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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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OS market share in Top 500 supercomputers (feddit.org)

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Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supercomputer_operating_system
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[–] [email protected] 6 points 6 hours ago (3 children)

Plus Linux doesn't limit you in the number of drives, whereas Windows limits you from A to Z.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

You can mount drives against folders in windows. So while D: is one drive, D:\Logs or D:\Cake can each be a different disk.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

For people who haven’t installed Windows before, the default boot drive is G, and the default file system is C

So you only have 25 to work with (everything but G)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 23 minutes ago

G can be mapped after boot (usually to removable drives)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 hours ago

Ok that would make sense tbh