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By: Geoffrey

Geoffrey — Wed, 07 Sep 2011 18:50:54 +0000

I’m reading this in 2011, 5 years after the article was originally written, and I must say that what was said about Ubuntu still holds good.

I tried going over to Linux Mint or (to go in the other direction) Debian. For all their polish (Mint) or stability (Debian), Ubuntu remains my top choice. It strikes a superb balance.

As a desktop user, I don’t want to spend too much time hacking and fixing my Linux system to get little things (like video) to work, and Ubuntu (and nobody else) can do that for me satisfactorily.

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By: Copeland

Copeland — Wed, 01 Dec 2010 13:04:09 +0000

I love Ubuntu. It is so fast, easy to install and use. It comes with Firefox, OpenOffice, and Gimp already installed. It doesn’t hurt that Ubuntu looks good as well!

By: Chelsea

Chelsea — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 08:32:27 +0000

I agree that Ubuntu is the best Linux distro, I am using it on my server, PC and netbook.

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By: Kyle Kalman

Kyle Kalman — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 14:58:16 +0000

I just switched over to Ubuntu 8.04. I have to say I am semi impressed. As a Windows user for my entire life (19 years), I’m still have trouble with installing things and getting everything running as smooth as say XP or (dare I say it) Vista. The only problem I seem to have is every place I look for information gives me the run around. If anyone can give me a good site for Noo… well not noobie as I have using computer since I was 7 and Building them since I was 10. I just need a place with tutorials and such. These noobie site have too hand holding. I just need someone to give me some valid information that isn’t dumbed down. Oh and one more thing I was wondering if anyone knows how I get some ZUNE support. I dont want to keep windows installed just to keep my zune updated. I’ve tried the Virtual Box and it doesnt recognize my USB devices so thats no good… Thanks for all the help

By: Felix

Felix — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 21:55:51 +0000

Yeah Degwees try again, i had trouble with Ubuntu the first time i tried it, i messed aroudn with some configs trying to learn the linux ways and switched to another distro Opensuse 11 for a few months, but it got slow on me and started being real laggy switched back again to Ubuntu just yesterday, switched all effects off, installed them just incase i need them in the near future but shut everything off configured everything correctly and my computer is running as never before. Something new i noticed this time is that it recognizes my ipod right out of the box which is a breath of fresh air, before you had to configure all this stuff to get it to work with amarok. BUt it works perfectly real smooth.

By: Degwees

Degwees — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 21:33:56 +0000

Installed Ubuntu 8.04 2 days ago. Really liked the looks of it and all that. I’m a complete novice when it comes to linux distros and Ubuntu was the one I knew was rather user-friendly. Anyways, got it working, was really surprised how everything worked. Anyways, didn’t try to install anything(mostly because I didn’t know how to ) and just tested the programs already integrated, everything was just fine.

Later installed wine, got my mIRC running which I was really used to and didn’t wanna give it up.

The first problem I had was with updating Pidgin from 2.4.1 to 2.4.2. It gave me errors after ‘configure’. Ok, left it alone for a day.

The next day my friend(a linux user) told me to get the XMMS player which he thought was a lot better than the one integrated(and it looked like Winamp?). Anyways, tried to install it – problems. Ok, I didn’t have the Make and stuff. Got those. Tried again, wanted GLIB, ok, got GLIB, couldn’t install it, needed gettext. Ok, got gettext, installed it, everything seemed fine. Got back to installing GLIB, got it installed, was amazed. Tried XMMS again and after ‘configure’ it said no GLIB was installed. Thought maybe it will work if I try installing Pidgin… Well, it didn’t.

Got pissed off, restarted the PC hoping it will somehow make it better. Ran ubuntu and suddenly I have no desktop. That’s right, no icons, no picture, couldn’t even right-click on it. The media partitions didn’t open either.

Now here I am using WinXP again, should I try again?

By: hamdi

hamdi — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:06:49 +0000

Yeah… as Jzwies say, I try many linux distro and find Ubuntu have solid community to help me if I got a problem.

