Ubuntu...yay, Windows...booo
For quite some time I've been courting the OpenSoftware idea, I just didn't know where to start or how to go about it. I'm definitely not a big fan of Windows or Microsoft, I think somewhere along the line they just got too greedy and evil plus Windows is not even that great.
For the last couple of years I've been hearing a lot of buzz about Ubuntu, a free, open software, Linux based operative system. So, I went ahead and downloaded the installation cd.
I burnt the image cd, popped it on the cd rom and restarted my computer. I've learned there are many different ways to go about it. I can install it right away but that will get rid of windows (not that I care) if I don't have a disk partition, I could also do a disk partition and have both installed and boot whichever I want but it's kind of a hassle. I can also run it from the cd (LiveCD) and use it as normal just to test it out without installing it and when I'm done I just need to restart my computer and get the cd out. So that's what I did, what can I say? Ubuntu ROCKS!
I must confess I haven't used Windows Vista enough to give an honest opinion about it but I haven't heard/read anything good about it either. To the point that Microsoft tried to stop supporting Windows XP and they couldn't because Vista wasn't really that good. Or the fact that when buying a Dell you can choose which operating system to have installed on your computer: XP or Vista (Ubuntu it's also an option).
Basically pretty much any major application available for Windows is also available for Linux (Ubuntu) and just like OS X (At least what I've heard) Ubuntu is faster, lighter, safer, virus-free, spyware-free, crash-free, freeze-free, and it makes better use of computer resources, the best part: It's FREE!
So my question is: How come most of the world is still using Windows?
Cool Fact: Did you know that 389 (77.8%) of the world's Top 500 Supercomputers run on Linux?