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Raccoon1400

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From: Ontario, Canada

Registered: 2008-04-14

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Opinion of Ubuntu

What do people in this forum think of ubuntu?
There are many people in the debian forum who hate it.

I am in the process of switching from ubuntu to arch. My laptop is currently booting vista, ubuntu and arch, and I am just about to remove ubuntu.
I still think ubuntu is great for beginners.

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Ashren

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Registered: 2007-06-13

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Re: Opinion of Ubuntu

See this thread for reference:

http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=44501

And welcome on board.

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vodka

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Registered: 2007-08-21

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Re: Opinion of Ubuntu

I think Ubuntu is great for those that don't want to configurate everything themselves. They can just throw it in, and it'll work. Doesn't necessarily have to be beginners.

With that said, it does annoy me when Linux is automatically Ubuntu in some people's eyes, but that doesn't take anything away from the fact that it's a great product. It also helps open people's eyes for Linux. Any publicity, is good publicity!

Last edited by vodka (2008-04-28 22:12:46)

Raccoon1400

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From: Ontario, Canada

Registered: 2008-04-14

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Re: Opinion of Ubuntu

Could just be people who want things to just work, or those who don't have time to configure everything.
I like to tweak this laptop a lot. I spend way too much time in front of it.

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Misfit138

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Registered: 2006-11-27

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Re: Opinion of Ubuntu

Ubuntu has done much to spread FOSS; this is a good thing. Its omnipresent nature alone is enough to spread open source beyond all horizons.
Having said that, the distro itself is not for me, because its design principles (largely descended from Debian) are different than what I am looking for in an OS right now.

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Misbah

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Registered: 2008-02-27

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Re: Opinion of Ubuntu

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idjut

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From: Oslo

Registered: 2006-05-15

Posts: 177

Re: Opinion of Ubuntu

I recommend ubuntu to everyone tired of closed source madness. Myself, I haven't tried it since breezy, but at that time it was a no pain procedure to install and use so I thought that also the less computer skilled would benefit from using it. After that I've seen more positive things happening to it too. If you take away the wrappings on it you can make it minimal too.

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suolx

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From: Finland, Oulu

Registered: 2007-08-06

Posts: 29

Re: Opinion of Ubuntu

I started desktop linux usage with ubuntu and when I got tired of the ploat stuff and slowness of apt. So I tried arch and loved it.
Tho I can recommend Ubuntu to beginners to try out, how Linux applications work. If you need to tweak anything over the basic gui tools, then ubuntu is pain in da ass imho.

HyperBaton

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From: Belgium

Registered: 2008-01-18

Posts: 207

Re: Opinion of Ubuntu

Ubuntu is great. Without Ubuntu I would have never been able to learn the basic linux skills needed to switch to an even greater Linux OS, which is Arch since quite some time now.

B-Con

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Registered: 2007-12-17

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Re: Opinion of Ubuntu

Like many, I started with Ubuntu. It helped ease my transition into the Unix/Linux way of doing things. I outgrew it eventually, though, and havee found myself with Arch.

Ubuntu has short-comings, and arguably a few aspects that go against the principles of other power distros, but ultimately it gives new useres something nice and easy to use. I recommend it to all my friends looking to get a start in Linux.

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Raccoon1400

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From: Ontario, Canada

Registered: 2008-04-14

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Re: Opinion of Ubuntu

I'm like you as well. I'm a new arch user, and I'm keeping buntu around until I'm fully transitioned over, it's great in that aspect as well. One I have arch how I like it , have everything moved over, I'll have to say good bye to bunt.

This is a good way to to it. It helps to refer to programs installed on ubuntu to see how to set up arch. I deleted ubuntu yesterday. Now this laptop only has arch and vista. If I hadn't had the tri-boot for a while, I might have had to use vista, and we don't want that.

Some see ubuntu as bloated. Because I have used vista, which takes 35% of RAM with nothing open, and 10GB of disk space, I will never see ubuntu as bloated.

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ozar

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From: USA

Registered: 2005-02-18

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Re: Opinion of Ubuntu

I try Ubuntu with each new release but always fail to see what all the hype is about.

Still, I'm exceedingly glad it's out there for those that do like it.  I get a warm fuzzy feeling all over when someone is happy with their distro. 

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yesterday

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Registered: 2008-04-23

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Re: Opinion of Ubuntu

From the perspective of someone already opensource savvy and quite comfortable in their distribution, well of course there can't be that much behind the hype, since your've already probably used gnome 2.22, ff3, pulse audio, etc. etc.  But from the perspective of evaluating Linux as a mainstream desktop OS, Ubuntu/Fedora/openSUSE/etc are quite exciting.  I have a couple of uni mates who've converted completely from windows to ubuntu.  They could get more interested and explore the other various linux distros.  Or they could just be a great advirtisement for Linux amongst the "normals"

ProzacR

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Registered: 2007-04-29

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Re: Opinion of Ubuntu

Ubuntu is not totally bad. I always recommend Ubuntu for Linux beginners. But I moved from Ubuntu to Arch long time ago.
One bad thing in Ubuntu that it tries to be Windows XP substitute and other bad thing is low speed. ArchLinux is much faster. Today I tried Ubuntu 8.04, but I do not think that I will use it. Still I want to move again.
I think I will try Debian.