Thank you, so far...

[jermza]

I dual-booted for a few months, while checking to see if Ubuntu is for me. At the end of December, I almost bought a Mac but, instead, bought a more powerful box and installed Ubuntu on it, and nothing else.

The learning curve has been steep, especially since I'm no techie. I am a freelance illustrator as my day job and, being creative, a Mac-like system and interface appeals to me.

Ubuntu is very clean, fast, and has managed to cater for my professional needs. Gimp is underrated but does lack some features that really should be there (while Photoshop could also get some of Gimp's features).

I really love attention to detail, which is where Apple wins most of the time. Ubuntu's attention to detail is close to Snow Leopard's, but could do with some more refining here and there, especially where the bundled apps are concerned. The integration is awesome. Despite the techies and purists moaning about Ubuntu's "commercialisation", that very thing won me over (and will win over millions more, as it progresses, I'm sure).

I changed to Ubuntu because everything is free, safe, fast, and equally capable.

Thank you very much to everyone who has been so helpful. (The IRC channel has been great too.)

This post serves to balance my rants and moans (which, I'm sure, will pop up sooner or later). :p

[grahammechanical]

Thank you for your post. It was encouraging to me. I am not a developer. Just a user. I am disappointed when someone threatens to return to Windows (as some do) because they are having problems. It seems to me that some have problems because they do not put forth the effort to learn. I wonder if they would delete the OS if they had paid a lot of money for it. I think that it is important that we show appreciation.

By the way, the bundled apps are the responsibility of other developers than the ones working on Ubuntu. I guess that their efforts go into the program and not into the look or feel or the detail as you call it. Perhaps they need people such as youreself, an illustrator, to assist them.

Regards.

[WorfSOM]

Good to have you here.:)

[Smart Viking]

You did the right thing about not buying a Mac OS X machine, with that you can never really be free as a computer user, not with Windows either.