Being that I had a laptop around that needed an OS, I figured I’d try out Ubuntu, the Debian-based Linux distribution, on a regular basis.
Boy do I love it! It seems to be speedier than the Fedora systems that I’m used to using. Ubuntu’s UI is Gnome-based and has been designed with simplicity in mind. There’s a KDE-based version of Ubuntu, too, if you’re a KDE person.
I’m also quite pleased with Ubuntu’s use of the apt package manager. I only started tolerating Red Hat RPMs with the use of yum, but yum has its own quirks and can be described as a hack to a hack.
My main beef with Debian was the difficulty of installing it. Ubuntu seems to polish that up considerably – it even runs on a live CD. Not only that, but you can install the complete OS from that one CD. Amazing.
If you’ve been meaning to check out Linux, you can’t go wrong by downloading Ubuntu. You might never go back!