Comments on: 10+ Reasons Why Linux Ubuntu is Better than Windows

By: joekirby

joekirby — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 21:40:48 +0000

Linux cannot help in PC sales growth? for what we want to make it growth? Linux is good enaough… save a lot of money. People should then find the other business rather than supporting microsoft. I'm not hating bill gates or anybody involved… But in this centuary we are looking about choice with the economy downturn.

Yeah it's true not many software supporting linux, but in the future this problem would fixed as many software engineer nowadays start developing software running on linux already.

Plus All open source software support both windows and linux… and most of open source software is the best software ever.

By: aintnothang

aintnothang — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 09:11:45 +0000

ubuntu actually works for me with my new computer but even windows 7 was always crashing and vista

By: Linuxgeek

Linuxgeek — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 07:46:30 +0000

Ive been using linux for over 14 years and would not use windows for anything its total crap

By: Linuxgeek

Linuxgeek — Thu, 28 Jan 2010 02:46:30 +0000

Ive been using linux for over 14 years and would not use windows for anything its total crap

By: joekirby

joekirby — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 06:29:57 +0000

Yeah ubuntu is free and fast because the technology used is different from windows.

Windows built under windows kernel
ubuntu built under unix kernel.... same as mac.

and it's not possible to got virus.

anyway ubuntu make your hardware last longer.

so if you dont have money to buy mac...just install ubuntu... not bad.

Any altenative real player in ubuntu?

Just use VLC player

go to terminal

and type this command

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install vlc vlc-plugin-esd

sudo apt-get install mozilla-plugin-vlc

good luck!

By: Ehtisham Haq

Ehtisham Haq — Wed, 27 Jan 2010 05:40:22 +0000

Ubuntu is good. I have started using it.Do you know any Real Player alternative for Ubuntu.

By: joey nutballio

joey nutballio — Sat, 23 Jan 2010 03:40:24 +0000

everyone talks a lot about ubuntu? ubuntu is fantastic but xubuntu is even better. no one seems to know about it. i know very little about computers so i just started burning linux OS's to cd's and installing them on a bunch of old computers. xubuntu is the best, followed by ubuntu and pclinuxos. puppylinux is also fabulous for reeeaaalllyyy old computers. xp pro service pack 3 is good too but not as secure as linux stuff. most of my computers are 6-7 years old with a half a gig of rdram.

By: umar

umar — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 22:56:08 +0000

yeah, It's true.. I'm a technical person… i'm using linux ubuntu so far, facing no problem, No virus….

By: sahandasanthamagalarachchi

sahandasanthamagalarachchi — Fri, 25 Dec 2009 19:17:44 +0000

I've been using Ubuntu in this month,it is very fast,I love Ubuntu so much.

By: Akshay Bist

Akshay Bist — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 10:41:09 +0000

Great blog Oli, factually correct & way better than this sorry-excuse-for-a-blog

By: Tuxie

Tuxie — Sun, 13 Dec 2009 00:59:19 +0000

Are you nuts? Looks like you don't even know the abcs' of Linux GUI environments like GNOME or KDE capable of…

By: Paul F.

Paul F. — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 15:12:05 +0000

Actually, Linux is the kernel, Ubuntu is the Operating System (built on Linux), and Canonical is the Company.

A map might look something like this:

Registry -> Windows -> Microsoft
Linux -> Ubuntu -> Canonical
Linux (!) -> OSX -> Macintosh

By: cheatman093

cheatman093 — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 09:59:12 +0000

I'm sorry but linux is the operating system and Ubuntu is the company. You can't really compare
Ubuntu linux to Microsoft Windows because the are very different things. Linux is the operating system not an extension to a company like Windows is to Microsoft. You could, however, compare Ubuntu linux with with Windows Vista. As for Karmic Koala, that would be like the release version for Vista.

By: EmpathyMan

EmpathyMan — Sat, 28 Nov 2009 16:19:59 +0000

I totally agree with you!

I have been using Ubuntu for 2 days and I must say I am surprised with the speed, compatibility of the OS. It's really easy to use, it looks better than XP and works great!

If you have a Windows computer I would recommend installing Ubuntu in dual boot, it's free open-source and fast! The installation process was extremely simple and it's really fast.

So, thumbs up for Ubuntu!

By: angelzofdeath182

angelzofdeath182 — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 02:41:31 +0000

In this case, linux is a company and ubuntu is the OS. So, that's why they call it linux ubuntu. For windows, it's different; windows is the same as ubuntu. Linux Ubuntu and Windows Vista aren't the same in this case. However, Linux Ubuntu and Microsoft Windows are; same can be said for Ubuntu Karmic Koala and Windows Vista. Makes sense now?

By: Akshay Bist

Akshay Bist — Mon, 26 Oct 2009 18:48:53 +0000

1. No viruses – not true! yeah granted that win32 executables can't run in Linux, but where does it say that a virus has to be a win32 executable file. Yeah, most viruses are, but that doesn't mean that Linux can't have viruses. Its less likely, but possible.
4. Free Software – not all software available for Linux is free or even open source for that matter, though most is free & open. If you're really big on free & open source software, then there is an option in Ubuntu which doesn't allow any non free software to install on your machine.
3. Better Learning – Ubuntu won't make you learn anything unless you want to learn yourself, well in most cases anyways. Unless you have driver issues & need to install from tarballs(tar.gz & the likes) you can use Ubuntu & never have to use the CLI. If you want or need your OS to force you to learn then you're better off using something like Arch Linux.

By: stampedfoolest

stampedfoolest — Mon, 28 Sep 2009 11:13:10 +0000

I had the same experience with Ubuntu, its too cool , you should try Kubuntu also , it has got more graphical stuff and my graphics card installation worked like a charm in it.

By: Conway Crunk

Conway Crunk — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 00:17:38 +0000

I have had a long interest in Linux simply because its entirely free and open source, and when I upgraded to Vista it gave me one too many headaches so I got a copy of Ubuntu and never looked back. Ubuntu definitely shatters all the myths about Linux being hard to learn and use, granted it takes a bit of learning but the curve is small. Granted Linux is not for everyone, the average desktop user has no reason to switch to Linux, but for tech savvy users I would definitely recommend Ubuntu over any other operating system out their.

By: sleepyseven

sleepyseven — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:04:02 +0000

Ubuntu blows away xp, put that down on your suvey.

By: sleepyseven

sleepyseven — Tue, 15 Sep 2009 09:02:18 +0000

Ubuntu is the best Linux operating system I have used bottom line. Linux is alive because of its huge supporting community constanatly evolving its existence.

I do not hate Bill Gates, or Microsoft. (*joel)
I am not a master Linux user and or programmer.

As for software compatibility, what do you need to get done and you can do it Ubuntu style. Games? You can run WINE and it will emulate the most popular GamesSoftware available to be used on your Linux operating system. It all works.
I do know computers and I know Linux, with the help of Ubuntu, Red Hat, and a few others Linux will be the new system. Its just BETTER.

I suppose there are always Users, and Creators. In linux you are either one or the other.