What OS did you use before you found Ubuntu? When and how did you find Ubuntu?

[ashmew2]

WinBlows : 95,98,ME,XP,Vista
Red Hat , Mandriva , Fedora , Damn Small Linux and now im dual booting XP and Linux cuz of gaming addiction

[Condoulo]

I used Windows XP until about two years ago when I first learned about Linux from a friend. My friend gave me several distros to try including Ret Hat, Suse, and Slackware. I tried these and downloaded Knoppix also. I wasn't really satisfied with these distros mostly because most didn't work very well on a clean install. At that point my friend was trying out Ubuntu himself and told me about it. I put Ubuntu on an old IBM 390X laptop to try it out (there wasn't a live CD for Ubuntu then). I liked it so much I installed it on a separate hard drive on my desktop and dual booted. Another friend of mine told me that if I liked Gnome I should try KDE instead because it was easier to configure a wider variety of stuff, so I did and downloaded Kubuntu. Within the last year I have become attached to Xubuntu because of it's lightweight and minimalistic install and the fact it uses a lot of the applications I want.

Sounds like you've had experience with quite a range of distros.

[Condoulo]

Ha, main reason anybody here uses XP anymore, unless they need it for specific software at work.

[xSauronx]

Good Luck on choosing a distro. If it were my choice, I'd choose one that uses GNOME by default. I'm not a big fan of KDE myself.

i have plenty of time. im going to get the ubuntu and kubuntu live cds today and see what i like, and probably a couple of others to see how i like the look and feel of them

after looking into BSDs a bit more today ill skip it. support for linux is good, but not as thorough for the BSDs, though if i ever get a chance to setup a LAN ftp server or a firewall or some such id probably play with one.

[ssavelan]

XP Media Center edition, woo....

It was slowly grinding to a halt, and about a month ago I decided enough was enough (its a new laptop as well). I've been hearing good things about linux for the last couple of years on the net and I tried an ubuntu livecd about a year ago which impressed me, so I decided to set up a dual boot system. I was also suffering from pc gaming addiction which was beginning to affect my studies and two weeks in I decided to totally wipe xp as I realised I could do everything I needed on ubuntu. Now I am free of MS, and I can get down to my studies without getting distracted by pc games.

DO NOT EVER:

sudo apt-get install tremulous

Really... don't

[JanEnEm]

This poll suggests I traded a system in to use Ubuntu, but I didn't. I simply added a machine to run Ubuntu Server and use VMware Server to run a few Windows servers, just to fool around with them. In the mean time i also added 2 playgrounds for Ubuntu! I AM getting the taste for it.

[Condoulo]

i have plenty of time. im going to get the ubuntu and kubuntu live cds today and see what i like, and probably a couple of others to see how i like the look and feel of them

after looking into BSDs a bit more today ill skip it. support for linux is good, but not as thorough for the BSDs, though if i ever get a chance to setup a LAN ftp server or a firewall or some such id probably play with one.

Have fun with that. Only problem I have with Kubuntu vs. other KDE versions of Linux is Kubuntu doesn't come with my favorite software packages such as GIMP or Firefox. So thats why I stick to regular Ubuntu and installed KDE afterwards. But for some reason, I just happen to stick to GNOME.

[enopepsoo]

I started with DOS 5.something, then had the old windows 3.0 and 3.1 and 3.11 and 95 ad nauseum. Once I finished University I decided that when my computer broke ("ntoskernel.exe not found, or something similar) that I would not be going back. I tried a few distros, the best were Fedora and Knoppix, but between my n00bishness and some minor frustrations I kept trying new distros until Ubuntu.

I found the #Ubuntu channel and they sorted me out. I don't plan on going back.

I still use the old XP at work though. We don't plan on moving to vista any time soon, but we will eventually, unfortunately.

[Condoulo]

Wow.

[Joule]

Windows XP here... my good friend, Isa, is a nut for Ubuntu. She's always talking about the wonderful things she can do with it.

Finally, I got fed up with XP running like complete crap on my desktop machine, so I took my desktop to her place and asked her to help me get started. She showed me around how to do basic stuff, and how to find the help I need to get things done.

And I couldn't be happier with it. I run a network in a public high school, and I just talked to the principal and the programming teacher, and we are going to set up a number of computers here in the school as dual-boot machines running Feisty as well as XP. I have already helped a number of my students switch over, who were curious about Linux.