In May, the United Space Alliance, which oversees the running of if the ISS in orbit, migrated all the computer systems related to the ISS over to Linux for security, stability and reliability reasons.
That’s why I still use a GNU/Linux desktop despite the myth that it’s difficult to use.1
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Refer to “Myth 1: Linux is just for geeks” in Linux vs Other Operating Systems : 7 common myths busted by fossmaniac for details. ↩