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Linux
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Windows
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Linux is an open-source Operating System. People can change codes and add programs to Linux OS which will help use your computer better.
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Windows is licence based Operating System. you can't change any code for windows OS. You can't even see which processes do what and build your onw extension.
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Linux come from different companies like LIndows , Lycoris, Red Hat, SuSe, Mandrake, Knopping, Slackware
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All flavors of Windows come from Microsoft.
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Linux is customizable. NASlite is a version of Linux that runs off a single floppy disk and converts an old computer into a file server.
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Windows is not customzable. Windows hardware requirement is high.
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Linux is freely available for desktop and server use. You can run Linux on any number of computers.
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Microsoft allows a single copy of Windows to be used on one computer.
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Linux has hign security.
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Windows has less security
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You can login as root or as normal user. The root has full previlage.
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You can login as administrator or as normal user. The administrator has full previlage.
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Linux has few bugs.
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Windows has more bugs.
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Linux can boot from either a primary partition or a logical partition inside an extended partition.
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Windows must boot from a primary partition.
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Linux uses a dedicated partition for its swap file.
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Windows uses a hidden file for its swap file.
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Linux uses a normal forward slash.
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Windows separates directories with a back slash
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Linus filenames are case sensitive.
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Windows file names are not case sensitive.
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Linux uses a unified scheme. In linux " / " is the main directory.
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Windows uses a volume-based file hierarchy. Windows uses letters of the alphabet to represent different devices and different hard disk partitions
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In Linux each user will have a home directory and all his files will be save under it. In Linux its easy to have backup's.
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windows the user saves his files anywhere in the drive. This makes difficult to have backup for his contents.
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