RE: Stupid Vista
October 15, 2008 at 3:41 am
(This post was last modified: October 15, 2008 at 3:55 am by Kyuuketsuki.)
(October 14, 2008 at 11:01 am)Tiberius Wrote: Thats laughably untrue for the Ubuntu operating system. It works out of the box with both sound / graphics etc, and installing programs is made much easier.
No it's not, Ubuntu is not significantly different from any other Linux Distro!
I've been trying, trying hard, to migrate to Linux (including several fairly long periods of exclusive usage, one of them for 6 months) to migrate to it for the past 10 years off and on ... I failed every time and returned to the Windows comfort zone (read PC Pro's latest review, "1 week Linux test" I think it was, on that very subject). Call it a Windows thing if you want (maybe Windows users just get brain damaged by their OS) but no version of Linux has ever approached Windows usability IMO and, like it or not, you cannot truly use Linux to it's full capacity without being fairly technically competent.
Add to that the simple fact that there simply IS NOT support for Linux, driver support sucks especially for recent hardware, forum support sucks because though they want to be helpful they walk away when the questions get too difficult (based on many instance of personal experience), games are many years behind the tech curve (if you are a gamer you simply do not want Linux because you cannot get that many really good, by which I mean latest, games).
Kyu
(October 14, 2008 at 12:02 pm)infidel666 Wrote: But I don't know how to pronounce "Ubuntu." How can I trust it?
Don't worry about that mate ... like I said, if you're interested in Linux try running it a virtual machine for a while and find out if you can get on with it. IT is, if you find you like it, a very, very capable OS ... just don't be sucked in by the "Windows is crap, Linux is much better arguments" both are good OS's, both very capable but to do anything reasonably advanced in Linux you have to be technically competent in the OS whereas that is less true in Windows (you can do more complex things in Windows as a novice) plus Windows remains far and away the most common desktop OS and that means support from user groups on the internet, manufacturers, application and game developers and so on.
I believe Ubuntu also has a what they call a Live CD that you can try without installing ... you just download the ISO, burn it and boot it on the CD, running from D is a bit slower but you'll get a good idea what it will be like in use.
Kyu
