Question by : What people and users think about the Ubuntu Linux?
is regarded a successful system or not? Does this system become popular, is gaining round or is a loser? Do you know anything about its creator? is he going to challenge Windows or other well established platforms? In general what is the future of the Ubuntu Linux? is a user-friendly? Thank you.
Best answer:
Answer by TaintedJ
it’s pretty popular, but it’s starting to make foolish mistakes, like there was a controversy with them versus gnome, and also with this new banshee player they added in. There are lots of other complaints from the debian guys.
The largest threat against windows is windows, they just suck.
It’s pretty user friendly, you still have to read a few manuals to get some specific software working, but for any standard application it works out of the box.
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I like tainted Js answer and yes they are making a big mistake going away from the Gnome Desktop Environment. I have tried the so called new KDE and absolutely hate the way it does things and not allowing you to do those things and the difficulty of trying to figure it out. If you say Linux in general and not a specific distribution, it has many possibilities and advantages. It is gaining popularity gradually as people try it out and stick with it for awhile. It’s not really a challenge to Windows because they are two different operating systems that do things totally different from each other. They both have their pros and cons and their hard core followers. Linux is more user friendly than it ever has been, and what really turns people away is choosing to try or use a version that doesn’t fit their needs or understand how to do things. People tend to try to install software the way you would do using windows, download the file and install. Linux has a software management program that does all this for the user with no hassels. I dual boot Windows and Linux and have the best of both systems, but find I use Linux 90% of the time and not Windows. I hate looking for hardware drivers, fixing virus and malware issues, re-installing and spending about six hours getting everything back on the computer including all the updates and security fixes. In three years time, I have over 8,000 invested in Windows hardware, software and equipment like printers , scanners and cameras. I haven’t spend anything for Linux except my time to down load it, burn it to a cd and installing it. Will it even become a main line Operating system for home computer users, not likely. That is kind of sad, but it is not polluted with thousands of third party software. But then again, Linux can not even compete with MAC and the software they create for their own operating system, based from UNIX and, closely associated with the hardware they install.
The Ubuntu Project
http://www.ubuntu.com/project
About Ubuntu
http://www.canonical.com/about-ubuntu
About Canonical
http://www.canonical.com/about-canonical
Overall a Linux based platform can perform most of the tasks equally as well as a propietary platform using the likes of Ubuntu and its derivative distros. However Linux does have its limitations with some applications and in particular gaming. For example I retain a dedicated Windows partition to run specific applications
http://apcmag.com/how_to_dual_boot_windows_xp_and_linux_xp_installed_first.htm
Installing Ubuntu as a dual-boot with Windows without partitioning
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Wubi
Download Ubuntu Desktop Edition
http://www.ubuntu.com/desktop/get-ubuntu/download
You download the ISO. image of Ubuntu 10.10 then you need to create a Bootable LiveCD for installation
https://help.ubuntu.com/community/BurningIsoHowto
Ubuntu 10.10 (Maverick Meerkat) User Guide
http://ubuntuguide.org/wiki/Ubuntu:Maverick
I thoroughly recommend Linux Mint 9 LTS Main Edition which is built upon Ubuntu 10.04 LTS its easy to install and easy to use plus it comes with much of the software you are likely to need preinstalled
Linux Mint 9 LTS has a similar installer called mint4win (mint4win works the same as the Ubuntu Windows installer so the instructions outlined above are almost identical)
Linux Mint 9 LTS Download
http://www.linuxmint.com/edition.php?id=52
Linux Mint 9 LTS User Guide
http://www.linuxmint.com/rel_isadora.php
Linux Mint 9 LTS and Ubuntu 10.10 can also be run straight from the LiveCD from Boot without touching your Hard Drive
LUg.