Can you give us some examples of what Ubuntu does better for you than Windows?
Kenley Neufeld
· 7 months ago
Since I do most of my work in a web-browser or a word-processor, my application needs are not overly sophisticated. What is important is speed of the machine.
Aside from being free, Ubuntu can easily operate in 10GB of hard drive space (though have mine set to around 20GB total) and it doesn't need much RAM either. My 2005 Dell laptop with WinXP was becoming slower and slower, making it unbearable to work with even after a fresh install. By running Ubuntu, I should get several more years out of the system.
Ubuntu has some built-in networking tools that are not standard in Windows (such as secure telnet, terminal services, etc.). For a linux-based platform, it is very user friendly but with a strong backend. In general Ubuntu is more Mac-like than Windows, with the same sophistication under the hood that the MacOS has now.
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Aside from being free, Ubuntu can easily operate in 10GB of hard drive space (though have mine set to around 20GB total) and it doesn't need much RAM either. My 2005 Dell laptop with WinXP was becoming slower and slower, making it unbearable to work with even after a fresh install. By running Ubuntu, I should get several more years out of the system.
Ubuntu has some built-in networking tools that are not standard in Windows (such as secure telnet, terminal services, etc.). For a linux-based platform, it is very user friendly but with a strong backend. In general Ubuntu is more Mac-like than Windows, with the same sophistication under the hood that the MacOS has now.
Did I mention that is fast?