Re: Impressions of Ubuntu 10.x
C David Rigby <[email protected]>
| Newsgroups | gmane.user-groups.linux.singapore |
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| Message-ID | <[email protected]> |
On Wednesday 14,July,2010 09:45 AM, Mark Philip wrote: > Hi all, > I would like to share my user experience with Ubuntu 10.x. Some > background: I'm an IT person, with extensive experience with Windows, > Red Hat and Mac platforms. In fact, I have been using a Mac for about 10 > years now. To me, nothing quite beats Mac OSX in terms of GUI > design/implementation and also the hardware is excellent. > > I'm a teacher and my workplace uses Windows XP as the standard operating > environment. So I use a Windows XP notebook at work. However, after > Ubuntu 10.x came out, I installed it on my work notebook and also my > personal netbook. > > So far, it's been outstanding. The User Interface has been really great, > and most hardware just works (although proprietary drivers for the WLAN > were needed to be set up). In fact, it's so good that I've stopped using > Windows XP (I still use it for intranet applications that support only > Windows). > > And OpenOffice has really improved too. It's far better than MS Office. > > I noted that Ubuntu borrowed a lot from Mac OSX in terms of menus and > configurations. Not a bad thing - it is really great to use. > > To sum up, I feel that Ubuntu is a worthy competitor to Windows on the > desktop space. I introduced Ubuntu to some of my students and 2 of them > have started using it full-time in lieu of Windows 7. They simply love > the speed, simplicity and functionality of Ubuntu. > > If you have PC hardware, Ubuntu is definitely recommended! > > Mark. > > _______________________________________________ > LUGS Mailing list - [email protected] > List FAQ: http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq > Info page: http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet > To unsubscribe send an empty email to: [email protected] Hello Mark, <shameless plug> We do have an Ubuntu users group here in Singapore. We've not been very active of late, but we are working to change that. Browse over to ubuntu.sg (which currently re-directs to our space on wiki.ubuntu.com) and link up with us. We'll have a table at the upcoming http://softwarefreedomday.sg. </shameless plug> Cheers David _______________________________________________ LUGS Mailing list - [email protected] List FAQ: http://wiki.lugs.org.sg/LugsMailingListFaq Info page: http://www.lugs.org.sg/mailman/listinfo/slugnet To unsubscribe send an empty email to: [email protected]