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To Ubuntu or not to Ubuntu; that is the question.
DavidA:
I'm considering taking the plunge and moving to Linux. My XP is playing up a bit and MS no longer supports it.
So, I understand that some of you guys use Linux. To install it on a machine is it really as simple as downloading the system onto a dvd or data stick and letting it install itself on the chosen machine ?
How do I get back onto the web ?
All advice appreciated.
Dave.
Stilldrillin:
Hi Dave.
I know nowt about how these things work...........
New laptop, few years ago. My son set me up on Linux Ubuntu, cos he thought it was wonderful. At the time.
I hated it, as it wouldn't talk to PBucket or Utube properly. Various other sites just didn't work properly either.
He swapped me back to XP. I've been happy, until now!
I'm awaiting, "something happening". Then, he says he will clean it out, and install different Windows.
David D
mattinker:
Six years ago my 12 year old MacG3 was no longer operational. Using a relatively old free PC, I installed Ubuntu, never looked back. It does everything I want it too, photobucket no problems, youtube never had any trouble. That PC died recently, I've built myself another PC, installed Xubuntu, everything fine and dandy, with the exception of making videos which is not as easy as on windows, but it is free, and open source.
Microshaft has been creating obsalescence for years, when I ran my first PC, I hooked up my eleven (at the time) year old umax scanner which it recognised straight away, there were no pilots for it on either Mac or PC.
I'm very happy with Xubuntu, regards, Matthew
awemawson:
I got stung buying a supposedly genuine copy of Win7 that I needed for a machine I was setting up in the workshop - it turned out to be an unregisterable forgery.I'd bought it months earlier so could do nowt about it. Not being prepared to shell out twice I downloaded the free LINUX Mint17. Went like a dream, loaded easily and recognized all my peripherals that WIN7 said were no longer supported. Not really got fully into it yet as I've been distracted by other things, but as a LINUX skeptic I've been impressed.
DavidA:
Thanks for the replies so far. I also got stung with windows Vista. Loaded it, spent one and a half hours downloading the updates and installing them. Then it wouldn't accept the key that came with it. So it is that machine that may get the Linux.
My XP keeps suddenly dropping out of MadModder back to the desktop. Usually in the middle of a doubleboost video. (it also does this on another site) and at the moment I can't find my XP disc to re-install.
Keep the advice coming.
Dave
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