Sham said:
im not sold on it - current system works fine and shes ranting how great it is - parroting three of her mates - who are wannabe little hackers, reckon windows will be gone in 10years oh, and reciting every bit of praise online - propoganda much?
10 Years? Windows will be lucky to survive 5 years.
Anyway, your argument here isn't very smart. It's like you've been living in a prison your entire life, and you see it works fine, because you simply aren't aware of the big great world outside.
Sham said:
...mind you she knows nothing about operating systems and thinks linux is cool because of tux. i can just see her botched install crashing all our computers and leaving me with enough reboot work to last a lifetime...
Still beats apple users thinking mac comps are cool because they are for artsy people and whatnot.
Ubuntu is dead easy to install, easier than any OS Microsoft has ever made - this is a certainty.
Sham said:
so im after convincing pretty much - why'd you change?
..and i know you can run it along side and trial it - but i really dont see the point..
How can you possibly see the point if you have never tried it?
Personally for me, I like Ubuntu and linux in general because:
1. I don't have to waste time and effort pirating new firewall and anti-virus software every year, and scan my comp with spybot s&d, ad-aware and all that crap. Not to mention waste precious boot time, ram, and cpu seconds running it all the time.
Quite simply put, linux is not prone to any security problems, and you dont have to waste money or time/effort and resources of security software.
Not to mention I never have to worry about running any program I get off the net.
2. It's the convenience of having an operating system which always works, is very reliable, never breaks, stuff works perfectly (others may disagree here, but in my experience it has).
3. I love the linux way of installing and updating software. It is much easier and faster than the windows way, and the user does not need to waste time and effort searching for software, getting updates every now and again, etc. This is ridiculously convenient and time saving.
4. I don't have to worry about my files being in over 9000 places, and have to de-fragment my HD all the time. Also applies to clean comp, registry, etc, etc. Linux isn't prone to all the bullshit which slows down your comp overtime like every version of windows is.
5. The open source software which is linux only or newest versions are linux only, etc simply fucking rocks, and is the best software in the world, hands down.
Not to mention a lot of stuff is made to work on unix based systems (especially linux), and then ported to windows, meaning a lot of stuff works faster on linux. This is especially true when it comes to web development, of course this is specific to me.
6. COMPIZ FUSION FOR THE MOTHERFUCKING WIN. This shit is the best thing ever invented in the history of computing, and unless you run it, you must be tasting bawls every day or something, because your life sucks, and you simply don't know it yet.
7. Frequent versions - Ubuntu has a dev cycle which means you have a new version every 6 months, and they generally have quite a lot of new features and things.
8. More productive. In general, it's more product for work and study. This is hard to explain, but will become apparent if you use it enough.
There's probably over 9000 other reasons, but these come to mind first.
/rant
