repository

It's all about having choices
That's the biggest reason I prefer Linux over Windoze.