Tired of Windows? Tired of Mac? Go wild , go Ubuntu!

We all have heard of the most famous Operating Systems, the old Windows and the always changing Mac X. Although these are very good Operating Systems they are not the only options you have. Hidden out of the news and the glamour of social news lays all the Linux family, a complete suite of different flavors.

But wait, what is this Linux?

Well, on September 17, of 1991 a man called Linus Torvalds from Swedish started a personal project at the university of Helsinki. There, he wanted to create his own Operating System, he knew it was not going to be a successful project but he wanted to expend time on  hobbies, this is what he chose. When he had something almost finished he decided, proud of his job to share it with the world. When he presented his code he tell all the forums where he put it that if they wanted they could take his code and try to finished it or do whatever they want with it. Many programmers from around the world wanted to complete his code, they were interested on this idea of a new Operating System. So Linus Torvalds decided to coordinate his personal project into the first Open Source project on the history of computing.

When the project was finished and with the help of other projects such as the GNU project, people fro m around the world that wanted to had the core elements to create their own Operating Systems, many people did this is what we now called GNU/Linux Distributions.

Where do I start?

There are a lot of distributions, many more come every year, and you can have all of them if you want, you can install them in your computer whenever you want without paying any money. This sounds very exiting and dangerous at the same time right? Well it is intimidating to go and put some one you don not know code into your own computer, that is why companies have steeped out  and coordinate they own team to create a Linux distributions, with the backup of a company and the approval of many developers and with a history of more than 10 years of doing this, Canonical ad their product Ubuntu is by far the most famous  of the Linux distributions.

It has all a computer needs, and it is very fast on modern computers, in fact many servers around the world use it because of how stable it can be.

The start menu is very attractive, feels very modern, but with the same idea of user friendliness of windows 10 and Mac OS X.

The best part by far, is that since is Open Source, you do not have to pay anything for the product nor you have to keep it as it is, you are free to modify it however you want, you can even changing to every time you want to change between applications your desktop turns into a cube so you move it to see all your apps open.

You can, if you are brave enough, go online and download a free copy of this OS right now at https://www.ubuntu.com/ If you are a person who enjoys computers this will be an experience you will never regret. You can try it on a virtual machine using Virtual Box for example.