Question

Although 90% of all desktop computers use Windows as their operating system, there are two popular alternatives - Apple's Mac OS and the Linux open-source operating system. In this assignment, you will investigate an operating system other than the one you usually use to see how it handles common operating system functions.

Note: A popular Linux OS is Ubuntu (As an open-source operating system it is FREE). If you choose to test Linux you can use this link for easy to follow instructions. https://ubuntu.com/download/desktop (Links to an external site.). You will want to select the "How to create a bootable USB stick on Windows" or "How to create a bootable USB stick on MacOS" so you can test Ubuntu without changing or affecting your current Operating System. (A USB stick is also known as a USB Flash drive or USB Thumbdrive).

1. Find a friend, relative, or co-worker with a computer that uses an operating system that you don't usually use (Windows, Mac OS, or Linux). Try out the operating system, and observe how the following operations work compared with the operating system that you normally use.

• Create a folder
• Find a file
• Copy a file into a folder
• Move a file into a folder
• Rename a file
• Delete a file
• Delete a folder

1. Do not compare two different Windows systems (for example, Windows 8 and Windows 10).
   
2. Post a report of your experience to this Test Drive discussion. Include the following in your report:
   
   • The name and version of the operating system you tested, and the name and version of the operating system you normally use.
   • A step by step description of how you tested each process in each operating system, what you observed, and how it differed from what you normally experience.
     
3. To post your response, click the Reply button below to respond in the discussion forum. When finished, click the Post Reply button.
   
4. Read the reports posted by others in the class and respond to any that you wish. Responses to other students in this assignment are optional.

Answer 1

OS tested :- Ubuntu Version:- 20.10

OS generally used:- Windows 10

In both these operating systems all the above operations can be performed in multiple ways. First is the trival method of using menu based systems and second is using command line or terminal.

Both these Operating system have similar menu based functionalities hence we are going to ignore that and focus on second method ie via command line or terminal.

Ubuntu ( Linux)

Create a folder:- mkdir Music/songs2020 :- creates a folder songs2020 in Music directory

Finding a file :- find / -name notes.txt :- finds file named notes.txt, files can be also searched by type and size

Copy a file into folder:- cp scenery.jpg /home/username/Pictures :- would create a copy of scenery.jpg (from your current directory) into the Pictures directory.

Move a file into folder:-  mv file.txt /home/username/Documents.:- moves file from one location to another can also be used to rename files.

Delete a file:- unlink notes.txt or rm notes.txt :- both can be used to delete file

Delete a directory:- rmdir songs2020 or rm -r songs2020 :- both can be used to delete directories

Windows 10 (Windows)

Create a folder:- mkdir mynewfolder :- creates a folder mynewfolder in current directory

Finding a file :- dir "\notes file*" /s :- finds file named notes /s is used to search

Copy a file into folder:- copy c:\workfile.txt d:   :- to copy the file named “workfile.txt” on the root of C drive to D drive root.

Move a file into folder:- move C:\notes.txt d: :- moves file from one location to another

Delete a file:- del notes.txt :- can be used to delete file

Delete a directory:- rmdir /S mynewfolder :- can be used to delete directories /S is used so that non empty directories can also be deleted. It asks for confirmation before deleting