I love Ubuntu……..2 months and Feisty Fawn hasn’t dissapointed so far
After a friend recommended Ubuntu Edgy Eft as THE linux os to use during winter of 06. I have been using Ubuntu ever since as my home operating system. Since the company I work for develops software for Windows users, I couldn’t switch to Ubuntu at work.
Edgy Eft kept growing on me day by day. I was happy with amount of applications for it and the support it had as well in the open source community.
After learning how to install ubuntu the hard way by mistakenly screwing up my windows boot loader and not able to repair and resolving it by formatting my hard drive. I decided to use 20gbs of external hard drive for Ubuntu and have the grub in the external harddrive and not interfere with my windows bootloader in my laptop’s internal hard drive.
After successfully familiarizing with the Operating System and hours of learning what software are good to install. I finally decided to make it my main OS at home.
The only downside was no Yahoo widgets or google search/gadgets.
In April, after surviving the long wait to get a decent server that is willing to let me upgrade Edgy eft to Feisty Fawn, it was the first time I have used Beryl as my desktop manager after failing to get it to work in Edgy eft.
Great job by the Ubuntu Community in listening to its users and improving the hardware compatibility.
So far, its been 2 months on since I have started using Feisty fawn and so far it hasn’t disappointed. It has alternatives to pretty much most of the applications users of Windows have, plus the bonus of using the web such as google docs, notebook, zoho, yoono etc that will help you in what you need to do.
I love Beryl, it really hangs Aero out to dry. I also like another piece of software called wallpapoz (“http://wallpapoz.akbarhome.com/”) it gives you the KDE feature of having different wallpapers for each workspace which you can’t do in gnome. Its simple to install and run. The developer deserves alot of praise for creating such a smooth and slick software.
Automatix2 (“http://www.getautomatix.com/”)is an excellent app to install. It is an alternative to Synaptic. It is a software that contains many open source software which the user can then download.
I also love the updates that are available for Ubuntu. There almost daily updates which indicates that there are people who care and that for open source can really take off.
Don’t get me wrong, it is not easy to switch from windows to Ubuntu, you will encounter some problems whether its teething problems or major ones, and the structure of Ubuntu or linux in general needs the user to get used to. Its a learning curve and it is deep for non tech people so its worth putting the effort.
You shall not be disappointed.
