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---I decided to give it a try. Bought Edgy off Ebay and did a duel install with Windows giving Ubuntu about 70% of my hard drive. What a difference so far! Went on the Ubuntu site and within 20 minutes I had my HP laser working perfectly (even though the linux printer site says it only works sometimes)and I can now play movies..DVD's and even Windows Mplayer!---
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Why buy the disc, if you can download it (unless you have older slower dialup connection)?
Well, I guess it's not that expensive. Oh and it's
dual boot not
duel boot (I keep seeing that over and over again, hurts my eye
heh)
There are some fancy scripts for Ubuntu, graphical ones too, that can grab many "commonly asked things" for you like a lot of codecs etc. if you are unable to find them and don't want to waste time. That's one way if you're wondering why something doesn't work; but keep in mind that usually they include packages that are non-open source or restricted, so if you can, stick to the open ones, supporting the open source community rather than closed source patent guys. Just an advice.
Ubuntu is indeed a nice system, it's both stable and offers all the under-hood-stuff that computer-and-Unix-oriented people often ask for, but in addition is easy to use and includes a lot of nice stuff -- and more easily available. I haven't seen any other distribution offer all the packages so easily, including codecs and such. There are of course some drawbacks, but I guess pretty much any distribution has them; not everything is correctly translated to other languages than english, or at all, sometimes getting a program into your programs menu takes some work (so far only two or three such programs have come across) etc. Nothing big, thankfully.
Hope you enjoy it, and if you don't, try to sort things out first, then get mad
Ubuntu can be pretty easily updated once a new version of it comes out, using apt package manager, but here I must say I'd rather suggest you have a separate /home partition so that your personal data is "safe", and would instead of apt-updating simply overwrite your system with the new installer. Clean is better, though it works trough apt too; you just might have to do some minor fixes after the update, if using apt.
Couldn't get my HP 1018 laser to run or get any movies to play (DVD or online)..kept telling me I needed to download the codecs.. which I tried downloading but couldn't install. As a newbee to Linux this was quite frustrating. After reading the positive reviews on Ubuntu I decided to give it a try. Bought Edgy off Ebay and did a duel install with Windows giving Ubuntu about 70% of my hard drive. What a difference so far!
Went on the Ubuntu site and within 20 minutes I had my HP laser working perfectly (even though the linux printer site says it only works sometimes)and I can now play movies..DVD's and even Windows Mplayer! Touch wood, I haven't had any issues so far but I haven't really got all the way into the system and what it has to offer yet. So far I am impressed. Love your site by the way!
