Boy you need a lot of information. Linux is the name we use for an operating system developed for power users and hobbyists (These two groups tend to refer to themselves as hackers, though not in the sense mundanes use the word). It's based on a whole different philosophy than Windows, and saying one is better than the other is not always even appropriate, though Windows is by design less concerned with security and stability.
Windows is about ease of use and about providing the most attractive user interface to someone not necessarily knowledgeable about computers. Linux has evolved from something for developers and others on a budget too small to afford Unix machines, to something which a lot of teenagers use with few problems -- which provides a path to learn more about what your computer does and how to make efficient use of it.
The sad reality is this: Microsoft has been convicted of abusing its monopoly power. At one point the judge ruled that they should be broken up. He was removed from the case and the Bush Administration Justice Department does not favor any remedies for this. Corporate histories such as that of the BeOS Operating System and NeXT computers will show that they have made it extremely difficult to compete with a proprietary product. At the same time, while MS-DOS was indeed a good OS for power users, whether they were developers or not, Windows has become progressively less so, and Linux has grown to fill the gap which Microsoft itself opened up. Because of lack of competition, frankly, Microsoft has not had to make any revolutionary conceptual change to its user interface since the Windows Desktop back in the eighties. That was the same time the X-Windows desktop which Linux users use was introduced, on Unix systems. Mark Shuttleworth, who founded Canonical Software, which does Ubuntu, was himself a power user, not a developer, who started using Slackware in college and built his fortune on a company which did business using it. When he sold that company for about a billion he decided to bring the advantages of Linux to non-power-users and founded Canonical Software, Ltd. which pays people to make security changes and under the hood ease of use changes to Debian, which is a standard Linux Distro for power users, and they distribute it as Ubuntu -- Linux for Human Beings (euhh). Some of us who don't enjoy using Ubuntu but do enjoy complaining and kvetching will say that the worst thing about it is how little they have to do to produce a relatively simple and easy to use Linux which is not wildly unsafe. Some people complain about having to run sudo so much (like when you install all remove things) but the old joke in the Linux community is if you do everything with root privileges you might as well be running Windows. There are a lot of viruses out there.
I rebooted this system yesterday. When I can afford the electricity bills I might leave this system on and unrebooted for 3-4 days. While I know Windows Users I know none who will make that claim. Linux makes better use of memory. When I first got this machine, I got it at the dump. It wouldn't boot because the hard drive was dying. (Had Windows 2000). I reformatted it, threw slackware on it -- and it was 3 months more before enough sectors had gone bad so I had to replace it. Some things it does better than Windows.
My last two times on Ubuntu were machines running the XFCE desktop, which would make them Xubuntu. Except both had been installed with the Kubuntu alternate install disk and then XFCE was placed on them afterwards. That's the thing about Linux -- any Linux. If you don't like anything at all you can change it. You don't have to be a developer to use it. It helps, even these days, to be a power user. Even that is changing.
I hope these experiences are helpful in answering your questions. I did not address which one is the best one to download. Frankly, at this point I would recommend Gentoo and Slackware for power users only (and Gentoo maybe for developers) but otherwise it doesn't matter at all. They're all good. Ubuntu is marginally safer but it's quirky enough so Linux Mint is safer than it.Linux??????
My brother downloaded Kubuntu he says it's better for security. All the security is on some special server so there is no possibility of getting a virus or anything because everything has to come thru this thing first.Also you don't need like McAfee or Norton anti virus service because of this.I've heard that NASA uses it for security reasons. It's not hard to use but getting started took many hours of research about a month or so to actually get up and running. He likes it, I can use it but prefer windows cause I know it already. Hope this helps a little. Good LuckLinux??????
Linux is completely for developers system ..
with lot more security .
you have to know various languages to enjoy linux.
check the following link to know about linux
http://www.linux.org/
in this house linux is best I was so sick of fighting viruses all the time that made my choice very simple.
any ubuntu based distro is great for begginers as a result I use linux mint
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