Before debating the relative merits and shortcomings of Linux and Windows, it helps to understand the real distinctions between them.

With Windows, Microsoft creates its operating system in a black box. We really don’t know what they’re doing in there.

Windows and Linux are like the sides of a coin; the differences between both are stark. Microsoft Windows is a proprietary operating system created by Microsoft and is the widely used operating system ...

5. Older or lesser-powered hardware You want to see a massive difference between Windows 10 and Linux, load both up on older hardware and see how they perform.

Linux does Windows Desktop open-source operating systems are ready for prime time and available from Wal-Mart. But if they look and act just the same as software from Redmond, what's the point?

While it is not exactly a security feature, the variety available to Linux users in both operating system and applications makes it much harder for malware to target a majority of users.

Consistent system clock setting Both OSes can show time inconsistently If you dual-boot Windows with any Linux distribution, you might have noticed a time difference between the two operating systems.

I do not believe that a reader’s operating system has much influence on which interrogators companies purchase, however. Ultrahigh-frequency (UHF) readers based on the EPC Gen 2 protocol run what is ...