fearandloathing writes:
I recently installed Ubuntu on a friends system, and also on mine running beside windows.
Does anyone else have any experience with Ubuntu that might be helpful, I would appreciate any feed back.
So far it seems faster than windows 7 on my machine, and seems to have given extended life to my friends 8 year old machine which was running xp pro, the only problem I have had was with Google earth. I couldn't load it from Google earth website, but found an other source for it.
I started using linux in the days when installing a linux OS meant inserting in a dozen command lines. This was even before the days of window x. Heck, I remember some of these distros asked you to input the specific model number of your peripherals. How annoying...
I must say, linux distros nowadays have come a long way.
That said, the linux community has some of the worst 1337s I have ever seen in my life. You ask them a genuine question and they will tell you how stupid you are for asking that question. For instance, for someone who's a total linux illiterate, if there's no exe file to double click on then he is lost. And again, I'm referring to the old days before synaptic was on the scene. Every package had to be installed manually.
My recommendation nowadays for non-techy is to stay the hell away from linux. Until the 1337s realize they need to grow up, I'm not recommending anything else.