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Hi I thought that we should try and be a bit more positive.....
And no mentioning the other popular OSes.....
Here's mine....
1. Flexibility - the choice and range means that there is a Linux to suit everyone.
2. log files - nothing better for trouble shooting, there are logs for everything!
3. Webmin - makes my job easier
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(based on my experience)
1) Crontab: I use it for just about everything
2) It's really fast to boot usually
3) lots and lots of 1 click software!
Cheers,
Tom
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1: Synaptic Package Manager and the vast Ubuntu repositories.
2: Security.
3: Linux isn't an attention junkie, once configured it just gets on with the job with no maintenance required.
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Very little messing about to get it running after you make sure the PC works with a Live CD.
Saves loads of hassle when recovering a dead Windows PC.
Can look very pretty running on old PC's.
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Advent laptop AMD64 3000 XP Home
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1) The flexibility - I've had desktop systems showing off loads of eyecandy, and text based firewalls keeping me safe, all based on totally free software that I can chop up and rebuild if I learn the skills.
2) Ease of installation - I've had lots of problems with my current (ATI) setup and Linux (some Linux, some ATI), and have got into a real mess on a few occasions. All I've had to do is pop in a live CD and reinstall. Within about fifteen minutes, I'm back to a desktop with most things working, but I've been using it from the CD while it's been installing 
3) The 'Wow' factor - The first time I ran a Sabayon live CD and showed the other half the rotating cube desktop, and the fire effects on a wobbly window, she really did say Wow! If I can convince her that she can use things like Open Office and Firefox, she'll realise that she doesn't need Windows on her laptop, and will only use it for games on her desktop*
*That's one area where she's in a better position than me. Because she's not a geek, she just uses programs, then closes them. She hasn't got hard drives full of settings she's tweaked over the last fifteen years slowing down her switch over 
If I could wean my parents off AOL, they wouldn't even notice the difference 
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1) A useful 3D desktop
2) Konqueror, it really is a killer app
3) Live CD's make it dead easy to trial run before swapping distro
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MartenReed (14/07/2008)
Wylie, I'm disappointed.
You, of all people, should know that "Free" doesn't apply to Linux as a whole. You need to specify 
Ah, I should have said free as in speech, not free as in beer.
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