biguns
May 27th, 2005, 09:22 AM
I triple boot XP, Gentoo and now Ubuntu (or should I say Kbuntu, I just installed KDE).
I am going to lose XP and maybe even Gentoo...why, because with Ubuntu I am utterly amazed.
I have always despised distro fanboys. Endlessly pledging undying loyalty to what amounts to be a a bunch of binary 0s and 1s. I never thought that I would even voice my support for anything other than world peace. And yet here I am. I googled Ubuntu to see what it was all about. What stood out the most was the phrase “It just works”. That was difficult for me to believe about any *nix OS. I went to the web site and trolled the forums and was impressed by how civil it was. I even filled out the form to get a free CD. Ha Ha, yeah, like that would ever happen, I even ordered 10 like they suggested just to spite them. A couple of weeks later, I get this package of CDs. I think to myself, “No #$%^&* way!” Since I had originally thought so bad about Ubuntu I decided the least I could do was give it a shot. I cleared some space and about an easy hour later it's completely installed. The easy install is not was surprised me, many distros have easy installs now. That fact that everything (and I mean EVERYTHING) worked out of the box simply blew me away. I was used to spending countless hours with my other *nix distros just to get anything to work. Even simple things took hours. Not with Ubuntu. Even the PS1 prompt was exactly the way I wanted it. I have enough skills to use any distro I want. For now, I will use Ubuntu, why, because I can spend more time DOING than CONFIGURING. If I want to configure something there is nothing stopping me, after all, this is Linux. But I don't have to...because everything--just works.
I am going to lose XP and maybe even Gentoo...why, because with Ubuntu I am utterly amazed.
I have always despised distro fanboys. Endlessly pledging undying loyalty to what amounts to be a a bunch of binary 0s and 1s. I never thought that I would even voice my support for anything other than world peace. And yet here I am. I googled Ubuntu to see what it was all about. What stood out the most was the phrase “It just works”. That was difficult for me to believe about any *nix OS. I went to the web site and trolled the forums and was impressed by how civil it was. I even filled out the form to get a free CD. Ha Ha, yeah, like that would ever happen, I even ordered 10 like they suggested just to spite them. A couple of weeks later, I get this package of CDs. I think to myself, “No #$%^&* way!” Since I had originally thought so bad about Ubuntu I decided the least I could do was give it a shot. I cleared some space and about an easy hour later it's completely installed. The easy install is not was surprised me, many distros have easy installs now. That fact that everything (and I mean EVERYTHING) worked out of the box simply blew me away. I was used to spending countless hours with my other *nix distros just to get anything to work. Even simple things took hours. Not with Ubuntu. Even the PS1 prompt was exactly the way I wanted it. I have enough skills to use any distro I want. For now, I will use Ubuntu, why, because I can spend more time DOING than CONFIGURING. If I want to configure something there is nothing stopping me, after all, this is Linux. But I don't have to...because everything--just works.