I know, maybe I’m kind of a late bloomer with this, but I just wanted to post my experience with Ubuntu here in case there was someone else out there who might be considering switching to Linux.
First of all I would like to THANK everyone who worked on Ubuntu, for everything you did Thanks, I DO appreciate it.
I tried Ubuntu because I bought a Brand New 200GB Hard Drive, and after Windows XP Crashed three different times installing Drivers for First an ATI Video Card, then an Audigy Sound Card, and Finally Windows would no longer install on my Brand New Hard Drive because it could not install one particular file, then when I pressed SKIP FILE it found another one it couldn’t install, then another. Finally I figured it was a Virus and Gave up.
Installing Ubuntu wasn’t as easy as everyone says. it took me Three tries to finally get the ISO file to Burn Correctly to the CD. But once I finally got Ubuntu to install, everything got better from there.
Going into this Project I expected it was going to be more Command line intensive than it was. Ubuntu is totally cool. It is a fully GUI Program, looks almost just like Windows, once you play around with the Appearance Settings, and there are some people out there who have XP Look a like Downloads for Linux, but I don’t know if that’s such a good idea, so I didn’t try that. But I DID spend some time and downloaded every plug-in and application I could find that would run on Linux, and after about 6 hours of playing with it, I am really happy. I have everything that my Windows System had. I have Anti-virus Program, I have Media Players, I have Image manipulation Programs, Image Viewers with Slide Show Capabilities, I Changed my Desktop to a Girl wearing a Bikini and Everything! 🙂
It is not as complicated as I thought it was going to be. It is very much like Windows in fact. I like it so far, and in the past 6 hours I really put it to the Test, I downloaded an Open Office Program and typed up some Doc Files, I looked at Adobe PDF files, I Looked at all kinds of Jpg, Tga, and Png files, I listened to a couple of different Sound files and really tried to do everything that I did with Windows. And I even got Automatic updates just like Windows too. So if you are thinking about Switching to Linux, I would say don’t be afraid, just do it!
I hope this will inspire more people to make more Software for Ubuntu, cause Ubuntu is really a cool Operating System. It is a lot faster than Vista, that’s for sure! 🙂