{"id":11904,"date":"2025-09-16T01:01:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T05:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.both.org\/?p=11904"},"modified":"2025-09-13T16:49:21","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T20:49:21","slug":"why-do-you-love-linux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.both.org\/?p=11904","title":{"rendered":"Why do you love Linux?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pld-like-dislike-wrap pld-template-1\">\r\n    <div class=\"pld-like-wrap  pld-common-wrap\">\r\n    <a href=\"javascript:void(0)\" class=\"pld-like-trigger pld-like-dislike-trigger  \" title=\"\" data-post-id=\"11904\" data-trigger-type=\"like\" data-restriction=\"cookie\" data-already-liked=\"0\">\r\n                        <i class=\"fas fa-thumbs-up\"><\/i>\r\n                <\/a>\r\n    <span class=\"pld-like-count-wrap pld-count-wrap\">    <\/span>\r\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p>Linux is a powerful and flexible system that gets used for all kinds of things. Obviously, many organizations use Linux as back-office servers, such as web servers, file servers, authentication systems, application servers, and other IT infrastructure. And there are countless users who rely on Linux for their day-to-day desktop work. And hobbyists like to use Linux as an embedded solution to automate small systems like filling bird feeders or watering plants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We want to highlight <em>why you love Linux<\/em>.  For example, maybe you love a particular Linux app. Or maybe you want to highlight that Linux is open source so you can explore the source code. Or maybe it&#8217;s because Linux runs everywhere, which means you can use a favorite laptop or NUC or\u2026 Or maybe you want to highlight a Linux distro you love. Or maybe it&#8217;s that you love the Linux command line. Or maybe it&#8217;s that Linux let&#8217;s you give new life to old hardware, keeping old systems useful and out of the waste stream. Or\u2026 share something else you like about Linux.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Leave a comment below<\/strong> and tell us something you like about Linux, and how you run Linux. We&#8217;ll collect your ideas in a future &#8220;round-up&#8221; article with comments from our community!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;ll collect your ideas in a future &#8220;round-up&#8221; article with comments from our community!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":3005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[91],"class_list":["post-11904","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-linux","tag-linux"],"modified_by":"David Both","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11904","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11904"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11904\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11907,"href":"http:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11904\/revisions\/11907"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11904"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11904"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.both.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11904"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}