Canonical asks desktop users to *optional* "pay what you think Ubuntu is worth" - Polidicks

I'm using Ubuntu right now. I have Windows 7 dual booted, but I only use it if forced (netflix). I don't see any problem with this.

Ubuntu / Mint is pretty great. Stable enough, cutting-edge enough, and popular enough that virtually anything is easily googleable. I run Ubuntu with Cinnamon, and I don't know if I'll ever look back.

[QUOTE=J!NX;38012346]well you're telling people to ignore your posts via title so[/QUOTE] [img]http://i49.tinypic.com/jq5jip.png[/img] [QUOTE=laserguided;38013584]If you hold a differing opinion, well I'm sorry to say but I could care less..[/QUOTE] So why is it that we should care about your opinion but you shouldn't care about ours?

I put ubuntu on my friends laptop since I knew it was a free OS that could do all of the basic stuff one would ask of a 9 year old laptop, and to be honest I was very impressed with it. I was expecting some shoddy barely working OS, but it was polished as fuck and in my opinion, a billion times more visually appealing than windows to me, it was just a fresh thing to use and I would definitely have it on my main PC if it didn't have problems running most windows based programs and games and the like.

Only reason I'm not running Ubuntu is that I built my computer for gaming and the majority of my games barely run under Windows. Trying to run them on Linux? Yeah no.

Ubuntu has always felt more sluggish when compared to fedora as well as not officially supporting kick ass programs like the Pulse Audio Equalizer, which was immediately added to fedora's official respositories a year after its release which was originally made for ubuntu and then its support was dropped by the author and strangely ubuntu didn't support it either, even after all these years. Ubuntu did something really well which is an official installer for windows called wubi and it's probably one of the only reasons I install it sometimes. Ubuntu does do some things right but whenever I use it it just feels like shit. Even the user interfaces don't really seem to be designed as well as fedora's (and this also includes the terminal).

This is why Ubuntu has desktop environments to use. I switched from Unity to Cinnamon. And I'd pay too.

[QUOTE=Amiga OS;38017679]I don't get it, if you are going to install Ubuntu just to replace the WM. Wouldn't it be simpler to just install a far more lightweight distro with the WM you prefer already there.[/QUOTE] [QUOTE=Waffle cones.;38017618]Try Xubuntu. It's an official Ubuntu derivative that uses Xfce instead of Ubuntu's clunky Unity interface.[/QUOTE]

[QUOTE=ButtsexV3;38013449][B]gentoo > ubuntu[/B] Ubuntu was pretty great until around 2010 and it just started descending into a massive pile of shit from there[/QUOTE] am I on /g/ or what how can you even compare those two

[QUOTE=FlubberNugget;38018424]am I on /g/ or what how can you even compare those two[/QUOTE] Ignore him, he has a tendency to go on rambling like only RMS himself could do better.

And yes, for an alternative to Ubuntu I would definitely go with either Mint or Xubuntu, not fucking [I]gentoo[/I]

I'm going to put Ubuntu on my netbook because Windows runs slow as shit

[QUOTE=djjkxbox360;38018863]I'm going to put Ubuntu on my netbook because Windows runs slow as shit[/QUOTE] be sure to change the Desktop enviroment. Unity runs slow even on modern machines.