Why on Earth should I use Linux?

• Unix/Linux developed over many years by researchers for researchers — ideal environment for computational research!
• Almost all HPC facilities have Linux as the OS.
• Easier to collaborate and share resources with Linux:
  • SSH, X11;
  • multiple simultaneous users — desktop MS Win crippled. . .
• Completely free (in both senses) — plus masses of free apps.
• Linux is a very flexible system:
  • choice of distros and. . .
  • . . .of user-interface (GUI): GNOME vs KDE vs XFCE vs LXDE. . .
  • GUI and very powerful commandline;
  • open-source.