yep

Cool

assuming you run windows currently

gentoo lads unite

just use Ubuntu

sad

it is the most beginner friendly linux

Yep Windows 10 unfortunately

i actually currently only use linux for my servers, I've found the newer versions of W10 much more helpful to work with as a daily driver as soon as you uninstall the 6000 different versions of Candy Crush Saga

i have Windows 10 Enterprise, so

win10 is good man, but i find a lot of tutorials, projects and stuff will assume you are using a *nix machine

oh yeah

What sort of benefits does linux offer over other operating systems?

i interned at MSR and got used to visual studio, its actually fucking great

and for all those tutorials or whatever I'd do them on my servers, because all the stuff I do with tutorials and whatnot happen to be server-related (because linux server market share is like, insane) so y'know

as long as my servers run linux I'm fine

well linux is free for one

lol

my only problem with visual studio is the 69 GB download

That's a benefit

But I mean in terms of utility

linux being free is only a benefit if you haven't already bought windows

linux is.. sometimes.. faster

but only for encryption

linux can be much more lightweight in terms of CPU usage, basically every open source project runs on it

the linux kernel is marginally better than NT at encryption

because kernel encryption layer and some shit

NT?

out of the box it's a more hospitable programming environment

NT is windows' kernel

aka Windows NT

Got it 😃

The Kernel is where all the important admin shit is right?

basically yeah

the kernel is where the system interacts with the hardware and where important tasks such as encryption can be called to improve speed

its the layer between your applications and the processor hardware and memory

And that was one of the big problems with the intel chip right?

if you've ever heard of `ring 0`, that's where code runs directly in the kernel and you'll often see older task managers separating ring 0 usage and user usage

Because it allowed access before it verified which made it faster but was bad for security

Okay. Interesting

the actual mechanics of how the exploits worked is fairly complex