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Originally Posted by Starkler
... have ubuntu linux 7.04 on another few partitions.
... I have invested a LOT of time into ubuntu getting everything working, the desktop tweaked with compiz enhancements, finding apps to do all the things I do in windows, and not to mention the backflipping required to find, compile and install drivers for common hardware,..ie nvidia, nic etc.
IMO in general linux apps look and feel agricultural in comparison to the windows counterparts. The sound mixer is horrible, sound quality is bad, there is very poor webcam support and well.... it apparently makes a great server OS, but as a desktop replacement for windows it still has a long way to go.
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You might like to install an up to date version. A major new version of Ubuntu comes out each 6 months. So you could be on Ubuntu 7.10 (October 07) or 8.04 (April 08) now. Each of these has significant improvements over 7.04, as will any Linux distro as we continue into the future; generally far more so than any commercial product can hope to achieve. Upgrading the Ubuntu distro is simple and as with all open-source software, it remains free.
Plus Ubuntu and many linux distros can be set to semi-automatically update regularly, eg daily, all the software packages that you allow its package manager to control. In my case that has been 99.9% for the past several years.
As a cost-effective, efficient desktop replacement for Windows, I have found that several Linux-based distros surpassed Windows in most ways some time ago, at least for anything I have wanted to do.