Why did you shift to ubuntu ?

[the9gamer]

]I'm doing a research concerning ubuntu and i would like to take a few minutes of your time to answer my questionnaire about your reasons for shifting to it.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/viewform?formkey=dE5talFRNXBGUThoOS13NnpERWZ5dkE6M Q


):P

Thank you for your participation.

[mips]

I completed your questionnaire but I have to say I found the questions very biased or slanted to what I suspect to be your desired outcome.

[tmaranets]

I completed the questionnaire you posted, but I found some questions stereotypical and pressing.

[keithpeter]

Hello the9gamer

I think you need to look at the way your questionnaire is written. You have a series of questions, but then you are asking us to score the extent to which we agree or disagree.

If you want to use the agree/disagree thing you should have statements not questions.

e.g your questionnaire has


because ubuntu is faster and more stable than other OS ? *

I'd re-write that as something like...


For each of the statements below, say if you agree or disagree

...

"Ubuntu is faster than other operating systems"

"Ubuntu is more stable than other operating systems"

...

Just trying to help here, hope I'm not being too critical...

[Old_Grey_Wolf]

I completed the questionnaire you posted, but I found some questions stereotypical and pressing.


...i have to say i found the questions very biased or slanted to what i suspect to be your desired outcome.

+1

I didn't answer the questionnaire. The reason, in addition to the above responses, was that 0 Beans and joined today made me suspicious of the intended use of the questionnaire. I would have expected a better description of the research being done.

[Bandit]

+1

I didn't answer the questionnaire. The reason, in addition to the above responses, was that 0 Beans and joined today made me suspicious of the intended use of the questionnaire. I would have expected a better description of the research being done.

Ditto ++


Although to answer the question still without the questioners I hate.
I AM LAZY...

I could build my own distro, clone it from debian, fix what quirks I find with debian, spend two weeks compiling and fighting dependency issues. Or just install Ubuntu and spend a few leisure hours tweaking the desktop that I would have done anyway.

[Bucky Ball]

What is the purpose of your research project? What will the results be used for?

[23dornot23d]

Its to do with sharing and being part of a community of honest down to Earth forward
thinking people ..... using a system that is less easy to destroy than any of the others.

And I have been through a few .....
( Arch is a better system - but it still is easier to break
than Ubuntu ..... and has some odd sound quirks ..... in recordmydesktop mode )

Speed
Freedom to choose what suits the individual
and the amount of useful available software at the press of a button are other
factors too .....

Virus free etc are a bonus ...... but the survey could have been written by a Windows
User ..... not that it matters ...... but the questions are based that way.

All that you can gather from a survey that asks questions like this ..... as a Windows
User of long gone ...... Virus ... never even crosses my mind ......
Stability and speed - walks all over Windows even 7
( which I quite like compared to the rest - other than the stupid restarts and unwanted advertising and pop ups )

Customizing too ..... but to an extent that has been lost on one of the systems ... VinDSL still does a good
job with it though .... and a few others .... but its not as easy now .

[F.G.]

sorry, i didn't answer your questionaire. i didn't feel like the questions were representative of why i really use ubuntu.

the main reasons why i do, i guess, are:
· i am required to for my job.
· linux file systems are not contiguous and therefore do not suffer from external fragmentation (and so are better for dodgy hard disks, this is actually why i first started using it full time)
. Ubuntu (in contrast to other distros) comes with loads of drivers.
· the variety of command line tools and configurability is extremely broad.
· i trust it.
· i can break it.
· i can fix it.

ps i should probably point out that i don't actually have ubuntu on any of my home computers (they have arch, crunchbang, archbang, and 'voyager'), though i do use it at work.

edit -> 'because it's more elegant,special' what does this question mean? there is nothing overtly elegant or special about Ubuntu (in fact it's main selling point is the "one size fit's all" design and "out of the box" compatibility).

[graabein]

I came from Windows XP and I've just installed the Internet so you can see why I chose GNU/Linux. This was on warty or nutty or hoary something. Still miss the wobbly windows and the spinning desktop cube. Ah...

[Simian Man]

Your "research" will be totally meaningless with this poorly designed poll.