noelsanidad
May 30th, 2006, 09:45 PM
Hi guys, officially I'm on my 2nd week on evaluating Ubuntu 5.10 and up to now it hasn't disappointed me yet, hopefully. The primary reason why I moved to Ubuntu is I got tired worrying about the next worm to hit my computer courtesy of WinXP and the MS product line. Second reason would be the constant bombardment of spywares and malwares that seems to be hopeless to cure and even manage, although on the reviews of major networks like that of ziff's it recommends this anti-spyware from sweden which is on top of the charts, it can not cure everything so you have to use a second or third anti-spyware. Third XP on my machine broke numerous times like missing dll this missing registry that. I'm a web designer and web developer by trade and although it is painful to leave the applications I've been using but I can not sacrifice my security and privacy on an OS that is inferior. XP was great in the beginning but when the bugs and security holes appeared I have to spend a large amount of money buying additional firewall application and hardware just to keep my box secure. But even the firewall application and hardware is not safe, overtime bugs are still being discovered and the good ole buffer overflow is still mistreated. So one day I decided, actually two weeks ago, this is too much! I'm going to have a heart attack just thinking about the dangers it might do (XP). I search the net and went to distrowatch, found Ubuntu on top of the charts, decided to download it, burned it, booted pc with it, finally ran on my PC. Ahuh! That was easy! That was fast, hey I got Open Office installed, wahhh it plays sound already? What the, it plays Divx too? OMG, band of brothers is playing and Major Winters is leading the charge! Now that's souped-up prime time OS baby! How many OSs can do that out of the box? Searched the net for a compatible WYSIWYG for web development, ahuh NVU! What about graphics editing software? Gimp 2.2 was there to comfort me. In my lifetime I haven't seen an OS like this that conformed to my professional work. Many thanks Ubuntu team, thank you very much for giving us Ubuntu!