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5 Things I Love About Ubuntu
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Ubuntu has silently made its way to my desktop as the primary OS of choice. There are litterly hundreds of things that I adore about Ubuntu but heres the top five, in no order.
- Customization, You can make Ubuntu look how ever you want! You can choose between different colors for the windows, change visual effects, and even change the whole desktop from Gnome to KDE if you like. Nothing is off limits in Linux and its a nice thing.
- Every 6 months it gets better, There is nothing more I love than a new version of Ubuntu and in fact we get a new one every 6 months. The Ubuntu team seems to make strides forward with the new updates, unlike another OS company, and every upgrade is a welcomed addition. 8.04 is just around the corner and with all of the new Alpha versions coming out it seems this will be the best version of Ubuntu yet.
- The community, Chances are if you have a problem with Ubuntu somebody out there has had the same issue and has posted a fix. You can expect to get lost for days inside the Ubuntu forums learning all kinds of new things. If you have a problem and can’t kind it just sign up for the forum and ask the question and some nice Ubuntu/Linux user will try and help you out. Once you start to use Ubuntu you join a community of nice,helpful, and smart people who will guide you through Linux experience.
- Free software, After installing Ubuntu you should have all the software you need to do things for school, home, and work. Of course this is all free and is of the up most quality. Just think the Ubuntu system updates you can expect to receive new updates for the software regularly. If you need any new software you can find it in the Add/Remove Applications section, which leads me to my next point.
- The process of installing and uninstalling software, Ubuntu is years ahead of OS X and Windows with the way you can install and remove software because of its ease of use. All of the software you will ever need is in one place and to install all you need to do is a “check” next to a program and hit install, thats it! Its the same to uninstall a program expect you remove the check mark, simple enough?
So whats the things that you love most about Ubuntu?
4 Comments
Christoph
February 26th, 2008
at 12:09am
I couldnt have said that better myself man.. bravo!!!
The other thing i love so much about ubuntu is you can have all the eye candy of vista (better looking imo) and run it one a fraction of the system requirements!!! the pc im currently runnin on is :
**********************# lshw -short
H/W path Device Class Description
=======================================================
system VT8366-8235
/0 bus VT8366-8235
/0/0 memory 128KB BIOS
/0/4 processor AMD Athlon(tm)
/0/4/a memory 128KB L1 cache
/0/4/b memory 256KB L2 cache
/0/1d memory 512MB System Memory
/0/1d/0 memory DIMM [empty]
/0/1d/1 memory DIMM [empty]
/0/1d/2 memory 256MB DIMM
/0/1d/3 memory 256MB DIMM
/0/100 bridge VT8366/A/7 [Apollo KT266/A/333]
/0/100/1 bridge VT8366/A/7 [Apollo KT266/A/333 AGP]
/0/100/8 display NV17 [GeForce4 MX 440]
/0/100/10 bus VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller
/0/100/10.1 bus VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller
/0/100/10.2 bus VT82xxxxx UHCI USB 1.1 Controller
/0/100/10.3 bus USB 2.0
/0/100/11 bridge VT8235 ISA Bridge
/0/100/11.1 storage VT82C586A/B/VT82C686/A/B/VT823x/A/C
/0/100/11.1/0 ide0 bus IDE Channel 0
/0/100/11.1/0/0 /dev/hda disk 18GB ST320414A
/0/100/11.1/0/0/1 /dev/hda1 volume 17GB Linux filesystem partition
/0/100/11.1/0/0/2 /dev/hda2 volume 839MB Extended partition
/0/100/11.1/0/0/2/5 /dev/hda5 volume 839MB Linux swap / Solaris partition
/0/100/11.1/0/1 /dev/hdb disk HL-DT-ST RW/DVD GCC-4480B
/0/100/11.1/1 ide1 bus IDE Channel 1
/0/100/11.1/1/0 /dev/hdc disk 4924MB WDC AC35100L
/0/100/11.1/1/0/1 /dev/hdc1 volume 4918MB Linux filesystem partition
/0/100/11.5 multimedia VT8233/A/8235/8237 AC97 Audio Contro
/0/100/12 eth0 network VT6102 [Rhine-II]
as you can plainly see this is no powerhouse LOL but it runs compiz–fusion just fine all the while not even 1mb of the swap is used…
Anthony Kinyon
February 26th, 2008
at 3:47pm
I disagree strongly on the “ease of use” with adding and removing software thing. You can do the same in Windows relatively easily (although many apps do not clean up after themselves very neatly). And on OS X it’s even easier. Drag the app’s icon into the trash and it’s gone. How is Ubuntu Linux easier than that?
That being said, I do like Ubuntu and Linux in general. I run Ubuntu myself, actually, in addition to OS X and Windows XP. This isn’t an attack on Ubuntu or Linux, I’m just pointing out that the argument that it is better or easier on Ubuntu to install/remove software is just your personal opinion. It isn’t bad. I like it too. But OS X is just as good.
Matt Hartley
February 28th, 2008
at 12:49am
Anthony: Fair enough on the point on OS X, but here is something to consider regarding software installs.
Klik: Just toss this into a terminal…
wget klik.atekon.de/client/install -O -|sh
And from that point on, a bounty of software can be installed and removed in nearly the same fashion as the Mac.
Like those crazy Dmgs, there is nothing that is installed with the software. Most software installs well, but there is a little lag time during the process. It will hang on “running” for a second during a software install, but this is normal. 99.9% of the time everything works really well.
As for Windows like software installs, check out PCBSD.org
http://www.pcbsd.org/content/view/20/26/
Matt Hartley
February 28th, 2008
at 12:50am
Forgot the klik url:
klik.atekon.de/