So far, Ubuntu is sexy, responsive, and clean; everything I love in both women and operating systems. Where XP used to go berserk every time I opened my old notebook, Ubuntu is, so far, amazingly agile on my machine. Admittedly, I am comparing a windows machine with years of bloat on it (though it was constantly checked with anti-virus and anit-adware programs) to a brand-new linux OS installation, I can never remember this machine acting so quickly- it was a bargain purchase 5 years ago.
The downside is an environment with so much potential power under the hood that simple tasks can become insane if I stray from the beaten path, or if I don't know the right path to follow. Case in point, I spent quite a bit of my afternoon trying to install SETI at home, only to discover that I had installed the non-GUI (graphic user interface, you know, windows and such) program that could only be run through the terminal. I finally found the idiot-proof program and was helping to discover extra-terrestrial intelligence by the time I left campus.
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Well thats sexy! I love the title! I miss you David. I wish I had the courage to do that to my PC that is upstairs, but I think we are going to sell it to some Bosnian instead. How is it working with a system where you have to focus so much on the terminal and not a lot of GUI?
I've only dealt with the terminal twice while installing some programs. There's been so much work done in the past few years to make it very user friendly. It's really not bad. If I didn't have a mac, I would use it primarily.
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