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Farewell to Windows: The Ubuntu Option

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Picture this: you have just left Yongsan, having put down well over a million won for a new laptop: 15-inch screen, RAM out the wazoo and enough space on your hard drive to store every single K-Pop music video in existence. You turn it on, and despite the salesman’s assertions of “Yes, Englishee, yes!” Windows is not only in Korean, but suspiciously already activated and operating a “free” version of office. This is the “service” you get for your patronage of Kim’s Wide World of Computer Goodness in the back streets of Yongsan.

The majority of vendors in Korea are, of course, reputable, but you can’t deny the laissez-faire attitude so common here toward legitimate copies of software. All too often dodgy copies of Windows and programs like Microsoft Office are vectors for malicious programs that run in the background of your computer stealing information and making your machine run like maple syrup flowing downhill on a winter’s day.

Ubuntu (pronounced “oo-BOON-too”), on the other hand, has always been an alternative to this nightmare, but in the past it was tough for even confident computer users to set up. Picture marathon sessions googling answers on how to get the USB to work and inordinate amounts of time staring at a command line interface (do you remember DOS?).

But not anymore.




The Ubuntu Monopoly

Ubuntu is trying to run everyone else out of the business of Linux so they can be a Linux monopoly. Once that happens they will become like MS and start dictating how you will have to use Linux.

re: The Ubuntu Monopoly

poodles wrote:
Ubuntu is trying to run everyone else out of the business of Linux so they can be a Linux monopoly. Once that happens they will become like MS and start dictating how you will have to use Linux.

You don't really believe that, do you? At most, Ubuntu will appeal to Win converts, not the geeks that are keeping the 300+ distros out there now going. From what I've seen of the Win converts, Ubuntu can have 'em. (and I am one, lol) My preferred distro is still PCLinuxOS although I use Ubuntu on this system because I bought it pre-installed. My desktop is running PCLOS and my internet gateway machine is running IPCop.

Ubuntu has been good at marketing, like MS, and has brought linux to thousands who might not have tried it otherwise. I find it a very usable and stable system.

The Ubuntu basher idiocracy

Ubuntu is trying to run everyone else out of the business of Linux so they can be a Linux monopoly. Once that happens they will become like MS and start dictating how you will have to use Linux.

If you're going to take every opportunity you can to bash Ubuntu, it'd be nice if you 1) either had a valid point to make or 2) at least tried to be funny. Otherwise, it's just tiresome and lame. What's wrong, does the amount of attention Ubuntu gets hurt your fee-fees?

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