Ubuntu Popularity

[Emmer]

I have used Ubuntu the last three months after a heavy crash with Windows when 
after a power problem I lost motherboard, memory and hard drive and I just 
got money enough to buy motherboard and memory and I had to install 
everything with the old processor -I am still not sure if it is in good 
shape, (probably I will have to buy a new one later on)- and the old bad hard 
drive. 

Windows did not want to work. I got a lot of blue windows -I hate them- and 
pagination error messages and then a friend told me about Ubuntu 5.04. That 
was the end of the blue window messages and any other similar thing. 

Now I got a new hard drive and my PC is working perfectly with Ubuntu 5.10 and 
KDE 3.5.0. Still I need to learn a lot about linux and plugins and things 
like that but Ubuntu is really a great solution for me.  

Emmer.


On Friday 30 December 2005 13:11, James Diehl wrote:
> Good for you!
>  I just got involved with the discussion groups.  I just get tired of the
> program being knocked by people.  I read an email the other day, someone
> saying; "I enjoyed playing around with Ubuntu for a while!" He was
> comparing it to one of his little boys toy trucks!  When I mention that I
> run Ubuntu Linux, people act like; "What's that?" Why don't you get a real
> system like Windows?"  Or, if you want a real Linux, get RedHat or Suse! If
> more people would try Ubuntu and Kubuntu, they would like it!  I would like
> to try the Enterprise version.  My univ. just got a nice Enterprise version
> of some type of Linux for the criminal justice school.  Pretty fancy!
>
> Vram <lamsokvr at xprt.net> wrote: On Fri, 2005-12-30 at 12:02 +0800, 
Senectus . wrote:
> > > > What does everyone have against Debian?  Is it over their heads?
> > > > What's
> > >
> > > the deal?
> >
> > for me it was the community.
> > I had never met such a large pack of snobby. arrogant wankers.
> > Ubuntu is different, they at least are human to _everyone_.
>
> And I found it just the opposite...
>
> Friendly, knowledgeable people...
>
> Ubuntu would not be what it is without Debian!!!
>
> """My story and I am sticking with it."""
>
> Vram