Longtime Linux users, avert your eyes, this ones is for the newbies like me. As someone who’s looking at getting on the Ubuntu bandwagon when Gutsy Gibbon comes out in a little over a week, I had to read Laptop magazine’s feature on what it was like for a longtime Windows user to trial Ubuntu on a Vista machine.
What it’s Like to Switch to Ubuntu [Laptop magazine]
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October 9, 2007 at 11:51 PM
I ditched ubuntu today. 2 months tryout. Removing it was the easiest part – but even then I had to learn about grub.
Report PermalinkLook honestly it sorta works OK. But really open office works just as well on windows and so does firefox and thunderbird. But then I can’t have dreamweaver, photoshop, etc – I have to fight and struggle to get mpgs, avis, dvds etc to run, -it took me hours to work out how to have two monitors on my nvidia card and even then I couldn’t get one of them to hold the right resolution and I had to learn a new language just to do that.
Do all the programs have to have bad/weird names, I like the software updating – but it updates everything ALL the TIME!
It just got so I never chose ubuntu in grub.
Oh well I tried!