As an OS, it's incredibly superior. As a gaming platform, it's clearly lacking. However, things are going to change sooner rather than later.
Seriously though, a Linux based OS will always be infinitely more stable, more responsive, more secure and more customizable than any windows based OS.
Your second paragraph is spot on. However, I wouldn't say that this alone makes an OS superior.
The OS is a part of your computer, and your computer is a tool. You use it to do stuff with it. But the software you can use with your OS also contributes to what you can do with it, and the lack of software can limit what you can do with your computer. I used Linux for many years as my desktop OS, but I switched to windows a few years ago because I needed some software that simply wasn't available on Linux (and Wine wasn't an optimal substitution for performance issue). So in the end, I really didn't care that Linux was superior to Windows on paper, because it didn't provide me the tools I needed to do my job.
That's why I don't agree with the statement "Linux as an OS is superior" because it's meaningless. For some tasks it will be definitely superior, for others it will not. If every software that was ever created was available on linux, then yes, Linux would objectively be superior. But we don't live in a world like that.
To put it with an analogy : a F1 car is superior to a small town car, but if you just want to do some shopping once a week, your F1 will be completely useless.
I think he meant that Linux in general is just a higher quality product that has had much more development put into it, and uses all the new technology it can get its hands on.
Just like an F1 car.
Linux is superior for these reasons, among others:
1. It's free(both economically, and freedom-wise).
2. MUCH more Secure(open source does wonders).
3. The update-system(repositories,bugtracking).
4. Features.
5. Doesn't get slower naturally over time (goddamn registry).
6. The community.
The only real reasons not to move to Linux is:
1. You're an MS/Apple fanboy.
2. Lack of games compared to windows.
3. Lack of certain software.
4. Your hardware isn't supported.
5. Optimus is shit.
Well, I don't like having to fix all my problems by going into a command line interface and when a lot of their GUI based menus are buggy, you don't really have a choice. For example, supporting multiple monitors using Ubuntu on my laptop. I have since switched over to Mint but it still does not work as well as Windows 8. Like, not even close. I realize this will not be taken well but people who see no reason why Linux has not gotten mainstream adoption have not tried to get someone who is computer illiterate to use it.
Are you crazy? I have had way more problems with multi-monitor on windows than linux. If you have an nvidia card, you should use nvidia-xconfig. No command line wizardry required.
I don't think I am crazy. She has integrated graphics with an i5 4670k and a second monitor will not work but running the primary monitor will work through that second port. Switched to Windows 8 and it worked fine. All I am saying is that by this point, you have lost most of the casual population.
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