WHY UBUNTU?
Well the answer to that is short and simple, WHY NOT UBUNTU/LINUX?
For those who don't know what i am talking about, Ubuntu is a Linux Distribution, and Linux is an Operating System, and Operating System is the most essential software on your computer, another example of it is Windows)
See, guys, what i want to say, give Linux a chance, today it isn't what people thought a decade back it was, by that i mean a "geek ONLY" operating system. Ubuntu 6.06 can serve as good, rather very good starting point, and Linux doesn't have problems (unlike XP), in having other operating systems in your system, so you can always dual boot initially.
As for installation, Ubuntu 6.06 installation is the easiest thing on earth, seriously, it goes like this, you pop a cd in your drive and boot up the comp, there is complete running (but slow,as it is running from ram) OS in front of you, and you just click an install icon, and while the system is being installed, you can even check your mail or listen to some music, SERIOUSLY, you can do all this while the system is being installed. No complicated questions, etc, rather it can even suggest a partitioning pattern and do it for you too, all automatically.
Ubuntu by default comes with a complete set of tools that you need for your day to day use, for example (here i am mentioning the name of their windows counterpart for easy identification)- photoshop, media players, MS office, simple games, firefox, outlook express etc, all the linux varients of them are as good as the windows one if not better.
Installing,searching and UPDATING softwares in Ubuntu (and in general most Linux distros) with their package managers, is atleast 5x easier than windows.
And yes Ubuntu has one of the widest device & driver support that I've seen in any linux distro to this date. (even in modest terms i have seen quite a few)
Also till now, we have been talking about stuff in linux in a counterpart fashion, i mean seriously once someone gets addicted to linux way of life, it is difficult to go back to windows, for example Virtual Desktops rock my world, live icons are God sent, Nautilus Scripts, are just so convinient and helpfull, among many others.
BETTER filesystem, higher security(i just love the File Access Permission System in them) and stability are issues which already have been established beyond doubt. So i am ignoring them.
Another major point, it is FREE, and FREE as in every sense of the word, use it, contribute it, distribute it, play with it, and most importantly ENJOY it (edited due to inputs from the first comment). Seriously, there is something called as a FREE lunch, and all good things in life are FREE ;-)
Also the have an amazing user support forum, for help, if you need it.
By the Way, let me clear it that in general i don't have any problems with Microsoft or Bill Gates, i simply adore Bill Gates (for his vision) and i love in general Microsoft's hardware, xbox, mouses (yeah it is not mice) and keyboards.
Regards
Subiet
And yeah, i am not being paid a single penny by anyone for this, i am doing to for love and not for commerce.
6 comments:
Excellent post. I feel I must correct an error in the text though: Ubuntu is not actually "free as in beer" but "free as in speech." This is a very important distinction to make, and one on my which Ubuntu depends for its continued existence.
Thank you for using Ubuntu.
Mark Shuttleworth, Shuttleworth Foundation
Self-Appointed Benevolent Dictator for Life
Sorry for the typo, probably under the influence of a beer, anyway now i have modified the concerned section to represent what i am trying to convey correctly.
Why do i use Ubuntu/Linux? Because it WORKS!
I have windows servers that need constant care, where as my linux servers plod along nicely and email when they need some tlc.
very true
Ubuntu doesn't all out suck, but it's pretty lacking.
I've been working on getting my laptop to run for days. My crime? Trying to upgrade to Edgy Eft. Since then, my laptop won't boot into Xorg/Gnome. And the forums have yet to produce a solution.
I'll probably have to reinstall, but that will erase my current configuration. This is pretty crappy just for an upgrade.
Ubuntu has a lo-o-o-ong way to go.
@kuriharu:
weird, coz upgrading is generally the easiest thing in ubuntu. Well right now, i would suggest, to just copy your home dir, do a clean install of edgy and then copy back your home dir. this might help. Or you can wait till 19th and then do this with 7.04.
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