Types of os

Types of operating system

Windows

OS variants

• Windows xp (old), Windows 8, 10, 11

Features

• GUI and terminal(cmd , powershell)
• Scripting - batch, powershell

Linux

OS variants

• Ubuntu 14, 16, 18, 20, 22 (Free)
• Centos 7, 8 (Free)
• Redhat Linux (Enterprise)
• Debian
• Amazon linux
• Oracle linux

Features

• GUI (Graphical User Interface) and Terminal (CLI - Command line interface)
• Scripting - Shell scripting

Why to choose/learn Linux

• Opensource, Free, Enterprise
• Security
• Resource optimization (Even 1GB memory and 8GB storage is sufficient to start)
• Mostly used IT industry to deploy the application. (Most of the websites on running on linux servers)

UseCase

• Windows (Personnal use mostly. Used minimally for deploying applications)
• Linux (Used mostly as servers for deploying applications. Rarely used for personnal use)