Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of using Linux based operating system in a school computer laboratory?

Discuss the  advantages and disadvantages of using Linux based operating system in a school computer laboratory?

Linux operating system created by Linus Torvalds in 1991. And with the commencement of a personal project. It was developed as a free operating system for personal computer and it is source code is free for anyone to download and tweak of their own preferences. It is great for technical users and developers.

And also Linux based operating system is also very suitable for school computer lab because here we can see some advantages and disadvantages.

 

It is free because Windows, UNIX and Macintosh those are very expensive and we have to pay for purchase but for Linux we can download high quality software free of cost and also can install it in computes without paying. It is advantage for school. Because they can reduce their budget.  

And also performance based this operating system Linux provided high performance on workstations and on networks and also can handle many users at a time. And can do any woks very quickly and also mainly this o/s is continuously maintain performance and it is not slow down to memory issues, continuously it is working.

Also we can see high performance application, desktop application and embedded application. So it is very helpful to us because most of users we can see time to time they are updating their computers but Linux o/s is maintenance is very low or nothing. So it is easy to use.

Security part is the major part. Linux is very strong as it is very secure and it is less prominent to viruses. Otherwise when we using computer most of time in school student they don’t know all these things in computers, so then they can use other webs an all that so Linux is the most suitable operating system.

When we come to disadvantages of Linux has a limited selection of available software and also even though Linux has improved a lot in ease of use but windows is much easier.

And also Linux doesn’t support many hardware devices.

So, finally Linux is also having some disadvantages. But compare with other operating system I think Linux is relevant to school computer lab.