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Linux is better because it's more flexible and secure than windows. It's also open source which means you can freely read modify and distribute the source code of a distro as long as it remains within the open source agreement, in short you are free to modify any part of the OS to suit your individual needs.

This also means that the distributions themselves are not only patched by the vendors, but also a large and active community of volunteers making the release of patches incredibly fast