Ubuntu

[I_Kicked_Kennedy]

Used Slackware a few years back, and I thought I'd give Ubuntu a go... Figured I got the HD space, and a jacked Phenom 6-core, why the fuck not?


Erm... I really like it.

Do I have to take medication, or is this ok?

[Thurnez Isa]

I've been on Ubuntu for a couple of years now. You gotta get used to it's limitations, but I like it. I especially like the fact it takes up almost none of my hard drive.

[I_Kicked_Kennedy]

Well, I've only run into a couple limitations, but I'm finding CTRL-ALT-T opens the door a bit for some fixy-uppy.

Also, I feel like it's faster than 7 (64bit)

Am I imagining that?

[Thurnez Isa]

It doesn't take as much memory as windows so it's faster at most things. And it doesn't bog down either so you don't have to constant reboot and such. Though I suggest when it updates you check it to only update weekly cause that will bog your computer down. Also for some reason video and video mixing is a bit boggy though audio works awesome (minus the headache that is getting midis working). Overall I love it despite some problems I get into.

[I_Kicked_Kennedy]

In regards to video, I found they had a proprietary FGLRX driver for my video card that gave it full 3d acceleration, and after installing it, my video issues disamappeared.

Pain in the freakin' arse to get it installed/configured correctly, I will admit.

[Faust]

I installed backtrack 5 to the mac which is a variant of Ubuntu, I haven't had a chance to play with it all that much but it is a powerful little suite.

[Kai]

I use Ubuntu exclusively. See no reason to go back to Windows.

[Faust]

I use Ubuntu exclusively. See no reason to go back to Windows.

Compatibility with lab equipment at work is the only reason we don't switch, there are no drivers for a lot of the stuff we use.

[Triple Zero]

Ubuntu is like angelic orgasms for your CPU. It makes your memory banks chocolate-mint flavoured. It cures Parkinson's and makes you type twice as fast. It's so carbon-neutral it makes your soda pop fizz in reverse. I installed Ubuntu on my cat and now it will only eat optical mice. It's smarter than a smartphone and has more iQ than an iPhone. I hacked my shoelaces and backdoored seventy-two virgins on Ubuntu. My elderly neighbour got Ubuntu and now he has open sores. But I patched him.

[Phox]

Ubuntu is like angelic orgasms for your CPU. It makes your memory banks chocolate-mint flavoured. It cures Parkinson's and makes you type twice as fast. It's so carbon-neutral it makes your soda pop fizz in reverse. I installed Ubuntu on my cat and now it will only eat optical mice. It's smarter than a smartphone and has more iQ than an iPhone. I hacked my shoelaces and backdoored seventy-two virgins on Ubuntu. My elderly neighbour got Ubuntu and now he has open sores. But I patched him.

Trip wins.

[trix]

Ew, personally I strongly dislike Ubuntu.  I liked the idea of it, and used it as an intro to linux for certain friends who saw my Gentoo install and wanted to try linux for themselves, but after much experimentation and playing with it, I find OpenSUSE to be far superior to a linux newbie.  Personally, for general purpose use to a medium skill level user, I think Debian is great.  And for any use whatsoever for a skilled user, or an intelligent person who really wants to learn a lot and has a month to spare to install an OS from scratch, Gentoo is the way to go.

But, as with anything, YMMV.

[Triple Zero]

Fuck that. I heard Gentoo once kicked a puppy. And there is no excuse for Opensuse, it was built by mind-controlled dwarf-slaves, and that's just fucking sick. Also, "Ubuntu" is an African word meaning "Debian without the sharp AIDS-infected edges".

[trix]

Fuck that. I heard Gentoo once kicked a puppy. And there is no excuse for Opensuse, it was built by mind-controlled dwarf-slaves, and that's just fucking sick. Also, "Ubuntu" is an African word meaning "Debian without the sharp AIDS-infected edges".

You mean, "Debian without root account or a decent community that doesn't induce suicide".  Ever hung out in an Ubuntu IRC room?  or (god forbid) tried to find something useful on the forums?  I'd rather make a pinata out of my nutsack.  And yeah, I know I can "sudo bash".  Not the same.

Gentoo kicks puppies.  That's true.  But only those that deserve it.  Gentoo is also the most brilliant OS I've ever encountered.  It's package manager, Portage, takes the best features of the BSD Ports system, combines it with linux repo standards, gives it the ability and emphasis on compiling from source for a super solid stable system, and is built from the bottom up by the user, meaning absolutely 0% bloat and 100% of exactly what you want in it.  Just, ya know, stick with Stable packages.  Adding the ~ on archetype to mix in any unstable packages is, well, like washing your cellphone in the washing machine.  It might still work once dried, but usually not worth taking the chance.

OpenSUSE has great hardware support, and in my experience, the best out-of-box just-works environment for a true linux newbie I've come across in any distro.

Debian, well, you want to be somewhere around mid-level at least to truly respect it, but with a bottomless pit of packages, a solid stable kernel, and a mostly sane system, it's my jack-of-all-trades OS when it comes to linux.

This place is evil, I can never get any homework done when entertainment is this easy to find.

[Triple Zero]

You mean, "Debian without root account or a decent community that doesn't induce suicide".  Ever hung out in an Ubuntu IRC room?  or (god forbid) tried to find something useful on the forums?  I'd rather make a pinata out of my nutsack.

Hey, they never proved it was a suicide. Sure enough it said on the box it only supported XP and Vista, but you know how it is. No matter how you look at it, installing Ubuntu on a dildo, mounting it and issuing "sudo apt-get install blender" just isn't supposed to do that.

[Shibboleet The Annihilator]

Anyone tried Archlinux?

It always seems to be brought up in Ubuntu discussions.