ELI5: What the heck is linux?
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There have been some great answers already but there are some things I'd like to add: all commercial operating systems (especially Windows and Chrome OS, but MacOS is not at all innocent in that regard) are becoming increasingly focused on data harvesting, advertising and controlling what the user can do with their computer. Linux doesn't do any of that. Your computer is yours and nobody tries to control what you do with it. And if you use a beginner friendly distribution, it's not really more difficult to use.