ot of companies now-a-days offer Linux as pre-installed operating systems in their equipments like Laptops, Desktops or net-books. But most of the people do not use it rather they remove Linux and install another desired OS. There are many reasons for this but the foundation of all those reason is as discussed below.Before some 15-20 years, In India, computer education was made available by various Institutes which was then followed by many Schools, colleges and other institutions. Right from the age in child hood people are given Microsoft Windows as their only way of computing. 
Resulting to which we can see that most of the people do not know the term Operating System but they do know Microsoft Windows. Most of the people do not know that as an operating system there are lot of other options available in the world of computing.Even Microsoft Strategies for Licensing encourage this in India. They charge a very small amount for Licenses in Educational institutes. But as and when a
student grows up and if they want to use MS Windows or in that matter any MS products they have only two ways out. Number 1 is Piracy and Number 2 is huge investments on Software Licensing.
A very small number of people are really aware about capabilities of Linux. Those people really have the capabilities of selecting or not selecting Linux for their own working environment. But we can see that even people who are not aware of Linux also some how decide for not selecting Linux or Open Source for their computing. Or rather we can say that people who dont know Linux would only decide for not selecting Linux
Mr. Richard Stallman, of gnu.org, who has seen ups and downs of software in both the world of Licensed and Free software made hard efforts for offering freedom to people as far as software usage is concerned. Following him there came many other communities who really put some hard, smart and intelligent efforts on creating great software applications for people.
Today we are able to see a huge no. of communities working on different open-source projects to create some really great software. We have around 100s of Linux distributions available at various projects run by different group of people.
Talking about Software Programming Linux has got a huge potential on offering almost any type of programming support. Same is the case with server OS technologies. Linux offers a safe and stable environment. And now since last 4-5 years Linux has been evolved to the highest potential as far as desktop computing is concerned. OSes like Ubuntu, Fedora, Suse and many more offer a huge set of applications for people to select. Even in the area of Gaming Linux has a great support in both 2D and 3D games. Linux also has a good support on new and old generation graphic cards to encourage gamers and people who love to work with animation and video graphics.
On the other hand getting support for Linux and other open-source software seems to be tougher for newbies which in reality is very easy but only when they adapt to getting support in the way they get. There are lot of forums run by various communities to get support. There are lot of commercially operating companies that provide support for organisations and enterprises that are seeking Linux support. People just need to go thru various websites, forums and blogs available for Linux and OSS (open-source software) both Free and commercial.
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