Most of the drivers manufactures are providing lot of compatible graphics drivers for Windows, which are less available for Linux.Torvalds is the developer of Linux and Microsoft is developing the Windows.While games compatible range in Linux is very low and less features are available for games. If you are a game lover than most of the games are supportable by Windows.Windows XP, Vista, 7, 8 and 8.1 are examples of Windows OS. Red Hat, Android and Debian are examples of Linux OS.While Windows OS takes 2 to 3 month for correction of reported threat and error and after that releases new patches and updates. Because Linux is an open source software so whenever a users faces a threat or problem he report the same on community discussion form and developers starts to finding the solution.Linux is an open source software and Windows is a closed source software.In short, paid packages of Windows are more expensive than Linux. Windows version price starts from $50 to $450. Basic version of Linux is available free of cost while you have to pay for updated and latest version.It is mostly available for desktop PC, laptops and some Windows mobile phones. Windows is available for less devices than Linux. Linux is available for lot of devices including varieties of computers and big range of mobile phones, tablet PC and mainframes.Personal computers, mobile devices, servers and super computers are its main markets. In latest report of November 2014, 97% of top 500 super computers of world are using different version of Linux. This operating system is very popular in mainframe and supercomputers. Initially it was introduced for Intel X-86 PCs.
Linux is an free open source operating system for computers, laptops and mobiles, which is available since 1991.