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Ubuntu is a great distro and Freenode has a great IRC channel for Ubuntu support, only one problem, it's so damm busy, so I started a new channel on Freenode called ##ubuntu-geeks.
Hopefully in time this will be a great channel without so much traffic and chaos going on.
Spread the word if you're a Ubuntu user! ;)
Not a fan. I have never seen so many bugs and issues go on. The kernel bug for crawling USB transfers speeds has been un touched for almost 8 months now. It's growing past it's Linux roots in trying to make everything so user friendly rather than functionality and performance. Canonical needs to remap this soon...
I tried Arch Linux and Debian and have no need to ever use anything else. At work I am required to use CentOS.
Ubuntu is the distro thats putting Linux on desktop maps. It is the only distro I would recommend for a Windows refugee. It isn't perfect in any ways but it works.
crainger
11-27-09, 12:44 AM
Halp. My Windows tried to assassinate me. Can Ubuntu offer me asylum? It's just me, and my 50 relatives.
TheBlackCat
11-29-09, 02:35 PM
I never liked ubuntu (or kubuntu). For gnome users it may be okay, but it is notoriously unstable for KDE users and has a long history of forcing unstable software on users. If you look at threads about problems on the KDE forum, they mostly seem to be from people using kubuntu (or recently debian squeeze, which people don't seem to understand is not intended to be stable), especially if it is a bug other people cannot reproduce .
Halp. My Windows tried to assassinate me. Can Ubuntu offer me asylum? It's just me, and my 50 relatives.
If you can wean them out of Windows mindset slowly and steadily, you and others can free yourself from Windows.
As for Ubuntu, its far stable and easy to use than any other distro period, no ifs and or buts, using Linux since 1999, I have tried em all and still do when new ones come out, but there is sometimes a price to pay for that but thats negligible. In terms of update and stability, the team Ubuntu is unmatched and they also issue the fastest patches in terms of security issues. As for KDE Kubuntu, it remains a stepchild but that will soon change as Ubuntu is now branching off into a whole separate branch for Kubuntu and that means good news.
Redeemed
12-01-09, 02:26 AM
:lol: @ Crainger
As to Ubunutu- I've used it and Kubuntu. I'm a linux newb, and that's why I like those distros. It's like that baby-step one needs when migrating from Windows to, well, near any other Linux Distro. :lol:
Granted, I started out back in the days of MS-DOS so a command pompt is not quite a stranger to me. Just, it's been a while since I've used one and I've been rather spoiled by the GUI in Windows. Thus, Ubuntu and Kubuntus attraction. :)
Maybe someday I'll have another computer setup that can be soley Linux- that way I don't bork up my good Windows install. :) :D
DiscipleDOC
12-01-09, 01:27 PM
If you can wean them out of Windows mindset slowly and steadily, you and others can free yourself from Windows.
As for Ubuntu, its far stable and easy to use than any other distro period, no ifs and or buts, using Linux since 1999, I have tried em all and still do when new ones come out, but there is sometimes a price to pay for that but thats negligible. In terms of update and stability, the team Ubuntu is unmatched and they also issue the fastest patches in terms of security issues. As for KDE Kubuntu, it remains a stepchild but that will soon change as Ubuntu is now branching off into a whole separate branch for Kubuntu and that means good news.
LOLz
Tried it, nothing but problems. There is a reason it's free... not many would be willing to pay for it.
Uh Oh! I see bash Linux time again, specifically Ubuntu. Strange, I have so far installed it in around thirty odd PCs of various vintage at my institute, my own personal PCs have dual quad core and phenom, also a old VAIO laptop and a ASUS EEEPc. So far none have given me any issues whatsoever. Everything works and works well. As for free versus paid, lets see, I am like others an ex Windows users and till date I have tried out their latest and greatest, I won't use it even if were to be free. Few of my friends have gone through hell trying to upgrade from XP, BSODs are back with fervor again and not since ME it has been that bad. Btw, it has now progressed to Black SOD from blue, now thats innovation for sure. ;) http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10406369-56.html
The best MS OS to come out was their unheralded WinXP64, had best of both worlds, XP's GUI with rock stable 2003 server core, match made in heaven. I had that as a free upgrade and with SP2, it was the best ever Windows to run on my PC till I went all Linux.
