What makes Ubuntu so popular and on the rise

[OOzy Pal]

On 4/24/06, Adriano Varoli Piazza <moranar at gmail.com> wrote:
> On 4/24/06, OOzy Pal <oozypal at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Dears,
> >
> > I was surprised when people stared to recommend Ubuntu to me. I was like:
> >
> > "hmmmm, Ubuntu!!!!! what is Ubuntu???"
> >
> > Even though, I was using Mandrake (Mandriva) but I heard about SuSE,
> > Red Hat, Fedora, Slackware and Caledra.
> >
> > I have no intention behind this question so please don't misunderstand
> > me. It is just pure curiosity. Moreover, I am planning to switch from
> > Mandriva to Ubuntu and I would like to see the side the people are
> > seeing in Ubuntu which I am not.
>
> Honest question: if you don't see the nice side of Ubuntu, why are you
> planning on switching to it?
>
> Now, to answer. The reasons I left Mandriva for Ubuntu were the will
> to try something new, the desire to have a usable distro without
> having to configure all of it myself, and the feeling that the
> tradeoffs were bigger than the advantages when using Mandriva Cooker.
> I'll certainly try the next Mandriva release, but in the meantime
> Ubuntu gives me the latest and greatest with much less hassle.
>
> That said, some things aren't the same. Multimedia support by default
> is better in mandriva (mp3 support, anyone?) and gstreamer was then
> set to a sane default which included gstreamer-dvd to, you know,
> actually be able to watch dvds (yes, libdvdcss notwhitstanding) on
> gnome's default player: totem.
>
> Cheers!
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> Honest question: if you don't see the nice side of Ubuntu, why are you
> planning on switching to it?

The reason I am switching is that Mandriva is not stable. It crashes,
it hangs, etc. CUPS don't work ok. Even though the printer is
identified by Mandriva but it does not print.

Now, why I choose Ubuntu, the reason is that I like to start where the
people stop. I don't like to reinvent the wheel. So, most of the
people says Ubuntu is then I think it is.

OOzy

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OOzy