Why do you use Ubuntu

SiriusB said:
Blame the manufacturers, not the developers. Manufacturers spend lots of money making sure their stuff works in Windows. Most don't give a stuff about Linux and most drivers are usually home-made.
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it works in fedora!
 
I'm impressed at the almost relentless release schedule and how - unlike a lot of Linux distros - they're make a concerted effort to make it a viable OS for non-geeks on the desktop.

The cool 3D desktops help too; I've converted several people at work, and I work in team that is hardcore Wintel folk :D

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Just as a minor point, but hardware compatibility is governed by the kernel in use so is largely independent of the distro in question (although different distros provide kernels in binary format compiled with different options). I've probably been very fortunate but I haven't had many hardware problems that have been fixed by going to another distro of the same vintage.
 
MouseMat2004 said:
I see Ubuntu as a great start into Linux, something you can install and use straight away then maybe work your way up to more complex distros if you like.
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Or work your way down to when you get fed up faffing around to get things working and installed and just want to get some work done ;)
 
Dunno about other people, but I love the gnome desktop, it feels very lightweight (though it still bugs out on my laptop from time to time) and very stable... had plenty of programs (mostly wine apps, games etc) crash on me and never lost the operating system.

But then, this is my first distro, so I dunno ^^ maybe I am just naive and love the first thing that works...
 
I use ubuntu because it just works, i have used linux for a while, and whereas gentoo / debian are nice, i don't feel the need to configure / compile / recompile everything by hand.
 
MouseMat2004 said:
I see Ubuntu as a great start into Linux, something you can install and use straight away then maybe work your way up to more complex distros if you like.
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Hit. Nail. Head.

I'm a total and utter n00b when it comes to Linux but I had Ubuntu up and running in roughly half an hour last night. No obvious hardware problems so far, which I think is pretty cool for an OS that appears to be programmed by people that do it for the love of it rather than for profit.

I thought at one point it had failed to find a driver for my soundcard as I was trying to play some MP3s and couldn't get hear a thing. A quick nose around on the Ubuntu forums showed that I needed to install some additional codecs and all was well.

Got to say I'm impressed so far - runs smooth as silk on a fairly old machine (Athlon 2500 Barton) with a paltry (by today's standards anyway) 512MB of RAM. The only aspect of the actual installation that could do with being better explained is the partitioning process - the on-screen instructions didn't really make it clear from a beginner's point of view exactly what was going to happen and why.
 
MouseMat2004 said:
I see Ubuntu as a great start into Linux, something you can install and use straight away then maybe work your way up to more complex distros if you like.
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Doesn't work out of the box with geforce 8 gpus though. Sabayon Linux does :)
 
I use ubuntu because it works out of the box. I've spent hours dicking around getting slackware to run on my laptop, whereas throw ubuntu on and it's sorted, wireless was a bit of a pain until I installed an app called nm-applet which sorts it all out nicely. I dislike gnome, and as such am using fluxbox, other than that it seems like most other distributions, and apt is a good package manager.
 
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