| A bit more broad than you asked for, and maybe outdated in some respects, but here ya go: http://www.whylinuxisbetter.net/ As to which Linux to use, http://Distrowatch.com is your friend. A few short summaries: Gentoo or Arch if you know what you're doing. Ubuntu or Mint for the desktop for noobs or people who want a Windows/Mac desktop replacement (eg just works, drivers easy to get, don't need to configure, etc.) Fedora or CentOS if you want to start learning the RedHat Enterprise Linux side of things (different package managers, preference for KDE desktop instead of Gnome, etc.) OpenSuse for... I'm not sure but I like what they're doing with it - good performance (better than Ubuntu if the last benchmarks I saw were any indication), worth keeping on your radar. Debian and Slackware - old stalwarts, can't not mention them, Ubuntu is built on top of Debian (and Mint on top of Ubuntu). What else... |