Today was the second day in school that we had to wait for windows updates for half an hour and still it wasn't finished. It's okay for systems to get updated but not in the way that it prevents you from doing it anything. When you start PC you want to start working on it as soon as it is ready and not to wait for some updates that you don't even need. There is a way that you can turn them off but how to explain to someone who uses laptop or PC strictly for browsing or using office programs. As someone who jumped recently to Linux, I can say that in Windows you have so many files, folders, drives... you don't know where to look for your stuff. It wastes a lot of a valuable time. I started with Linux Ubuntu, at first it felt like running without any restrictions, like taking a walk on the beach. You download something, you can find it in one click or if you're better with command line interface, in one command(you can do that on WIN too). Not to say how much faster Ubuntu runs. Later I felt that Ubuntu's interface is quite plastic(recently I tweaked it with Cairo desktop) so I wanted to try some other Linux distributions. I found one that is based on Ubuntu but "pretends" to be a Windows. You have windows-like interface with all Linux features. Actually it has the best things from both of them- It is called Zorin OS. Wine(Windows installer for Linux) came pre-installed with the system so I wanted to check if it is possible to run Windows program on Linux. YOU CAN! I tried with some games and even Microsoft Office and nothing failed. Although you can't install everything, there is a huge list of applications and games you can install by doing few simple steps. You just download thing you want to install from the internet just like on windows and then you install it with Wine. After it is installed real magic happens. Everything works like in Windows but maybe a slightly better. To get back on my first subject, updates. Yeah, Linux asks you whether you want them or not, something I have not seen in Windows. Linux gives you a full control of everything that you do(some beginners don't like that), Windows not and that's why I'm angry at it, not to mention it has dozens of viruses. If you want to forget about Windows slowness, viruses and many games(some of them you'll be able to play) and still use Office programs and other things originally made for windows, give Zorin a try.
