Ant

just installed ubuntu for the first time , what can i say apart from

after using for over 24 hours it brilliant, incredible how much responsive it is and all that free ram .

Is there any tricks i can do it , i've had a go at themes and screenlets.

I've still kept my vista boot for things ubuntu cant do but so far im loving it

Who else here is running ubuntu?

Took a screen shot of my desktop , share yours if you have any!

john_s

iTrader: (1)

I've dabbled with it a few times... got an Ubuntu server running at work and gradually extending what it does as I get time to mess about with it.

Also used the live boot a couple of times to copy files off a windows computer that was being uncooperative.

Haven't got round to getting a desktop system running Ubuntu full time as yet, but I'm thinking about installing it on my old PC... I've got a new disk for it, so I'm thinking partitioning the disk and trying out a few different OS's on there.

boxst

Why would you want to use it? Not a sarcastic comment, I just wonder what it does above Vista?

Steve

Iain Young

Easy to be responsive when you're not running anything

Don't like Ubuntu at all myself. I prefer OpenSUSE for desktop stuff openSUSE.org (and Fedora or Red Hat for work).

I still find Vista more useful though, (mainly due to a lack of Linux versions of any software that I use - Photoshop, Lightwave, Premiere, etc)

Ant

That's the only problem with Linux I can't use photoshop or dreamweaver therefore having dual boot.

I'll proberly end up getting bored and removing it but looks good so far

StickyMicky

I have never tried it, can you not run regular pc programs on it?

GC8

Linux programs only unless you use an Windows emulator, such as WINE, but that defeats the point really...

Dedrater

Photoshop replacement
GIMP - The GNU Image Manipulation Program

Dremweaver replacement
Quanta Plus Home
KompoZer - Easy web authoring
Bluefish Editor : Home

If you know what you are doing then you only use a WYSIWYG editor for speed, so any of the above will do.

pat

Hmmmm, let's see now....

I rest my case

Iain Young

Why? My XP box at work has been up longer than that

ScoobyDriverWannabe

I had a play around with it using Wubi to install a dual boot

Great novelty for a few days. Got bored after a wile though.

kernel

Someone's not being doing his Windows updates then

Iain Young

True, they're turned off on that machine. Don't want them to interrupt the cruise control builds on there

pat

And does it have a permanent direct connection to the Internet, completely unfiltered ?

Iain Young

Nope it's behind a very strong corporate firewall, and runs nothing but 24x7 builds of software

Removed.

I really liked Ubuntu (Intrepid), but I had sound volume issues from all sources, and sound synch issues on flash based site like youtube. I spent significant time trying to resolve the issues, but they seem to be an issue for Intel HD audio chipsets, with lots of people posting issues and no solutions. Also some things I use such as my satnav and corporate VPN access aren't supported on Ubuntu, which meant I was forever swapping between Vista and Ubuntu. I know I could run Vista in a vm under Ubuntu, but to be honest, I spend all day working in IT and I can't be bothered to fart around when I get home. I just want to be able to use my laptop without any aggro, and Vista does that. In fact following on from a chat with a couple of guys at work, I'm now running Windows 7 beta and Ubuntu has (reluctantly) bitten the dust.

JackClark

I always keep a Live CD and have a persistent install on a USB stick, it gets me out of trouble and getting it tuned up is a great time killer.

DJ_Jon

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I've just stared using it on my notebook, very impressed so far.

GaryK

I think XP is probably M$ best OS ever. Its the only one I have never managed to trash even doing software development on it, WinNT and Win2K were never as robust as promised IMHO and Vista, god dont even get me started, on my new laptop which is 9 months old I'm about to rip it off to go back to XP, waaay to poor in terms of performance and reliability.

Iain Young

Interesting. My main dev machine has Vista (32 bit) on it, and has been rock solid ever since I installed it (well over a year ago now). Generally, I've found it more stable than XP on my test (and home) machines It does depend a lot on your hardware (and quality of drivers) however.

MJW

I've been running Kubuntu for about a year now on an old Athlon 1000mhz PC that I re-built & its brilliant. Does everything my Windows box does (except games) using stuff like Gimp, aMSN, Firefox & the eye-candy is good even on my old shed of a machine. Also very secure no malware/spyware virii etc. It take a while to set up properly but is worth the effort. You can have multiple front-ends for it as well - as well as KDE I have Xubuntu which is a stripped down ultra quick window manager.