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 - WINDOWS?UBUNTU 7.10 SIMPLY IS THE REPLACEMENT FOR WINDOWS. IF YOU LIKE TO SPEND MONEY, LIKE VIRUSES, LIKE SPY-WARE, LIKE A BIG CORPORATION LOOKING OVER YOUR SHOULDER, LIKE USING HALF A DAY INSTALLING EVERYTHING THEN BY ALL MEANS GET WINDOWS. IF YOU DON'T WELCOME TO UBUNTU 7.10! I'M TYPING THIS REVIEW ON IT NOW. I RARELY TURN ON MY WINDOWS MACHINE ANY MORE... Rating: - UBUNTU: ONE OF THE BEST PRODUCTS IN THIS DECADEI've been a Ubuntu user for a few months now and decided to write a review to help others. Try Ubuntu to experience a better Operating System (I think not only better, but also best). I really got inspired by the Ubuntu Promise (No commercial intention), Ubuntu Philosophy of Software Freedom and community support. I'm impressed with the Ubuntu's simplicity / user-friendliness / power / security etc. Ubuntu comes with all the best open source / free software (Open Office, Firefox,etc.) and has a strong community and is growing super fast. Thanks to the great minds behind the Ubuntu, GNU/Linux, Open Office and the Open Source / Free Software Community. Rating: - Great operating system for laptopsI installed ubuntu 7.10 gutsy gibbon on a friends gateway laptop. he bought it used without an operating system. I've used ubuntu versions 6.06, 6.10 and 7.04 and 7.10 is far superior in wireless support. detected his centrino wireless with no problem. Detected and supported wpa and wep encription no sweat. The one thing about ubuntu is the partitioning tool. It easily partitions the hard drive for duel booting with windoze. I've never had a problem with partitioning a hard drive with windoze already installed with ubuntu's partitioning tool. All windoze did was perform a check scan on bootup the first time and thats it. A warning! If you don't know anything about computers and DON'T WANT TO LEARN don't bother buying this product! Windoze games won't work with this operating system. There is software you can purchase online like crossover that will allow you to run certain windoze games and products like word and internet explored and office, but if your computer's windoze 98/me/2000/xp has crapped the bed and you don't want to spend 100-200 dollars for a new disc for surfing the internet/email and word processing or your just sick of bill gates telling you what you can do with your computer, Then ubuntu is a great alternative. A final note, ubuntu can be downloaded for free but you will need a high speed internet connection and know how to burn an iso file to a disc, but for this price it's better to buy the disc since you can use this disc for every computer in your house. And use the ubuntu forums!!! almost any and every question related to getting processes to work like dvds is in the forums. Rating: - The way an operating system should be doneI'd been a long itme windows user and was looking for a change. I got tired to constantly downloading updates to buggy problems in Windows. I got tired of hearing about the latest security hole. I got tired of beta testing software that I paid for, and most of all I got tired of being told that M$'s vision is the only one worthy. So...I looked for a difference. I like the Mac, I liked the fact that it was UNIX based. I like OSX. But I can't justify the price for something that is pretty, no matter how well it works. Then I found SimplyMepis and Ubuntu. I tried SimplyMepis, dual booting it with Windows XP and it was good, but I wanted more. I downloaded and tried Ubuntu. Power, speed, flexibility and ultimate customization. No more worrying about spyware or virii. Quick and easy to use. Every piece of hardware I had just worked. The community is something to behold. Very hlepful people and no zealots. So as of 2 weeks ago, I reformatted my hard drive, installed Ubuntu and am completely M$ free and loving it! The best distro out there by far in my opinion! Rating: - It just works.I've been using Ubuntu since version 6.06, and I love it! Some of the more useful features include: 1) Synaptic Package Manager - A central location in which I can find and install/remove just about any software. Windows has nothing like this! 2) Automatic updates, for all installed software. Not just what came preinstalled with the operating system. 3) Hardware support - With the exception of certain ATI graphics cards (and that's ATI's fault for writing bad drivers), Ubuntu's hardware support is the best I've seen. You plug something in, it works, end of story. 4) Clean, well-designed, and infinitely customizable interface. My Ubuntu looks *exactly* how I want it to look.
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