This is a comment I made in Quora!
Linux the Wonder OS
Few basics about Linux.
Linux is all in file systems from few lines to millions of lines in an organized and schematic order with little repetition (or else in windows is a vicious cycle).
It can be as small as DSL (Damn Small Linux) but huge as any modern desktop, for example SuSe Linux.
I think 4M Linux is a derivative of DSL.
I was one who was against a bloated desktop and given the time, xfs desktop came into existence (light weight desktop).
Mind you there over 300 distributions.
I never used Arch Linux because it had problems with newbies (me included as beginner).
Then Manjaro came in and sorted the problem out. It is one of the cleanest (purist) distributions with one type of File/Software for one task.
Linux has a hierarchy that works well for servers and desktops.
Difference is that server does not have a desktop but a terminal to work out networks (samba is an example) whereas the desktop has X-Windows system.
Now then, some Linux communities tried to emulate bloated windows and started spoiling the ground base.
Ubuntu and the Unity Desktop a case in point and I never used Ubuntu for many other reasons.
Now we have Elementary Os which emulate MacOs desktop.
I love Gnome and Debian as a distribution.
Beauty of Debian is it has many desktops to choose and over 60,000 packages to select (except AbiWord unfortunately for me).
Linux starts with a parent file and a child (like branches in a tree).
Every child can become a parent of a another file.
This dichotomy works well for Linux in a Nutshell.
Unlike Windows, the choices are enormous in Linux.