The original OP wanted to know if we like Ubuntu among other Linux distros, lets keep it that way and not make it the typical Win versus Lin mudfest.
DiscipleDOC
12-03-09, 01:39 AM
Uh Oh! I see bash Linux time again, specifically Ubuntu. Strange, I have so far installed it in around thirty odd PCs of various vintage at my institute, my own personal PCs have dual quad core and phenom, also a old VAIO laptop and a ASUS EEEPc. So far none have given me any issues whatsoever. Everything works and works well. As for free versus paid, lets see, I am like others an ex Windows users and till date I have tried out their latest and greatest, I won't use it even if were to be free. Few of my friends have gone through hell trying to upgrade from XP, BSODs are back with fervor again and not since ME it has been that bad. Btw, it has now progressed to Black SOD from blue, now thats innovation for sure. ;) http://news.cnet.com/8301-13860_3-10406369-56.html
The best MS OS to come out was their unheralded WinXP64, had best of both worlds, XP's GUI with rock stable 2003 server core, match made in heaven. I had that as a free upgrade and with SP2, it was the best ever Windows to run on my PC till I went all Linux.
The original OP wanted to know if we like Ubuntu among other Linux distros, lets keep it that way and not make it the typical Win versus Lin mudfest.
Actually, you started bashing windows with your post I quoted. But I'm not going to go there.
You love linux. Fine. We got it. If it works for you, then hallelujah. I will stick with my crappy O/S that plays crappy games. Big whoop.
Actually, you started bashing windows with your post I quoted. But I'm not going to go there.
You love linux. Fine. We got it. If it works for you, then hallelujah. I will stick with my crappy O/S that plays crappy games. Big whoop.
If you can wean them out of Windows mindset slowly and steadily, you and others can free yourself from Windows.
I see, where did I get to bashing, the poster asked if he could survive without Windows and I just mentioned that he has to gradually wean himself and his family members out of it. Unless you hold a share at M$, why would that hurt you. This thread is about Linux anyways, so if you so don't like Linux, why even bother to hang out here. The original discussion was about the pros and cons of Ubuntu over other Linux distros.
Since you mention games, there are separate gaming modules which incidentally run on sucky Linux like SONY's PSP etc which run circles around any Windows or PC for that matter. So if I were into gaming, I would be looking there and not the PC. Anyways, to each his own.
LOLZzzzzzzzzzzz to you.
FearMeAll
12-09-09, 08:03 AM
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Since you mention games, there are separate gaming modules which incidentally run on sucky Linux like SONY's PSP etc which run circles around any Windows or PC for that matter. So if I were into gaming, I would be looking there and not the PC. Anyways, to each his own.
Yeah cuz Crysis could run at like 60,000,000 fps if ported to the psp.
DiscipleDOC
12-09-09, 11:13 AM
Yeah cuz Crysis could run at like 60,000,000 fps if ported to the psp.
LOL...inorite?
Hi.
I am using Ubuntu because it has more data security in Linux, so I prefer ubuntu. According to me Ubuntu has more security better than Windows XP, Vista, etc.
Yeah cuz Crysis could run at like 60,000,000 fps if ported to the psp.
Nope, it will run at nano fps. ;)
If you can wean them out of Windows mindset slowly and steadily, you and others can free yourself from Windows.
I see, where did I get to bashing, the poster asked if he could survive without Windows and I just mentioned that he has to gradually wean himself and his family members out of it. Unless you hold a share at M$, why would that hurt you. This thread is about Linux anyways, so if you so don't like Linux, why even bother to hang out here. The original discussion was about the pros and cons of Ubuntu over other Linux distros.
