How Popular Is Ubuntu In Your Part Of The World?

[Efrain Valles]

HEY just a question? how popular is ubuntu in your city conutry?

How I found UBUNTU... a student of mine came to my class and gave me an ORIGINAL LIVE CD AND INSTALL CD Pack of Hoary


in my city (Maracaibo, Venezuela) I'm beginnig to see a lot of people talking about it. there are some naysayers among linux users. but I am suprised at the amount of WINDOWS USERS who seem to know and are interested in UBUNTU... my country is small technologically speaking... we are RULED by microsoft b y default. it is so ruled by microsoft that the local university I go to is sponsored by microsoft in some way. they hold shared proyect called CAMPUS AGREEMENT. so IT IS interensting to see people from my university looking around and finding different things... a lot of people found UBUNTU... I am also an English As A foreign Language Teacher and at the school I teach a tstudent aproached me with a SHIPIT CD of UBUNTU... IMAGINE MY FACE...

\\:D/ UBUNTU IS EVERYWHERE... \\:D/



EFRAIN VALLES

[bulldogzerofive]

Not very.

I was in a linux class and all the rage there was SuSE. The teacher kind of looked down on Ubuntu. I have tried SuSE, and Mandrake, but I find Kubuntu to clearly be the best for what I need.

I think that many "old-school" Linux users have become so accustomed to being proud of being a member of a an elite minority that when something comes along that is popular, like ubuntu has become, they instinctively look down their noses at it.

I convinced the guy across the hall from me here at work to try Ubuntu, but he gave up because he could not figure out how to get multimedia working, even after I showed him the threads on the wiki. Typical windows double standard: he was willing to track down divx for windows but not add a repository and install win32codecs.

The fact that I am in Germany probably contributes to SuSE's popularity.

[earobinson]

I know of 7 ish fellow canadians on the forums + 2 of my housemates!

[public_void]

Not too sure, but Ubuntu seems to be getting support at my uni. More people are installing it as people have reccomended it as an easy install. I think it has started after someone left some Install/Live CD's around. But its more advance computer users taking the leap.

[Kimm]

I dont know about Ubuntu, but Linux is pretty popular.

I was litterly thrilled when I saw a laptop in the mittle of the city running Gentoo, I guess it was currently installing it since it was in terminal mode, and what gave gentoo off was the text "www.gentoo.org" that I managed to get a peek of. (This was not in a store window, it was a person walking around with a laptop) We have wireless high-speed internet covering the whole city so I supose for someone with a slow connection, that is a suitable place to be.)

I'm also starting to get to work on one of my friends, he seems very possitive about Open Source software, I just got him to install OpenOffice with the argument that it is free (not that to him MS Office is "free" to) and that it has a much, MUCH better formula editor then MS Office. I also got him to install The GIMP.
I only need to get qRO (Quality Ragnarok Online) to work on Linux, and he will make the switch (with me as coach), then, they will all fall as bricks, MOAHAHAHA xD

[ember]

Hmm ... my impression was that Ubuntu is fairly popular in Germany, at least I met several people at university who used it. Also I converted a friend, a long time SuSE user (as I have been before, too) to Ubuntu with Ubuntu Warty.
And when Dapper Drake is out, my mother's computer will run it, too - actually she was very excited on the idea of having Linux.

[BSDFreak]

In Sweden Slackware is king of the Linux distros.

[prizrak]

I use it so it must be the best thing since sliced bread ;)
No idea really it is #1 on distro watch.

[Vlammetje]

I've not come across any Ubuntu people irl so far, but I've noticed a few Dutchies on the forums., although still few and far between.... but it may still come.

[dage]

I found Ubuntu in my university (ULB) when i don't wanna study anymore (I gave up one course that day :d) so I went to the new computers' room (the old use red hat) and I found Ubuntu.

[awakatanka]

The local computer shop had some ubuntu cd they give away for free to costumers, but when i asked if they also sold pc's with ubuntu installed on it they said they didn''t do that because the problems they expected with support for it.

[RaiSuli]

I don't know anyone personally who uses Ubuntu (except online, of course). Most Linux people I meet use SuSe, one uses Debian, the rest are all Windows users.

[greenway]

I've not come across any Ubuntu people irl so far, but I've noticed a few Dutchies on the forums., although still few and far between.... but it may still come.

Wat de boer niet kent, dat vreet ie niet!

[benplaut]

There are about 10 ubuntu users on the Big Island... maybe more who don't come to LUG meetings

[Efrain Valles]

WEll I am taking the arduous task of evangelizing .... sharing the Ubuntu spirit and actually installing it on some of my friend's PC's... I wanna make sure they get it right... (the install) ... I had some problems when I installed... but I have learned so much with the info here and the wiki...

I'm going to get a tShirt made... it will read...


God Created the Universe
Then he developed UBUNTU.
ask me why!

Efrain Valles

[Arktis]

Here in OR, people have no idea what Ubuntu is. Nobody I have talked to about it anyways... and the instant you mention that it's a Linux distro, they suddenly lose interest.

[awakatanka]

Wat de boer niet kent, dat vreet ie niet!
Nice place you live in never seen it in holland ;).

But in Grun in the cold north i have seen some people using it, but it would be better if some computershops sold pc's with a distro on it. Just use a theme with much eyecandy and some cool appz and people will ask what is that on there demo pc's :D