Why do people use Linux

Linux has been around scene the birth of Windows but up till now Windows has been out ratings Linux but over the Last couple of years a friends and family of mine have been going over to Linux as its boot time as well as that is has better driver compatibility as it talks to the Bios (Binary Operating System) a lot better than Windows with it NT Kernel that it still operates from the goes and reloads the drivers after the Bios has already loaded them so that is why it is slow unless running from a SSD (Solid State Drive) which On both from have almost no boot time required.

Linux Operates off what is known as a UNIX Shell which has been good for year as it has been around ever since the invention of computing an is used in Linux computing and is as the heart of the Internet today as about 75 to 85% of it is made up using variations of breeds of Linux as there is Ubuntu, Fedora, CentOS and others but there is more at List of Linux Distributions and you'll see how many there are.

I think that soon Apple will be pressured into supplying iTunes for all Linux Distributions as that is why people have Windows installed to do there iTunes work but if they had it available for them they wont need Windows on there computer at all.