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Discussion on: 5 Reasons to Use Ubuntu Instead of Windows

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Jukka-Pekka Keisala

I have had both OS as my primary working station since 1995. I think the only statement above I agree is that Linux is free. The rest is yeah, it depends. Like, I can customize more Linux. You can really go far by customizing Windows as well. Security in Windows is as good as on Linux. Only reason why Linux may have change to be more secure is because hacker wont target that because it is not that popular. Looking underlining architecture, both can have viruses and both can be hacked. Stability, in my personal experience apt-get update can crash your system to the state where I have to reinstall entire OS. I don't recall this ever happen to me in Windows Update. But I can f**** up Windows by 3rd party software but again the same problem on installing 3rd party in Linux.

My recomendation if you are familiar with both systems: Use Windows as host, it is stable. Then run Linux sub-system to get all goodies from Linux terminal. For running webservers, do Docker.