Have you got a smart phone yet? In the little “war” that has been going on with Droid vs iPhone, it would probably be hard not to succumb to the advertising of the two main smart phones and pick up the one that seems to glow the brightest. But have you forgotten about the fact that there are still computers that can do things that neither of these phones are all that good at doing? While you may be the opposite of spoiled (a state which there might not be a word to describe) because of using that one operating system, there are actually better options out there – if you think you’re ready to find out what your computer is really capable of.

You’ve no doubt heard about Linux, the operating system that Prometheus stole from the gods themselves. Well, that isn’t really true (it is just a myth, after all), but that is one way of interpreting how well Linux works. As a format for creating programs, you have a whole lot of flexibility with a PC running Linux that you won’t get from any kind of smart phone. With Linux, you can actually alter the entire operating system, just because a particular program might need you to do so.

You can’t get that kind of flexibility on a phone, with the technology that is currently available. The operating systems of smart phones are rigid because they have to be – and changing the code of the operating system could render the phone inoperable, or even potentially dangerous to your online presence. Consider what could happen if you’d accessed your bank records through your phone, and it accidentally sends a signal calling for a funds transfer or the change of your account’s password. It probably wouldn’t happen like that, but it isn’t worth taking the chance. Computers are still the best for programming.