Comment Re:Ubuntu Fan (Score 1) 467
Another Ubuntu fan here (Dapper 6.06 LTS).
Ubuntu is the best Linux distro I've used in terms of out-of-the-box simplicity to install and for daily use. I got a new computer a few months back and decided to give Linux another shot, after all the talk-up I'd read about Ubuntu. When I ordered my 'puter, I told the local distributor, a 100% Windows shop, not to put any OS on it. I installed Dapper 6.06. It took 15 minutes to get my new computer up and running, without any issues whatsoever in terms of hardware recognition or network configuration. I added a couple other software packages later, through the software repositories. Damn, that was so very much nicer than having to use the command line to install everything, like I used to.
I kept my older computer for anything I might have to do with Windows, yet I haven't turned that computer on in over 3 months... there's nothing I can't do using Ubuntu that I could in Windows (I don't play computer games tho', so I can't speak on that subject) but pretty much everything I needed was already on the 6.06 CD.
Linux isn't everyone's choice for a desktop, but I sure didn't have trouble switching over, and I'm no Linux expert by any stretch of the imagination.
Ubuntu is the best Linux distro I've used in terms of out-of-the-box simplicity to install and for daily use. I got a new computer a few months back and decided to give Linux another shot, after all the talk-up I'd read about Ubuntu. When I ordered my 'puter, I told the local distributor, a 100% Windows shop, not to put any OS on it. I installed Dapper 6.06. It took 15 minutes to get my new computer up and running, without any issues whatsoever in terms of hardware recognition or network configuration. I added a couple other software packages later, through the software repositories. Damn, that was so very much nicer than having to use the command line to install everything, like I used to.
I kept my older computer for anything I might have to do with Windows, yet I haven't turned that computer on in over 3 months... there's nothing I can't do using Ubuntu that I could in Windows (I don't play computer games tho', so I can't speak on that subject) but pretty much everything I needed was already on the 6.06 CD.
Linux isn't everyone's choice for a desktop, but I sure didn't have trouble switching over, and I'm no Linux expert by any stretch of the imagination.
