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== Advantages ==
There are none. Stick with Windows and get your work done ffs. Being a zealot about a friggin operating system is sad.
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Desktop Linux has long been touted by its users, vendors, and advocates as a more security-conscious, stable OS for the desktop computer {{Fact|date=May 2007}}, compared to Microsoft Windows, which has been criticized throughout its history for its security and stability problems. {{Fact|date=May 2007}}
=== Applications ===
Most Desktop Linux distributions are developed and deployed with an assortment of applications developed by third-party projects, such as [[KDE]], [[GNOME]], [[GIMP]], [[Mozilla Firefox]], and [[OpenOffice.org]]. This is to make sure that the user will be less prone to looking for basic applications which he/she may be lacking.
=== 3D user interfaces ===
In addition, with the development of [[Xgl]] and other hardware-accelerated user interface architectures, 3D environments have experienced greater demand from both potential and veteran Desktop Linux users.
==Disadvantages==
Plenty. No Steam support for one.
=== Applications ===
Desktop Linux has also been maligned for its lack of name-brand applications in comparison to its [[proprietary software|proprietary]] and [[closed source software|closed source]] counterparts, [[Microsoft Windows]] and [[Mac OS X]]. In response, Desktop Linux advocates have blamed the more recognized application vendors, such as [[Adobe Systems]], for their alleged shunning of Desktop Linux systems and users in favor of users of either Windows or Mac OS X.
=== Drivers ===
The aforementioned 3D user interface environments also have come under scrutiny because of the usage of proprietary and closed-source drivers for the [[graphic card]]s, from [[Nvidia]] or [[ATI]] upon which the environments are dependent. In response, independent developers have reverse-engineered the drivers to write new free and open source drivers.
In addition, in 2006, [[freedesktop.org]] began a project called "Nouveau" in order to create free and open-source drivers for Nvidia cards.
=== Installation ===
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