The last time I tried and willingly installed Ubuntu on my machine was (maybe) a year ago. I’ve always wanted to stick to Ubuntu because of its being open-source and the huge community that supports it. But my college life then really required me to stick my ass on Windows. Plus when the latest Windows 7 was released, we students got free authentic licenses. Windows 7 is absolutely cool (since Vista’s doomsday) but I grew tired of it already. It was time to make the big switch. Yesterday, I wiped clean my laptop of its Windows 7 ascendancy and replaced it with Lucid Lynx, technically known as Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.
Part of being back in the Ubuntu world are some improvements I have noticed (now, and since using Ubuntu at work). Some of it are:
- faster boot-up time – always been the priority of Ubuntu devs I guess
- Ubuntu One – it’s something new but I haven’t explored the full of it yet
- Me Menu and social apps – I didn’t know it was called the “Me Menu” until I read it today; Gwibber is very useful for sneaking in my tweets at work
- overall speed – I noticed an increase in overall speed, not much, but enough to call it increase
- Ubuntu Software Center – is like the Ubuntu software catalog; sleek and useful
A screen shot of my current desktop with the Ubuntu Software Center and Gwibber open.
Those are just some and I’m sure there are lots of new improvements made to Lucid Lynx since the previous versions. But the main essence of being an Ubuntu user is the open-source software (OSS) advocacy. Windows will always be ahead in some areas, but the thought of using open-source is just awesome.
The only problems I encountered after my fresh install with Lucid Lynx are:
- wireless device driver – not very intelligent by itself, I don’t know why. I slept past 12 midnight because of this
- bulk of updates – after a fresh install, updates flood you. It just irritates me to stare and wait
But anyways, I have my Ubuntu running good now. I don’t have much time for full exploration yet but I’ll update here if there are bloggable new things about the Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.
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Is this good? I was using ubuntu 9 but then I wasn’t able to use the .NET/SQL development tools so I switched back to windows.
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Posted August 8th, 2010 at 7:27 AM
Nag-comment ka! Haha anyways, I haven’t tried .NET/SQL development in Ubuntu. Our company’s an OSS advocate so maybe I won’t bother trying that out.