But then they’ll polish (even gold-plate) that turd, and pass it around for everyone to worship.

Oh come on! It is easier to find your way with Ubuntu than on OSX!

Frankly compare to this Window 7 itself look like a gas production factory! No Offense!

It takes only five to 10 minutes to get familiar with the thingy. You need only to click on few buttons to find out where everything is.

I bet you that even someone not familiar with computer will become familiar with it within an hour.

The version 10 lucid is gorgeous and significantly faster than the previous version already pretty fast.

Try it without install from the DVD/ROM. The thingy is pretty fast even when running from the CD/DVD ROM.

If you install it on your HD it is totally zooming even on a slow system.

I installed the thing on an old Athlon 32 1ghz with 1gb of ram and a PATA HD 100GB.

Play music, play movies do anything really fast.

You really have to give a serious look at this.

No wonder Job is worry. This thing is free.

I keep trying Ubuntu every time a new version comes out, but the learning curve always overwhelms me. For the most part this entails getting hardware to work properly, the command line, and editing config files. Finding replacement software, which I’ll undoubtedly have to learn from scratch, is also a huge burden. For example I forced myself to use The Gimp for several months, but in the end I went back to what I knew best. Not only is finding something within ones own comfort level difficult, but the overall number of choices tend to be much more limited too. If one Windows program doesn’t do what you want or work right, simply try another from the pool.

Don’t get me wrong though, I love Ubuntu and everything open source. I just can’t visualize myself ever being completely free of Windows even if I did choose Linux as my preferred OS of choice. You know the old saying: if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. A decade or so ago, when I was far more of an enthusiastic nerd, I may have stuck it out just for fun. Learning is one of the few things in life I’m actually good at, so long as the subject is something I enjoy. These days I’m just happy if things work the way their supposed to without me having to troubleshoot every five minutes. It’s why I’m still using a ten year old OS on a PC I built five years ago. Well that and the fact money is so very very tight these days (Jon understands I’m sure).

Nowhere they say that the amount of installed software includes software by BSA members.

Why people would want to use “unlicensed software” while they have everything they need with open source?

You really should have a look at Ubuntu 10 Lucid.

http://www.ubuntu.com/getubuntu. You can test it without installation from a CD Rom.

OMG! This thing beat OSX! I am not kiding!