Types of operating system
Windows
- 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)