At the beginning of the school year,
there is so many things we need to obtain to get the best education
we possibly can. I'm going to focus on the PC. There is currently
two popular formats, but not the only ones. One format is Windows PC
that has a dominant share of the PC market. It has a very famous
name, Microsoft, it has pretty colors, and pretty much everywhere you
go, there it is. Not a bad platform, great for what most users
require. The other one is Mac PC. User interface is almost
invisible(great in programming terms), non destructive file
management which makes it great for running a business. One great
thing about a Mac is that all the software and hardware is integrated
meaning what Windows sees as variables Macs can see absolute terms
which increases the overall performance. Bill Gates home was
designed on a Mac. Steve Jobs programmed on Visual Studio. Linux
and all its mystique is slowly starting to gain ground on the two
giants. Linux is a community based software in that a “company”
doesn't support it directly, they just add to the existing
functionality. This creates programs not limited by big company
budgets or marketing trends(which is how most proprietary companies
operate, well their a business nothing wrong with that). Linux big
sell point: Software is only limited to what the user can
accomplish. If you are computer savvy check out Ubuntu. Because
software is indirectly supported it does taking getting used to how
to operate the system. The community is very vocal about bad
software, so do research before you download, but I can say that good
software is not very hard to find. If you don’t plan on running a
business or create a new Picasso, and just mostly wanna facebook, do
your homework(openoffice.org), and just keep up with things check out
Ubuntu. I'm working on a career in Software so I use Ubuntu for my
personal computer and my workstation uses Windows.
Oh yeah, Valve just announced recently
that they are working on a Steam Client for Linux systems
