Ubuntu is cool, too bad I need so many Windows apps. I dont want to use wine. It's just asking for problems.

Haven't tried Ubuntu yet, but I'll surely try it someday...
Will it run on the Pentium II-366?
I have an old unused laptop, good enough for experiments :)

I have an ubuntu VM and have been learning all I can about it, installing apps, fucking around with the terminal and what not.

Shit looks very sexy and its hella stable even with a bunch of cute-ware enabled (visual effects) - I have found replacements for almost all of the software I need, except SEO shit.

This is what I am planning to do.... Get a decent laptop (quad core with at least 4gb of ram) put ubuntu as the host OS and run xp as a guest, that way I could give xp 2gb of memory and half of the CPU to run whatever program I need to run there.. that should be enough to get those few windows-exclusive programs working in a virtual instance while I enjoy the stability of the penguin box :)

VirtualBox is good for running Windows on a Linux host. As long as you're okay with running a binary-only version (it's still freeware) you can get a version that works with USB devices from virtualbox.org.

FWIW, Fedora 13 was the first desktop operating system I've ever used where my bluetooth headphones worked out of the box without any configuration on my part. I plugged in the usb bluetooth device turned on the headset and clicked scan for devices. This is between Ubuntu, Mandrake, Fedora, OS X, Windows XP, and Windows Vista.

You could also try running Linux Mint...I liked Ubuntu and used it for work but I recently installed Linux Mint and I have to say that I absolutely love it...it's everything Ubuntu is and more.

If you want a distro that won't hold your hand and would like to learn more about linux in general you could try out Arch Linux which is great. With Arch Linux you can completely customize your system and only install the applications YOU want.

I also like OpenBSD for use as a web server, it's a *bsd that is really into security.

You won't necessarily have to run Wine. In fact it's best that you try not to and instead use native applications. Ubuntu is a good Distribution to start learning Linux as is Mint. However keep in mind that there are many other choices out there and when you get more experienced with Linux you may find them more to your liking.

You'll find that there is a bit to learn and that it won't be completely effortless but if you stick with it things become much easier over time. http://ubuntuforums.org is the best place to go for help with Ubuntu or to read about it.

I did it for my mom's computer, worked fine.

ubuntu is great , based on debian ....so must be great :pimp

Tomud

Barry-xlovecam, thanks :thumbsup

Old thread but still relevant, Ubuntu is one of the best linux distro around :thumbsup

Edit: 50 penguins!

Awesome thread :)

I love Linux, but I hate using Wine... Things just don't work well in wine for me. Lately I have gone more over to blogs and do not use dreamweaver and PS that much, so I might go 100% over to Linux. But.... I have done that before and gone back to dual .... :)

Was inspired by this thread :) Just backed up whatever I needed and have done a clean install on my laptop. Currently updating and preparing to "customize" it. Just LOVE the speed I get, even on my 1,5 years "old" LT :)

old thread but still interesting , since last post moved over to centos for server and ubuntu at home, still dual booting though, cant 100% make the change to linux, dunno windows is still a bit more shiny and linuxwine doesnt work with everthing.

Just reformatted my ubuntu partition to try the newest version of mint, and so far this is even better than the vanilla ubuntu

Did a clean install of 10.04 and everything is great, except Firefox that was a bit slow. Chrome is very good in Ubuntu, imo.

I doubt they're going to respond. This thread is a few years old.

Me too, after this thread I figured I'd try out the newest Mint version and I absolutely love it.

I tried Mint and Ubuntu, but preferred Mepis. It just felt better and the MepisLovers forum is extremely friendly and helpful.
I am loving the distro choices we now have.