For the first 2 years of my net cafe i ran various distributions of Windows. and because of the way that viruses propagate through a Windows system, i had to completely reinstall at LEAST one machine every week. Since i have had been running Ubuntu (nearly one year now) i have had to reinstall NADA, not once, not a single time! The machines have never crashed unless it was a hardware issue. . . For my instance ubuntu is a godsend! Combine this with the fact that the fake “license check police” (just off-duty policemen looking for bribes – common in this country) have no grounds to even enter my store… and i am really really happy.

I have to admit that i dual boot at home and use windows 90% of the time because i am a gamer, but anytime i have problems in windows, i simply boot into Ubuntu to see if it is yet another Windows problem, which is always has been except for the time my harddrive died.

Ubuntu has it’s uses, but unless given some really remedial tutoring from someone who just knows a bit about it already… i don’t think it will steal away the Windows market… most of the Win-users i know are easily frustrated and will give up in a heartbeat of course blaming “stupid Linux” for all of their issues. These are also the same people that would call me for “tech support” every week for their mystery Windows problems…. using ubuntu has solved that problem for me as well because i simply say, “sorry dude, i use Ubuntu, i can’t help you”

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As for the cheat sheet thing. I think that’s a lame reason to start hacking on ubuntu. There’s other areas that would be more logical like printer support or the fact you can’t run access on it, as far as I know.

The only problem with ubuntu, causing me to shake my fist at the sky, is printer support. It’s a lucky day when I get a printer to work on ubuntu even if it has software to do so on linux. Just last month I was shocked when my girlfriend’s usb printer worked on my pc. Till then I just gave up on printing in ubuntu. Too lazy to go out and buy a printer that works on ubuntu.

I started using ubuntu exclusively a few years ago being so digusted with XP. Since then, getting to know and use the unique features of ubuntu has made me spoiled. Now it’s hard for me to work productively in windows, unless using portable ubuntu. Gone are the days when I need to spend anywhere from $30 to hundreds of dollars for apps just so I could get some work done. Aside from all that I’m also spoiled by the regular ubuntu releases, always making things even better than before. I’m surprised people are impressed with vista graphics. It’s settings are mid level graphics settings in ubuntu. At high level settings I show my friends the really neat graphics ubuntu desktop has.

Just having upgraded from ubuntu 8.04 to 8.10 to 9.10 I was pleasantly surprised that my warcraft install worked better than before, even better graphics. I run five instances of warcraft at once, being a muliboxer. It works very nicely. I was ready to setup warcraft all over again getting wine to work correctly for it, but no, it worked like a dream.

I have successfully gotten my x-wife into ubuntu after her disgust with her windows XP install always having something else wrong, possible trojans and such.

My girlfriend got a very nasty trojan a couple of weeks ago. So I just popped in a ubuntu live cd, boot up to it and she was back to her e-mail and office. This gives me time to get to her pc and reinstall windows from scratch. I don’t thing she’d notice if I switched it to ubuntu but I need a windows computer for my video capture board.

2… i finally get it installed, i go to adjust my screen resolution and im stuck at 600×800 instead of the 1369×960 my monitor supports. long story short i read enough web forums to finally get the damn nvidia driver to install, onl to find out its made my resoulution shittier and decreased my resolution options. now any indow i open is impossible to navigate.

FUCK UBUNTU its the biggest piece of shit ever… ill gladly go but a copy of windows rather then deal with this bs ever again. I swear you need to read a book to install a simple f’n driver or change the screen resolution. dont waste your time.

But I am not giving up.

However, I can now see why Microsoft rules the world.

If you don’t like it, you just uninstall Ubuntu from Add/Remove in Windows, just like any other normal bit of software.

Glad that DELL finally allows its products to be free of MS-Vista. So far, microcomputer on the last century are so primitive. When Symbian grows up, perhaps it will be THE winner?

So why don’t YOU explain why Mac computers haven’t caught on?

Ubuntu is incredibly simple to use. Its very secure, very stable, very user friendly, and its free. If you tested out the operating system yourself you would see that.

In fact, if you are running windows…its even easier than ever before to install!

http://wubi-installer.org/

Burn it as an iso image, and boot it.
It’s free, it’s easy and you will have the opportunity to make your own opinion without typing any complicated command.

You’re free. That’s my explanation of Linux.