- Feb 7, 2004
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I've tried various linux distros over the year, but none made me delete my windows partition. I finally found the distro. Ubuntu Feisty Fawn (7.04) is the best I've ever seen.
Thought I'd post this here for those that have been wanting to switch.
The web functions fine, multimedia rocks (amorak is the best music player organizer I've ever seen) - the new development version of the gimp is great for most photographers (I'm adapting fine), and everything just works. I'm not a gamer obviously. I admit that it was slightly esoteric to set up my canon printer - but it took me less time that downloading a bloated driver from canon.
Advice if you get it - install the kubuntu desktop and the xfce desktop to get all the extra software right away that rocks. You can stay in the original desktop, but you get the full benefit of all three desktop's apps. For instance I don't like KDE's feed aggregator - but I really like the gnome version. I don't care for the gnome cd burner - but I love K3B,
Anyway, if you've been waiting give it a shot. It has been almost a month now, and I have not found a single drawback.
Things that rock
Gnumeric (lets me do graphs so much easier than office xp)
Tomboy notes (wiki on desktop with your notes)
Dia (for flowcharts)
Digikam (I love this much more than acdsee) (manage your photos - make sure to get the plugins - it has curves and tunes of stuff)
Scribus - excellent desktop publishing
Liferea - rss aggregator - (pm me if you want it to work with firefox took me a minute to figure out)
KIG - geometric constructions made easy (awesome for teaching my kid geometry)
Amorak - makes Itunes look weak
Bluefish - excellent html editor
Picasa runs just fine
So does google earth
Gimp 2.3.16 (development version) I found a .deb package someone made available on ubuntu forums. Great! It has a few error messages in it when you load certain jpegs - but it just goes away after you click it. To be expected with developmental versions.
Make sure you get automatix (makes getting the good software and setting up multimedia so easy). . .
I rarely post fanboy things like this - but I figured that ubuntu deserves all the kudos they can get as they saved me from even thinking about vista. My windows partition is now gone.
Caveat:
I am on slightly older well supported hardware
ASUS KT400 Board
1.2 gig memory
2 x 80 gig harddrives pata
Athlon XP Barton 3200 Processor
Soundblaster Soundcard
Well supported wired ethernet card.
17 inch monitor 1280x1024
Geforce 3 graphics card
Thought I'd post this here for those that have been wanting to switch.
The web functions fine, multimedia rocks (amorak is the best music player organizer I've ever seen) - the new development version of the gimp is great for most photographers (I'm adapting fine), and everything just works. I'm not a gamer obviously. I admit that it was slightly esoteric to set up my canon printer - but it took me less time that downloading a bloated driver from canon.
Advice if you get it - install the kubuntu desktop and the xfce desktop to get all the extra software right away that rocks. You can stay in the original desktop, but you get the full benefit of all three desktop's apps. For instance I don't like KDE's feed aggregator - but I really like the gnome version. I don't care for the gnome cd burner - but I love K3B,
Anyway, if you've been waiting give it a shot. It has been almost a month now, and I have not found a single drawback.
Things that rock
Gnumeric (lets me do graphs so much easier than office xp)
Tomboy notes (wiki on desktop with your notes)
Dia (for flowcharts)
Digikam (I love this much more than acdsee) (manage your photos - make sure to get the plugins - it has curves and tunes of stuff)
Scribus - excellent desktop publishing
Liferea - rss aggregator - (pm me if you want it to work with firefox took me a minute to figure out)
KIG - geometric constructions made easy (awesome for teaching my kid geometry)
Amorak - makes Itunes look weak
Bluefish - excellent html editor
Picasa runs just fine
So does google earth
Gimp 2.3.16 (development version) I found a .deb package someone made available on ubuntu forums. Great! It has a few error messages in it when you load certain jpegs - but it just goes away after you click it. To be expected with developmental versions.
Make sure you get automatix (makes getting the good software and setting up multimedia so easy). . .
I rarely post fanboy things like this - but I figured that ubuntu deserves all the kudos they can get as they saved me from even thinking about vista. My windows partition is now gone.
Caveat:
I am on slightly older well supported hardware
ASUS KT400 Board
1.2 gig memory
2 x 80 gig harddrives pata
Athlon XP Barton 3200 Processor
Soundblaster Soundcard
Well supported wired ethernet card.
17 inch monitor 1280x1024
Geforce 3 graphics card
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