Why do you use Ubuntu and what do you use it for...

[Optimal Aurora]

I am wondering... Well background info first, I am deciding on what I can achieve with Ubuntu. I have installed it before for in the most recent installment Hoary Hedgehog and every single time, I use it for a month or so and decide to try something else. On my personal desktop I use it for that, but I do have some problems. So I was wondering what do you all use Ubuntu linux for specifically.

Thanks... And please don't discuss any other linux distro in this thread except for Ubuntu...

[sapo]

I use ubuntu for everything.. just uninstalled my windows some time ago

I use it as a server to test my php codes...

Surf the internet...

Play ut2k4

Watch my animes and xvid movies

Watch, rip and copy dvds...

and other things.. but i spend the most part of my time floodind forums like this one..

[pdk001]

im one of the anti-M$ and interested in linux world everythings
but i cant uninstall M$ because i have watching TV and playing a Starcraft game sometimes
they aint in the my machine yet

[Infernal]

i use ubuntu for a web, ftp, dns, ... server

[23meg]

i use Ubuntu for everything i can use it for. whenever i find a (near)-alternative to any windows app i have to use, i switch to it, and my must-have windows app list shortens by one item.

[NateC]

I've been Ubuntu only for the last two months, and still going I use it for everything, including gaming.

[thorN]

I've had a lot of success with Ubuntu on the desktop.
It's very versatile, there's plenty of places it will go:

• I use it for my home server, running Samba, Apache, FTP, SSH on a really old PC.
• I use it on my desktop PC, however I dual boot with pirated Windows XP so I can play games.
• I run it on an old laptop I got from eBay - openoffice flies (700 MHz, 512 MB) and I can watch DVDs too.
• It will run a desktop on really old PCs, because it'll run XCFE too.
• I've also used Ubuntu as a sort of media centre, since they had an old laptop. It's hooked up to a USB hard drive (full of music) and the net.

lol, not much you can't achieve with Ubuntu mate

[GarySaved]

I use Ubuntu for Surfing, and word-processing.
My Wife uses it for surfing, and clipart and such.
Our kids just play games on it.

[jonrkc]

I use Ubuntu (and the distro I used before switching in mid-May '05 to Ubuntu) for writing, spreadsheet use, some graphics (including digital photos), occasional web-space work via FTP, LOTS of email, and sometimes (rarely) games. Every day I get my sole news sources from the Web: I never watch TV or turn on the radio because the biased or inane "coverage" and the commercials disgust me.

Since the originator wishes us not to discuss other distros in this thread, I will only say, without naming the former, very popular one, that Ubuntu is noticeably faster, somehow SEEMS more stable, and is just a lot more fun to use: I've hardly left my computer chair since installing it. I had wanted to go to a Debian distro for over a year because of the Debian insistence on open-source. Ubuntu presents a nice compromise for those like me who feel not technically savvy enough to embrace pure Debian, yet who are told clearly by Ubuntu which packages are really open, which are licensed with some kind of added restriction, etc. The Ubuntu motto of "Linux for human beings" appeals to me, too. The organization's generous philosophy appeals to me. Even the brown background appeals to me greatly: Finally somebody had the courage to break away from blue!

Going to Ubuntu was almost like getting a new computer. And that's why I made the changeover official a couple of days ago.

[sailor]

I use it on my laptop because I heard it would work well with minimal configuration. I use it for general computer tasks.
On my Desktop I am using Fedora Core 3.