Linux can extract more performance from your existing hardware. Older machines with less memory and less powerful CPUs can boost performance nicely by changing from Windows to Linux. Raw speed is important in game play, number crunching, image processing, database management, and software compilation. After spending years buying more powerful hardware in order to keep pace with the bloat and speed loss that is inherent to applications coded for the Windows APIs, it's a relief to actually find an operating system that helps performance instead of hurting it.
Linux is more stable than Windows. That is especially true of consumer versions of Windows, like Windows 95, Window 98, and the coming-any-day-now Windows Millenium, or whatever
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