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    Ubuntu WINS!

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    by the_webninja9 ·

    I use Ubuntu at home mostly as my Internet Machine, I also have a Windows Machine that I crunch Video and Record audio with, and I have a Windows machine that I use at Work. But time after time using my Windows Xp machines I am always saying “Ubuntu Wins AGAIN!”

    For example last night I plugged my Kingston USB 4GB Flash Drive into my Windows system at Work and Windows would not Recognize it. Plowed through about Three hours of Troubleshooting Help Files only to find out it is a common problem with no Fix for it related to Power from the USB and a Software Conflict in XP. Got home plugged my USB Flash Drive into My Ubuntu 10.04 LTS machine, and NO PROBLEM! 🙂 I said “Ubuntu Wins AGAIN!” 🙂
    So I thought We should start a Thread listing all the Reasons Why one should Switch to Ubuntu, cause I’m sure I can’t Think of them all. But I’ll start with the ones I know about:

    WHY YOU SHOULD SWITCH TO UBUNTU?

    1. Ubuntu is More Stable than Windows

    2. Ubuntu is Less Susceptible to Viruses

    3. Ubuntu is more versatile, & Customizable

    4. Ubuntu automatically detects almost everything I plug into it 🙂

    5. You can make everything look really cool 🙂
    (Oh,…I guess I said that already)

    6. Ubuntu can handle cross platform file types.
    (Such as Doc files and Windows Media files)

    Okay all you Super Techs feel free to jump in.

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    • #3024340

      Yeah, yeah, OK, I’m already on my way from XP to Ubuntu, but…

      by jkameleon ·

      In reply to Ubuntu WINS!

      I want to move Maximize/Minimize/Close buttons back to upper right corner, and I want to enable that cool new UI stuff that came with version 10.04

    • #3024317

      Ubuntu doesn’t run the apps I want.

      by charliespencer ·

      In reply to Ubuntu WINS!

      It may be the finest OS in the world, but it doesn’t run my fantasy league software, my WYSIWYG web page editor, or my half-dozen games. It’s all about the apps.

      • #3024314

        But it will run the

        by michael jay ·

        In reply to Ubuntu doesn’t run the apps I want.

        NASCAR leader board, so I could watch the race and see my demise.

        6th, 8th, 14th, 20th, 27th dang still in reverse.

        • #3024313

          In three races I’ve moved from 9th to 4th.

          by charliespencer ·

          In reply to But it will run the

          And from 350 points back to less than 200. I thought I was toast when Dinger lost the lug nut, but he finished 14th and gave me four cars on the lead lap.

        • #3024310

          Have not run the numbers on this one

          by michael jay ·

          In reply to In three races I’ve moved from 9th to 4th.

          but in 19 place 🙁 not so good.

          I need a real good string of finishes to catch you.

      • #3024246

        What Ubuntu WILL run…

        by the_webninja9 ·

        In reply to Ubuntu doesn’t run the apps I want.

        We all get comfortable and settled into an OS then find a bunch of “favorite programs” that work with that OS. Then 10 years down the road no one is even USING that OS anymore. 🙂 DOS, Win 3.1, Win 95, Win 98, Win ME, Win 2000, Win NT, Vista, Win 7, and then there is the whole range of Linux Versions. Each has Games, and WYSWG Editors, and Instant message programs and all kinds of stuff that works with THAT OS. So when you think about Switching to a Different OS you are literally Switching to a Whole new Computer World so to speak. And it will be fun (and frustrating at times), learning about everything. You will explore all new Programs with different names, even your Word Processor Open Office will use different Font names than Microsoft, yet Open Office CAN use Word Fonts. And you CAN run Windows Programs on Ubuntu using a Program called WINE. Search it out on the Web and read about it. This might solve your Problem. But I think the greater solution would be to open your mind and accept NEW possibilities with Ubuntu, using other Programs. This is how you learn more in life. Staying stuck in one environment only makes you narrow minded. If you reach out and explore new things, you broaden your mind, and gives you a richer life experience.

        • #3024230

          Why bother?

          by charliespencer ·

          In reply to What Ubuntu WILL run…

          I’d be with you if we were talking about my workplace, and open source apps that bring some functionality missing from the Windows apps were using. I’m talking about my home computer; why bother with this on my time? If all the apps I want to run require an emulator, why bother at all?

          “But I think the greater solution would be to open your mind and accept NEW possibilities with Ubuntu, using other Programs.”

          I’m aware of the possibilities of Linux. They don’t fit the way I choose to use a computer, and I have other things I prefer to do with my free time than learning operating systems or applications. There are other things to reach out and explore, other ways to broaden my mind and give myself a richer life experience.

          (‘Richer life experience’? On a computer? Really? C’mon, any richer life experience I gain from learning what Linux does vs. Windows pales in comparison to experiences gained by turning the electronica off and looking at non-cyber experiences. Libraries, museums, parks, sporting events, concerts; any of these will broaden your horizons more than changing an OS. That’s simply doing the same old stuff in a new way, no more broadening than learning to write with the other hand, or oven frying instead of using a skillet.)

