is also popular for servers and cloud computing. It is fast, easy to use, and free! It is installed with a wide range of free software, and more can be installed through Ubuntu Software Center and apt-based package manager. Because Linux is a very secured operating system, it is very difficult to break into a Linux system. There are so few Linux viruses that you don't even need to worry about installing a virus scanner!

Most importantly, the Linux environment offers the cleanest way to learn Qt programming.