Ubuntu or Windows 8?

[zackin5]

Windows 8 or 7 unless you're feeling really devoted to not running many programs/games you come across and having to get really technical to fix issues and install things.

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[Harm94]

Go with Windows 7 if you don't like change like me.

[Nexus]

I went with Ubuntu on two of my computers, and planned on a third except I couldn't get it to run at all.

From my experience, Ubuntu is an unpolished and buggy piece of crap.  It seems to break constantly, has some really awful user interface choices (when a fullscreen program crashes on you, good luck).  It seems to lag the entire system when it is trying to do anything big, instead of breaking it into smaller pieces.  And almost everything seems to count as one of those "big" processes.  It doesn't have decent touchpad support, and the list just goes on.  My whole experience with Ubuntu was an absolute mess and consisted of a ton of staring at a frozen Ubuntu while it did god knows what (quad core 2ghz and 8gb ram shouldn't be like that).

The worst part was that I had originally been sold on Ubuntu after reading about it online and had convinced two of my friends to try it out.  I feel awful for helping them install this stuff on their new computers.

It is not a question of whether or not Windows 8 is better than Ubuntu, the question is if Windows 8 is $200 better than Ubuntu, which I think can go either way.  The hassle that Ubuntu caused me probably warrants the extra cost, but I found that Ubuntu never even really behaves too consistently.  Different things were sometimes broken or not broken on each startup, so maybe it is worth a try to see if it works for you.  If it worked perfectly I would say to go with Ubuntu.

[Greek2me]

Nexus, Ubuntu is good under the surface. The problem with it is that it has a crappy new desktop environment, GNOME 3. You should check out Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Kubuntu, or some other alternate Ubuntu desktop, they seem to work much better.


I would recommend Windows 8 though, just based on reviews. (haven't tried it yet)

[SiliconCactus]

Ubuntu and Cinnamon is a combo that pretty much eliminates all problems above the surface.

[Port]

what about playing games on linux

Steam runs natively on a variety of GNU/Linux distributions with no need for emulation or proxying. At the moment of writing, 141 Steam games can be run natively right through Steam as well.

Nexus, Ubuntu is good under the surface. The problem with it is that it has a crappy new desktop environment, GNOME 3. You should check out Xubuntu, Lubuntu, Kubuntu, or some other alternate Ubuntu desktop, they seem to work much better.

Ubuntu doesn't use GNOME, it uses Unity.

[Igloos]

Why whenever I make these types of topics people don't take me seriously? SWEET FLYING JEBUS ON FRENCH TOAST


Seriously.

[Port]

Why whenever I make these types of topics people don't take me seriously? SWEET FLYIMG JEBUS ON FRENCH TOAST


Seriously.

because you know nothing about it and say ridiculously stupid things

[Igloos]

because you know nothing about it and say ridiculously stupid things

At least I don't plagiarize and copy and paste dumb crap about Ubuntu like you to prove how much you "know" about it.

[Port]

At least I don't plagiarize and copy and paste dumb crap about Ubuntu like you to prove how much you "know" about it.

Plagiarize? Yeah, no.
Dumb crap? Nope.
About Ubuntu? Not this one either.

[Maxwell23461]

At least I don't plagiarize and copy and paste dumb crap about Ubuntu like you to prove how much you "know" about it.

shut the forget up of course he knows about it

[Igloos]

Plagiarize? Yeah, no.
Dumb crap? Nope.
About Ubuntu? Not this one either.

Copying and pasting stuff from a legit source and then using it as your own IS plagiarizing. However, I remember a few posts after you were talking about Ubuntu and providing information about it on my other thread, you said it was from a other site.

[Igloos]

shut the forget up of course he knows about it

Why don't you?

[Maxwell23461]

Why don't you?

Because I don't use it much?

[Port]

Copying and pasting stuff from a legit source and then using it as your own IS plagiarizing.

I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as Linux, is in fact, GNU/Linux, or as I've recently taken to calling it, GNU plus Linux. Linux is not an operating system unto itself, but rather another free component of a fully functioning GNU system made useful by the GNU corelibs, shell utilities and vital system components comprising a full OS as defined by POSIX.

Many computer users run a modified version of the GNU system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of GNU which is widely used today is often called Linux, and many of its users are not aware that it is basically the GNU system, developed by the GNU Project.

There really is a Linux, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. Linux is the kernel: the program in the system that allocates the machine's resources to the other programs that you run. The kernel is an essential part of an operating system, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a complete operating system. Linux is normally used in combination with the GNU operating system: the whole system is basically GNU with Linux added, or GNU/Linux. All the so-called Linux distributions are really distributions of GNU/Linux.

port did you have that copied ready to go or did you type that up right there

https://www.google.com/search?q=i%27d+just+like+to+interject+for+a+moment

I don't see me using anything as my own.