Since you mention games, there are separate gaming modules which incidentally run on sucky Linux like SONY's PSP etc which run circles around any Windows or PC for that matter. So if I were into gaming, I would be looking there and not the PC. Anyways, to each his own.
LOLZzzzzzzzzzzz to you.
I wouldn't worry about the Windows gaming thing. Windows users use it as a leverage for their argument, when PC gaming is dying as a platform and why most game developers are switching away from it as their primary platform.
The Windows market is shrinking, Linux is growing.
DiscipleDOC
12-29-09, 10:45 AM
I wouldn't worry about the Windows gaming thing. Windows users use it as a leverage for their argument, when PC gaming is dying as a platform and why most game developers are switching away from it as their primary platform.
The Windows market is shrinking, Linux is growing.
Wow. You are truly deluded, aren't you? :lol:
You could be 13 years old, and you will still never see Linux get the share of the market that Microsoft has. Never. And you're saying that "PC gaming is a dying platform..." ...Linux has really brainwashed you that much? :rofl
As I said before, I will keep my crappy box and play crappy games on my Win7 and I'll be happy. Go and customize your kernel and show us how 'leet' you really are. It will go over swell with teh ladiez. :thumbsup:
Wow. You are truly deluded, aren't you? :lol:
You could be 13 years old, and you will still never see Linux get the share of the market that Microsoft has. Never. And you're saying that "PC gaming is a dying platform..." ...Linux has really brainwashed you that much? :rofl
As I said before, I will keep my crappy box and play crappy games on my Win7 and I'll be happy. Go and customize your kernel and show us how 'leet' you really are. I will go over swell with teh ladiez. :thumbsup:
LOL
Windows PC game sales are at their lowest ever, game developers are leaving Windows as a primary gaming development platform and sales are piss poor compared to consoles.
Microsoft Windows is at it's lowest market share for the last 10 years, it's shrinking. Linux is dominant in the server sector and Linux is strong in the Netbook sector.
I wouldn't use Microsoft's monopoly as your point because Microsoft didn't get where they are by selling good and honest OS's. Also, Linux has forced Microsoft to change their business ways and they openly admit that Linux is becoming their biggest competitor. The only way Microsoft could keep the Netbook market was to sell an eight year old OS called Windows XP, because Vista wasn't good enough and Windows 7 is a response to that, not because users wanted something better.
It's you Windows users that are deluded, thinking Microsoft made Windows 7 for the users, when it was for their own changing and dying business model.
I stopped using Ubuntu after trying FC10. The whole environment was much more stable and didn't suffer from "update breakage" the way Ubuntu did for me.
That said, I haven't used it for about 2 months due to a rock solid Win 7 install, but when I did game on Linux everything I ran that had native ports ran comparably to it's windows counterpart, mainly ogl and source titles.
Security wise, I'm not and never will be sold on either OS's security out of the box, but most 'nix distros I've read up on do get vulnerabilities patched faster than MS does.
FYI - I'm not a programmer, just an enthusiast who likes to learn and one thing Linux is great for is learning a pc inside and out. Not using any specialized apps probably saves me a good deal of heart ache that others deal with.
It's nice being able to use both with a reasonable level of comfort.
Redeemed
12-30-09, 02:47 AM
Honestly- I really like both Ubuntu and Kubuntu. Sadly, I know neither as well as I'd like to. :(
For the longest time I've wanted a rig that I could dedicate to both Distros. So I could experiment and dabble with them. I dare not do such with my primary rig cause far too many times in the past I've borked a windows install because of something I did within my linux install. Don't want to risk losing all the family pictures and videos, as well as my large music collection.
So until I can get enough money aside to put together a cheap rig that I can dedicate to these two distros, I'll be sticking with Windows.
Ubuntu is the perfect noob distro. Why? Because that's what they're used to. They're used to expecting everything to be there with ease, and if something gets slow, buy quicker hardware. Ubuntu is what I started on, but that was years ago..
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