          I’m glad you’re happy with Ubuntu. It’s a great distro, and it fits the way you use a computer. My point is that an OS alone, without the apps a person wants to use, is useless to that person. Whether there are alternatives or emulators is irrelevant if they aren’t what that person wants to use. Linux distros expand a user’s range of choices, but advocating Linux by rejecting the other options does not.

    • #3024297

      Try this

      by dwdino ·

      In reply to Ubuntu WINS!

      Take your Ubuntu and put it on a standard laptop (Dell, HP, etc.). Now take said laptop and dock it with dual external monitors…

      Now try to use the undock button and what happens to Ubuntu when the hardware profile changes?

      Only Windows makes a laptop usable. I can suspend, dock, undock, auto detect and scale my desktop, and never skip a beat.

      Besides, if you want Linux, get a full distro.

    • #3024289

      it wins what?

      by jaqui ·

      In reply to Ubuntu WINS!

      the least secure Linux Distro Award?
      of course it does, they screwed security with their sudo configuration and it should be a criminal charge on them for it.

      • #3024288

        Speaking of criminal charges…

        by santeewelding ·

        In reply to it wins what?

        You have outwitted the law, so far?

        • #3024287

          who me?

          by jaqui ·

          In reply to Speaking of criminal charges…

          how can they charge me with anything? I’m dead 😀

        • #3024286

          Good

          by santeewelding ·

          In reply to who me?

          You pulled it off.

          I was growing concerned what, with, all your previous tales of dead people, and such.

    • #3024258

      Lucid (10.04) is not more stable than Win 7

      by siangperng ·

      In reply to Ubuntu WINS!

      I have only upgraded 1 laptop to lucid and am holding back on upgrading the other 2 karmic (9.10) of mine. I have another Win 7 system.

      Karmic is as stable as Win 7 – neither ever hangs or freeze on me.

      Lucid, depends on your hardware and the drivers. When everything works, it is solid. However if it does not take liking to some of your hardware/drivers, it crash and burns.

      Win 7 – only manage to crash it once by forcing a firmware update that it claims to not support.

      So out-of-box stability in general, I would give it to Win 7.

      I like linux… I just dont quite like Lucid -> Mwubuntu (Mac-Wannabe-Ubuntu)

    • #3024248

      Uh o, Linux Mal Ware?

      by the_webninja9 ·

      In reply to Ubuntu WINS!

      In researching some stuff on Linux Security I ran across THIS:
      http://www.offensive-security.com/metasploit-unleashed/Binary-Linux-Trojans

      Yep, that’s right it is a discussion on how to make a Binary Linux Trojan. Which means it is only a matter of time before all the Evil Doers decide to start doing their evil deeds in Linux. But for now anyways, it is still safer than Windows.

      And I would say Windows 7 hasn’t even been around long enough to compare it to Linux.
      So I wouldn’t make that jump. If Microsoft wants to impress ME, they need to stop catering to the Lower IQ people who want all Dazzle and no functionality like they did with Vista, and Start designing an OS that can Crunch Video at Lightening Speeds, that can Boot in a Snap, That can recognize stuff at least as good as Ubuntu, and I want FUNCTIONALITY in an OS, I don’t care about all the pretty little Colors, and sliding menus, I want Screaming fast speed with Video Streaming, and Video Processing, and Burning. Ubuntu is as close as I can get to what I want so far. I am not really in to the “Full Distro” Linux yet, cause first of all you have to read this Big Huge Book just to be able to use it. Ubuntu looks just like Windows, and acts just like windows, yet allows you to have more control over just about everything. And with Ubuntu you have the option to Read and Learn and go Deeper into the Linux environment. Or you can just use it like a Common Windows moron if you want. Hey when I wake up in the Morning with a Cup a coffee in hand to check my e-mail and do a few things on the Computer, I don’t want to have to remember a bunch of Sudo stuff just to get going. Ubuntu gets me to where I need to be with it’s GUI environment. I like that. 🙂
      It’s Fun to Ubuntu 🙂

      • #3024243

        Trojan that comes with an installer!?

        by siangperng ·

        In reply to Uh o, Linux Mal Ware?

        All that needs to be done now is to hack into the linux repositories and infest their packages.

        -OR-

        Convince/trick some user to install an untrusted package. … ok this one is easy..

      • #3024229

        Huh?

        by charliespencer ·

        In reply to Uh o, Linux Mal Ware?

        “I am not really in to the “Full Distro” Linux yet, cause first of all you have to read this Big Huge Book just to be able to use it.”

        Didn’t you just tell me about the joys of learning new software, about broadening my horizons and opening my mind?

    • #3024241

      I find Xandros better than Ubuntu…

      by peconet tietokoneet ·

      In reply to Ubuntu WINS!

      But you have to pay for Xandros.
      With Xandros you get the manual of which is a lot of help. But we all have our likes and dislikes.
      More on Xandros here:
      http://www.xandros.com/

    • #3024221

      Not over other distros it doesn’t

      by tony hopkinson ·

      In reply to Ubuntu WINS!

      Unless you are an appliance user and you can get buy it pre-installed.

      Full of crapware by default, crippled security by default, bound to have more short cuts than any sensible linux fan should be comfortable with.

      I’d rather secure my windows than cack about with it.

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