Speed

With other popular operating system vendors you need to buy new hardware almost every time you upgrade operating system to a newer version. With Linux, when you upgrade your system, you should expect that it will be working even faster then previous version on the same hardware. Imagine that you can use newest Linux systems even on machines as slow as Pentium 100MhZ. The user experience is of course lower on older computers, but it works!

If you have a look at hardware requirements for software/games that are simultaneously released on Linux and Microsoft Windows, you will see that Linux versions always need less resources to run the same applications.

Linux is secure enough not to need virus scanners running in background. It is an important difference, as antivirus software often consumes lots of machine's resources and slows it down.

Oh, and you should be prepared not to see blue screen ever again.

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Who is using Ubuntu?

Check out who and why is using Ubuntu Linux. Read the stories below.

Robert, Programmer

I have been on and off of Linux since the days of Red Hat 5. Back then it was really difficult to get hardware and drivers to work. Lately I have been looking for a distro where the wireless card would work out of the box with no ndiswrapper shenanigans. I loaded vista about 2 months ago and recently found Ubuntu 8.04 and realized I was just wasting my hard drive. No dual booting system for me, vista is gone baby gone. I had vista wiped, Ubuntu loaded the wireless internet working and system updated in about 1 hour. Microsoft, beat that!!

Fox Buchele, Student

I started using Ubuntu when my hard drive crashed, erasing Windows. I didn't have any backups or Windows cds, so I installed Ubuntu single boot, because it was free, and I needed to type some papers.

A year and a half later, I've learned so much more about computers and I continue to use Ubuntu, single boot, and laugh at people that get viruses, or have their Windows machines crash for no reason.

Ubuntu on my computer was the smartest technological decision I ever made.

Kate Hudson, Web Designer/Developer

I started using Ubuntu a few years ago because Windows was annoying me with its viruses, adware, spyware, crashes and general sluggishness. I have used Ubuntu almost exclusively ever since. The only reason I keep a Windows partition is to play the Sims 2, which won't run in Wine.

I love the way Ubuntu is so easy to use, there's no worry about viruses, no defragmenting, no reformatting to get rid of unknown junk slowing things down. It just works the way I want it to work.

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