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Linux is a family of open source Unix-like operating systems based on the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released on September 17, 1991 by Linus Torvalds. Linux is typically packaged in a Linux distribution (or distro for short).
Distributions include the Linux kernel and supporting system software and libraries, many of which are provided by the GNU Project. Many Linux distributions use the word "Linux" in their name, but the Free Software Foundation uses the name GNU/Linux to emphasize the importance of GNU software, causing some controversy.
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Its a little more difficult to debug and fix issues compared to windows
Is that true? Every error in Linux is logged, configurations are readable. For me, I'm very tech savvy, clicking around in GUIs hoping to find something, spelunking in event manager trying to find an error, is so much harder than in Linux.
This is very personal, I know. How do you debug and fix issues in Windows again? :-) It has been a while.
Yes, and everyone knows the blue screen of death!! It's so annoying.
Well they thoroughly fixed that in Windows 2000 with better memory management. Has happened very rarely in versions after that.
But, yes, it's also conveys very little useful information other than "I crashed, I hope you saved whatever you were doing".
(But I've had crashes in Linux too, probably because of Nvidia)
Event viewer and dumps for bluescreens (in windows 10 and maybe 11 you have to enable it), I just hate having to use the terminal