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About LinkBacksIf you consider the billions of phones, and hundreds of millions of routers out there... much less other consumer goods (PVRs, TVs, etc).Originally Posted by Steve
If you consider the billions of phones, and hundreds of millions of routers out there... much less other consumer goods (PVRs, TVs, etc).
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I've always been Ubuntu curious but can't be bothered with it until I get a netbook. That isn't happening for a while.
EDIT. I've just had a thought. Does ubuntu have it's own version of something like windows easy transfer or can you just upgrade it every 6 months without issue?
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baius (01-11-2009)
Usually dist upgrades are fairly painless, the Update Manager will let you know if there's a new version out. You can also isolate your user files from the OS files by having a seperate /home partition, in case you want/need to wipe the OS and install for some very strange reason.
indeed there is a very easy GUI that takes you through this.EDIT. I've just had a thought. Does ubuntu have it's own version of something like windows easy transfer or can you just upgrade it every 6 months without issue?
Edit: sorry I misread. The GUI is to aid a transfer from another OS into ubuntu. Upgrading from one ubuntu version to another is painless.
It's also a bit immature and silly to say x is better than y in some respects.
I have just bought windows 7 for my desktop and am happy to have done so, so in that respect I'm as much of a microsoft user / fan as anyone, yet I also use ubuntu in both desktop and nbr guises. They are free and have their own advantages, so why not?
And if for arguments sake ubuntu 9.10 wasn't overall as good as windows 7 in some regard, is the user losing out? Not really, as long as they know what they are getting in to in the first place since all it cost was some time and effort.
Surely the sort of people that post on hexus, in contrast to the general public, would like to give something like this a go if it costs them nothing?
- Another poster, from another forum.I'm commenting on an internet forum. Your facts hold no sway over me.
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My office PC made it from 5.10 to 6.06 to 7.04 to 7.10 to 8.04 to 8.10 to 9.04, before the hard disk died on me
What are you talking about??
"In a perfect world... spammers would get caught, go to jail, and share a cell with many men who have enlarged their penises, taken Viagra and are looking for a new relationship."
True, but a lot of those are using other UNIX variants too (VxWorks for example). I'd want to see some figures before a declared a decisive victory, but on initial consideration there's a compelling reason to suggest as much.
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I agree. I'd like to see some solid numbers too. But I doubt they exist. There's no shortage of companies that will use Linux and not even provide a GPL note.
Currently using 9.04, as it's kinder to my hardware (minus ATi drivers!) than the Windows alternative. Thus far the experience has been reasonably "user friendly". Any issues have been easily resolved with a simple google, but I think I'll wait a couple of months for bugs to be ironed out, before updating to 9.10.
It'll be interesting to see how Ubuntu does once the Google Chrome OS is released next year.
I wish they would get a move on with releasing some proper ATI drivers myself!!
The 'Windows Rules' and 'Linux is rubbish' stuff. That is silly.What are you talking about??
- Another poster, from another forum.I'm commenting on an internet forum. Your facts hold no sway over me.
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Sennheiser RS160 wireless headphones. Creative Gigaworks T40 SII. My wife. My Hexus Trust
Agreed, I mean it's not like Windows doesn't have its little problems is it? Both have their pluses and minuses and it's meaningless to just come out with one is better without justifying yourself.
Who is "they" though?
There are basically two drivers - FGLRX which is a closed-source driver from ATI, and radeon, which is an Open-Source driver from assorted community developers.
FGLRX performance is pretty good these days (almost as good as NVIDIA), but has a few features missing (e.g. no Avivo HD), and more importantly, support for most cards was removed recently (i.e. FGLRX in Karmic only supports 2000-series or above)
radeon is very dependable and much more stable than FGLRX, but misses even more features (e.g. no hardware accelerated decoding of anything), and performance isn't great for 3D. radeon is the driver used for pre-2000-series cards
What I mean is the support for ati is nowhere near as good as that for nvidia ATM.
Might make more sense if you quote what you were responding to
"In a perfect world... spammers would get caught, go to jail, and share a cell with many men who have enlarged their penises, taken Viagra and are looking for a new relationship."
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