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Owners of personal computers like you and many others when think about an operating system, they can only think about windows based operating systems such as Windows XP and Windows Vista and Windows 7. These operating systems sometimes cost as much as half of the cost of the personal computer. If it is a Apple mac based computer, you have little choice of an alternative operating system, but if the computer allows installation of any operating system, then you can look at the alternate and free operating systems that are available.
Linux based operating systems such as Ubuntu, Fedora, SUSE and many others. These operating systems as evolved as Microsoft’s operating systems, in fact many of the features in Microsoft Word are copied from these Linux based operating systems. These operating systems are covered under the open source project realm, hence they are free to use and even modify. However, there is a minor drawback in using these operating systems that makes people go for Windows based operating systems. These operating systems are fine if browsing and occasional typing is all you do, but when you wish to play video games and do high graphic editing in these operating systems, one will realize that there are not as many software available as in Windows that let people do a wide variety of work. Linux based operating systems have a lot of open source softwares available that are similar to their counterparts for Microsoft Windows. They might in some cases even perform better than its counterpart.
