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10 Things That Make Ubuntu The Best Alternative Operating System
While Google's Android and Apple's iOS have conquered the smart phone world, Microsoft Windows is still the reigning champion on the desktop. In recent years, Ubuntu Linux has become increasingly popular as a replacement for Windows. Ubuntu is an operating system which features a number of advantages that make it an appealing alternative for everyday users. Here are 10 reasons why Ubuntu beats Windows hands down. |
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Slight correction
Also the recommended system requirements of Ubuntu are 1gb. While it can run on less (and runs on less better than Windows does), there are many other systems out there that run much better on low system specs.
Oh and as far as system upgrades go from Ubuntu version to version, if UbuntuForums.org is any testament, upgrades rarely go seamless.
~Jeff Hoogland
There are many other systems that run much better on lower specs. Many of these other systems are linux distributions. I believe in the context of this article, Ubuntu is being used as an interchangeable term for linux.
As for system upgrades, personally, I haven't done a clean install of Ubuntu on my laptop since Dapper Drake (currently running Natty) and I can't remember having any issues upgrading (normally the issues come a week later after I fiddled with it :-)
I've done quite a few Ubuntu upgrades, and there have been problems more often than not. Same for Fedora and OpenBSD.
It would be great if in-place upgrades were more foolproof, but it's just not the case. For every person who says "I've never had a problem," there's another one who has had many.
There are just so many different hardware configurations and different choices of packages at play in any number of individual installations, the words "your mileage may vary" loom large.
Regarding the original article, I like Ubuntu well enough, but it hardly stands alone in every one of these attributes.
10 Things That Make Ubuntu The Best Alternative Operating Sy
You need to stop praising Ubuntu, to the hilts and start testing other Linux distributions then you will soon find out how good they are, Like Sabayon, Ultimate Pardus Linux Mint Debian Edition, Pinguy, Fusion and others. These put Ubuntu to shame
Quoting:It's terrible to say the leased about it,
That should LEAST not leased, they have two distinct meanings.
Quoting:... then you need to broaden your arisen on other ....
That should read HORIZON not arisen, the word you have used means to have stood up, or gotten out of bed, it is not commonly used and is considered archaic.
Also I think you mean HILT not hilts
Otherwise I agree with the sentiments expressed, Ubuntu is not the be all and end all of Linux based operating systems.
A Billionaire didn't make it happen.
If you'll permit me a tangent, is Ubuntu "ashamed" to call itself Linux? If you go to their Web page, on the main page you won't find the word "Linux" anywhere. I finally found it on an "About Ubuntu" page in the second or third paragraph. If you go to the openSUSE main page, Linux is there; same with Fedora and Debian (though Debian goes the GNU/Linux route).
Just wondering aloud . . . .
Yeah, I did a blog on this concerning Canonical a while back and the comments were, uh...cutting, to say the least. Having been a fanboi in the past, I understand the mentality.
I simply don't have time for it any more.
Someone I worked with back in 2005 took a job at Dell as an inside marketing guy. Seems that Canonical has met with a number of OEM's and have come to the conclusion that "Linux" is poison as a brand name.
And hkwint is right....Google has actively avoided using the term "Linux" in any of their marketing. Since advertising is close to a trillion dollar a year business, I'm guessing that they might have some substantial data to prove their point. I'm just sayin'.
Sure it chaps my backside, but even empirical evidence shows the brand name "Linux" as being actively avoided.
Suse and Mandriva have always, to my eye anyway, had a more polished, professional look. PCLInuxOS mirrors that glossy, attractive look as well. A software environment can be as uber-functional as possible, but heck even if it did your dishes for you, if it's dull and drab (***cough - GTK ***), it won't pass the initial "I'm-attracted-to-you-for-the-most-shallow-of-reasons test.
Suck as it does....we've proved that out over the years, again empirically.
And for the record, we simply change the Ubuntu wallpaper during install. Almost 70 percent of our users despise it. Purple...? Really?
Then again, Gnome claims to have used focus groups for G3.
Allegedly...
Ubuntu has many good points, not the least of which are kick-starting serious effort in making a really good desktop Linux, making inroads into the commercial computer market, genuinely welcoming new contributors, and inspiring hosts of respins and derivatives. Think back to the pre-Ubuntu days-- Debian releases were stretching out ever longer (over three years!), Mandriva is perennially in crisis, Red Hat is uninterested in the consumer market....hmmm, methinks I spy an article in this subject.
Personally, I'd like to see an article about this, tuxchick, especially if the article contains the contributions -- or lack thereof -- that Ubuntu/Canonical makes to kernel development and other facets of making Linux work.
It's all very subjective however. Another man's poison and all that.
On the one hand, they have been raising the commercial profile of Linux and pushing its acceptance. On the other they are looking to establish a unique brand.
Although they could hardly be called the shiniest example of the community partner, I actually think that a lot of the bad feeling aimed in their direction is a kind of envy. Linux is losing its geeky image and I think that upsets a lot of people.
Like discovering a cool indie band that nobody knows that makes it big and signs a contract. They lose their "cool".
Sheesh!
(the success of detractors in labelling the colour scheme "muddy" or simply "brown" just shows how effective "framing" is -- and that it can be inadvertently carried out by people against their own larger interests; even supporters were calling it, and apologizing for, it being brown)
But I personally found that "regular people" (non-"techies", that is) responded pretty positively to the Hardy Heron wallpaper and theme. Some even thought that it verged on "elegant" (not quite Mac, but far nicer than Windows).
I still install it on new 10.10 installations as I much prefer it to the purple mess that they use currently.
And despite what you say Bernard, it's browny orange. That's not good or bad, it just is. :D
(and Chocolate, Coffee, and Cinnamon, and Chestnut, and Mahogany...)
Philistine! ;-)
And I agree about the purple -- but I think the designers who actually decide these things call it "aubergine"...
Ubuntu 11.04 problem with install
However, There is a solution in hand.
On the Arron-Kelly Net blog, the problem was pointed on April 29, 2011. On the Ubuntu forum, the problem has been dealt with similarly.
Using the Live-CD, Ubuntu 11.04 will install properly.
"" start Arron-Kelly Net
My reading seems to indicate that this happens if you upgrade from Ubuntu 10.10 which itself had been upgraded from Ubuntu 10.04, and grub was never reinstalled.
I think it is completely ridiculous that this bug made it all the way to the Ubuntu 11.04 final release — leaving the system unbootable after an upgrade is a disaster.
"" end Arron-Kelly Net
glene77is
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