It's a desktop/notebook OS

Linux is becoming more visible as a desktop operating system. This is an area where Windows is extremely dominant. HP and some other large PC manufacturers are now starting to install Linux on their notebook and desktop computers sold in Asian and European countries. Hopefully, we'll see more machine pre-installed with Linux in the U.S. in the near future.

I use Linux for my desktop and notebook computers. Although Linux does not require a GUI (graphical user interface), quite a few GUI environments are available.

It is interesting that I also use Linux on my old tablet PC. This tablet PC uses a Pentium MMX 233MHz processor, has 160MB of RAM and 4GB of hard disk space. Even so, Linux succeeds to provide a GUI frontend so I can use this tablet PC for in-class presentations as well as free-hand drawing.