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Editorial Reviews

Ubuntu gives users an operating system that is perfect for laptops and desktops and allows users to surf the web, read email, create documents and spreadsheets, edit images and much more. Take your old computer and give it a new life with Ubuntu. There's so much to like about Ubuntu, it's hard to know where to begin. I've now got two Linux machines that are purring along and doing exactly what they should without throwing me any curveballs. Getting Started Technical Support: 60 days of unlimited customer support.

Customer Reviews

I've been using various Linux disto's since 1997 (Slackware 3.8) and

Reviewed by That Was Cool., 2009-06-08

I've watched with interest at the O/S's development. I've also had a lot of frustration trying to get many of the functions to work especially multi-media.

After upgrading to Ubuntu 9.04 I think, I hope and I have my fingers crossed that Linux (Ubuntu) has finally crossed over to an O/S that almost anyone can install on there computer almost as easy as MicroSuck's Windoze O/S (anyone who has tried to install MSuck O/S knows it can be a real pain).

Every device I plugged in including a USB floppy drive, a Seagate external hard drive, two mice, and a HP all-in-one printer that is only a few months old were immediately detected and the modules loaded perfectly. The only thing that didn't come off perfectly was the graphics acceleration software I needed for my NVidea 8800 GT graphics card. I had an SLI set-up, but evidently the Xorg config file couldn't cope with the two cards and X11 kept crashing until I pulled one of them and then the graphics acceleration module that the Ubuntu developers put together worked perfectly.

The time it takes Ubuntu to start up makes MSuck O/S look like a snail. Same with the speed of opening programs 'cause there isn't all those so called extensions dragging down the system resources.

The only complaint I have now, and the only thing I can't do that I could with MSuck is watch instant movies on netflix.com, but this isn't Linux's (Ubuntu) fault. It's netflix.com and I let them know about it.

The circle is complete . . . Linux is ready for prime time.

Oh ya . . . the complaint about only one CD in this edition . . . Debian's complete iso collection is 4 4.8Gb DVD's. Ya can install Ubuntu in 20 minutes, then use the add/remove program utility to download any other program you want from the almost unlimited collection of FREE packages on their repositories, thousands of programs that MicroSuck would scam you hundreds of dollars for. Ubuntu also instantly reminds you of security updates.

Linux (Ubuntu) based on Unix which was designed specifically with security in mind makes all the Linux distro's extremely virus and malware resistant, and some computer technically savy users simply do not use a firewall, anti-virus or malware program. I don't recommend this but there are free solutions to this too like Avast! anti-virus, one of the most highly rated on the market, for free home use with Linux. And there are free firewalls too.

Look . . . if you are a newbie to computers you will have to ask someone to install and configure MicroSuck's Bigtime XP or Vista anyway. You might as well buy this O/S for $20 measly bucks and then ask someone to help you install it, AND then you don't have to get it from behind by purchasing Microsoft Office Professional 2007, and all their other sucky stuff for $365.99 (amazon.com price). Heck, OpenOffice, the equivalent of Microsoft Office Professional 2007 is FREE man. What are you waiting for.

I didn't give it five stars because it didn't detect my NVidia SLI graphics card set up, and I had to download some codecs to get my DVD video players to work (they couldn't include the codecs for some legal BS reason), and ya basically cannot play very many high end games on it (that's what I use computers for 90% of the time) unless ya use Wine which is still in the development stage and ya need a lot of work to get bleeding edge games to work.

Plagued with problems

Reviewed by Lawrence Russell, 2009-06-04

If you are not Linux savvy, you will regret Ubuntu. Network connection can be a headache if your ISP is not using ipV6. Seems like there is no fix. It will sometimes find your ethernet port and sometimes not. Very random. Also, you may have problems with Firefox crashing intermittently. I am going back to Suse. By the way, I have never heard of anyone having intermittent internet connects with Windows. But lots of crashes and freezes.

Ubuntu warning

Reviewed by J. A. Skerritt, 2009-05-01

This UNIVERSAL software DID NOT work with Macbook OS X Leopard. If THIS is what YOU have then the product may not work I TRIED EVERYTHING but nothing worked

i dunno?

Reviewed by COMPUTER GODDESS, 2009-04-25

I needed to replace my corrupted windows xp O/S, decided to use UBUNTU. sadly my cpu is under-RAMed so i couldn't install the new O/S. I ended up buying a new cpu rather than buying more RAM and a new hard drive. loaded UBUNTU and VISTA on my cpu both work well.

Great Product Wrong Section

Reviewed by Blaine Scroggs, 2009-04-06

Ubuntu Linux is an amazing OS, I have been using it for over a year as my only OS with no complaints.

That said, i find it insulting as an Ubuntu user that i was able to find Ubuntu under the section for Video Games. (ps: nothing against video games, I just really like Ubuntu and do not like it being referred to as a game.)

p.s. as there can be a learning curve just like with any operating system, it may actually be worth it to some people to purchase this from amazon because of their support service.