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Any Ubuntu Users here?
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I tried Ubuntu a few months back but I quickly gave up on Linux for two main reasons:
- Power management for portables is subpar, resulting in shorter battery life and (more importantly) heat issues. I did not manage to solve this issue even after doing some research.
- Fonts are not consistent and are ugly.
- Power management for portables is subpar, resulting in shorter battery life and (more importantly) heat issues. I did not manage to solve this issue even after doing some research.
- Fonts are not consistent and are ugly.
I don't know if all distros have the apt-get method of installing packages but I thought that it was a great feature.AWESOME!. Debian/Ubuntu is great. It always works so cleanly and it's so easy to install applications via the apt system.
I agree on the first issue - Power management on my MBP is rather poor, do in part because there's no way to change the GPU to the lower power 9400 GPU.
Fonts in firefox - yes ugly, but I use KDE and found that I've not had any problems/complaints with font rendering in Konquorer or the open office.
I use UbuntuEEE with my EEE Pc 701. I'm not really a fan of the performance, but I suppose it has to do with the meager specs of the unit itself. I figured with 1GB of RAM it would run decently though...
I loaded it on my MBP with the intent to learn something new and then possibly replace my windows partition. I use windows for my vpn connection and work.
All in all, I've been very impressed with it, and I gave windows the heave hoe. The KDE interface is a tad buggy but overall I'm enjoying playing with the OS. Like OSX, I don't have to worry about viruses or the application/OS phoning home. The small foot print is refeshing as well. It runs very effeciently.
All in all, I've been very impressed with it, and I gave windows the heave hoe. The KDE interface is a tad buggy but overall I'm enjoying playing with the OS. Like OSX, I don't have to worry about viruses or the application/OS phoning home. The small foot print is refeshing as well. It runs very effeciently.
ubuntu is I think the best Linux distribution for general computing. It is easy to use and looks and acts a lot like Mac OS X. The only real problem with it and the reason I bought a Mac is that Linux can't run the Adobe suite, Aperture or Logic. The purpose of an OS is to run Applications. I do use Linux (redhat) nearly full time at work.
For those who say "I don't like Linux because..." well you can fix it. It's Open Source. The issues with heat/fans and fonts can all be fixed without much trouble.
I've been a Linux user from about 1993. Before that, other Unixes. I kind of missed the "Windows thing" it came and went while I was doing something else.
Agreed and that's one reason why I'll continue to use OSX. Even if they had an aperture competitor, I don't think I have the intestinal fortitude to convert my 75gig aperture library over to something else.
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I do want to say one thing, OSX has a certain finished quality and feel that does seem missing in Kubuntu (using KDE instead of Gnome). What I like about OSX is how many of apple products integrate so well with each other and the system. For instance, I can easily pull images from my aperture library into my iweb website, with a click of a button, my settings are automatically backed up to mobileme. While much of the functionality can be imitated, it would require a lot of work, where as for OSX, its working out of the box.
nonetheless, I found ubuntu to be a breath of fresh air and fun to place with. Also as I mentioned, Ubuntu has successfully replaced my need to use windows so much so, that I've deleted the windows bootcamp partition.
I bought a little EEE Pc, installed EeeBuntu on it. Overall, fairly nice, for general computing, surfing, email, music playing, and watching movies it was fine.
My problem was that not every functionality I needed in a comp was covered by apps in the synaptic package manager. I was able to find an app that would do what I needed, but installation was extremely complicated, eventually gave it up.
Linux has come a long ways, still has a little ways to go for average users to be comfortable with it.
My problem was that not every functionality I needed in a comp was covered by apps in the synaptic package manager. I was able to find an app that would do what I needed, but installation was extremely complicated, eventually gave it up.
Linux has come a long ways, still has a little ways to go for average users to be comfortable with it.