i am now the converted.....ubuntu

[dogmir]

i have tried red hat (back in the 7 days)....i have tried suse, mandrake, and even tried linspire (which is worse than win 95 in my mind) i have been searching for ubuntu the whole time and i never knew it till i found it......i am very impressed with the whole package....it comes with many more appealing options to me than any other distro i have tried....and it looks good to boot....get it boot that is some geek humor.....i think tommorow i am going to get ubuntu tattooed on my soul! LOL thats my $.02 as a semi linux noob.....have a good one thanks for hearing my rant

 

[KB]

Ubuntu is more cohesive, slimmer and faster than Fedora Core IMHO. Its a great distro.

 

[spherrod]

Ubuntu is good!

 

[Hyperblaze]

Ubuntu isn't bad. Last time I tried though it didn't have a good kde support. Maybe that will change in the future.

 

[daniel49]

Originally posted by: dogmir
i have tried red hat (back in the 7 days)....i have tried suse, mandrake, and even tried linspire (which is worse than win 95 in my mind) i have been searching for ubuntu the whole time and i never knew it till i found it......i am very impressed with the whole package....it comes with many more appealing options to me than any other distro i have tried....and it looks good to boot....get it boot that is some geek humor.....i think tommorow i am going to get ubuntu tattooed on my soul! LOL thats my $.02 as a semi linux noob.....have a good one thanks for hearing my rant

what are the specs of the machine you are using it on?
how was installation and hardware detection?
what apps came with it?

 

[8eg]

Originally posted by: Hyperblaze
Ubuntu isn't bad. Last time I tried though it didn't have a good kde support. Maybe that will change in the future.

Have you seen this?

 

[Nothinman]

Ubuntu isn't bad. Last time I tried though it didn't have a good kde support. Maybe that will change in the future.

It's obvious that they focus on Gnome, but what was wrong with KDE?

 

[BlueWeasel]

Originally posted by: 8eg

Originally posted by: Hyperblaze
Ubuntu isn't bad. Last time I tried though it didn't have a good kde support. Maybe that will change in the future.

Have you seen this?

I gave Ubuntu a try a few weeks ago, but really just didn't care much for Gnome.
I downloaded the liveCD for Kubuntu last night and plan on giving it a try over the weekend.

 

[dogmir]

what are the specs of the machine you are using it on?
how was installation and hardware detection?
what apps came with it?[/quote]

amd slot one 600
768 mb ram
10 gig hd
tnt vid card

it got it all on the first pop with no intervention....all my devices work nicely expect i do suspect i need to install a driver for my vid....basicly all the program i am used under windows came with it.....as trivial as it is....firefox...open office...gimp...and it looks pretty which i know some people dont care about but i am a graphic and web designer and i hate ugly and will not stand for an ugly gui.....

 

[Hyperblaze]

Originally posted by: Nothinman

Ubuntu isn't bad. Last time I tried though it didn't have a good kde support. Maybe that will change in the future.

It's obvious that they focus on Gnome, but what was wrong with KDE?

in order to install kde on there, you have to select unstable packages. At the time I tried, the focus on KDE was not as great as it was on gnome. And upon entering kde, things started crashing. To me that's not good kde support. Linux apps don't typically crash.

 

[drag]

There were problems with KDE on Ubuntu. Don't know why, but that's probably why they made kubuntu.

 

[drag]

Originally posted by: daniel49
what apps came with it?

Ubuntu is basicly Debian + improvements in the GUI (Gnome-based and very well pre-configured out of the box.

Debian is difficult many times because the default install isn't that hot and you have to install different programs for this and that and it's difficult if you don't know the name of them or what they do.



Because of this Ubuntu can offer pretty much every Free software program under the sun. 10-15,000 individual software packages, many many thousands of different programs, games and such.

Debian has a VERY stong pro-Free software (GPL standard for 'Free' in their book) political bent and has very limited support for propriatory closed source software. They do have a 'non-free' section that supports some non-free software that is freely re-distributable. And Since Ubuntu uses Debian as a basis it has similar setup, but they have different names for stuff, like 'the multiverse' vs 'the universe' type thing.

I haven't had problems though with the limited amount of closed source software I have. Namely the odd video game and Cedega for some otherwise windows-only video games.

All in all Ubuntu is pretty nice.