I wouldn't say there's anything intrinsically "wrong" with Ubuntu
I would, they got rid of Unity Desktop.
Now days I prefer the elegance and simplicity of Arch Linux or Puppy.
Ah the Unity desktop. It has mixed view though back then. User experience is rather subjective. I find the present Ubuntu desktop quite similar in layout to the Unity style. Do you notice any difference in speed or performance?
@ Porteous:-
TBH, in all the years I've been a member here, I think you're the first one who's really asked about it.
You have to understand one thing. With few exceptions (and there's always exceptions, who mistake this place for the lair of long-term, experienced 'ubergeeks!'), most of our Linux users are not a particularly adventurous crew. For many of them, they've either managed to make the break with Windoze, or are wanting to.....and for them, that's a HUGE step. We try to help them as best we can, knowing that many still require a fair bit of hand-holding; Linux is, after all, sufficiently different under the hood that it's like an alien realm to most.
This is why Mint is high on the list, because it's simple to understand, easy to use, it LOOKS very like Windoze, and even Windoze refugees who've never tried anything else can in short order start to feel 'at home' with it. And because so many of our members either use it exclusively OR dual-boot with it, there's plenty of folks around who can step-in and help out with queries.
But we should never lose sight of the fact that an OS - any OS! - is merely a platform to enable us to run the software we want to use. Quite a number of self-styled Linux geeks often forget this, and become so completely consumed with the whole process of installing/uninstalling/re-installing one Linux distro after another that, for them, it becomes the whole reason for having a computer in the first place. And to me, that's a bit "sad".
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Myself, I'd run Windows almost since the beginning; after more than a quarter of a century with it, by the time EOL for XP rolled around I'd had more than enough. I still wanted to use my 'puters, but wanted a break with Redmond. I started off with Ubuntu because that's what everybody recommended; I was running 2 pretty elderly machines, but after less than a year Canonical decided to drop support for the graphics on my main rig. Freeze-ups became the order of the day, and Ubuntu became pretty much unusable for me; Unity's accelerated hardware requirements weren't helping, either.
An acquaintance on the Ubuntu Forums recommended I look at Puppy, so.....I did. I liked what I found - really liked! - and as it turned out, it was the first distro I'd ever found that would also run, OOTB, on my ancient Dell lappie, without having to jump through hoops to get the display behaving itself. I was very, very impressed with this, and with the exception of rare forays outside of Puppyland, it's been my "home from home" for several years now. The Puppy community have some amazingly talented coders amongst their ranks, and there is nothing - nothing at all - that they can't find a way of getting to work or run with Pup.
In short, I have no use for Windows. I don't NEED it in my life. And if I can help others to break those shackles, I will bend over backwards to do so.
Mike.
Certainly agree with you. The point of having an OS is to run software on it. Sometimes, one couldn't resist the temptation to hope around!
I still use Windows unfortunately. Some Linux distros provide limited support for Asian fonts, and the browsing experience certainly needs an uplift. Ubuntu and Mint can display them nicely though. I know Puppies have a plethora of tools already but if you use Windows programs on Puppies, do you use any emulator like Wine? Or perhaps you don't use Windows stuff at all these days?
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luckily for me I spent $500 on a repair and it was still within 20 days so they put mac back in. Make sure to tell them you installed REfind the windows and linux boot manager. I even deleted the fat partition and the os.
