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Can someone explain to me how exactly Linux makes everything so much easier versus Windows?

How does it work? I'm just curious since I've never used Linux before..
gpt
There's the Unix terminal for one, which makes it easy to do anything you could want to do quickly and efficiently from the terminal while you're working. No only is it more efficient, but most Linux distros come with command-line utilities like ssh that require third-party software on Windows.

The biggest difference, however, is the package managers. If you want to install a new language, compiler, library, etc. etc. etc. you can do it in one step. If you want to install a Python library on Windows, you've gotta search the internet for an installer. You need to make sure that the installer matches your version of Windows and your CPU's architecture. You need to actually download and install that software. Then you scratch your head over why you're unable to use it before you realize that you changed your Python's install directory and your new library installed somewhere else and wasn't configured properly with Python. Or, god forbid you need to fuck with your path variable or something. Finally you get it installed correctly but when you import it Python exits with an error, citing some nondescript exception. After an hour of web searching and posting your problem on stackoverflow you learn that you're missing a dependency needed for this library. Go back to step one to install that dependency.

If you want to fuck around with Numpy on Linux and see if it fits with a project that you're doing, you type "apt-get install python-numpy" and you're done. That's it. One simple command that installs your software, ensures compatibility with your machine, configures it to work with existing software/packages, and allows you to easily remove it when you no longer need it ("apt-get purge python-numpy").