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Ubuntu 12.04 Review: This is the Distro you’re looking for.

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Re: Ubuntu 12.04 Review: This is the Distro you’re looking for.

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Post by cturner »

demetris wrote: post #20
stock_toaster wrote: post #2

> The short version: Ubuntu 12.04 is the best release they’ve ever had and > absolutely blows the upcoming releases of Windows and MacOS X out of the > water in just about every way that matters. The second half of that statement may be a touch hyperbolic.

It says more about the quality of the review than about the relative merits of the 3 systems. These things are simple: If Ubuntu were so much better, or just plain better, than other operating systems, more people would use it. Firefox is, and has been for a long time, much better than IE, and so people use it. OpenOffice/LibreOffice is not better than Microsoft Office, and so people don’t prefer it over Microsoft Of…

Firefox is an interesting example, because on little things it behaves differently in windows to linux. For example - double click the address bar in Windows - highlights a token. Do it in linux, highlights the whole link.

Re: Ubuntu 12.04 Review: This is the Distro you’re looking for.

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Post by Karunamon »

jamesu wrote: post #7

When i tried out the 12.04 beta on my HP Microserver, installation went smoothly. However when booting up the installed system, all i'd get is a blank screen. Turns out for some odd reason it doesn't set the textmode display correctly, so you need to add a cryptic line to the boot options to see anything. Upon doing this, i found it was throwing a fit at a degraded raid array on a disk i happened to have plugged in a…

You regularly boot with degraded RAID arrays plugged in? I'd want my system to drop everything on possibility of data loss - would seem to make sense.

Re: Ubuntu 12.04 Review: This is the Distro you’re looking for.

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Post by Karunamon »

dfc wrote: post #40
franciscoapinto wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Too hot gpu? If you have a ATI graphics chip on that machine, you can try one of the following: - Installing the proprietary drivers (fglrx). https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BinaryDriverHowto/ATI - Properly configuring power management for the libre ones. http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=1569512 Disclaimer: I'm not an ubuntu user (debian here)

No self respecting debian user encourages the use of non-free video drivers.

No self respecting user cares - they want want does the job in the most effective manner. Anything else is pointless, stallmanesque self flagellation.

Re: Ubuntu 12.04 Review: This is the Distro you’re looking for.

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Post by argarg »

Joeboy wrote: post #6

As a non-Unity user I honestly don't think I've noticed any difference whatsoever since upgrading to 12.04. Which is mostly a good thing - it was fine before and it's fine now.

If you're running it on a laptop I believe there's been a lot of work in the latest kernel in ubuntu 12.04 to help with the power management and battery life.

Re: Ubuntu 12.04 Review: This is the Distro you’re looking for.

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Post by chrisveto »

bho wrote: post #27
demetris wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It says more about the quality of the review than about the relative merits of the 3 systems. These things are simple: If Ubuntu were so much better, or just plain better, than other operating systems, more people would use it. Firefox is, and has been for a long time, much better than IE, and so people use it. OpenOffice/LibreOffice is not better than Microsoft Office, and so people don’t prefer it over Microsoft Of…

The cost of switching is a high barrier for many people. Changing from Windows to Ubuntu requires you to find equivalents for all of the software you need. Changing from your browser -> Firefox = most websites will still work, no additional effort on anyone. Changing from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice forces you to ensure all the documents open correctly and others can open yours correctly. It's not always so black…

I agree with batista, if OS has no quality software .. then why on earth would I use that OS? Also, til Ubuntu can't support .PSD files with GIMP natively, I will never .. ever use it. And no, I do not want to use Wine emulator or whatever the hell you gotta do to get stuff working under Ubuntu.

Re: Ubuntu 12.04 Review: This is the Distro you’re looking for.

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Post by TazeTSchnitzel »

chrisveto wrote: post #45
bho wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The cost of switching is a high barrier for many people. Changing from Windows to Ubuntu requires you to find equivalents for all of the software you need. Changing from your browser -> Firefox = most websites will still work, no additional effort on anyone. Changing from Microsoft Office to OpenOffice forces you to ensure all the documents open correctly and others can open yours correctly. It's not always so black…

I agree with batista, if OS has no quality software .. then why on earth would I use that OS? Also, til Ubuntu can't support .PSD files with GIMP natively, I will never .. ever use it. And no, I do not want to use Wine emulator or whatever the hell you gotta do to get stuff working under Ubuntu.

> I do not want to use Wine emulator or whatever the hell you gotta do to get stuff working under Ubuntu

Why don't you want to use it? Using Wine is as simple as double-clicking a Windows EXE and letting it install or run. It's no more difficult than using software on Windows (usually)

And sorry to nitpick, but WINE stands for "WINE Is Not an Emulator", because it isn't :)

Re: Ubuntu 12.04 Review: This is the Distro you’re looking for.

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Post by glesica »

pooriaazimi wrote: post #47

What's with Ubuntu's versioning? 8.04, 8.04.4, 10.04, 10.04.4, 11.04, 11.10, 12.04? I don't understand it. Anyone knows? http://releases.ubuntu.com/

.04 gets released in April (4th month) and .10 gets released in October (10th month)

* is then the last two digits of the year of release

So the version lets you know the year and month of release.

Edit: Ubuntu is on a 6 month regular release cycle, which is why they are all .04 and .10.

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Post by pimeys »

pooriaazimi wrote: post #47

What's with Ubuntu's versioning? 8.04, 8.04.4, 10.04, 10.04.4, 11.04, 11.10, 12.04? I don't understand it. Anyone knows? http://releases.ubuntu.com/

The first number is the release year (8 == 2008) and the second is the release month (04 == April, 10 == October).

I really don't know what the third number stands for. At least they're not using it anymore.

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