No rocket science degree required

Linux, it’s a word that makes the eyes of many non-geeks glaze over almost immediately. However, desktop Linux offerings are now pretty much on par with the big names like Windows and MacOS.

Thanks to decades of community work and support from organizations like Canonical, you can download something like Ubuntu Linux today and do almost anything you can do with Windows. And you don’t need a degree in computer science. Modern desktop Linux distributions look good, work well, and are suitable for average users.

However, they have one major difference from commercial operating systems: Open Source licensing.