You will find that with Ubuntu you will have to work just a little bit harder in the beginning but once it is set up you can forget about it. Spyware, viruses and malware are words that you will be able to erase from your memory banks. As for Graphical Interface well Ubuntu absolutely shit stomps anything Vista could dream of. I know the way I went about it was by paying for it through a company in canada but of course that is not necessary. I did though and got the Ultimate package which had 7 dvds and a book called Ubuntu for the non-geek. You see Ubuntu will do most of anything you’d like out of the box but any additions have to be done through repositories well the extra six dvds are all the repositories on disk. So makes it so simple to install any of the 7,000+ opensource programs without even getting on the net. The entire package I paid under $50 for so was by far the best software purchase I could have dreamed of. The reason I switched? Well had XP and got a good ol virus that wiped MSI out. Was not looking to pay that much for it to happen again and then stumbled upon this Ubuntu. It is an addiction just for fair warning, once you find the Ubuntu Spirit you’ll want to learn coding and all kinds of stuff. Any other worries you have go to Ubuntu Forum.com and see just what I’m talking about. The people are willing to help at all times it is a great community. good luck and may your OS be open.
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These days Windows is quite expensive. So I want to switch to Ubuntu. It seems very feasible to me. Well let’s see.
Wow. Why did I put this off? Got my 500G external hard drive (FAT for now) last week, moved my data over, downloaded Feisty Fawn image, tested it, ran it. KabAAM! Bye Windows!! Oh wait, hello again. As soon as I installed Ubuntu, with no hitches (wireless was already working and my external hard drive, USB and smart card reader were all working) I installed VirtualBox, put XP on it so I could install Adobe CS. I wish there was a way around this. ALAS! Anyway, it works good so who cares?
Already set up an Ubuntu LAMP. Why the resistance? Inertia I suppose. One thought on this whole personal challenge thing…it would be nice to also offer yourself a reward for succeeding – I’ve found I respond much better to encouragement than to punishment…I guess I’m more like a cat than a puppy. Also, a link to how to break a project down into an actionable plan. Personally I already GTD but it would help a lot of folks.
Anyway, off to order external hard-drive…backing up my goodies has been the real hangup.
I just wrote an entry about this on:
http://www.43things.com/things/view/1028495
Worth Doing!!!!
-Andrew
We’ll, I was using Edubuntu, and it’s not much different than Ubuntu, and even though it’s a still a nice platform, I have since switched back to ubuntu because of a few quirky default settings. They are both basically the same.
I said in my other post that the only thing i missed from windows was PAINT. We’ll, I installed Kolourpaint and I love it. It has wiped away any feelings of loss about windoze. Ubuntu is awsome, as is the community!!!
I am only having 1 problem, and i’m not sure if it was something i did. I unistalled Gnome screensaver and installed Xscreeensaver, because you can adjust settings and pick which screensavers you want. We’ll I had xscreensaver working fine, but today i noticed that the icon on >System > Prefrences > (screeensaver) is gone! (now don’t confuse this with it is gone because i unistalled gnome screensaver, because once i installed both, and there were two. One for gnome screensaver, and one for xscreensaver) Now, the screensavers work fine, and they still run, but i cant customise them anymore, or change which ones i want. The button was there a couople of days ago!
I said in my other post that I have made the switch. I gave the *buntu system a couple looks and trashed my Win 2000 in one leap, and never looked back. I even formatted my hard drive a couple of times, just to be sure “windoze” could not be salvaged. I don’t know which *buntu system I will end up with. I currently am using Edubuntu, although I await to try xubuntu.
I <3 Ubuntu.
My onboard wireless doesn’t work and Open Office doesn’t currently work on my AMD64 machine, but I hear tell in the latest and greatest Ubuntu release it should work. Will upgrade soon. (Just think, the word “upgrade” is no longer associated with $$$!)
It’s way more stable, polished, good looking, easier and faster to setup. Great (community) support, with a good spirit and strong commitments. I consider SuSE and Fedora inferior too.
I know it’s based on Debian Sid, that’s the beauty of it. All the advantages (lots of new packages) but without the disadvantages (daily, broken upgrades).
