How important are these forums to Ubuntu?

[Turgon]

Without the ubuntuforums I would most likely still have used windows.

I vote critical!

[GQed76]

The fourms ARE Ubuntu

[jdong]

Absolutely critical. The community we have here is what distinguished Ubuntu from so many other distributions that are virtually identical on the technical aspect.

[isotonic]

i feel ashamed to have voted the "other" way now...<hangs head in shame>

btw, i would of made this vote non-public...not because i voted no without checking what the majority were voting, but the naysayers now can be identified...<puts on his bullet-proof vest and jumps for cover>

[CurlyChris]

I agree with everyone above!!

When I installed Hoary, these forums helped me to make the change from my previous distro pretty easily.

When I dist-upgraded to Breezy, these forums helped me to troubleshoot the hang during the upgrade and then to tweak it to my liking.

I upgraded to Dapper last night via the update-manager, and today have been loitering on these forums to find out how to get MPlayer working again, how to get Shutdown & Reboot buttons on the logout box, what my sources.list file should look like, and where to start with getting 3D acceleration up & running again.

These forums are an essential part of the Ubuntu experience.

(And they're my home page, too!! )

Chris

[Teroedni]

Critical

This is the best forums ever!! , nothing beats it

[ubuntu-geek]

i feel ashamed to have voted the "other" way now...<hangs head in shame>

btw, i would of made this vote non-public...not because i voted no without checking what the majority were voting, but the naysayers now can be identified...<puts on his bullet-proof vest and jumps for cover>

You voted how you felt. Thats what I want in this poll.

[Piggah]

Ubuntu forums are the backbone of the community. I knew Ubuntu had a community like I'd never seen before the first time I came here.

Without the forums, Ubuntu loses a lot of what it's all about.

I don't even know if I would continue to use Ubuntu without these forums. I probably would, but I wouldn't be as happy as I was.

[John.Michael.Kane]

Absolutely critical. The community we have here is what distinguished Ubuntu from so many other distributions that are virtually identical on the technical aspect.

I agree with jdong


ubuntu-geek If this forum was to shut down you might as well write ubuntu into the linux history books as there would be no real place to get help.

Just my thoughts..

[henriquemaia]

How important are these forums to Ubuntu?

When you access www.ubuntu.com looking for support, you have 2 options:

• Commercial
• Community

Under Community, which is free support, you have severall options, one of them is:

Web Forums

User that prefer a web-forum to a mailing list, especially for support related issues, can also use or search the Ubuntu Forums.




These forums are important enough to Ubuntu to be mentioned as a viable support for those who are looking for it.




As for me, they are critical. It's the place where I find the answers I come across on my computer. It makes Ubuntu very human.