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Bertel King, MakeUseOf
Sat, 11/27/2021 - 10:30am

You often hear Linux described as an alternative operating system that you can use instead of Microsoft Windows, Apple macOS, or Google Chrome OS. But once you search for Linux online, you find that the situation is much more complicated than that. There simply isn’t a thing called “Linux” for you to download and put on your computer.

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