By: jzwies

jzwies — Wed, 21 May 2008 20:44:02 +0000

I don’t know if Ubuntu is the easiest distro, but it is easy to use, Linux based systems are more reliable and more stable than Microsoft’s Windows (to an extent), e.g. Windows NT and 2000 were the first windows systems to have real security, windows ME and earlier at the login screen you could just hit Esc and it logs you in as a default user and unrestricted. And unlike windows, free software for ubuntu is damn easy to find.

And I agree with John ” I think it all depends on the user and the hardware… “

By: John

John — Wed, 13 Feb 2008 02:33:22 +0000

I dont think Ubuntu is the best distro out there nor the easiest…. I think it all depends on the user and the hardware… I found PCLinux OS far eaiser on my machines… It even plays MP3′s and all the virtually all the video codecs right from install… Seemed more functional without being too dumbed down… One other thing i dont like bout Ubuntu is that it disables root and i dont trust sudo command think it could get your average could get into just as much trouble with messing something up as in windows… I still think red Hat makes one of the better distros… Also another good one i would recommend would be gentoo

By: chris

chris — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 17:29:49 +0000

ubuntu- ultimate is a ubuntu based fully loaded distro,

that unlike regular ubuntu actually automatically installs the
proprietary codecs for video, etc.

I think it was written by different individuals mostly, or tweaked a little better
to run more like something thats actually useful.

trust me try it, search ubuntu ultimate ,yes they have a web site.

like i said though, its not a distro made from the ubuntu people, i think this is
totally seperate.

By: Colette

Colette — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 05:41:37 +0000

To decide what’s best distro, in XOOCO Lists have a list to vote the people:

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ANd you, What Linux distribution do you prefer?

By: Mgbenz

Mgbenz — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 23:57:35 +0000

@sanji_rath: Ubuntu uses the Gnome desktop environment as it’s default. There are other distributions of Ubuntu that uses other environments like kUbuntu (uses the KDE desktop environment).

By: asdf

asdf — Fri, 07 Sep 2007 09:58:59 +0000

>When you enable the desktop effects, you would really enjoy the smooth operation and all eye candy stuff.. it is all Beryl can offer, or even more.

“Ubuntu desktop effects” *IS* Beryl/Compiz Fusion. You can run Beryl/Compiz on any computer with Linux.

By: Sid

Sid — Thu, 05 Jul 2007 06:48:54 +0000

Well, Ubuntu had caught my eye, and I prefer it more than Vista. When you enable the desktop effects, you would really enjoy the smooth operation and all eye candy stuff.. it is all Beryl can offer, or even more. And moreover, my i915 chipset, which refused to run Aero in Vista (which is perfectly running on my i965 chipset desktop with a 4.5 rating) can easily run these desktop effect surprisingly smoothly. I must say that Ubuntu is the best alternative to Linux for desktops/laptops. I think people who don’t like Ubuntu have’nt experienced the new Desktop effects…

By: sanjit_rath

sanjit_rath — Mon, 26 Mar 2007 00:25:55 +0000

I tried Ubuntu 7.4 Beta, the latest x86_64. It started the OS from CD, I was looking for how to install, then I saw install Ubuntu on desktop. Certainly it detected my mother board with ATI chip set correctly, even set correct resolution and sync frequency for my 19″ lcd monitor. It installed all drivers correctly including sound. Thats what I call a good linx, pats the ubuntu penguine.

But, yes, yes, the desktop is not that easy, with two task bar. So I played around a bit, and reduced the task bar to just 1, with a workspace switcher and removed a few un-necessary buttons. It just rocks.

ubuntu, needs to set the task bar right!

Regarding installed software, my primary purpose was C/C++ development. So, had a bit time installing libraries, Kdevelop, Anjuta, compilers, C++ compilers and packages and so on.. they need to create a dummy package for C/C++ dev tools

Also installed eclipse.

