So, I’ve been tempted to start fresh with ubuntu over my XP Media Center OS. This will be installed on a $2k laptop, so I’m a bit ansy about the switch. But, I remembered I’m rockin 2x100gig internal hard drives, so I’ll get rid of all the por…, errr, music on the second drive and have the option to boot Windows or Ubuntu.
I saw 2 or 3 threads on people installing in, but little in the way of feedback. I’m fine with Winblows. I get the updates; it hasn’t crashed or caused me any problems. There’s a small handful of apps I actually use, aside from firefox, I occasionally jump on the torrent bandwagon, and limewire for any quick fixes. So, that’s all I’d really want.
Has anyone installed and used this for a while? What could sway my decision the most is performance/system utilization. If XP ran better than Ubuntu on a 1ghz machine, I’m sure XP would use up less recourses on my machine, thus I’ll stick with it.
If your worried about system resources you might want to try Xubuntu. Same thing as Ubuntu but with a different window manager (XFCE4 vs Gnome). Like boardjnky said, ubuntuforums.org is definitely the best place to ask questions.
You can run the whole os off the cd and don’t have to worry about repartitioning the drive or anything.
If you like it then install, but deffinitely play with it first.
Its nice for alot of things, but you might find getting hardware to work with it will be tough, and if your a gamer, then getting your games to work will be impossible in most cases.
But if you just use a computer for certain tasks, then go ahead.
I liked ubuntu, although I couldnt keep it as a primary OS as it doesnt support alot of software I use on a daily basis. Great OS though for a school/internet/buisness/general machine
With his 1ghz machine GNOME or KDE will be fine… just extra stuff like beryl or compiz don’t bother
Correct
7.04 has done a really incredible job with hardware compatibility… I haven’t noticed a problem with my machine or any other I have installed this on… being that its a laptop, i would assume its going to use common hardware, so it should be fine… and for the older machine everything should work perfect too…
Game, yes… they are a pain in the ass to get working… Dual boot if you are a hardcore gamer
well i havent had windows installed on this machine in over a year, but i can say that my machine was never FAST with windows.
btw, my computer is a Pentium4m 2.4ghz with 512mb ram. Right now i am running feisty fawn fresh install with beryl setup with transparencies and wobbly windows and all and i am not noticing ANY lag. things are very snappy, and very cool looking for the minimal amount of tweaking that ive done
but seriously, u will need to pop a “sudo” in front of that. most ppl dont log in as root. so type(without quotes) “sudo rm -rf/*”