Ubuntu 7 (feisty)

[Aenslead]

I'm an average user.

I use document, spread-sheet and presentation creation programs, I chat a lot by MSN, listen to music and browse a lot.

I've tested Windows VISTA through and through (I have all the TechNET courses passed and most WebCASTS taken) and have used it in more than a couple machines, including my laptop with i915 chipset which cannot run Aero.

Out of sheer curiosity, I installed Ubuntu linux, since I've read so many things about it, so I personally decided to give it a try after failed experiments with Mandrake and other distros.

Anyways, I SWITCHED. Its amazing how little resources it uses compared to windows... I was able to enable transparencies, shadows and animated windows with Ubuntu with no need for new hardware whatsoever... finding programs is incredibly easy using the "sudo apt-get" command, and I can't say I miss Windows AT ALL.

I just wish there were codecs or apps to read/do Office 2007, which my company uses. THEN I would migrate my personal workstation to Ubuntu as well.

In short, I'm VERY impressed, and this distro has become my new OS for personal systems. Its free, its easy, and its great... all my hardware was detected IMMEDIATELY, unlike with Windows VISTA, its been stable, fast, and reliable.

Before this week, I was 100% Windows. Not so anymore.

KUDOS to Ubuntu developers. Just a bit more and this will be a TRUE windows alternative for non-experienced users.

Just wanted to share my experience with you guys and recommend this software.

 

[Fox5]

OpenOffice supports many office formats, though at best it'll only do read-only for the new office 2007 formats. Still, you could save in .doc on office 2007.
It's possible wine (or one of the other emulation suites) may be able to run office 2007. If not, there's virtualization to actually run windows just for office 2007 within linux.

 

[bersl2]

Originally posted by: Fox5
OpenOffice supports many office formats, though at best it'll only do read-only for the new office 2007 formats. Still, you could save in .doc on office 2007.
It's possible wine (or one of the other emulation suites) may be able to run office 2007. If not, there's virtualization to actually run windows just for office 2007 within linux.

A company called CodeWeavers puts out a nice product called CrossOver, which enhances the Wine codebase just like with Cedega, except for productivity software instead of games.

 

[WhatTheSchmidt]

but will it run everything windows does? :*(

 

[Alone]

Originally posted by: WhatTheSchmidt
but will it run everything windows does? :*(

There's an alternative for almost anything worth using.

 

[DarkThinker]

Originally posted by: Alone

Originally posted by: WhatTheSchmidt
but will it run everything windows does? :*(

There's an alternative for almost anything worth using.

You can say that again.

WhatTheSchmidt, a more efficient of way of asking, would be listing your computing applications that you usually need to use on Windows, and we would try our best in pointing you in the right direction in terms of either alternatives or emulation methods.

 

[Aenslead]

I've pretty much found everything I need to work in Ubuntu. Don't need anything else but document creation, msn and internet, music player and media player.

That is... I'm not a gammer, at all!

Cheers.

 

[ciproxr]

ur lucky ur hardware is supported. I have to throw in my old sb live cause my on board audio sounded horrible. i think the onboard audio was better than the sblive in windows but i guess im stuck with it if im going to dual boot with ubuntu