So overall, the experience was the package manager, just ultimate, it gets all packages to install, also finds the fastest mirror to download. The next best thing is automatic updates, just ulitmate.

When I compared this to latest SUSE 10.2, it just didnt install at first, also troubles with drivers and monitor. It just didn’t set my monitor standard frequency of either 75 or 60 but 73. So if you are going for a lighter working linux UBUNTU is some what best. Just have to play around a bit to make it like Windows.

By: Richard

Richard — Fri, 23 Mar 2007 07:29:26 +0000

SabayonLinux does NOT blow Ubuntu (or any other distro) away. I tried it for a while, and it is too top-heavy. Also, I was getting video problems when running beryl. I don’t know if that’s a common problem or something fixed, but…it happened no matter the video player whenever I had beryl settings enabled. And it’s definitely not my computer:
AMD 64 3000+
2gig dual-channel pc3200
600+watt battery
~200GB IDE WD HD
6800 GT-OC (BFG style)

but if you don’t play videos on your Linux distro you might be ok. Also if you don’t mind the extra unnecessary programs, etc.

By: Vamp

Vamp — Wed, 14 Feb 2007 17:54:13 +0000

Started with Ubuntu and ended with SabayonLinux (the official distro of Beryl), it blows Ubuntu (and Vista) away…..

By: Shane

Shane — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 01:38:09 +0000

Ubuntu is as easy or as complex to use as you want it to be. If you like control then uninstall all the packages with apt or dpkg and compile from source if that is your thing like I did recently to remove unwanted packages and customize the ones I wanted. As a programmer myself I like total control. You can make it as complicated to use as Linux From Scratch if not more. Its Linux for God’s sake. You have control of everything if you know what you are doing. Installing eye candy is optional no one is pushing it down your throats. The one thing I like about it is that I can install it and give it to my parents and they couldn’t care less which OS I give them as long as they can surf the net and write emails yet I can customize the packages beyond recognition to achieve maximum control.
All Linux distros give you total control. The question should be “who has the nerve to compile, install and configure from scratch?” to find their desired level of control.

By: assente

assente — Fri, 29 Sep 2006 17:17:39 +0000

The success of Ubuntu isn’t only because it is for dumb users(easy to use), but also because It’s debian-based.. that means:
- a lot of software packaged in debs
- very up-to-date
- an a real interest for Desktop users, that it doesn’t mean a cool distro that brokes after the first update.

By: arsgeek

arsgeek — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 13:14:05 +0000

I can’t believe I’m typing this… but lynx works fine with ArsGeek from two of my computers.

Obviously it has trouble with some of the CSS stuff but it just plonks it down at the bottom of the site.

Lynx. I like my web with pictures.

By: Vakio

Vakio — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 05:16:20 +0000

>The Barthelme theme should be fully WC3 compliant. Unfortunately, not all browsers are.

Well, it clearly isn’t: “Failed validation, 85 errors”. All of my text browsers (lynx, links(2) and w3m) and Konqueror failed to render the page.

By: a baldwin

a baldwin — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 22:29:37 +0000

I just switched over from Fedora to Ubuntu, and, yes, Ubuntu is very easy to use….Than again, IÂ´ve already been using linux (FC) for six years, so IÂ´m not a totally clueless newbie (just partially clueless).
Yum kept breaking stuff on FC. So far, I am really digging Kubuntu.
I thnk the FC install was easier ,in the respect that a new user can just choose what he wants to add on install, rather than have to digging through repos to find stuff. Of course, Synaptic makes that pretty easy, but not any easier than say YumEx…Of course, yum break stuff.
So far, apt hasnÂ´t broken anything for me.
And the U community have been very welcoming.
I like it here.
I would recommend Kubuntu.
Takes some getting used to sudo instead of a separate root account…that kind of actually makes me nervous, but I think IÂ´ll get over it.

By: arsgeek

arsgeek — Wed, 27 Sep 2006 19:21:06 +0000

Are you saying that the new users I’ve installed have not had a good experience? Or that Ubuntu is the best distro out there?