Melton Fox
Dancing Queen
I'm bored of Windows and fancied something new, nothing more, nothing less.
If cost is the only benefit to Ubuntu, then I won't bother installing it.
The end of Windows
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If cost is the only benefit to Ubuntu, then I won't bother installing it.
Durham Fox
El Dude Brother.
Some people think it's cool to hate windows and everything about it. Probably because Microsoft are so big and powerful.
Pound for pound XP and Vist are far superior IMO. However some people just dont like Windows interface etc.
Melton Fox
Dancing Queen
Nope, nothing as complex, just bored.
Durham Fox
El Dude Brother.
Personally I think you would be mad to install it, certainly as your only OS. I would advise installing it on a seperate partition if you just want to play with it.
Melton Fox
Dancing Queen
I set another partition a couple of days ago ready for it. Wouldn't dream of getting rid of Windows.
Durham Fox
El Dude Brother.
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Macky
Gruntled Member
You don't need to install it to try it out, just run it from the CD.
If you do decide to install, take care if you've already created a partition as it won't automatically install itself onto that partition & will try to create its own so you could end up with 3 patitions, 2 of them small.
My only problem with (K)Ubuntu is it's made by a crowd of hippys who refuse to include anything proprietary which means no multimedia codecs by default.
A much better option IMO is LinuxMint which started as a deviation from Ubuntu but with everything working straight out of the box, Ubuntu on steroids.
I only use Mint on my home PCs, wouldn't go back to Windows, not because of any Microsoft hating madness, it's just better IMO. Windows apps aren't a problem either I have several of them, that don't have a Linux version, running quite happily.
I use Vista, XP & Mint on a daily basis & MInt wins everytime.
If you do decide to install, take care if you've already created a partition as it won't automatically install itself onto that partition & will try to create its own so you could end up with 3 patitions, 2 of them small.
My only problem with (K)Ubuntu is it's made by a crowd of hippys who refuse to include anything proprietary which means no multimedia codecs by default.
A much better option IMO is LinuxMint which started as a deviation from Ubuntu but with everything working straight out of the box, Ubuntu on steroids.
I only use Mint on my home PCs, wouldn't go back to Windows, not because of any Microsoft hating madness, it's just better IMO. Windows apps aren't a problem either I have several of them, that don't have a Linux version, running quite happily.
I use Vista, XP & Mint on a daily basis & MInt wins everytime.
Melton Fox
Dancing Queen
OK, cheers Macky.
That leads me to another question, apart from Windows, which is the best operating system to use on a pc.
I only d/loaded Ubuntu because it was the first Linux based system I came across whilst searching.
That leads me to another question, apart from Windows, which is the best operating system to use on a pc.
I only d/loaded Ubuntu because it was the first Linux based system I came across whilst searching.
Durham Fox
El Dude Brother.
Stevens gonna go nuts :icon_lol:
Steven
Active Member
Not anymore. :icon_wink
Macky
Gruntled Member
Macky
Gruntled Member
Durham Fox
El Dude Brother.
Im downloading Mint Celena, will put it on a machine at work and see what its like! 
Macky
Gruntled Member
Im downloading Mint Celena, will put it on a machine at work and see what its like!
Good man, it looks superb, haven't tried it yet I'm waiting for the KDE version of Celena which is usually a couple of months behind the main Gnome version but I prefer the KDE desktop.
Durham Fox
El Dude Brother.
What are the main differences?
Macky
Gruntled Member
The layout & the default apps mainly, they are two different desktop managers/environments, each with their own way for you to configure how you like things.
But I'm just after reading on the site that they're not releasing a KDE version of Celena now, next KDE version will be for Mint 4.0 named 'Daryna'. :icon_sad:
I could still upgrade to Celena & then install KDE desktop myself I suppose.
Melton Fox
Dancing Queen
It's on it's way.
Macky
Gruntled Member
Im downloading Mint Celena, will put it on a machine at work and see what its like!
Downloaded it myself now as well, gonna have a play with it tomorrow.
If anybody else is thinking of downloading it the torrent is running fairly fast 500+ kB/s.
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